William Shakespeare: 2151 books

New adaptation of 'Hamlet' for a modern black theatrical production. Remember me… Denmark, a Black Empire of modern England, where an intelligent young student discovers the world he once knew has crumbled. Implored to defend what is left of his father’s decaying legacy, Hamlet now faces...

The portrait of a monarchy in crisis, this historical drama concerns the famous king's efforts to secure a divorce from his dignified and popular queen in order to marry an enchanting courtesan and produce a male heir. The play ranks among Shakespeare's most sumptuous and spectacular works, offering...

One of Shakespeare's "dark comedies," Measure for Measure is as noteworthy for its fascinating political and social implications as for its compelling characters: a duke masquerading as a monk, a would-be nun ordered to sacrifice her chastity to save her brother's life, and a self-righteous courtier,...

Collection containing Cymbeline, Pericles, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, the best Shakespeare's romances.

Collection containing All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour ’s Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, the best Shakespeare's comedies.

Three Early Comedies Love's Labor's Lost Farce and fun follow when a young king and his three friends vow to give up women for a year—just as a pretty princess and her three ladies-in-waiting arrive—in a delightful play that ends with one of Shakespeare’s loveliest songs. The Two...

The play is set in a duchy in France, but most of the action takes place in a location called the Forest of Arden. Arden, Warwickshire, near Shakespeare's home town, which was the ancestral origin of his mother's family—who incidentally were called Arden. It follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees...

An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful...

Versão otimizada para KoboBooks. Perfeita e bonita formatação, navegação funcional entre as partes da obra. Com ilustrações.  *** Lançamento da 2. Edição Fevereiro/2015 - Novo formato EPUB3, revisão e correção...

Maik Hamburgers Shakespeare-Übersetzungen zeichnen sich durch besondere - auch sprachlich-stilistische - Nähe zum Original und vor allem durch ihre Bühnenwirkung aus. Für den Übersetzer stand im Vordergrund, dass Shakespeares Text für Schauspieler geschrieben ist, dazu, um auf der Bühne verwirklicht...

Shakespeare-Dramen in allen Variationen - neuübersetzt, nachgedichtet, bearbeitet, überschrieben, ganz gegen den Strich gelesen von den wichtigsten Stimmen des deutschsprachigen Gegenwartstheaters: Plinio Bachmann, Gabriella Bußacker, Nuran David Calis, Gesine Danckwart, Helmut Krausser, Albert Ostermaier, Jens Roselt, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Werner Schwab, Marlene Streeruwitz.

Shakespeare's tragic and comic dramatization of the Trojan War endures in one of his most intriguing plays. Shakespeare's portrayal of the snares of young love set against a backdrop of a senseless and endless war can be fully appreciated for the beauty of its verse and the profundity of its themes.

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. Brutus would rather Rome be a republic than an empire ruled by a tyrant, so he participates in a conspiracy to kill Caesar. Though Brutus...

"A Lover's Complaint" is a narrative poem published as an appendix to the original edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets. It is given the title "A Lover's Complaint" in the book, which was published by Thomas Thorpe in 1609. Although published as Shakespeare's work, the poem's...