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Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: near fine
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 re ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
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 si ...Show more
New Cambridge Shakespeare - As You Like It by William Shakespeare (Author), Michael Hattaway - University of Sheffield (Edited by)
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Category: Classics | Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare
Shakespeare's As You Like It can appear bright or sombre in performance: a feast of language and a delight for comic actors; or a risk-taking exploration of gender roles. This updated edition provides an account of what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. There is a section on recent cr ...Show more
New Cambridge Shakespeare - Coriolanus by William Shakespeare (Author), Lee Bliss (Edited by), Bridget Escolme - Queen Mary University of London (Contributions by)
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Category: Classics | Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare
This generously annotated updated edition of Coriolanus provides a thorough reconsideration of Shakespeare's remarkable, and probably his last, tragedy. A substantial introduction situates the play within its contemporary social and political contexts - dearth, riots, the struggle over authority between ...Show more
New Cambridge Shakespeare - Cymbeline by William Shakespeare (Author), Martin Butler (Edited by)
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Category: Classics | Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare
This new edition of Shakespeare's Cymbeline takes full account of the critical and historical scholarship produced in the late twentieth century. It foregrounds the elements of romance, tragicomedy and Jacobean stagecraft which together shape the play; it also acknowledges the postmodern indeterminacy o ...Show more
New Cambridge Shakespeare - Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare
Marga Munkelt has added a new section and pictures to the Introduction of this updated edition of Julius Caesar. It surveys stage and critical interpretations since the 1980's of Shakespeare's most famous Roman play. The reading list has also been brought up to date.
Othello by William Shakespeare
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
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 civilisatio ...Show more
RSC: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: RSC Shakespeare
From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's most celebrated play. This book includes: * An introduction to Hamlet by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate* The play – with clear explanatory notes on each page* A scene-by-scene analysis* An introduction to Shakespeare's career ...Show more
Richard II by William Shakespeare
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dramatic cycle which helped to generate England's national identity. Today, to some of us, Richard II may appear cons ...Show more
Richard III (Manga Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Fiction | Series: Manga Shakespeare | Reading Level: From 8 To 16
Illustrated by leading UK Manga artists, The Manga Shakespeare Collection keys in on the growing popularity of manga worldwide, and presents Shakespeare's classic works in a highly visual and dynamic form.
Romeo and Juliet by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth classics
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material ...Show more