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Richard Appignanesi

    20 december 1940

    Richard Appignanesi is een auteur en redacteur die bekend staat om zijn succesvolle stripreeksen voor jonge lezers. Zijn werk toont een talent voor het aanpassen van klassieke literaire werken en thema's in visueel aantrekkelijke formaten, waardoor complexe literatuur toegankelijk wordt voor een nieuwe generatie. Hij specialiseerde zich in manga-adaptaties van Shakespeares toneelstukken, waarbij hij de essentie van de originelen bewaart en tegelijkertijd hun begrijpelijkheid voor het hedendaagse publiek vergroot. Zijn aanpak benadrukt de kracht van visueel verhalen vertellen en het potentieel ervan voor het interpreteren en populariseren van literaire klassiekers.

    Richard Appignanesi
    Marx for Beginners
    King Richard III
    A Midsummer-Night's Dream
    Hamlet
    The Tragedy of King Lear
    Thomas Girtin
    • The untold story of J.M.W. Turner's friend and greatest rival, pioneering watercolour artist Thomas Girtin

      Thomas Girtin
      4,2
    • This new edition is based on the quarto, the version closest to the original manuscript. The introduction illminates the plays' origins and practicalities of composition, its reception and influence. Detailed notes pay especial attention to language and staging, and the volume includes King Lear's first derivative, a contemporary ballad, and guides to appreciation of the play and its multiple offshoots.

      The Tragedy of King Lear
      4,1
    • Hamlet

      • 173bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      Tragedie van de Engelse schrijver (1564-1616) over een Deense prins die de moord op zijn vader wil wreken.

      Hamlet
      4,0
    • A Midsummer-Night's Dream

      • 48bladzijden
      • 2 uur lezen

      A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soon take an interest in human affairs, dispensing magical love potions and casting mischievous spells. In this dazzling comedy, confusion ends in harmony, as love is transformed, misplaced, and - ultimately - restored.

      A Midsummer-Night's Dream
      4,0
    • King Richard III

      • 280bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen

      Contains the complete scripts, a running synopsis of the action, explanations of unfamiliar words, and a variety of classroom-tested activities.

      King Richard III
      3,9
    • Marx for Beginners

      • 160bladzijden
      • 6 uur lezen

      A cartoon book about Marx? Are you sure it's Karl, not Groucho? How can you summarize the work of Karl Marx in cartoons? It took Rius to do it. He's put it all in: the origins of Marxist philosophy, history, economics; of capital, labor, the class struggle, socialism. And there's a biography of "Charlie" Marx besides. Like the companion volumes in the series, Marx for Beginners is accurate, understandable, and very, very funny.

      Marx for Beginners
      3,9
    • Introducing Romanticism

      • 176bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      Gives readers an accessible overview of the many interlocking strands of the movement, focusing on the leading figures in Britain, Germany, France, America, Italy and Russia.

      Introducing Romanticism
      3,5
    • Introducing Buddha

      • 176bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      This book describes the life and teachings of the Buddha, this book also shows that enlightenment is a matter of experiencing the truth individually and by inspiration which is passed from teacher to student.

      Introducing Buddha
      3,8
    • Notes on the story, language, construction, and background accompany the text of the play about the conspiracy to assassinate Caesar.

      Julius Caesar
      3,8
    • The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally reedited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrated introduction, including an in-depth survey of critical and performance approaches to the play; and selected bibliography.

      The Merchant of Venice
      3,8
    • Freud revolutionized the way we think of ourselves. His psychoanalytic terms such as Id, Ego, libido, neurosis and Oedipus Complex have become a familiar part of our everyday vocabulary. But do we know what they really mean?

      Freud for beginners
      3,7
    • Amusing, irreverent, sophisticated and highly accessible, Einstein for Beginners is the perfect introduction to Einstein's life and thought. Reaching back as far as Babylon (for the origins of mathematics) and the Etruscans (who thought they could handle lightning), this book takes us through the revolutions in electrical communications and technology that made the theory of relativity possible. In the process, we meet scientific luminaries and personalities of imperial Germany, as well as Galileo, Faraday, and Newton; learn why moving clocks run slower than stationary ones, why nothing can go faster than the speed of light; and follow Albert's thought as he works his way toward E = mc2, the most famous equation of the twentieth century.

      Beginners Books: Einstein for Beginners
      3,6
    • Introducing Postmodernism

      • 176bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      Takes us on a roller-coaster ride through structuralism, deconstruction, cyberspace and semiotics.

      Introducing Postmodernism
      3,6
    • Provides an incisive tour through this complex subject, charting its origins in Britain and its migration to the U.S.A.

      Introducing Cultural Studies
      3,5
    • Henry VIII., Manga Shakespeare

      • 208bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      YA. Graphic Novel. Latest title in this series of graphic novel adaptations of the works of Shakespeare, sympathetically abridged and adapted, and with cutting-edge manga artwork by Patrick Warren.

      Henry VIII., Manga Shakespeare
      3,3
    • The Wolf Man : graphic Freud

      • 170bladzijden
      • 6 uur lezen

      Based on his most famous case study - that of Russian aristocrat,Sergei Pankejeff - Sigmund Freud recounts the history of anobsessional neurosis. Pankejeff's troubling dream of a walnut tree full of white wolves earned him the title of 'The Wolf Man'. Pankejeff is one of five clinical case histories from which Freud extrapolated his theories of transference, the Oedipus complex, super-ego and psychosexual development. Freud's now classic psychoanalytic writing blurred the boundary between science and literature, which continues to provoke fierce debate to this day.

      The Wolf Man : graphic Freud
      3,3
    • Introducing Baudrillard

      • 176bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      This book cuts beneath the controversy of this misunderstood intellectual to present his radical claims that reality has been replaced by a simulated world of images and events.

      Introducing Baudrillard
      3,3
    • Sen noci svatojánské (komiks)

      • 208bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      „Čtyři noci utečou jak sen," říká královna Amazonek Hippolyta v jedné z nejslavnějších Shakespearových komedií, která se všemi svými náhlými zvraty, proměnami postav a nepřetržitým proudem okouzlující fantazie sama uteče jak sen. Adaptace, která propojuje klasický shakespearovský jazyk v brilantním překladu Martina Hilského s moderním, dynamickým grafickým stylem japonské mangy, se odehrává v současných Aténách, ale přesto z velké části zachovává antický ráz, který námětu přísluší. Výsledkem je představivostí hýřící snový svět, kde se staré a nové prolíná s překvapivou lehkostí. Sen noci svatojánské je čtvrtým svazkem edice Manga Shakespeare, která představuje dílo největšího světového dramatika a básníka prostřednictvím japonské mangy. Důraz přitom neklade jen na vizuální styl, ale dbá i na krásu Shakespearova jazyka a na dramaturgické zpracování každé hry. Edici Manga Shakespeare tak ocení všichni, kteří se chtějí seznámit s nádherně barevným, krutým i laskavým světem Shakespearových her, ale nechce se jim chodit do divadla či sáhnout po „pouhém" neilustrovaném textu.

      Sen noci svatojánské (komiks)
      3,9