The Word

JOHN BARTON

Penguin

Reading the Old Testament is intended for students who have already learned some of the techniques of biblical study, and would like to explore the wider implications and aims of all the various critical methods currently in use. It provides an independent assessment and comparison of the latest developments against the old, with chapters on form and redaction criticism, canonical studies, biblical structuralism and the relationship of reader to text. the various methods are all applied to Ecclesiastes to illustrate their particular strengths.  The author also seeks to show the value of 'secular' literary criticism to our understanding of biblical method and goes on to argue that there are strong similarities between the two approaches. Biblical and literary criticism belong to the humanities and the texts they handle are meant to be read, not processed.  This new edition of a highly regarded and classic text has been revised and updated to cover the latest developments in biblical study, including deconstruction, post-structuralism, semiotics and postmodernism.

Reading the Old Testament: Method in Biblical Study (New Edition)

Darton, Longman, and Todd

99p slim paperback with blue card cover, nice copy with a few marginal marks and ink notes to last empty page

People of the Book?: Authority of the Bible in Christianity (Bampton Lectures)

Religion & Spirituality

SPCK Publishing

People of the Book?: Authority of the Bible in Christianity

SPCK, new edition

This is the ideal book for anyone seeking sound advice on how to read the Bible intelligently for the first time or returning to it in later life. It describes how different parts of scripture came to be written and helps readers explore and appreciate the different types of literature within the Bible. The author also provides insights into the various ways in which the Bible is used and misused today without forcing a religious message on readers.

What is the Bible?

International Trade and Investment: Regulating Int

International Trade and Investment: Regulating International Business (Law school casebook series)

Bart Fisher

Little,Brown

John Barton is Advisory Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and has directed some of the greatest Shakespeare productions of our time. His book, Playing Shakespeare, is a transcript of his televised workshops with some of our finest Shakespearean actors: Peggy Ashcroft, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, Patrick Stewart and David Suchet. This new edition contains a DVD with 80 minutes of video featuring John Barton in conversation with Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Jane Lapotaire discussing changes in approaches to Shakespeare's text since the book first published. This edition also features a foreword by Michael Boyd.This is a highly readable approach to understanding Shakespeare's text and unlocking the hidden stage directions and actors clues that reside in his verse. As Barton explains, "when an actor becomes aware of them they will find Shakespeare himself starts to direct them."

Playing Shakespeare

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

METHUEN

John Barton has been with the Royal Shakespeare Company since 1960 directing 26 of Shakespeare's plays for them. In the first half of the book, Barton attempts an objective analysis of how Shakespeare's text actually works, examining the use of verse and prose, set speeches and soliloquies, language and character. In the second half he concentrates on the more subjective areas such as irony and ambiguity, passion and coolness. The book springs from a nine-part London Weekend Television series, in which these various topics were investigated in front of the cameras by Barton and a group of well-known Shakespearean actors including Peggy Ashcroft, Tony Church, Sinead Cusack, Judi Dench, Susan Fleetwood, Mike Gwilym, Sheila Hancock, Lisa Harrow, Alan Howard, Ben Kingsley, Jane Lapotaire, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Ian McKellen, Richard Pasco, Michael Pennington, Roger Rees, Norman Rodway, Donald Sinden, Patrick Stewart, David Suchet and Michael Williams.
Useful for actors and scholars, this book will also aid teachers and students working on Shakespeare's plays in the classroom.

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

A comprehensive guide to the contents, historical setting and social context of the Bible.

Biblical World Vol2

History

Ancient Civilizations

Routledge

The Wars of the Roses: Adapted for the Royal Shakespeare Company from William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, 3 and Richard III,

British Broadcasting Corporation

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