Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Usually classified as a «problem comedy», All's Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery. In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible, and offers a fully reconsidered, annotated text for both readers and actors.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: With its witty heroine Rosalind, who has the longest role of Shakespeare's female characters, As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted and most performed comedy. This edition includes numerous illustrations of productions and reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. It also examines…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written, Coriolanus is a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics, and its Roman hero one of the most memorable Shakespeare ever created. The introduction to this new edition offers the first full stage history and analysis of the original production of Coriolanus at the Blackfriars theater, and also examines…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The introduction includes an examination of the Quarto and texts, and of the relationship between them; a critical discussion of the play's historical and literary sources; an examination of conflicting critical attitudes to the play, and of its fluctuating theatrical fortunes; and a demonstration of the range and variety of Shakespeare's characterization.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Henry VI: Part One is a dramatic tale of the lives of soldiers, diplomats, kings, and insurrectionists. It depicts the fractious instability of the court and nobility of fifteenth-century England, and their squabbles with their French counterparts. Despite its debut performance in 1592, however, Henry VI: Part One does not appear in printed form until some thirty years later, in the 1623 folio.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 044 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 402) Аннотация: This new edition to the Oxford Shakespeare series, based on the 1623 First Folio text, challenges conventional thinking about the nature and relationship of the earliest texts. It contributes substantial new evidence about Shakespeare's revision of the plays and the introduction and commentary focus on stage-oriented discussions of the play's meaning and reception.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Love's Labour's Lost, now recognized as one of the most delightful and stageworthy of Shakespeare's comedies, came into its own both on the stage and in critical esteem only during the 1930s and 1940s--after nearly three hundred years of neglect by the theater and misuse by critics. In this new critical edition, Hibbard pays particular attention to this process of rehabilitation. Based on the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Shakespeare's vivid dramatic projection of moral and ethical issues in Measure for Measure has given the play great appeal to both readers and theatergoers. Exploring the play's qualities as a complex work of art written specifically for the theater, the introduction to this new edition sets the play in its historical context, discussing the originality of Shakespeare's treatment of a well-known…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: 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 Warren draws on his experience of the play in rehearsal and performance to explore the reasons for this enduring popularity. Unfortunately Pericles survives only in a corrupt text, the Quarto of 1609, in which many passages are nonsensical and others…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Shakespeare's Henry VI plays dramatize contemporary as much as Elizabethan issues: the struggle for power, the manoeuvres of politicians, social unrest, civil war. This edition draws on experience of the play in rehearsal and performance to focus on both its theatricality and contemporary relevance in a wide-ranging introduction and detailed commentary.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Love's Labour's Lost, the first work to bear Shakespeare's name on its title page, differs greatly from his other early plays both for its highly unorthodox ending and its extraordinary use of language. This new edition presents a highly readable, modernised text of the play, freshly edited from the first quarto published in 1598. A thorough but concise scholarly and critical commentary provides…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 294 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 255) Аннотация: Shakespeare's As You Like It can appear bright or sombre in performance: a feast of language and a delight for comic actors; or a risk-taking exploration of gender roles. This updated edition, containing a brand new Introduction, provides an account of what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. There is a section on recent critical, stage and film interpretations of the play, an…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 252) Аннотация: King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular and frequently performed plays. Janis Lull's introduction to this new edition, based on the First Folio, emphasises the play's tragic themes — individual identity, determinism and choice — and stresses the importance of women's roles in the play. It also underscores the special relationship between Richard III and Macbeth, demonstrating that…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: One of the greatest of Shakespeare`s tragedies, `Othello` tells the story of a Moorish general in command of the armed forces of Venice, who earns the enmity of his ensign Iago by passing him over for a promotion. Partly for revenge and partly out of pure evil, Iago plots to convince Othello that Desdemona, his wife, has been unfaithful to him. Iago succeeds in his evil aims only too well, for…
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: Classic / British English Bassanio wants to get married, but he has no money and a lot of debts. He asks his friend Antonio for a loan, but Antonio is waiting for his ships to return. Until then, he has nothing to lend. To help Bassanio, he borrows money from a money-lender and agrees to an unusual condition. If Antonio cannot repay the loan in three months, the money-lender will cut a pound of…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Memorable historical drama concerns rebellion against King Henry led by Harry Percy («Hotspur») and other nobles, complicated by the king's difficulties with his wayward son, Prince Hal. Superb blend of courtly intrigue, battlefield action, and low comedy featuring Sir John Falstaff, all expressed in fine blank verse and stirring prose.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Running an emotional gamut from betrayal and broken hearts to romance and reconciliation, this 1611 tragicomedy begins with the tyrannical actions of a jealous king, whose baseless suspicions destroy his own family. The play's second half takes place 16 years later, when the lively plot takes a lighthearted turn, abounding in song and dance.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Samurai warriors have reclaimed a future post-nuclear world of mutants in the original manga version of Shakespeare's tale of skulduggery. The series keeps true to Shakespeare's original text, but is specially abridged for use in the manga, which makes it ideal for students to use as a primer and a way of getting to grips with the themes in Shakespeare's plays. A fusion of classic Shakespeare…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This manga recreation of Shakespeare's text transfers the action from Ancient Rome to a future Iraq, once again facing dictatorship after its prolonged struggles to establish a democracy. Part of the successful Manga Shakespeare series, a fusion of classic Shakespeare with manga visuals. The titles available in the series so far are Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Richard III, The Tempest, A Midsummer…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Shakespeare's enduring characters are set adrift in present-day Athens, but a present with a massive difference — an alternative history. Rigid class systems and 'god given' monarchies of the past have not been lost. Modern technologies meet ancient tradition; and the citizens of Athens are frustrated by continuing restrictions and hierarchies. Only the forest, home to the fairies and fey spirits…