First published in 1861, "e;Shakespeare: His Birthplace and its Neighbourhood"e; contains a detailed history of the English town Stratford-upon-Avon and its surrounding areas by John R.
This second 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.
This second 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.
In this volume on Othello, Laurie Maguire examines the use and misuse of language, the play's textual and performance histories and how critics and directors have responded to the language of sexual jealousy.
Marcus Brutus, a Roman politician, considers Emperor Julius Caesar to be a friend, but a senator-Caius Cassius-convinces Brutus that Caesar has too much power.
In The Wooing of Malkatoon & Commodus, Lew Wallace brings together two characteristic exercises in nineteenth-century historical imagination: an Eastern romance of courtship, splendor, and moral testing, and a dramatic treatment of the Roman emperor Commodus, whose reign invites reflection on power, decadence, and imperial decline.
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.
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.
