Henry VIII - William Shakespeare - King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a new perspective on this ironic, multi-layered, collaborative play, revealing it as a complex meditation on the progress of Reformation which sees English life since Henry VIII's day as a series of bewildering changes...

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Thought to have been written between 1591 and 1595, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was first published in 1597. The story of two "star-crossed" lovers, the play is based on an English translation of an Italian version of the tale by Arthur Brooke. The tragedy is now one of the playwright's most popular and frequently performed plays and the famous lines uttered at the balcony scene ("But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?) are among the...

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A fantastic book for the reader who is not overly familiar with the character and history of Henry VIII and the major "players" in his life. The book actually seeks to give a brief background of King Henry and his other wives and courtiers in order for the reader to have a better grasp on Shakespeare's play "Henry VIII" but it's also a fantastic introduction for anyone beginning the study of Henry VIII.

George Conklin's 1921 book "The Ways of the Circus" is devoted to the author's stories and reminiscences of circus people, circus animals, a curious world with men, manners and morals peculiar to itself, and describe feats ranging from the handling of a lion to the tricks of sideshow freaks and the making of circus lemonade, written by one of the most famous of the old time circus lion tamers who traveled with most of the big "shows" of his day. He...

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A 1916 book on theatre, with chapters devoted to the "decline" of the minstrel show and to the "long-familiar" variety show, which the author directly equates with vaudeville.