A great resource to accompany the Adult Quarterly, the Adult Lesson Commentary contains an exposition of the Sunday School lesson’s Scripture text.To help teachers and students look deeper into the Scripture text, “Word Studies” and “Manna” boxes can easily be found in the book’s sidebars to supply readers with detail on Greek words and from the Scripture text and interesting background information about the Scripture text.This book follows the Through-the-Bible Ten Year Cy...

Psalms of Boundless Praise Because of Deliverance from Bogard Press

What if it were possible to experience life after death, without dying. To actually see what happens to another person's soul after death. That is the goal of Dr. Miles VanBurin, a wealthy surgeon with an obsession for uncovering the secrets of the human soul.

This book explores the nature and wide-ranging impact of the work of Jean-François Ducis (1733-1816), the first adaptor of Hamlet and of five other Shakespeare tragedies for the French theatre.Jean-François Ducis is anything but prominent in the histories of Shakespeare adaptation, yet he was pivotal in introducing French and European audiences to Shakespeare's plays on the stage. His Hamlet, tragédie imitée de l'anglais, performed at the Comédie ...

This collection theorizes the intersections between race, Shakespearean adaptation and pop culture. Chapters take a range of investigative approaches, some centring Shakespeare and others using Shakespeare to theorize pop culture, but all focusing on the ethical implications of the triangulation between Shakespeare, pop culture and race.Chapters explore the tensions between the 'low', racialized status of a pop culture form and Shakespeare's 'high' status; the ways...

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Grigori Kozintsev and Franco Zeffirelli to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare ...

This book explores the crucial role Shakespeare's play has performed in European culture in the long 20th century.The story of regicide, ambition, civil war and tyranny has resonated across a continent ravaged by armed conflict and riven by competing political and ideological systems. Equally, the play's acute explorations of gender dynamics, mental breakdown, guilt and suicide have spoken to the psychological and interpersonal pressures of European life in the 'Ag...

Through a selection of essays from a variety of scholarly voices, this volume maps the various ways in which Shakespeare has been adapted, adopted and appropriated in Ireland from the late 17th century through to the present day.Shakespeare's plays have been performed in Ireland since the 1660s, when Smock Alley theatre was established in Dublin, with Shakespeare serving as its essential stock-in-trade. Since then the playwright's work has played a central role in ...

"A fascinating and highly readable account." - Sir Stanley Wells"An outstanding, remarkable book." - Lisa S. Starks, University of South Florida, USAThis new and comprehensive study of Shakespearean ballets and their unique interpretive possibilities is also the first to foreground the importance of music to the aesthetics and meanings of Shakespeare dance-works.Organised around adaptations of key ...

From their inception, 'low culture' comics have intersected with the 'high culture' of Shakespeare. Thisis the first book-length collection dedicated entirely to the exploration of this collision.Its chapters illuminate the ways in which different texts, time periods, politics, authors, media, approaches and forms interact. Ranging from Classic Comics to Marvel, from tebeo to manga, from independent to mainstream comics, texts explored include Y: The L...

How can we tune into the ecological dynamics of Shakespeare's plays? How can we adapt those plays to address current environmental crises?This is the first book to fuse Shakespearean ecocriticism with adaptation studies. It is a single critical and contextual resource for students, teachers and practitioners embarking on an in-depth exploration of ecological approaches to Shakespeare and adaptation. The book provides critical insight into ecological performance pra...

This bookis the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare's life as depicted on the modern stage and screen. Focusing on the years 1998-2023, it uniquely identifies a 25-year trend for depicting Shakespeare, his family and his social circle in theatre, film and television.Interrogating Shakespeare's afterlife across stage and screen media, the volume explores continuities and changes in the form since the release of Shakespeare in Love, which it posit...