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1. Shakespeare in Swahililand : adventures with the ever-living poet

   Wilson-Lee, Edward

   London : William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2016.

   Published to commemorate 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in April 2016, a breathtaking exploration into Shakespeare as a Global poet. Whilst travelling in Luxor, Edward Wilson-Lee encountered a man who called out to him from the summer shade with lines from Shakespeare's Macbeth: 'Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow...' Unable to resist the temptation, Wilson-Lee responded with the next line and so began a fascination with unexpected cultural encounters, especially those made memorable by the poignancy of discovering beauty out of place. Shakespeare may have heard of Luxor (although he would have known it as Thebes) but it is unlikely that he imagined his lines ever being spoken there, close by the feluccas sailing on the Nile and the acres of pharaonic ruins beyond. This radical, breath-taking book combines travel, history, biography and satire in an ode to Shakespeare. Wilson-Lee teaches Shakespeare at Cambridge but grew up in East Africa and Shakespeare in Swahililand explores Shakespeare's global legacy like no other book before it. In these pages explorers stagger through Africa's interior accompanied by Shakespeare; eccentrics live out their dreams on the African Savannah with Shakespeare by their side; decadent emigres, railway labourers, Indian settler communities, African intellectuals and rebels all turned to Shakespeare and adapted his plays to fit their needs. The book examines how Shakespeare influenced the first African leaders of independent nations, Cold War intrigues and even Che Guevara. With its extraordinary sequence of stories and momentous travels from Zanzibar, through Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia and Sudan, this literary adventure throws high culture and the wild together in celebration of Shakespeare's legacy as a poet of the world.

2. "Divining Thoughts" : Future Directions in Shakespeare Studies

   Orford, Peter

   Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.

   Dr Peter Orford and his editing team have collected articles from the next generation of Shakespeare scholars to offer a glimpse into the future of Renaissance Studies. The essays included were presented at the International British Graduate Shakespeare Conference and represent research from around the globe, either exploring new territory, or redefining the work of those before them. In his foreword, Professor Stanley Wells states that 'The essays printed here demonstrate that the future of ...Dr Peter Orford and his editing team have collected articles from the next generation of Shakespeare scholars to offer a glimpse into the future of Renaissance Studies. The essays included were presented at the International British Graduate Shakespeare Conference and represent research from around the globe, either exploring new territory, or redefining the work of those before them. In his foreword, Professor Stanley Wells states that 'The essays printed here demonstrate that the future of early modern dramatic scholarship and criticism is in good hands." The articles included are: * "Seldom Seene: Observations from Editing The Launching of the Mary, or the Seaman's Honest Wife" by Matteo Pangallo * "Thomas Heywood and the Construction of Taste in the Repertory of Queen Henrietta's Men" by Eleanor Collins * "Bawdiness, Crime and Low Characters in Late Elizabethan Comedy" by Shelly Hsin-Yi Hsieh * "Print and Elizabethan Military Culture" by Dong-Ha Seo * "Actors, Audiences and Authors: The Competition for Control in Brome's The Antipodes" by Audrey Birkett * "Shakespeare's King Richard III: The Perverted Machiavel" by Conny Loder * "Women in the Shakespearean Audience - Recognition and Authority" by Brian Schneider * "Dis-playing History: The Case of Shakespeare's Globe" by Kelly Jones * "'Ever Holy and Unstained': Illuminating the Feminist Cenci Through Mary Wollstonecraft and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus" by Kristine Johansan * "Narcissus and Modernity in Shakespeare's Sonnets" by Will McKenzie * "Cowboys and Romans: Cymbeline and Paradigmatic Change in the Theatre" by Miles Gregory.

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3. Honour killing in Shakespeare

   Fletcher, Loraine

   London : Greenwich Exchange Ltd, 2019

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1. Shakespeare's Britain

   Biganzoli, Lisa

   1964

   Relief shown pictorially. Shows literary landmarks. "Based on John Speed's map, The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland, from his 1611 atlas, Th...