Shakespeare: 2188 books

When the king of Denmark suddenly dies, his brother, Claudius, ascends the throne and marries the king’s widow, Gertrude, to solidify his reign. Prince Hamlet, sullen after his father’s passing and mother’s sudden remarriage, soon learns the treacherous truth about his father’s death, and...

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful...

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations....

Murder, Mayhem, and Madness-- Collected here are five of William Shakespeare's greatest tragedies Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear. These are the plays that made Shakespeare's reputation. Murder, deceit, treachery, and madness play out on the grand stage. Stories for the ages!...

Collection Of William Shakespeare Volume 4 Arguably the greatest writer the English language has ever seen, and perhaps the most quoted, William Shakespeare's 37 plays and 154 sonnets and other poems are here collected in this neat, easy navigable digital edition. Conveniently divided...

The Winter’s Tale takes us on an extraordinary journey. King Leontes falls prey to an inexplicable jealousy of his wife Hermione; it causes her (apparent) death and the (actual) death of his young son Mamillius. Sixteen years of repentance, supervised by Paulina, lead to scenes of reunion and reconciliation...

ANTONIO Y CLEOPATRA, última tragedia de amor de Shakespeare, es la única en la que el tema amoroso está fatalmente ligado a la lucha por el poder. La acción se despliega en una continua alternancia entre Roma y Alejandría como extremos opuestos del mundo antiguo y símbolos del conflicto de Antonio...

La presente edición reúne las dieciocho comedias y tragicomedias compuestas por William Shakespeare (1564-1616). En ella se recogen las traducciones de Ángel-Luis Pujante, reconocido especialista en Shakespeare, publicadas en la colección Austral, y se incluyen ocho traducciones inéditas: Los...

Nadie como William Shakespeare para hablarle al ser humano sobre sus pasiones más íntimas y muchas veces inconfesables, para inspirarlo, exaltarlo, provocarle una carcajada o advertirle de toda suerte de peligros. Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo y Julieta, Otelo, Falstaff y tantos otros personajes de su...

Los Sonetos de Shakespeare son un conjunto de 154 poemas bajo la forma estrófica del soneto inglés en los que se tratan temas tales como el amor, la belleza, la política y la mortalidad.

A buen fin no hay mal principio, también traducida y conocida como Bien está lo que bien acaba es una comedia de William Shakespeare. En torno a 1860, al tiempo que culminaba su obra Los miserables, Victor Hugo escribió desde el destierro: "Shakespeare no tiene el monumento que Inglaterra...

Otelo: el moro de Venecia u Othello: el moro de Venecia(título original: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) es una obra teatral de William Shakespeare escrita alrededor de 1603. Otelo es una tragedia, como Hamlet, Macbeth y El rey Lear. Shakespeare escribió Otelo probablemente...

Comedy, tragedy, and history — this anthology presents a trio of Shakespeare's most frequently studied and performed works. Each represents one of the playwright's primary genres, and together they run the gamut of the Elizabethan theater experience, from lighthearted romance to star-crossed passion...

Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most imaginative and exuberant comedies, contrasting two pairs of lovers in a witty and suspenseful battle of the sexes. Attracted to each other, the maddeningly skeptical Beatrice and Benedick are dead-locked in a lively war of words until their friends...