William Shakespeare and Others

Examines the relationship between art and politics in the work of William Shakespeare and others in the early modern era, with a focus on the relat...

Pericles was one of the most popular plays of its time, and it has regained much of that popularity today. In a wide-ranging introduction, Roger Wa...

Promising young playwright Will Shakespeare is tormented by writer's block until he finds his muse in the form of passionate noblewoman, Viola De L...

Reducere. The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's Othello, a disturbing exploration of jealousy and wrath. Tragedy takes hold as the cunning and...

Reducere. A man's thirst for power ends in tragedy in this Signet Classics edition of one of William Shakespeare's most powerful works. When a trio of witche...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William ShakespeareEditor: Albert GilmanThe Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's comedic play about two endurin...

Some are familiar - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? - others unexpected, but together they form an extraordinary meditation on the nature o...

In 1593 Shakespeare awoke and found himself famous. Lines from his comic, erotic, tragic poem Venus and Adonis were on everyone's lips.The appearan...

Reducere. Much Ado About Nothing includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider,...

A new, beautifully packaged edition from the Folger Shakespeare Library puts the best possible version of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Noth...

Our Signet Classic Shakespeare Series was extensively revised in 1998. We offer the best of everything -- unforgettable works edited by eminent Sha...

Timon of Athens has struck many readers as rough and unpolished, perhaps even unfinished, though to others it has appeared as Shakespeare's most pr...

Reducere. A classic treasury of inspiration featuring hundreds of passages and quotations--selected from the wisdom of the ages--offering invaluable insight ...

The ships carrying the King of Naples and his entourage are caught up in a violent storm. Plunged into the turbulent sea, they arrive separately on...

The ships carrying the King of Naples and his entourage are caught up in a violent storm. Plunged into the turbulent sea, they arrive separately on...

Following the success of last year's }A Poem For Every Night Of The Year{, this is a new anthology of 366 poems, for every day of the year. A soul-...

Reducere. I am a direct descendant of the famous Phineas Taylor Barnum, aka P. T. Barnum, the Greatest Showman on Earth. The reaction of people that have hea...

Reducere. Throughout his life, Dr. Williams tirelessly defended and promoted the best in modern literature and art. He contributed widely to leading literary...

Reducere. Rebecca Lopez enjoys a life of privilege in Elizabeth's England--yet she guards secrets she dares not reveal. The beautiful, tempestuous daughter o...

Reducere. DescriptionA collection of 100 cryptograms, based on proverbs and sayings that present popular wisdom in a condensed form. A brief introduction off...

After 24 years, William Redpath returns to share his further discoveries about how brain registers its trauma. He has carried forward his insights ...

This literary tapestry of the human experience will delight readers of all backgrounds. Moving year by year through the words of our most beloved a...

Mischief is in the air when the King and Queen of the Fairies quarrel and Puck is left in charge of the love potion.Four young people are lost in t...

DescriptionEarly modern England was a nation alive with intense religious debate, with often violent results. Central to these debates were questio...

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lon...

Reducere. Convinced that a critical part of education is to foster in our children a love of the beautiful and true, teacher and writer Laura Berquist presen...

Reducere. Introduction to Literature (English 1) is a one year, college-prep literature and composition course for co-op, classroom, or homeschool use.The cu...

Reducere. For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art." Susan Howe--taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (a...

Best novel. The big one . . . stands above all the others . . . beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac, a book that I will long remember, and...

The world's most famous love story told by one of Australia's most respected authors. This is the well-known story of Juliet Capulet and her love f...

Reducere. London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll call of storytellers includes cultural giants like Shakespeare, Defoe...

DescriptionHere is Nicholas Hytner's fascinating, candid memoir of his tenure at the helm of Britain's greatest theater. As artistic director of Lo...

Reducere. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.This famous quote, by William Shakespeare, reveals the mind...