William Shakespeare (3)

The Great Comedies and Tragedies

ISBN: 9781840221459

Author: William Shakespeare    Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

This work includes the Comedies with Introductions by Judith Buchanan. These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. In each a problem emerges...


This work includes the Comedies with Introductions by Judith Buchanan. These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. In each a problem emerges, is then intensified to a point of maximum confusion and potential upset, before the chaos is resolved, however improbably, into general goodwill and a spate of marriages. The triumph of these plays lies in the way they mingle humorous stage business and dexterous word play with a more serious study of identity, gender, dreaming, the meaning of love, even of the theatre itself. They reassure us that with all its faults, the world will always in the end be redeemable.It also includes the Tragedies with Introductions by Emma Smith - 'Not for an age but for all time.' So Ben Jonson established what we now take for granted: Shakespeare's unique place among the world's great authors. Romeo and Juliet shows us the archetypal story of fated young love; Hamlet, the tortured psyche of the young prince of Denmark; Othello, a strikingly modern representation of racial difference; King Lear, a man stripped of all material and psychological comforts; and Macbeth, a dark investigation of the origins and effects of, evil.


Pages: 896


Dimensions: 111 x 178 mm


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Romeo and Juliet

ISBN: 9781840224337

Author: William Shakespeare    Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Love, sex and death are the components of Shakespeare's classic story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers of family and convention...


Love, sex and death are the components of Shakespeare's classic story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers of family and convention. It encompasses great love, high drama, low comedy and a tragic ending. Romeo and Juliet is a pure tragedy of youth told in verse that is both youthful and intense. The loveliness and the music of the poetry make believable the otherwise commonplace afflictions of blighted love.


Pages: 160


Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 10 mm


Publication Date: 01-11-2000


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The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare

ISBN: 9781853264160

Author: William Shakespeare    Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

The Wordsworth Poetry Library comprises the works of the greatest English-speaking poets, as well as many lesser-known poets. Each collection has a specially co...


The Wordsworth Poetry Library comprises the works of the greatest English-speaking poets, as well as many lesser-known poets. Each collection has a specially commissioned introduction.


Pages: 208


Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 11 mm


Publication Date: 01-09-1995


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