The Spanish Tragedy
 peter kline is full ...: Hey everyone! Don't even bother paying ANY attention to the ...peter kline spouted in his horrendous review of The Spanish Tragedy. Shakespeare wrote Kyd's masterpiece? Give me a break! And I suppose you're also going to say that [... more]
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A Concise Dictionary of First Names
Good, but why use the reduced version?: Hanks and Hodges are real scholars, who however communicate their information clearly and intelligibly. I cannot see any obvious need for a CONCISE version of their *Dictionary of First Names*, first published by [... more]
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Readers Reviews are Not Accurate: This book was just delivered, and has NO footnotes, no introduction, no glossary as readers' reviews printed above say. They were obviously talking about a different edition. The ISBN number on the book above matches the [... more]
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The Riverside Shakespeare
As stated earlier, notation format nearly ruins this edition: I haven't read the other completed works extensively (although the Bevington and Norton editions seem to be the ones most highly praised), but the footnote format of the Riverside is so [... more]
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Fontessa
Amazon.com essential recording: This 1956 record marked the beginning of the Modern Jazz Quartet's long and fruitful relationship with Atlantic Records and was one of their most inspired visits to a studio. While there had been excellent bands in the [... more]
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Shakespeare Our Contemporary
A Classic of Modern Shakespeare Criticism: This is not - repeat not - necessarily a call for the Midsummer Night's Dream fairies to be played as a motorcycle gang, Richard III to be played as Hitler or Romeo to shoot up instead of drink poison - although [... more]
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Coltrane (Dlx Ed)
From Amazon.co.uk: Coltrane, recorded in spring 1962, represented an auspicious debut on record for the saxophonist's "classic quartet" line-up of himself, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison. Harold Arlen's "Out of This World" [... more]
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Shakespeare's Language
From Amazon.com: Among our greatest contemporary critics, Sir Frank Kermode is the author of such classics as The Sense of an Ending, and his recent memoir, Not Entitled, vividly captured a life in letters. It's no surprise, then, that Shakespeare's [... more]
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The Spanish Tragedy
peter kline is full ...: Hey everyone! Don't even bother paying ANY attention to the ...peter kline spouted in his horrendous review of The Spanish Tragedy. Shakespeare wrote Kyd's masterpiece? Give me a break! And I suppose you're also going to say that [... more]
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Duchess of Malfi
Bloody, Gory, and Beautiful: I do not feel Webster's "Duchess of Malfi" quite matches his "The White Devil." Nevertheless, it is still an excellent play. Only Webster could combine this much violence and beauty so well! Webster starts [... more]
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The Norton Shakespeare
A mixed bag: I would in fact prefer to award this 3.5 stars, but the Amazon system seems to compel one to choose between 3 and 4, and I think 4 is too generous. To begin with the text, there is no doubt that this is not the best Shakespeare to buy. It is [... more]
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Penguin Classics Complete Poems
Remains very satisfactory: I have used this edition of Marvell's poems for many years in teaching. I also once wrote a brief article about a mistake in it, but for the most part consider the edition very satisfactory. The appearance of *Andrew Marvell: [... more]
CDN$21.00
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