William Shakespeare: 2151 books

King Lear, widely considered Shakespeare's most deeply moving, passionately expressed, and intellectually ambitious play, has almost always been edited from the revised version printed in the First Folio of 1623, with additions from the quarto of 1608. Acting on recent discoveries, this volume presents...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Hugely ambitious in its historical focus and vast geographical scope, Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare’s most astonishing tragedies. The drama centres on the relationships between his main protagonists,...

Shakespeare is without doubt the most quoted writer in English. His plays and poems comprise an inexhaustible source of memorable and often profound thoughts beautifully and concisely expressed. This remarkably affordable volume presents over 400 quotations conveniently arranged by topic: love, marriage,...

This version of William Shakespeare's famous comedic play A Midsummer Night's Dream has been extensively annotated and formatted for your reader.

Two Scottish generals, Macbeth and Banquo, are on their way home from successful battles when they encounter three witches. With the prophecies of power and fame they give him swirling through his head, Macbeth tells his wife that the witches divined that he would become king of Scotland. Eager to...

*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.  King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises...

William Shakespeare introduce en “El mercader de Venecia” aspectos históricos, culturales y sociales de la Inglaterra de su época: la discriminación hacia los judíos, la sospechosa legalidad de algunas acciones humanas, la venganza y el perdón, la represión religiosa, la diferencia entre...

Constituyen quizás, junto con 'Otelo', la tríada más famosa de la extraordinaria producción del inglés William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) no sólo por las preferencias del lector y sus representaciones teatrales, sino por haber sido arrebatadas por la gran pantalla en varias ocasiones. La primera...

 La fierecilla domada es una de las más populares comedias de William Shakespeare. Es una historia ambientada en Italia sobre los enredos originados por las relaciones de amor y odio que surgen entre hombres y mujeres, en medio de un matrimonio arreglado.  

El hijo de Tarquino el Soberbio, Séptimo rey etrusco de Roma, viola a la ejemplarmente casta Lucrecia, esposa de un patricio romano; ella lo denuncia y se suicida; el rey es expulsado y se instala la república. Shakespeare poetiza este episodio en un extenso poema narrativo que se detiene con eficaz retórica en la psicología del violador y la violada.

Presentamos en estas páginas la última obra teatral que escribiera William Shakespeare, genio y honra de la literatura universal. Se trata de una representación cuyos actos invitan, más que a la simple distracción, a la sincera reflexión de cualquier lector.

Love’s Labor’s Lost: The 30-Minute Shakespeare plays three action-packed scenes from this tale of King Navarre and his three lords, who have vowed to retire from women for three years. Naturally, the Princess of France and her three ladies arrive, and comedic courtship ensues.The cutting includes...

Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second of Shakespeare's tetralogy that deals with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV (2 plays), and Henry V. Henry IV, Part 1 depicts a span of history that begins with...

The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597. It features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life. It has been adapted for the opera on occasions.