Who Was William Shakespeare?

Reducere. Macbeth is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Set mainly in Scotland, the play dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of...

Reducere. That "William Shakespeare" was the author of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and many other much-loved plays is the greatest deception in literary history...

Reducere. William Shakespeare's timeless tragedy follows the bloody path of the "rudely stamped" Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who uses his murderous guile to...

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconc...

Reducere. DescriptionAs part of the Signet Classics Shakespeare Series edited by Sylvan Barnet of Tufts University, this edition includes commentaries on bot...

Relive the magic of Romeo and Juliet and other favorites with our Classic Moments collection. Each beautiful 40-page book features well-loved excer...

Reducere. The authoritative edition of Timon of Athens from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and g...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The...

Picking up where Henry IV, Part One left off after the Battle of Shrewsbury, Henry IV, Part Two is the story of England's King Henry IV during his ...

"O mother, mother What have you done?"--Coriolanus Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of t...

Reducere. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career near the end of the 16th century. This story of a love that can ne...

Reducere. DescriptionHamlet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1602. Set in Denmark, and originally titled The Tragedy of ...

Who wrote the works of Shakespeare? Revealing newly discovered evidence, John Casson and William D. Rubinstein definitively answer this question, p...

Reducere. All three parts of William Shakespeare's Henry VI are combined in this Signet Classics edition of the Bard's historical play. When his father dies,...

Reducere. DescriptionHamlet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1602. Set in Denmark, and originally titled The Tragedy of ...

DescriptionA storm, a shipwreck, an enchanted island ...A violent storm shipwrecks the King of Naples and his noblemen on what appears to be an uni...

Reducere. Julius Caesar was a general and stateman whose favor among the Roman people was viewed as a threat and source of conflict with other consuls. He wa...

Timon of Athens is a bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his friends, and, when he is finally impoverished,...

Along with the plays of William Shakespeare and the works of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen's novels are among the most beloved books of Western lite...

Reducere. Faustus's restless quest for knowledge and his insatiable desire for notoriety drive him to make a pact with the devil in return for the power to p...

DescriptionBelieved to have been written between 1610 and 1611, "The Tempest" is likely the last play written solely by Shakespeare. The story conc...

Reducere. The appearance of David R. Slavitt's translation of Orlando Furioso ("Mad Orlando"), one of the great literary achievements of the Italian Renaissa...

Reducere. "David Young's version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West's crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with ec...

A highly political play, Coriolanus concerns a military hero of ancient Rome who attempts to shift from his career as a general to become a candida...

Reducere. Well-bred, educated at Eton and the Central School for Speech and Drama in London, the youngest of four boys in an upper-class family, Peter H. was...

Reducere. "The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living and Holy Dying" is the collective title of two books by Jeremy Taylor. Published in 1650 and 1651, "Holy Liv...

Reducere. An inspiring true story, perfect for fans of Hidden Figures, about an American woman who pioneered codebreaking in WWI and WWII but was only recent...

Reducere. Joseph Pearce has firmly established himself as the premiere literary biographer of our time, especially in interpreting the spiritual depths of th...

After encountering the ghost of his father on the castle parapet, Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, is convinced that his father's death was part of a...

"A secretive magician s death becomes the catalyst for his partner s journey self-discovery in this enchanting book ("San Francisco Chronicle") " t...

Reducere. Bel-ved re; or The Garden of the Muses is an early modern printed commonplace book containing an anthology of nearly 4, 500 short verse quotations ...

Reducere. Acclaimed as one of the classics of 20th century children's literature, The Mouse and His Child is a moving story about two clockwork mice thrown o...

Reducere. This new edition adds more than 100 illustrations to the book. Amy's eyes are blue as the ocean and bright as buttons. In fact, they are buttons, f...

Reducere. World-renowned Bible translator and commentator George M. Lamsa explains nearly one thousand crucial idioms that will enrich reading of the Old and...

Reducere. Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, (1 August 1862 - 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English mediaeval scholar and prov...