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A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the most popular comedies of the legendary playwright, William Shakespeare. The play revolves around Hermia and her best friend, Helena. Hermia runs away into the woods with her lover, Lysander, and Demetrius, the man of her father's choice, follows them. Helena follows Demetrius, as she is in love with him and wishes she could win his love. In the woods, they come across Oberon and Titania, King and Queen of the...
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The Merchant of Venice is one of the ten most popular titles from the best-selling Cambridge School Shakespeare series now available in a new edition. The new edition includes new and revised activities throughout, new black and white photos from the widest selection of stage and film interpretations of the plays, and a larger glossary providing extra support with the language of Shakespeare. In addition, expanded sections on characters, language,...
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"For this updated critical edition of Romeo and Juliet, Hester Lees-Jeffries has written a completely new Introduction. It draws on recent research in theatre to set Romeo and Juliet in its mid-1590s context,making connections with other plays by Shakespeare and other literature of the period, as well as with the social and cultural contexts of the day, with discussions of London and Italy; dancing and duelling; marriage, gender and sexuality. It...
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One of Shakespeare s most robust comedies, The Taming of the Shrew, is about Katherine, the ill-tempered daughter of a wealthy merchant in Padua. Katherine is so petulant that her father always believed no man would ever want her as his wife. However, Petruchio, a rich young man, comes into Katherine s life and brings about a great change in her behaviour. This short narrative version of the play has been suitably adapted to help introduce the play...
5) Macbeth
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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.
6) Othello
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This edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent times. Othello is one of Shakespeare's great tragedies-written in the same five-year period as Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. The new introduction attends to the play's different meanings throughout history,...
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Plays of William Shakespeare volume II
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[1992]
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Film of a stage production of Shakespeare's play in which tragedy occurs when an old king decides to divide his kingdom between his daughters.
14) Titus Andronicus
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The noble Titus returns victorious to Rome bringing Tamora, Queen of the Goths as his captive. When one of Tamora's sons is condemned to die, she vows revenge and, aided by the villainous Aaron, she exacts a terrible retribution, inaugurating a grim cycle of rape, murder, and cannibalism.
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Plays of William Shakespeare volume 1
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[2001]
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Shakespeare's drama of Mark Antony's obsessive passion for Queen Cleopatra, and how it leads to the tragic downfall of both.
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Plays of William Shakespeare volume 5
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[2001]
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English
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Shakespeare's timeless comedy of lovers' seductions, fanciful deceits and marital fidelity.
18) Othello
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Plays volume 6
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[2001]
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Unfounded jealousy in love results in the untimely murder and suicide of two star-crossed lovers. Unfamiliar English accents are absent from this series. Shakespeare's own language is preserved ; clarity of both language and story is achieved.
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Plays of William Shakespeare volume 8
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A dramatization of Shakespeare's play about the courtship of a beautiful but sharp-tempered woman by her persistent suitor.
20) The Tempest
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Plays volume 9
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[2001]
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English
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A dramatization of William Shakespeare's play about Alonso, King of Naples, who is shipwrecked on an enchanted island by the magician Prospero.
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