'A supreme theatrical poem that has a language that eats into the soul' Michael Billington, GuardianShakeapeare's blood-soaked drama of murder, madness and the uncanny begins as Macbeth is promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by supernatural forces. Spurred on by his wife, he murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, while the dead return to haunt him....

With 8 charming designs by Carole Rutter Tippett, there's something here for everyone. Each crochet pattern includes a list of needed materials, general instructions, and detailed illustrations to guide you through the steps. You'll also find helpful tips on gauge, edging, assembly, and keys with crochet terminology and abbreviations. Create an adorable blanket that baby will cherish for years to come!

This book writes a performance history of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s most ambiguous play, from 1606 to the present. It observes the choices that actors, directors, designers, musicians and adapters have made each time they have brought the play’s thoughts on power, race, masculinity, regime change, exoticism, love, dotage and delinquency into alignment with a new present. Informed by close attention to theatre records – promptbooks, stage managers’ reports, reviews – it o...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Open-space Learning offers a unique resource to educators wishing to develop a workshop model of teaching and learning. The authors propose an embodied, performative mode of learning that challenges the primacy of the lecture and seminar model in higher education. Drawing on the expertise of the CAPITAL Centre (Creativity and Performance in T...

Enter the Body offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage. Rutter's topics are sex, death, race, gender, culture, politics, and the excessive performative body that exceeds the playtext it inhabits. As well as drawing upon vital primary documents from Shakespeare's day, Rutter offers close readings of women's performance's on stage and film in Britian today, from Peggy Ashcroft's (white) Cleopatra and W...

Shakespeare wrote more than fifty parts for children, amounting to the first comprehensive portrait of childhood in the English theatre. Focusing mostly on boys, he put sons against fathers, servants against masters, innocence against experience, testing the notion of masculinity, manners, morals, and the limits of patriarchal power. He explored the nature of relationships and ideas about parenting in terms of nature and nurture, permissiveness and discipline, innocence and evil. He wrote ...

Bundle and snuggle your family up with 8 different afghans. Great for crocheters at every skill level. Learn to make ripples, squares, spider webs, and more. Just pick your color palette and crochet away. Special afghans for special babies.

5" to 10". Everyone will love these comfy slippers. In colorful red, fuchsia, or royal blue, this easy-to-make footwear will be used the minute it's completed. Comes with simple instructions, handy stitching tips, and color photography of the finished projects. Each project uses worsted weight yarn, some use two strands held together throughout.