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Shakespearean Tragedy
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableA.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become "real" at all' writes John Bayley in his foreword to this edition of Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth . Approaching the tragedies as drama, wondering about their characters as... more...
Shakespeare's Language
Penguin Books Ltd 2001; Not AvailableThe true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished literary critic, has been thinking about them all his life. This book is a distillation of that lifetime's thinking. The great English tragedies were all written in the first decade of the seventeenth... more...
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableIn need of money, the fat and foolish Falstaff devises a scheme to seduce two married women and steal their husbands' wealth. By talking to each other, however, the wives soon discover his plan and begin to plot their own revenge. Relentlessly inventive, this comic humiliation of a foolish would-be seducer is a lively, compelling and ultimately joyous... more...
Hamlet
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableA young prince meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild madness while plotting a brutal revenge. But his apparent insanity soon begins to wreak havoc on innocent and guilty alike. more...
Romeo and Juliet
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableA young man and woman meet by chance and fall instantly in love. But their families are bitter enemies, and in order to be together the two lovers must be prepared to risk everything. Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, bawdy comedy and high tragedy. more...
Richard III
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableThe bitter, deformed brother of the King is secretly plotting to seize the throne of England. Charming and duplicitous, powerfully eloquent and viciously cruel, he is prepared to go to any lengths to achieve his goal ? and, in his skilful manipulation of events and people, Richard is a chilling incarnation of the lure of evil and the temptation of... more...
Pericles
Penguin Books Ltd 2008; Not AvailablePericles, Prince of Tyre, must solve a riddle in order to marry the daughter of the King of Antioch, or be put to death. But when the answer reveals a horrific secret, the young man faces his greatest dilemma. Danger and adventure follow as Pericles flees the city to find his fortune elsewhere, in a romantic drama of families lost and reunited, evil... more...
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableLeaving behind both home and beloved, a young man travels to Milan to meet his closest friend. Once there, however, he falls in love with his friend's new sweetheart and resolves to seduce her. Love-crazed and desperate, he is soon moved to commit cynical acts of betrayal. And comic scenes involving a servant and his dog enhance the play's exploration... more...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableA young woman flees Athens with her lover: only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly: all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soon take an interest in human affairs: dispensing magical love potions and casting mischievous spells. In this dazzling comedy: confusion ends in harmony:... more...
Much Ado About Nothing
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableA vivacious woman and a high-spirited man both claim that they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each harbours secret feelings for the other, they begin to question whether their witty banter and sharp-tongued repartee conceals something deeper. Schemes abound, misunderstandings proliferate and matches... more...









