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  • Shakespeareby Germaine Greer

    Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 12.99

    Germaine Greer examines Shakespeare's plays, showing how he dramatized moral and intellectual issues in such a way that his audience became aware of an imaginative dimension to daily life. She argues that Shakespeare's work can retain the values which make it unique in the world. more...

  • Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare

    The Floating Press 1753; US$ 3.95

    Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's early tragedies. The two young title characters fall madly in love, but are the children of feuding houses whose hatred for each other works to a devastating end. The play was immensely popular in Shakespeare's lifetime and is the most enduring of his plays along with Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet is considered one of the archetypal love stories. more...

  • Hamletby William Shakespeare

    The Floating Press 1753; US$ 3.95

    Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness more...

  • A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare

    The Floating Press 1753; US$ 3.95

    Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's classic tale of two couples who can't quite pair up to everyone's satisfaction. Demetrius and Lysander love Hermia. Hermia loves Lysander but has been promised to Demetrius by her father. Hermia's best friend Helena loves Demetrius, but in his obsession for Hermia Demetrius barely even notices her smitten friend. When Hermia and Lysander plan to elope all four find themselves in the forest late at night where the fairy Puck and his lord... more...

  • Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare

    The Floating Press 1753; US$ 3.95

    Although Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar is named after the legendary Roman political leader, the central character is thought by many to be Marcus Brutus, Caesar's friend turned foe who struggles throughout the play with conflicting obligations of friendship and duty. While Caesar is warned in a prophecy to "beware the Ides of March" the Roman senators, including Brutus are secretly plotting his assassination, hoping to rid Rome of the threat of a tyrant who they... more...

  • The Spanish Tragedyby Thomas Kyd

    A&C Black 2003; US$ 7.80

    The first fully-fledged example of a revenge tragedy, the genre that became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, The Spanish Tragedy (1589) occupies a very special place in the history of English Renaissance drama. Hieronimo, Knight-Marshal of Spain during its war with Portugal, fails to obtain justice when his son is murdered for courting Bel-Imperia, the Duke of Castile’s daughter, and decides to take justice into his own hands... This new student edition has been freshly revised by Professor Andrew Gurr to incorporate the latest stage history and critical interpretations of the play. It also appends the scenes that were added in 1602, discusses Elizabethan attitudes to revenge, the Senecan features of the play and... more...

  • Shakespeareby Sean McEvoy

    Routledge 2000; US$ 17.95

    This clear guide demystifies Shakespeare for the beginning reader. An essential reference resource of ideas and approaches, it is fully illustrated with examples from some of the most frequently studied plays. more...

  • Shakespeare's Wordplayby M.M. Mahood

    Routledge 1968; US$ 43.95

    `Professor Mahood's book has established itself as a classic in the field, not so much because of the ingenuity with which she reads Shakespeare's quibbles, but because her elucidation of pun and wordplay is intelligently related both to textual readings and dramatic significance.' - Revue des Langues Vivantes more...

  • Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well & The Merry Wives of Windsorby Denis M. Calandra

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999; US$ 5.99

    Here is one of Shakespeare's problematic plays and his most farcical. The arc of love's victory in All's Well That Ends Well doesn't compel an audience's compassion, yet it is still a skillfully written play. The Merry Wives of Windsor has been criticized for having been written in 14 days, yet it brims with wit and features a new tale of Falstaff, one of literature's greatest characters. more...

  • Marxist Shakespearesby Jean E. Howard; Scott Cutler Shershow

    Routledge 2000; US$ 36.95

    Marxist Shakespeares uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh. more...