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Tempest (Shakespeare, W.)
Prospero, long exiled from Italy with his daughter Miranda, seeks to use his magical powers to defeat his former enemies. Eventually, having proved merciful, he divests himself of that magic, his 'art', and prepares to return to…
€ 3,³⁵
Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare, W.)
The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies.
€ 3,³⁵
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare, W.)
Love, sex and death are the components in this story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers of family and convention. It encompasses great love, high drama, low comedy and a tragic ending.
€ 3,³⁵
Richard III (Shakespeare, W.)
Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare's historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast, Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charismatically Machiavellian, always dominates the play.
€ 3,³⁵
Richard II (Shakespeare, W.)
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dramatic cycle which helped to generate…
€ 3,³⁵
Othello (Shakespeare, W.)
Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. This novel renders racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation.
€ 3,³⁵
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare, W.)
This book has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's popular comedies. It describes the central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, which is combative until love prevails.
€ 3,³⁵
Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare, W.)
Blends the supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial. This work treats love as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical.
€ 3,³⁵
Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare, W.)
Features one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. Here, the text may well seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly, in performance, it has revealed a contrasting nature. Shylock, though vanquished…
€ 3,³⁵
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare, W.)
Although this play ends like a comedy, with reconciliations, forgiveness and marriages, it has often been regarded as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. It shows the difficulty of effecting an appropriate balance between judicial…
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Macbeth (Shakespeare, W.)
Encompasses witchcraft, bloody murder, and ghostly apparitions. This work tells the tragedy of a good, brave and honourable man turned into the personification of evil by the workings of unreasonable ambition.
€ 3,³⁵
King Lear (Shakespeare, W.)
Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world's literature.
€ 3,³⁵