Shakespeare William: 2151 books

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.  Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets by William...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. The Passionate Pilgrim (1599) is an anthology of 20 poems collected...

William Shakespeare is almost universally considered the English language's most famous and greatest writer. In fact, the only people who might dispute that are those who think he didn't write the surviving 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems still attributed to...

This narrative poem is a retelling of the legend of the founding of the Roman Republic after the rape of Lucrece, the wife of an advisor to the king. When the king’s son, Tarquins, hears Collatinus praise his wife Lucrece’s chastity, Tarquins becomes intent on sullying the good woman, and sets...

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's controversial comedy. Featuring the tumultuous relationship of Petruchio and the headstrong Katherina, this popular comedy goes beyond courtship to explore what happens after a determined man marries a woman who refuses to be tamed. This...

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...

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!...

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...

King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The titular character descends into madness after disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. Based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king, the...

Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio. Whilst various arguments support that Shakespeare is the sole author...