Classic and pre-20th century plays

Disregard for messages from the oracles and gods doesn't turn out well for characters in Greek stories, and Oedipus is no exception.

Two Scottish generals, Macbeth and Banquo, are on their way home from successful battles when they encounter three witches.

In the kingdom of Illyria, a love triangle has everyone on edge.

For Romeo and Juliet, it's love at first sight.

While staying at his friend Leonato's home, Claudio falls in love with Hero, Leonato's beautiful daughter, and they agree to marry.

Hermia's father has given her a seemingly impossible decision: marry Demetrius, a man she doesn't love, or die.

"e;Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

In the kingdom of Illyria, a love triangle has everyone on edge.

Disregard for messages from the oracles and gods doesn't turn out well for characters in Greek stories, and Oedipus is no exception.

For Romeo and Juliet, it's love at first sight.

While staying at his friend Leonato's home, Claudio falls in love with Hero, Leonato's beautiful daughter, and they agree to marry.

Two Scottish generals, Macbeth and Banquo, are on their way home from successful battles when they encounter three witches.

"e;Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Hermia's father has given her a seemingly impossible decision: marry Demetrius, a man she doesn't love, or die.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;THE WOOING OF MALKATOON & COMMODUS (Illustrated)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

The idea of toxic masculinity might feel like a very modern, even twenty-first century notion, but similar concerns about male behaviour, also often characterised in terms of poisons and poisoning, can be identified in the literature of 400 hundred years ago, not only in Shakespeare's Othello and The Winter's Tale but also lesser-known plays that were popular on the London stage in the 1600s.

Community Shakespeare Company Editions make Shakespeares plans instantly accessible to everyone, from children through Shakespeare-shy adults.

This introduction to Greek tragedy, the origin of much of our modern drama, is the work of a remarkable scholar who is also a practical man of theater.

Aristophanes' great anti-war drama glorifies the power of fertility in the face of destruction.

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Homeric Stitchings is the first extended study of the Homeric Centos, a long pastiche poem on a biblical theme composed by the Theodosian Empress Eudocia using only verses from the Iliad and the Odyssey.

One of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate probing of the nature of human suffering.

African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies, and experimentations that have emerged from performative, political, literary, and conceptual encounters with Shakespeare and his oeuvre in African contexts.

40 of William Shakespeares major works in one collection with active table of contents:Alls Well That Ends WellAntony and CleopatraThe Comedy of ErrorsThe Tragedie of CoriolanusCymbelineThe Tragedie of HamletThe First Part of Henry the FourthThe Second Part of Henry the FourthThe Life of Henry the FiftThe first Part of Henry the SixtThe second Part of Henry the SixtThe third Part of Henry the SixtJulius CaesarThe Life of Henry VIIIKing JohnThe Tragedy of King LearThe Tragedy of King Richard IIThe Life and Death of King Richard IIIA Lovers ComplaintLoves Labours LostMacbethMeasure for MeasureThe Merchant of VeniceThe Merry Wives of WindsorA Midsummer Nights DreamMuch Ado About NothingOthello, the Moor of VeniceThe Passionate PilgrimThe Rape of LucreceRomeo and JulietShakespeares SonnetsThe Taming of the ShrewThe TempestThe Life of Timon of AthensThe Tragedie of Titus AndronicusThe History of Troilus and CressidaTwelfth NightThe Two Gentlemen of VeronaVENUS AND ADONISThe Winters Tale Illustrated with 10 unique illustrations.

Community Shakespeare Company Editions make Shakespeares plays instantly accessible to everyone, from children through Shakespeare-shy adults.

A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life.

The 'riotous, insanely readable' (Observer) retelling of The Tempest from the 2019 Booker Prize-winning author of THE TESTAMENTS.

This vintage book contains a fascinating treatise on the comic characters of Shakespeare's plays.

The second instalment of Richard Wagner's best-known work The Ring of Nibelung has been translated by Margaret Armour and is presented in this volume alongside Arthur Rackham's gorgeous illustrations.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

In Shakespeare's Comedies: All That Matters, Mike Scott explores and explains the secrets that have made Shakespeare's comedies so enduring that they continue to be performed, watched and studied by millions of people every year.

Dostoevsky uses Hamlet to address some of the most important problems in Russian culture in the second half of the 19th century.

Consent in Shakespeare's Classical Mediterranean fills a gap in knowledge about how female-identified, gender-fluid, and non-binary characters made choices about intimacy, engagement, and marriage in Shakespeare's classical Mediterranean plays.

When the Peloponnesian War goes on too long, the women of Athens, led by the beautiful Lysistrata, take matters into their own hands, withholding their passion as a way to force their men to negotiate a peace treaty.

Some of Shakespeare's most memorable male characters, such as Hamlet, Prince Hal, and Edgar, are defined by their relationships with their fathers.

Shakespeare’s works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre.

Shakespeare’s works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre.

For Shakespeare and Shakespearean adaptation, the global digital media environment is a “brave new world” of opportunity and revolution.

For Shakespeare and Shakespearean adaptation, the global digital media environment is a “brave new world” of opportunity and revolution.

The image of the prism, with its multiple refractions, offers some sense of the inexhaustible variety of a work of art.

The precise relation between the spectator and the work of art was a matter of great interest to late Renaissance and baroque artists, playwrights as well as painters.

This volume documents the full tradition of criticism of The Merchant of Venice ranging from 1775 to 1939.

Is William Shakespeare of Stratford-Upon-Avon the true author of the poems and plays attributed to him?

Here are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own.

Here are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own.

Here are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own.