Chris Adrian: The Great Night

UK 2012, 293 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Granta Books
It's Midsummer's Eve and three heartbroken lovers are trapped in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park: the verdant home of Titania and Oberon's embattled court, the stage-set of a homeless theatre troupe and the lair of the malevolent, vengeful Puck. When Titania, collapsing under the weight of her own recent grief, sets Puck free, all hell - quite literally - breaks ... Weiterlesen

Shyam Selvadurai: Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

CAN 2007, 274 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life »before« when his doting mother was still alive. Amrith's holiday plans ... Weiterlesen
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Samuel Park: Shakespeare's Sonnets

USA 2006, 239 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Harvard 1948: Adam Standridge is a student at Harvard University with dreams of becoming a literary scholar. He's from a rich and influential family, and has become engaged to the perfect girl. His life plan is set until he's busted by the campus police for having sex with a man in a public place. Threatened with expulsion, Adam re-focuses his ... Weiterlesen

Peter Ackroyd: Shakespeare

Dt.v. M.Müller & O.Lucian. D 2006, 655S., geb., € 28.78
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Trotz seines immensen und enorm einflussreichen Werkes ist über William Shakespeares Leben (v.a. über Person und Privatleben) nur sehr wenig überliefert. Diese Tatsache hat bislang jedoch nur wenige Biografen abgeschreckt, sich dem genialen Dramatiker zuzuwenden. Ackroyd zeigt einen Mann, dem die Freiheit und das Spiel mit Worten am Herzen lag, der gleichzeitig mit überschäumender Energie und einem brillanten Geist ausgestattet ... Weiterlesen

Peter Ackroyd: Shakespeare - The Biography

USA 2005, 572 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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Ackroyd illuminates the Bard's life with a wealth of scholarship that Shakespeare himself could never have provided, he wisely allows the Bard to tell much of his own story through revealing episodes in his own immortal work. Others have likewise mined Shakespeare's plays and poetry for telling clues about the playwright's life. But Ackroyd brings to his biographical reading the ... Weiterlesen

Stanley Wells: Looking for Sex in Shakespeare

UK 2004, 111 pp., brochure, € 45.95
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The author considers how far sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing is a matter of interpretation by actors, directors and critics. Tracing interpretations of Shakespearean bawdy and innuendo from 18th-century editors to recent scholars and critics, the author pays special attention to recent sexually orientated studies of »A Midsummer Night's Dream«, once regarded as the most innocent of its author's plays. ... Weiterlesen