William Shakespeare

What if one of literature's greatest poets was actually a zombie, writing in an Elizabethan world teeming with the undead hiding in plain sight? Inviting readers to see the sublime in the looming apocalypse, this book presents all 154 Shakespearean sonnets (with minor alterations transfigured into "zonnets") in their horrifying glory, highlighting transcendent themes of love, death, beauty and feasting on the flesh of the living. Each sonnet portrays a zombie encounter, with accompanying vignettes revealing the struggles of undead life in early modern England. Original illustrations by Anna Pagnucci bring the nightmare to life. Shakespeare will never be the same.

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The Taming of the Shrew is perhaps one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays by modern standards. Hinging on the courtship between the arrogant Petruchio and the "shrew" of the title Katherina, it is unclear whether Shakespeare's blatantly misogynistic themes were in earnest or tongue in cheek. The charming and tender Bianca is forbidden to marry until her elder sister, Katherine is spoken for. Bianca's suitors enlist Petruchio to woo Katherina for her dowry. Petruchio embarks on his own brand of psychological torture and in so doing manages to "tame" the stubborn Katherine who morphs into the faultless submissive wife.

The printed books from Literary Domain Publishing are made on white quality paper with the size of 6x9 - the Shakespearan plays with a large font size of 12. Most of the books by Literary Domain Publishing are Public Domain and are "re-published" in order to make the books more readily available to the modern era. A commentary is usually supplied so a reader can quickly pre-view to see if it is worthwhile to invest the time in reading the book. It also gives an accurate book review by a qualified source or reader.

Edition int grale en format broch Avec Atlantic Editions, plongez dans la lecture d'un des plus grands chefs-d'oeuvre de la litt rature anglaise. Le roi Lear d cide de se retirer et de partager son royaume entre ses trois filles, en leur demandant en change de lui exprimer publiquement leur amour. Ses deux filles a n es se pr tent, avec trop de complaisance, l'exercice. Quant la jeune Cord lia, sa pr f r e, elle se refuse rivaliser avec la rh torique de ses soeurs, par peur de d naturer le v ritable amour qu'elle porte son p re. Provoquant la fureur du roi Lear, elle est bannit. De son c t , le comte de Gloucester, loyal sujet du roi, manipul lui aussi, se m prend sur la vraie nature de son fils ill gitime Edmond, qu'il r pudie. Mais lorsque les d cisions sont guid es par la fiert et les conflits d'int r t plut t que la raison et les sentiments, les cons quences ne sont que folie et souffrances... Publi l'origine en 1608, Le Roi Lear s'inspire de l'Historia regum Britanniae (Histoire des rois de Bretagne) de Geoffroy de Monmouth, qui voque la figure l gendaire de Leir, roi mythique de l' le de Bretagne l' poque celtique. M lant habilement deux intrigues, cette trag die, dont Victor Hugo admirait la construction inou e, est l'une des pi ces les plus achev es de William Shakespeare. Le succ s international de ce chef-d'oeuvre ne s'est jamais d menti, avec notamment de nombreuses adaptations th atrales et cin matographiques. Dans cette dition, le texte est magnifiquement traduit par Fran ois-Victor Hugo, et restitue tout le style flamboyant de l'auteur. William Shakespeare, n avant 1564 et mort en 1616, est l'un des plus grands po tes, dramaturges et crivains de la culture anglaise. Ses oeuvres sont parmi les plus traduites dans le monde. Figure minente de la culture occidentale, Shakespeare continue d'influencer les artistes d'aujourd'hui. Ce chef-d'oeuvre incontournable et intemporel, t moignage de l'immense talent litt raire de l'auteur, ravira les lecteurs de tous ges. Retrouvez d'autres chefs-d'oeuvre de William Shakespeare chez Atlantic Editions: Rom o et Juliette: Edition int grale - Traduction de Fran ois-Victor Hugo ISBN 978-1717598257 Macbeth: Edition int grale - Traduction de Fran ois-Victor Hugo et Fran ois Guizot ISBN 978-1977930651 Hamlet: Edition int grale - Traduction de Fran ois-Victor Hugo ISBN 978-1978274020 Othello: Edition int grale - Traduction de Fran ois-Victor Hugo et Fran ois Guizot ISBN 978-1978390225 (c) Atlantic Editions

Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1599. It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War. In the First Quarto text, it was entitled The Cronicle History of Henry the fift, which became The Life of Henry the Fifth in the First Folio text.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.

Timon of Athens (The Life of Tymon of Athens) is a play by William Shakespeare, published in the First Folio (1623) and probably written in collaboration with another author, most likely Thomas Middleton, in about 1605-1606. It is about the fortunes of an Athenian named Timon (and probably influenced by the philosopher of the same name). The central character is a well beloved citizen of Athens who through tremendous generosity spends his entire fortunes on corrupt hangers-on only interested in getting the next payout.

If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances.

LUCIUS TARQUINIUS (for his excessive pride surnamed Superbus), after he had caused his own father-in-law, Servius Tullius, to be cruelly murdered, and, contrary to the Roman laws and customs, not requiring or staying for the people's suffrages, had possessed himself of the kingdom, went, accompanied with his sons and other noblemen of Rome, to besiege Ardea. During which siege the principal men of the army meeting one evening at the tent of Sextus Tarquinius, the king's son, in their discourses after supper, every one commended the virtues of his own wife; among whom Collatinus extolled the incomparable chastity of his wife Lucretia. In that pleasant humour they all posted to Rome; and intending, by their secret and sudden arrival, to make trial of that which every one had before avouched, only Collatinus finds his wife, though it were late in the night, spinning amongst her maids: the other ladies were all found dancing and revelling, or in several disports.

The bard's sonnets read by a leading actor of stage and screen Simon Callow. Savor the most celebrated love poems in the English language. Written almost 400 years ago, the sonnets of William Shakespeare are passionate and exalted, rich in imagery and alliteration, and full of mystery and intrigue.