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ENGLISH
Focus publishes titles in English literature and Shakespeare, grammar, and technical writing. Other texts in world literature are listed on the humanities page.
The
English Language: A User's Guide
English In Blue and White:
Lessons, Practice, and
Resources in Grammar, Composition, and Literature
Chris Giles and John Powell III
Paperback (spiral bound) •
98 pages • 1-58510-0838 • 2004 • $19.95
Book Details
English In Blue and White: Teacher's Edition (Answer Key) •
Chris Giles and John Powell III
Paperback • 36 pages • 1-58510-0846 • 2004 • $14.95
Technical
and Professional Communication:
The Series
Focus is proud to be updating and reissuing George Lyman Kittredge’s insightful editions of Shakespeare with the permission of the Kittredge heirs. The plays in the New Kittredge Shakespeare series retain the original Kittredge notes and introductions, changed or augmented only when modernization is necessary. But each volume also contains a new introductory essay by outstanding contemporary editors, as well as new notes on the plays and notes concerning performance issues. Photoes from contemporary films have been added to each volume and a unique essay on reading the play as performance. To see and review the titles in print, click on the series details below.
Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
James Lake and Irving Ribner, eds. • paperback • 128 pages • 978-1-58510-089-7 • $10.95.
Book Details
An authoritative text of Marlowe's classic play,
with notes and a substantial introduction giving historical background, dramatic context, and performance
history, including cinematic history. Interviews
with Ralph Alan Cohen of
Shenandoah
Shakespeare and Andreas Teuber
(Mephistopheles in the Richard Burton production) discuss issues of
performance.
Illustrations, a useful timeline, a list of topics designed to promote
discussion, and an up-to-date bibliography.
This text is based on the authoritative edition by Irving Ribner,
updated, with much additional material on performance, by James H.
Lake.
James H. Lake is Professor of English at
Louisiana State University-Shreveport .
He received his B. A. and M. A. degrees from Tulane
University and his Ph. D. from the University of Delaware. He has
published widely on Shakespeare and cinema, and is the general
editor of the Focus on Performance
and the forthcoming New Kittredge Shakespeare series.
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