This delightful book for young readers tells Shakespeares action-filled comic and tragic stories about ghosts, witches, fairies, heroes, heroines and villains. Ten of Shakespeares best-known plays are included in this collection of moral tales in which good triumphs over evil. As Shakespeare wrote the dialog to be spoken on the stage, easy to read lines are included, some of them already quotable quotes familiar to the reader. Author Alice Griffin earned her Ph.D. at Columbia University, taught at Hunter and Lehman Colleges, and has written four books on Shakespeare. Her edition of Hamlet appears in the widely-used college anthology Literature.

Tales from Shakespeare

Literature & Fiction

Griffin, Alice

Dramas & Plays

Mermaid Press

Personal Bankruptcy: What You Should Know

Business

Cakewalk Pr

How to Find the Right Lawyer

Reference

Letters Written By Mrs. Alice Griffin To Her Father And Mother, Mr. And Mrs. J. W. McClain (1904)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Kessinger Publishing

Essays & Correspondence

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Alice Griffin offers an in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee Williams as America's greatest lyric dramatist. Describing him as the first playwright writing in English to combine full-blooded characters, theatricalism, and poetic dialogue, Griffin considers Williams both as a literary figure and as a stage innovator.
Griffin analyzes the language, characters, dramatic effects, and staging of these classic plays, and she calls attention to Williams's unique gift for creating dialogue as lyrical poetry yet as authentic as everyday conversation. She reveals the importance of symbolism in his work, uncovers his often overlooked humor, and explains his insistence on "plastic" presentations. Griffin also chronicles the resistance that Williams met when he tried to bring his revolutionary staging ideas to the commercial theater. 
Griffin viewed the plays as originally staged and discussed them with the playwright, the directors, and the actors. From her association with these initial productions, Griffin shares her knowledge of Williams's frustration with the presentation of his work. She remedies what she considers to be misguided interpretations of those early productions by measuring the original stage productions against Williams's stated aims.

Understanding Tennessee Williams (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)

History & Criticism

Univ of South Carolina Pr

Understanding Lillian Hellman (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)

Griffin and Thorsten (both English, City U. of New York) assess the work and thought of American playwright Hellman (1906-84). They point out the humor, irony, and satire in her plays; find her memoirs to have introduced free association, elliptical time, and symbolism; and her career and her political and moral stands to be an inspiration to other women playwrights. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Thorsten, Geralding

Community & Culture

In this perceptive study of the literary career of Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), Alice Griffin and Geraldine Thorsten provide a balanced, in-depth examination of Hellman's major works. In the thirties, when Hellman's theater career began, George Jean Nathan, the dean of theater critics, suggested that although Hellman was the country's foremost playwright, she would never equal a man. Correcting the badly skewed evaluations that such bias fostered, Griffin and Thorsten give Hellman's plays fresh critical assessments as they analyze her rarely acknowledged dramatic gifts for humor, irony, satire, and strong narrative line and dialogue, as well as her concern for moral issues. They also credit Hellman's memoirs with introducing innovations in free association, elliptical time, and symbolism to the genre. Griffin and Thorsten demonstrate that Hellman's distinctive voice influenced other major playwrights--including Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams--and inspired a younger generation of women writers.

University of South Carolina Press

In Shakespeare’s Women in Love, Alice Griffin presents an original, lively, in-depth view of Shakespeare’s women – and their men – as they experience that most important of human emotions: love. A guide and companion for the reader and theatergoer, including students and teachers, this volume focuses on overlooked or misinterpreted women characters and provides fresh insights into them and their lovers in courtship, marriage and relationships. 
Shakespeare’s depiction of the major stages of love, Griffin discovers, was and is a conduct-book, offering solutions for such problems as parental disapproval and inconstancy in courtship, and in marriage, those of disillusionment, infidelity, friend vs. spouse, and domination vs. mutuality. A relationship as the Bard sees it can be cynical, self-serving or fulfilling. 
Juxtaposing women’s and men’s behavior in facing problems of love, Griffin offers new interpretations of such tragic figures as Desdemona and Lady Macbeth, and introduces in depth some less familiar heroines of the romances, like Helena and Imogen. 
Entertaining and enlightening, Shakespeare’s Women in Love makes a significant contribution to the appreciation and enjoyment of Shakespeare’s plays.

Shakespeare's Women in Love

Ivy House Pub Group

Alice Griffin offers an in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee Williams as America's greatest lyric dramatist. Describing him as the first playwright writing in English to combine full-blooded characters, theatricalism, and poetic dialogue, Griffin considers Williams both as a literary figure and as a stage innovator.Griffin analyzes the language, characters, dramatic effects, and staging of these classic plays, and she calls attention to Williams's unique gift for creating dialogue as lyrical poetry yet as authentic as everyday conversation. She reveals the importance of symbolism in his work, uncovers his often overlooked humor, and explains his insistence on "plastic" presentations. Griffin also chronicles the resistance that Williams met when he tried to bring his revolutionary staging ideas to the commercial theater. Griffin viewed the plays as originally staged and discussed them with the playwright, the directors, and the actors. From her association with these initial productions, Griffin shares her knowledge of Williams's frustration with the presentation of his work. She remedies what she considers to be misguided interpretations of those early productions by measuring the original stage productions against Williams's stated aims.

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