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1) Hamlet
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English
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The most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet tells the story of the ghost of the King of Denmark who tells his son Hamlet, to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet pretends to be affected by madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet.
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When Shrek married Fiona the last thing he had in mind was becoming the next King of Far Far Away. But when Shrek's father-in-law, King Harold, suddenly croaks, that is exactly what he faces. Recruiting Donkey and Puss in Boots for a new quest, Shrek sets out to bring back the rightful heir to the throne. Meanwhile back in the kingdom, Fiona's jilted Prince Charming storms the city with an army of fairy tale villains to seize the throne. Fiona and...
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Hamlet is commonly, regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller. In the wake of his father's death, Prince Hamlet finds that his Uncle Claudius has swiftly taken the throne and married his mother, Queen Gertrude. The ghost of the dead king then, appears and...
5) Macbeth
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English
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Presents Shakespeare's drama about a man who kills the king of Scotland in order to claim the throne for himself, and includes explanatory notes, plot summaries, a key to notable lines and phrases, and other reference information.
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Second edition.
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English
Description
"As part of Longman's series of Cultural Editions, Constance Jordan presents William Shakespeare's Hamlet in several provocative and illuminating contexts - cultural, critical, and literary." "Shakespeare's famous tragedy (its text based on the most authoritative of early editions, the Folio, published in 1623) is helpfully annotated and framed within several exciting contexts: contemporary accounts of a spirit world, purgatory, revenge, and suicide,...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
[Colorized version].
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Hindi
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A dramatic spectacular set in the time of the Moguls at the height of their power and splendor. When Prince Salim falls in love with a beautiful courtsan, he is not allowed to marry her. He must produce an heir from royal blood only.
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[2000]
Language
Hindi
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A curse had been placed on the ruler of Sunder Gadh that his firstborn son would murder him. When his wife gave birth, he told the nurse that if the newborn happened to be a boy then she should exchange him for another boy born at the same time. The queen gave birth to twin boys; the nurse hid this fact and gave Sunder one twin, saying that she had exchanged him. The king abandoned the baby in the jungle, but a group of snake charmers saved him and...
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