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Coriolanusby William Shakespeare , Philip BrockbankISBN 0415026822 (0-415-02682-2)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Cymbelineby William ShakespeareISBN 041502689X (0-415-02689-X)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cymbeline'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most perplexing and unclassifiable late plays, Cymbeline is often labelled a "Romance", due to its themes of pastoralism, exile and familial reconciliation which critics notice recur throughout Shakespeare's last plays, from Pericles to The Tempest. Set in ancient Roman Britain at the court of the British king Cymbeline, the main action of the play revolves around the relationship between Cymbeline's daughter, Imogen, and Posthumous Leonatus. Attempting to marry Imogen off to Cloten, the grotesque son of Cymbeline's second wife, the king banishes Posthumous in a rage when he discovers he has secretly married Imogen. As the personal relationships in the play deteriorate, on the public stage Rome prepares to invade Britain due to Cymbeline's failure to pay tribute to his imperial master. As the play builds to its militaristic climax, Posthumous returns to Britain, where he eventually contrives a reunion with Imogen and Cymbeline's long-lost sons, who unite in their attempt to resist the might of Rome.
The ending of the play, with its series of mystical riddles, unlikely coincidences and extraordinary reunions has baffled critics for centuries. Some read it as a heavy-handed political allegory of Jacobean national union under the new sovereign of the time, King James I, whilst others see in it Shakespeare pushing theatrical realism to its furthermost limits, with its decapitated bodies, complex staging and unlikely mistaken identities. Cymbeline remains a puzzling, enigmatic play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Hamletby William ShakespeareISBN 0415026830 (0-415-02683-0)
Softcover, Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
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King Henry VIby William Shakespeare , Andrew S. CairncrossISBN 0415026857 (0-415-02685-7)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Henry VI'Book summary:The stirring continuation of the themes begun in "Henry IV, Part One" again pits a rebellion within the State and that master of misrule, Falstaff, against the maturing of Prince Hal. Alternating scenes between bawdy tavern and regal court, between revelry and politics, Shakespeare probes at the sources, uses, and responsibilities of power as an old king dies and a young king must choose between a ruler's solemn duty and a merry but dissipated friend, Falstaff. The play represents Shakespeare at the peak of his maturity in writing historical drama and comedy. [via]
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- King Henry V: ISBN 0415026865 (0-415-02686-5)
Softcover, Taylor & Francis Group - King Henry VI: ISBN 0415026873 (0-415-02687-3)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare - King Henry IV: ISBN 0415026881 (0-415-02688-1)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - King Henry VIII: ISBN 0415026903 (0-415-02690-3)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - King Henry VI: ISBN 0415026857 (0-415-02685-7)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
- King Henry V: ISBN 0415026865 (0-415-02686-5)
King Johnby William ShakespeareISBN 0415026911 (0-415-02691-1)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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King Learby William ShakespeareISBN 041502692X (0-415-02692-X)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear was written at Shakespeare's most prolific period, a time in which he rapidly composed Hamlest, Othello, and Macbeth. I believe, without a moments hesitation, that King Lear is his greatest work, and probably the greatest play ever written. [via]
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King Richard IIIby William ShakespeareISBN 0415026946 (0-415-02694-6)
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Love's Labour's Lostby William Shakespeare , Richard DavidISBN 0415026954 (0-415-02695-4)
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Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 0415026962 (0-415-02696-2)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605 to 1606. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale/Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Measure for Measureby William ShakespeareISBN 0415026970 (0-415-02697-0)
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The Merry Wives of Windsorby William ShakespeareISBN 0415026989 (0-415-02698-9)
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William ShakespeareISBN 0415026997 (0-415-02699-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:An illustrated, abridged verison of the Shakespeare comedy with background information and explanatory stage directions. [via]
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Much Ado About Nothingby William Shakespeare , A.R. HumphreysISBN 0415027004 (0-415-02700-4)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Ado About Nothing'Book summary:The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of Much Ado About Nothing provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts. [via]
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Othelloby William ShakespeareISBN 0415027012 (0-415-02701-2)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:This edition of "Othello" aims to shed light on the text of the play as we have come to know it, and on our knowledge of its early history. The professional malpractices of the publisher of the Quarto, as described in documents in the Public Record Office, and the professional zeal of the Folio scribe, who wished to tidy and correct Shakespeare's manuscript, introduced many plausible but post-Shakespearean readings into the text, which call into question a number of our assumptions about the play. As well as investigating the implications of these findings about the early texts, the editor offers a wider background to the play, discussing major critical issues, the play in performance and the relationship between reading and seeing it, and topics such as its date, sources, the famous conundrum of "double time", and its "greatness" compared with "Hamlet" and "King Lear". Commentary notes assist the reader's understanding of the text in detail; many are concerned with the contemporary resonsanaces of its language. [via]
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Pericles, Prince of Tyreby William Shakespeare , F. D. HoenigerISBN 0415027020 (0-415-02702-0)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre'Book summary:Pericles undergoes shipwreck, storm, and a tyrant's fury. He wins love only to have his family torn asunder, but what is lost may also be found. This strange and powerful tale of loss and recovery is the first of Shakespeare's late romances. [via]
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare , F. D. HoenigerISBN 0415027039 (0-415-02703-9)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Tempestby William Shakespeare , Frank KermodeISBN 0415027047 (0-415-02704-7)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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Timon of Athensby William ShakespeareISBN 0415027055 (0-415-02705-5)
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Titus Andronicusby William ShakespeareISBN 0415027063 (0-415-02706-3)
Softcover, Routledge Kegan & Paul
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare , T.S. DorschISBN 0415026849 (0-415-02684-9)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'Book summary:In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings--"Beware the ides of March"--and of moving public oratory "Friends, Romans, countrymen!" Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead. [via]
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Troilus and Cressidaby William ShakespeareISBN 0415027071 (0-415-02707-1)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Troilus and Cressida'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most notoriously difficult and cynical plays, labelled a "Problem Comedy", Troilus and Cressida has perplexed critics and theatre directors, and after Shakespeare's lifetime it was not performed again until 1907. In many ways the play's difficulty is a surprise; the story of Troilus and Cressida was a popular theme, drawn from Homer's Iliad and Chaucer's own Troilus and Criseyde, as was its classical setting, the Greek siege of Troy, led by Agamemnon, Achilles, Ajax, Diomedes and Ulysses.
Within the walls of Troy, Prince Troilus falls madly in love with Cressida, daughter of the deserter Calchas. His love is intense and frenetic--"I am giddy, expectation whirls round me," but turns to bitter disillusion when Cressida defects to the Greek camp and flirts with Diomedes. As the war and conflict over the abduction of Helen whirls around the doomed romance, the play delights in its complex syntax and cynical images of waste, decay, corruption and mutability, summed up in Ulysses' comment that, "Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all / To envious and calumniating time." The play's cynical open-ended quality has frustrated many readers, but gives the play a remarkably modern, contemporary sensibility. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Twelfth Nightby William ShakespeareISBN 041502708X (0-415-02708-X)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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The Two Gentlemen of Veronaby William ShakespeareISBN 0415027098 (0-415-02709-8)
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The Winter's Taleby William Shakespeare , J.H.P. PaffordISBN 0415027101 (0-415-02710-1)
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