Shakespeare category: 1671 books

Shakespeare's Cymbeline, in French translation. According to Wikipedia: "Cymbeline is a play by William Shakespeare, based on legends concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobelinus. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a romance. Like Othello,...

Understanding the early-modern subject to be constituted, as Shakespeare's Ulysses explains, by its communications with others, this study considers what happens when these conceptions of compassionate communication and sympathetic exchange are comprehensively undermined by period anxieties concerning...

Elizabethan drama sometimes attributed in part to Shakespeare. According to Wikipedia: "William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often...

Classic Shakespearean romance in French translation. According to Wikipedia: "The Tempest is a play written by William Shakespeare. Many scholars believe that it was written in 161011, although some researchers have argued for an earlier dating. While listed as a comedy when it was initially published...

Much has been explored about Shakespeare and his life, but little is known about how this small-town boy with a grammar-school education came to pen masterworks like Hamlet and King Lear. In Meet William Shakespeare, playwright J. Ajlouny creates authentic and plausible explanations that answer centuries-old...

Elizabethan play, sometimes attributed in part to Shakespeare. According to Wikipedia: "William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often...

It is part of Shakespeare's extraordinary contribution to our culture that, through his dramas based on English history, he played a unique part in forming our view of ourselves and our nationhood. From King John, in which through Magna Carta the king's absolute power was first limited and the people's...

Das Leben des erfolgreichsten, wirkungsmächtigsten Dramatikers der Welt ist ein Geheimnis: Wir wissen fast nichts über William Shakespeare. Er ist ein Phantom und seine Stücke, die jeder kennt, sind ein Kulturerbe der Welt. Vor 400 Jahren starb er und ist dafür immer noch erstaunlich lebendig. Und...

Die Komödie "Was ihr wollt" wurde von William Shakespeare um das Jahr 1601 verfasst. Der Originaltitel Twelfth Night ist eine Anspielung auf die Epiphaniasnacht als Abschluss der zwölf Rauhnächte. Zu Shakespeares Zeiten wurde dieser Beginn der Karnevalszeit bereits mit Maskenspielen gefeiert,...

Giovanni Senza Terra, che regnò dal 1199 al 1216, è senz’altro il più ambiguo e sfuggente di tutti i re messi in scena da Shakespeare: celebrato dalla storiografia come precursore di Enrico VIII nel suo opporsi al potere del papato, e vituperato come assassino; raffigurato come usurpatore e tiranno...

Shakespeare history play, Henry VIII, in French translation. According to Wikipedia: "The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight is a history play by William Shakespeare and (allegedly) John Fletcher, based on the life of Henry VIII of England. An alternative title, All is True, is recorded...

Macbeth (full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, and is considered one of his darkest and most powerful works. Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the corrosive psychological and political effects produced when evil is chosen as a way to fulfil the ambition...

Twelve of Shakespeare's greatest tales come to life in this entertaining collection of short, lively stories specially adapted for young readers. Capturing the vital events and using some of the original wording, the stories serve as a perfect introduction to Shakespeare for preteens and as literate...

William Shakespeare is widely considered the greatest writer in the history of the English language, so renowned and respected that the time period in which he lived is often known as the Age of Shakespeare. Indeed, his genius is questioned only by those who doubt the authenticity of his authorship of...