Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: After a long civil war between the Houses of Lancaster and York, England is enjoying a period of peace under King Edward IV. But Edward’s younger brother, Richard, resents Edward’s power, Richard begins to aspire secretly to the throne and decides to kill anyone he has to in order to become king.
Скачать книгу (размер 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 60) Аннотация: Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous love stories in the world. But it is more than a great love story. It is also about life and death, happiness and sadness, and the terrible hate between two great families. Shakespeare's beautiful tale is still as popular today as it was more than 400 years ago.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: 'Hail, Macbeth, who will be king one day'. On a cold Scottish heath, three witches make a prophecy. Inspired by their words and encouraged by his evil wife, Macbeth begins his trail of destruction to gain and keep the Scottish throne.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 248 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 246) Аннотация: Since the late twentieth century, when scholarly attention began to focus on sexuality, collaboration and Shakespeare's late plays, The Two Noble Kinsmen has become an essential script. Turner and Tatspaugh's edition presents a strong case for taking the play more seriously now than ever before. A lively introduction discusses Shakespeare's craftsmanship in adapting a medieval tale for the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: This is a wonderful collection of retellings of six of William Shakespeare's best-loved plays — a perfect mix of comedy, tragedy, magic and romance — retold for younger readers. Full of colourful illustrations from the Usborne Young Reading Programme. It contains A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest and Twelfth Night. It includes a section at the back on the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Dès ses premières représentations à la fin du XVIe siècle, la pièce de Shakespeare connaît un succès considérable. Le dramaturge anglais donne à l'histoire tragique des deux amants de Vérone une dimension mythique. L'édition Classico propose la traduction de J.-M. Déprats, publiée en 2002, et qui est aujourd'hui…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: As attested to by countless stage and screen productions, Hamlet forever retains its fascination for audiences. It's an absorbing intellectual drama of the contemplative prince who reluctantly ventures in pursuit of revenge. Hamlet's musings on the nature and consequences of human activity have accorded him the reputation as literature's first modern man.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Lovely Bianca has a queue of admirers anxious to marry her. But her older sister, Katharina, must get married first. Katharina has such a fiery temper she is known as 'the shrew', and no man is brave enough to propose. Can Petruchio tame her with his outrageous behaviour? With Notes on Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre and Love and Marriage in The Taming of the Shrew.
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: King Lear is old but not wise. He loves the two daughters who secretly hate him. He hates the only daughter who really loves him. In time, he discovers his mistake. Has he learnt his lesson? Or will his proud and angry nature bring him even more sadness and pain?
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: This is a wonderful collection of six retellings of William Shakespeare's best-loved plays — a perfect mix of comedy, tragedy, magic and romance, retold for younger readers. It is full of colourful illustrations from the Usborne Young Reading Programme. It contains the plays: A Midummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night. It also includes a section at…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: An elaborately annotated edition of Shakespeare's masterpieces of wit and erotic word-play. When a volume of poetry entitled Shakespeares Sonnets. Never before Imprinted appeared in 1609, Shakespeare was forty-five and most of his greatest plays had seen several performances. Some of the sonnets, speaking of the begetting of children, mortality and memory, art, desire and jealousy, are addressed…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 328) Аннотация: This generously annotated updated edition of Coriolanus provides a thorough reconsideration of Shakespeare's remarkable, and probably his last, tragedy. A substantial introduction situates the play within its contemporary social and political contexts — dearth, riots, the struggle over authority between James I and his first parliament, the travails of Essex and Ralegh — and pays particular…
Скачать книгу (размер 942 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 186) Аннотация: This new edition of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor focuses on a theatrical understanding of the play. While emphasising the liveliness of the play in stage terms, David Crane also claims that this citizen comedy needs to be taken much more seriously than in the past, as an expression of Shakespeare's fundamental understanding of human life, conveyed centrally in the character of…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Kate, Mike and Carlos go on another trip to Bodega Bay near San Francisco, where more than a year ago they found a pirate's old treasure map. An incredibly exciting and dangerous adventure awaits them as they follow a mysterious clue and go on a treasure hunt to find a lost treasure from centuries ago. The GREEN APPLE series is composed of illustrated graded readers. The readers are graded into…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Учебное издание популярнейшей трагедии У. Шекспира предназначено для учащихся старших классов гимназий с углубленным изучением английского языка, студентов-филологов, а также для широкого круга читателей, владеющих английским языком. Издание снабжено постраничными сносками и подробным комментарием, иллюстрациями, списком произношения имен собственных. Текст печатается по оксфордскому изданию 1914…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 131 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 223) Аннотация: Pour mener à bien sa vengeance sans éveiller les soupçons, Hamlet feint la folie. Lorsque le fantôme de son père lui révèle que Claudius, souverain actuel et frère du défunt roi, est le meurtrier de celui-ci, on s'attend à une stratégie ingénieuse, d'autant que le prince semble plein de courage, d'insolence et d'esprit. Or, durant quatre…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. Significantly, it was placed first when published in the First Folio of 1623, and is now generally seen as the playwright's most penetrating statement about his art. Stephen Orgel's wide-ranging…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Timon of Athens is a bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his friends, and, when he is finally impoverished, learns to despise humanity with a hatred that drives him to his grave. The play's plot structure is schematically clear, and the poetry of Timon's rage is arresting in its savage intensity. Yet readers have often detected loose ends, and the tone of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: This is the first fully annotated modern-spelling edition of King Henry VIII to appear for over a decade and includes up-to-date scholarship on all aspects of the play, including dating authorship, printing, sources and stage history. The editor accepts the view that the play is a collaboration between Shakespeare and Fletcher. Unique to this edition is the frequent reference to Cavendish's…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps Shakespeare's most popular play, particularly as a first introduction to Shakespeare for children--filled as it is with a marvelous mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies. For this edition, Peter Holland's introduction looks at dreams and dreamers, tracing the materials out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows.