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King Lear
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1994 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20091996-10-23
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«King Lear» has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeare's most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heart-rending. Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world's literature.»
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Measure for Measure
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1995 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20091997-10-31
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In the hope of saving her brother's life, should a woman submit to rape? Should the law be respected when its administrator is corrupt? How powerful in the state should religion become? Although Measure for Measure ends like a comedy, with reconciliations, forgiveness and marriages, it has often been regarded as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The drama shows the difficulty of effecting an appropriate balance between judicial severity and mercy, between sexual repression and decadence, and between political vigilance and social manipulation. These problems remain topical, and, in Measure for Measure, they are given immediacy by vivid character-conflicts and memorably intense poetry. This is one of Shakespeare's most probing and powerful works.
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The Merchant of Venice
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2000 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20092003-09-20
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The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. The text may well seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly, in performance, it has revealed a contrasting nature. Shylock, though vanquished in the law-court, often triumphs in the theatre. He is a character so intense that he can dominate the play, challenging abrasively its romantic and lyrical affirmations.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1992 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20091993-12-20
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Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night’s Dream one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical. 'Lord, what fools these mortals be!', jeers Robin Goodfellow; but the joke may be on him and on his master Oberon when Bottom the weaver, his head transformed into that of an ass, is embraced by the voluptuously amorous Titania.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1995 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20091997-10-31
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Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. The central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, is wittily combative until love prevails. Broader comedy is provided by Dogberry, Verges and the watchmen. The drama ranges between the destructively sinister and the lyrically romantic, giving the whole a complex and sometimes problematic character.
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Othello
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1992 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20091993-12-23
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This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona’s love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation, Othello is arguably the most topical and accessible tragedy from Shakespeare’s major phase as a dramatist.
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The Taming of the Shrew
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1993 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20091994-12-30
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The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies. The central relationship, in which Petruchio boisterously 'tames' a rebellious Kate, has often appeared problematic. In the theatre, it has been treated in a diversity of ways, so that Kate's apparent capitulation varies between the ironic and the sincere. Feminists have been divided in their responses.
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The Tempest
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1994 Страниц: 126 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20091997-09-17
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«The Tempest» is the most lyrical, profound and fascinating of Shakespeare's late comedies. Prospero, long exiled from Italy with his daughter Miranda, seeks to use his magical powers to defeat his former enemies. Eventually, having proved merciful, he divests himself of that magic, his 'art', and prepares to return to the mainland. «The Tempest» has often been regarded as Shakespeare's 'farewell to the stage' before his retirement.»
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Twelfth Night
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1995 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20091997-10-20
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«The gentle melancholy and lyrical atmosphere of «Twelfth Night» have long made the play a favourite with Shakespearian audiences. The plot revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love, but is further enlivened by a comic sub-plot of considerable accomplishment. In it, Sir Toby Belch and his companion outwit the pretentious Malvolio, who despite suffering their most outrageous and insulting practical jokes, emerges as an almost noble figure.»
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The Winter's Tale
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1995 Страниц: 151 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20091998-09-20
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«The Winter's Tale», one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations and reunions. Thematically, there is a rich orchestration of the contrasts between age and youth, corruption and innocence, decline and regeneration. Both Leontes' murderous jealousy and Perdita's love-relationship with Florizel are eloquently intense. In the theatre, «The Winter's Tale» often proves to be diversely entertaining and deeply moving.»
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20122010-12-30
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The Merry Wives of Windsor was almost certainly required at short notice for a court occasion in 1597: Shakespeare threw into it all the creative energy that went into his Henry IV plays. Falstaff is here, with Pistol, Mistress Quickly, and Justice Shallow, in a spirited and warm-hearted 'citizen comedy'. Boisterous action is combined with situational irony and rich characterization. In his introduction T. W. Craik discusses the play's probable occasion (the Garter Feast of 1597 at court), its relationship to Shakespeare's English history plays and to other sources, its textual history (with particular reference to the widely diverging 1623 Folio and 1602 Quarto), and its original quality as drama. He assesses various interpretations of the play, topical, critical, and theatrical. In the commentary he pays particular attention to expounding the literal sense (he proposes some new readings) and evoking the stage business.
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OBP 2: Romeo and Juliet
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2007 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20102010-09-27
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This is the most famous of all Shakespeare's plays — a story of passionate young love. What's in a name? Does it really matter if you are called Montague or Capulet? When Romeo, son of Lord and Lady Montague, falls in love with the most beautiful girl he's ever seen, he finds out that it does matter. It makes all the difference in the world, because both families hate each other bitterly. For a time, Romeo and Juliet manage to keep their love secret. But when Romeo is sent away from Verona, and arrangements are made for Juliet to marry Paris, a friend of her father's, hope begins to die. Can any of their friends help the young lovers to be together for ever?
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As You Like it
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1994 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20091995-12-20
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«When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves — now a fellow exile — and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her. A gloriously sunny comedy, «As You Like It» is an exuberant combination of concealed identities and verbal jousting, reconciliations and multiple weddings.»
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Julius Caesar
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1995 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20091997-10-20
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«This is a title in an inexpensive range of classics in the «Penguin Popular Classics» series.»
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Hamlet Reader
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2009 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20112010-12-07
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Shakespeare's famous story of the young Prince Hamlet's journey into despair and revenge after learning that his uncle is his father's murderer. This Macmillan Reader is written as a playscript and includes original extracts.
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The Oxford Shakespeare: Hamlet
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20132013-04-12
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Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays. Professor Hibbard's illuminating and original introduction explains the process by which variant texts were fused in the eighteenth century to create the most commonly used text of today. Drawing on both critical and theatrical history, he shows how this gusion makes Hamlet seem a much more 'problematic' play than it was when it originally appeared in the First Folio of 1623. The Oxford Shakespeare edition presents a radically new text, based on that First Folio, which printed Shakespeare's own revision of an earlier version. The result is a 'theatrical' and highly practical edition for students and actors alike.
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The Oxford Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20112011-04-15
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The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers * a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings * on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions, and much else * detailed introduction considers composition, sources, performances, and changing critical attitudes to the play * illustrated with production photographs and related art * full index to introduction and commentary * durable sewn binding for lasting use
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The Oxford Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20122012-02-19
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The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern readers — a new, modern-spelling text, based on the 1623 Folio text — on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, language and allusions — detailed introduction considers composition, sources, and critical and theatrical history — includes full text of Plautus' Menaechmi and extracts from Gesta Grayorum and the Geneva Bible — illustrated with production photographs and related art — full index to introduction and commentary — durable sewn binding for lasting use
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Romeo and Juliet
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 72 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102011-04-17
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Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous love stories in the world. But it is more than a great love story. It is also about life and death, happiness and sadness, and the terrible hate between two great families. Shakespeare's beautiful tale is still as popular today as it was more than 400 years ago.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (+ Audio CD)
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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This wonderful story of fairies, dreams and lovers is as popular today as it was in Shakespeare's time. In a wood outside Athens, four young people are following their dreams, while fairies play strange games with them. Their world seems unreal but is it really very different from our own?
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