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Shakespearean Gothic(2nd Edition)
(Gothic Literary Studies)
by Christy Desmet, Anne Williams, Anne Williams Bfa
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Wales Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2092-1, ISBN: 0-7083-2092-9

"This collection of essays explores the thesis that Shakespeare as we know him today was born in the eighteenth century, at the same time as the Gothic tradition, first named by Horace Walpole in 1764. The two are inextricable. Writers interested in pursuing 'Gothic' themes and forms (the supernatural events and generic hybrids decried by French neoclassicism) justified their aesthetic choices as following the example of their great - an ..."

Shakespeare and Appropriation(1st Edition)
(Accents on Shakespeare)
by Christy Desmet, Robert Sawyer, R.J. Lane
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1999 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-20726-3, ISBN: 0-415-20726-6

"The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. Contemporary readers and writers continue to exploit Shakespeare's cultural afterlife in a vivid and creative way. This fascinating collection of original essays shows how writers' efforts to intimate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation. The contributors analyse the methods and motives of Sh ..."

Argument(1st Edition)
A Prentice Hall Pocket Reader
by Christy Desmet, Deborah Church Miller, Kathy Houff Speak, Pearson/Prentice Hall
Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2006 by Pearson/Prentice Hall
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-232358-1, ISBN: 0-13-232358-3

"Each essay in this argument pocket reader has withstood the test of time and teaching, making it the perfect companion for any writing course. A Prentice Hall Pocket Reader is the perfect way to bring additional readings to writing classes at no additional cost to users when packaged with this book. Pocket Readers can be packaged FREE with any Prentice Hall English text or are available stand alone for a nominal cost. This reader focuse ..."

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part IV, Volume 2(1st Edition)
Helen Faucit, Lucia Elizabeth Vestris and Fanny Kemble by Their Contemporaries (Volume 1)
by Tetsuo Kishi, Christy Desmet, Janice Norwood, Gail Marshall
Hardcover, 1,232 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-75440-9, ISBN: 1-138-75440-4

"Features three female actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare."

Argument(1st Edition)
A Prentice Hall Pocket Reader
by Christy Desmet, Kathy Houff Speak, Deborah Church Miller
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2004 by Prentice Hall
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-189525-6, ISBN: 0-13-189525-7

"To accompany a freshman-level English Composition course. Each essay in our argument pocket reader has withstood the test of time and teaching, making it the perfect companion for any writing course. A Prentice Hall Pocket Reader is the perfect way to bring additional readings to writing classes at no additional cost to students when packaged with this text. Pocket Readers can be packaged FREE with any Prentice Hall English text or are ..."

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part IV, Volume 1(1st Edition)
Helen Faucit, Lucia Elizabeth Vestris and Fanny Kemble by Their Contemporaries
by Tetsuo Kishi, Christy Desmet, Janice Norwood, Gail Marshall
Hardcover, 1,232 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-75439-3, ISBN: 1-138-75439-0

"Features three female actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare."

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part IV, Volume 3(1st Edition)
Helen Faucit, Lucia Elizabeth Vestris and Fanny Kemble by Their Contemporaries (Volume 1)
by Tetsuo Kishi, Christy Desmet, Janice Norwood, Gail Marshall
Hardcover, 1,232 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-75441-6, ISBN: 1-138-75441-2

"Features three female actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare."

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part IV
Helen Faucit, Lucia Elizabeth Vestris and Fanny Kemble by Their Contemporaries
by Christy Desmet, Gail Marshall, Tetsuo Kishi, Janice Norwood, Katherine Newey
Hardcover, 1,232 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-85196-930-2, ISBN: 1-85196-930-6

"Inaugurating a tradition of women playing the role, she cast herself as Oberon in theproduction.This facsimile edition is backed up by full scholarly apparatus ..."

Reading Shakespeare's Characters(Updated)
Rhetoric, Ethics, and Identity (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture)
by Christy Desmet
Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 1992 by University Of Massachusetts Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87023-807-9, ISBN: 0-87023-807-8

"Although current theory had discredited the idea of a coherent, transcendent self, Shakespeare's characters still make themselves felt as a presence for readers and viewers alike. Confronting this paradox, Christy Desmet explores the role played by rhetoric in fashioning and representing Shakespearean character. She draws on classical and Renaissance texts, as well as on the work of such twentieth-century critics as Kenneth Burke and Pa ..."

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation(1st Edition)
(Routledge Literature Handbooks)
by Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, Miriam Jacobson
Hardcover, 498 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-05019-8, ISBN: 1-138-05019-9

"The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation brings together a variety of different voices to examine the ways that Shakespeare has been adapted and appropriated onto stage, screen, page, and a variety of digital formats. The thirty-nine chapters address topics such as trans- and intermedia performances; Shakespearean utopias and dystopias; the ethics of appropriation; and Shakespeare and global justice as guidance on ..."

Harold Bloom's Shakespeare(1st Edition)
by Christy Desmet, Robert J. Sawyer
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2002 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-23955-8, ISBN: 0-312-23955-6

"Harold Bloom's Shakespeare examines the sources and impact of Bloom's Shakespearean criticism. Through focused and sustained study of this writer and his best-selling book, this collection of essays addresses a wide range of issues pertinent to both general readers and university classes: the cultural role of Shakespeare and of a new secular humanism addressed to general readers and audiences; the author as literary origin; the persiste ..."

Shakespeare and Appropriation(1st Edition)
(Accents on Shakespeare)
by Christy Desmet, Robert Sawyer
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1999 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-20725-6, ISBN: 0-415-20725-8

"The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. Contemporary readers and writers continue to exploit Shakespeare's cultural afterlife in a vivid and creative way. This fascinating collection of original essays shows how writers' efforts to imitate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation. The essays: * analyze the methods and motives of Shakes ..."

Harold Bloom's Shakespeare
by Christy Desmet, Robert Sawyer
Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 2004 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-6906-4, ISBN: 1-4039-6906-X

Shakespearean Gothic
by Christy Desmet, Anne Williams
353 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Wales Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-78316-371-7, ISBN: 1-78316-371-2

"This book explores the paradox that the Gothic (today’s werewolves, vampires, and horror movies) owe their origins (and their legitimacy) to eighteenth-century interpretations of Shakespeare."

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation
by Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, Miriam Jacobson
470 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-351-68752-2, ISBN: 1-351-68752-2

"... 2004. “'We can laugh at ourselves': Hawai'i Ethnic Humor, Local Identity and the Myth of Multiculturalism.” Pragmatics 14.2/3: 291–316. ... “Pidgin as Rhetorical Sovereignty: Articulating Indigenous and Minority Rhetorical Practices with the Language Politics of Place. ... Honolulu: Bess Press. ... Simonson, Douglas (Peppo), Pat Sasaki and Ken Sakata. 2013. Pidgin to Da Max 25th Anniversary Edition."

Shakespeare and Appropriation
by Christy Desmet, Robert Sawyer
Digital, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-62261-0, ISBN: 1-134-62261-9

"The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. Contemporary readers and writers continue to exploit Shakespeare's cultural afterlife in a vivid and creative way. This fascinating collection of original essays shows how writers' efforts to imitate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation. The essays: * analyze the methods and motives of Shakes ..."

Harold Bloom's Shakespeare
by Robert Sawyer, Christy Desmet
292 Pages, Published 2016 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-03641-4, ISBN: 1-137-03641-9

"Raised in London's East End, the two girls grow up in the shadow of their famous father. Narrated by Dora Chance, Wise Children challenges the cultural legitimacy of Shakespeare and his plays from the bottom up. At one point in the ... Furthermore, I have not dealt with poetry, theater, or any of the other areas in which women are working to reenvision Shakespeare's characters in their own terms. Finally ..."

Macbeth
A Critical Reader (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides) Drakakis, John; Townshend, Dale; Hiscock, Andrew and Hopkins, Lisa
by John Drakakis, William Shakespeare, Dale Townshend, Andrew Hiscock, The Arden Shakespeare, Sandra Clark, Christy Desmet, Terence Hawkes
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2013 by Bloomsbury 3Pl
ISBN-13: 978-0-567-64079-6, ISBN: 0-567-64079-5

"ARDEN RENAISSANCE DRAMA GUIDES offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars provide invaluable insights into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: Essays on the play's critical and performance hi ..."

Macbeth
A Critical Reader (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides)
by John Drakakis, Dale Townshend, Andrew Hiscock, Lisa Hopkins, Sandra Clark, Christy Desmet, William Shakespeare, Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2013 by Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
ISBN-13: 978-0-567-43227-8, ISBN: 0-567-43227-0

The Duchess of Malfi(1st Edition)
A Critical Guide (Continuum Renaissance Drama Guides)
by Christina Luckyj, Roberta Barker, Todd Borlik, Dympna Callaghan, Christy Desmet, Frances Dolan, David Gunby, Prof. Leah Marcus, Curtis Perry
Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 2011 by Continuum
ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-4124-9, ISBN: 0-8264-4124-6

"This is a comprehensive introduction to "The Duchess of Malfi" that introduces its critical and performance history, the current critical landscape and new directions in research. John Webster's classic revenge tragedy "The Duchess of Malfi" was first performed in 1614 and published in 1623. This guide offers students and scholars an introduction to its critical and performance history, including recent versions on stage and screen. It ..."

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