William Shakespeare

The Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form. 'A quite wonderful idea... So blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself' - Peter Hall This edition accurately reproduces the text of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623), but in modern type. At a stroke the dust of ages is blown away and what Shakespeare actually intended is revealed to modern readers. Now Shakespeareans everywhere - students, actors, directors - can see for themselves what the Folio really says. As a further aid to understanding, on each opposing page the same text appears in a fully modernised version - a useful safety net whenever the Folio becomes problematic. Each volume also contains: - an introduction to the particular play - textual notes - an appendix giving variant versions from the Quarto where appropriate - a facsimile page from the First Folio

This lovely but somewhat disturbing song from Love’s Labour’s Lost uses Shakespeare’s original spelling and is here illustrated with wit and imagination by Peter Hay. When daizies pied, and violets blue,And Lady-smocks all silver white,And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue,Do paint the meadows with delight,The cuckoo then, on every tree ,Mocks marry’d men, for thus sings he,Cuckoo;Cuckoo, cuckoo, -O word of fear,Unpleasing to a married ear!

Read Shakespeare’s plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means! Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable. Each No Fear guide contains:The complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday languageA complete list of characters with descriptionsPlenty of helpful commentary

From Longman's new Cultural Edition series, Hamlet,edited by Constance Jordan, includes the play and contextual materials from the era of Shakespeare. This edition represents Shakespeare's text as it appears in the most authoritative of early editions, the Folio, published in 1623, and it supplies students with useful footnotes to the interpretation of the text. It also includes brief samples of works by Shakespeare's contemporaries in a section entitled Contexts; which will help students understand the historical setting and cultural ideas that helped shape the meaning of Shakespeare's play. By listening to these voices from the past, students can approach the play with some knowledge of why Hamlet asks the questions he does and of why the character himself, the creation of a distant century, also seems so much a part of our own world. The Longman Cultural Edition series is composed of teaching texts edited by prominent scholars. In addition to the recently published Cultural Editions Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, and Othello, titles in the series for this year include Dickens' Hard Times, Beowulf, and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. Â This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Â Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.

York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.

At the heart of this tragic history is one of Shakespeare's most noble characters, the statesman Brutus, who is caught in a devastating conflict between private affection and public duty. Julius Caesar has become the most powerful man in the Rome. Does his power now threaten the very existence of the Republic itself? A conspiracy is hatched, one that will have fatal consequences not only for Caesar and the conspirators but for the future history of the ancient world. Brutus is played by John Bowe and Mark Antony by Adrian Lester. Michael Feast is Caesar.

Famously censored by the Master of Revels and then revised—probably by Shakespeare himself—this is the story of Henry VIII’s chancellor, executed for failing to arrange Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon. A collaborative effort, the manuscript includes three pages in what may be Shakespeare’s own handwriting.

The Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form. 'A quite wonderful idea... So blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself' - Peter Hall This edition accurately reproduces the text of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623), but in modern type. At a stroke the dust of ages is blown away and what Shakespeare actually intended is revealed to modern readers. Now Shakespeareans everywhere - students, actors, directors - can see for themselves what the Folio really says. As a further aid to understanding, on each opposing page the same text appears in a fully modernised version - a useful safety net whenever the Folio becomes problematic. Each volume also contains: - an introduction to the particular play - textual notes - an appendix giving variant versions from the Quarto where appropriate - a facsimile page from the First Folio

Richard II est au pouvoir, c'est un roi juste mais faible. Son cousin Bolingbroke - qui est egalement son rival pour le trone - accuse Mowbray, le duc de Norfolk, d'avoir tue leur oncle, Thomas de Gloucester, et detourne des fonds royaux. Richard II propose de regler le conflit en bannissant Mowbray a vie et Bolingbroke pour dix ans, confisquant la fortune de ce dernier pour partir en croisade en Irlande. Pendant son absence, Bolingbroke envahit l'Angleterre et prend le pouvoir. A son retour, Richard II est abandonne par les siens, contraint de s'exiler a Flint Castle et d'abdiquer en faveur de son cousin qui prend le nom d'Henry IV. Il est assassine a la prison de Pomfret. Henry IV, regrettant cet assassinat qu'il n'a pas commandite, se morfond sur la tombe de Richard II. Shakespeare (1564-1616) ecrit ce drame historique en 1595. Ce texte a longtemps ete considere comme subversif. Ce n'est qu'au XVIIIe siecle que sera accorde a cette piece un interet theatral et litteraire, et non seulement politique.

Sir John Falstaff, vieux chevalier naif et jovial, desire courtiser Mistress Page et Mistress Ford, deux commeres de la cour de Windsor. Il va pour ce faire envoyer a chacune la meme lettre, se contentant de modifier la signature. Les deux femmes demasquent la manoeuvre de Falstaff, a son insu. Elles decident alors de se jouer de lui. Cette piece a ete ecrite par Shakespeare (1564-1616) en 1602 en moins de deux semaines a la demande de la Reine Elizabeth Ire, qui souhaitait a tout prix voir Falstaff - personnage de Henri IV - amoureux. Baignee dans une atmosphere pastorale et champetre ou se melent farce et feerie, cette comedie de moeurs est l'une des plus legeres et des plus originales de Shakespeare.

An abbreviated version of Shakespeare's play, edited for English Theatre's 2003 production, is accompanied by notes about the company.

The Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form. 'A quite wonderful idea... So blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself' - Peter Hall This edition accurately reproduces the text of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623), but in modern type. At a stroke the dust of ages is blown away and what Shakespeare actually intended is revealed to modern readers. Now Shakespeareans everywhere - students, actors, directors - can see for themselves what the Folio really says. As a further aid to understanding, on each opposing page the same text appears in a fully modernised version - a useful safety net whenever the Folio becomes problematic. Each volume also contains: - an introduction to the particular play - textual notes - an appendix giving variant versions from the Quarto where appropriate - a facsimile page from the First Folio

The Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form. 'A quite wonderful idea... So blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself' - Peter Hall This edition accurately reproduces the text of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623), but in modern type. At a stroke the dust of ages is blown away and what Shakespeare actually intended is revealed to modern readers. Now Shakespeareans everywhere - students, actors, directors - can see for themselves what the Folio really says. As a further aid to understanding, on each opposing page the same text appears in a fully modernised version - a useful safety net whenever the Folio becomes problematic. Each volume also contains: - an introduction to the particular play - textual notes - an appendix giving variant versions from the Quarto where appropriate - a facsimile page from the First Folio

The Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form. 'A quite wonderful idea... So blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself' - Peter Hall This edition accurately reproduces the text of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623), but in modern type. At a stroke the dust of ages is blown away and what Shakespeare actually intended is revealed to modern readers. Now Shakespeareans everywhere - students, actors, directors - can see for themselves what the Folio really says. As a further aid to understanding, on each opposing page the same text appears in a fully modernised version - a useful safety net whenever the Folio becomes problematic. Each volume also contains: - an introduction to the particular play - textual notes - an appendix giving variant versions from the Quarto where appropriate - a facsimile page from the First Folio

Shakespeares eindrucksvolles frühes Rachedrama als 19. Band der zweisprachigen dtv-Shakespeare-Edition - in einer originellen Neuübersetzung von Frank Günther. Nach zehn Jahren Krieg kehrt General Titus Andronicus siegreich nach Rom zurück. Von seinen einst über zwanzig Söhnen hat er alle bis auf vier verloren. Die Geiseln in seiner Gewalt sind Tamora, die Königin der Goten und ihre drei Söhne. Der Sitte entsprechend befiehlt Titus, den ältesten der drei zum Ruhm der gefallenen Römer zu opfern. Tamora sinnt auf bittere Rache: Sie umgarnt den neuen Herrscher Saturnius und geht mit ihm die Ehe ein. Damit hat sich die Königin in eine Position gebracht, die ihr ein hinterhältiges Rachespiel erlaubt. Eine grausig-selbsttätige Mechanik aus Mord und Todschlag wird in Gang gesetzt, die insgesamt vierzehn Leichen, darunter ein Lebendbegräbnis, Wahnsinn und Kannibalismus zeitigt. So die blutige Story dieser ganz frühen Shakespeare-Tragödie, die gerade ihr großes Comeback auf den deutschen Bühnen anzutreten beginnt - allein in München gab es 2002 zwei Inszenierungen, daneben in Berlin und andernorts - darauf wartet, von einem breiten Theaterpublikum entdeckt zu werden. Zwar ist das Drama von erstaunlicher Rohheit und archaischer Brutalität, Shakespeares bereits voll entfaltete Ökonomie der Sprachmittel und ein perfekt balancierter Einsatz des Figurenensembles garantieren aber auch größte Bühnen- und nicht zuletzt Lesewirksamkeit.

Read Shakespeare’s sonnets in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means! Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard’s sonnets accessible and enjoyable. This No Fear guide contains:The complete original textA line-by-line translation that puts the words into everyday languagePlenty of helpful commentary