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Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies. This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction. Paying particular attention to analysis of the play's minor characters, Sheldon P Zitner discusses Shakespeare's transformation of his source material. He rethinks the attitudes to gender relations that underlie the comedy and determine its view of marriage. Allowing for the play's openness to reinterpretation by successive generations of readers and peformers, Zitner provides a socially analytic stage history, advancing new views for the actor as much as for the critic.

A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters--the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is a man torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty . . . between an empire and love. Bold, rich, and splendid in its setting and emotions, Antony And Cleopatra ranks among Shakespeare's supreme achievements.

Richard III. je druhou knihou z edice Manga Shakespeare, která představuje dílo největšího britského dramatika a básníka prostřednictvím japonské mangy; důraz ovšem neklade jen na vizuální styl, ale dbá i na krásu Shakespearova jazyka a na citlivé dramaturgické zpracování každé Shakespearovy hry. Edici Manga Shakespeare tak ocení všichni, kteří se chtějí seznámit s nádherně barevným, krutým i laskavým světem Shakespearových her, ale bojí se kvůli tomu zajít do divadla či sáhnout po „pouhém“ textu.

Julius Caesar's exciting plot, brilliant rhetoric, and searching characterisation have made it one of Shakespeare's most popular plays with both readers and theatre-goers. Introducing this thoroughly reconsidered edition, Arthur Humphreys provides a fresh look at the play's date and its place in the Shakespeare canon and examines Shakespeare's transmutation of history into drama. He investigates the play's ethical and moral concerns in a section on Roman values and analyses its fortunes in performance, from its immediately successful first staging to modern productions for cinema, television, and stage.

Audiences have always delighted in the robust comedy and verbal inventiveness of The Taming of the Shrew. It has survived many adaptations ranging from, probably, the play printed in 1594 as The Taming of the Shrew through several eighteenth-century versions to modern-dress productions and transformations into ballet, musical, film, and opera. Introducing this new edition, H.J. Oliver pays attention to the play's theatrical virtues while also providing a deeply considered study of its textual problems, structural complexities, and interpretive challenges.

Audiences have always delighted in the robust comedy and verbal inventiveness of The Taming of the Shrew. It has survived many adaptations ranging from, probably, the play printed in 1594 as The Taming of the Shrew through several eighteenth-century versions to modern-dress productions and transformations into ballet, musical, film, and opera. Introducing this new edition, H.J. Oliver pays attention to the play's theatrical virtues while also providing a deeply considered study of its textual problems, structural complexities, and interpretive challenges.

Based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale, the central themes of this humourous and moving play are the claims of love and friendship. The introduction to this new edition offers an illuminating account of Shakespeare's collaboration with his younger colleague John Fletcher, and there are full and helpful notes on unfamiliar words, stage business, allusions, and the play's often complex language.

Tradice vypráví, že Shakespeare napsal komedii Veselé paničky windsorské na objednávku královny Alžběty, která si oblíbila postavu Falstaffa a chtěla ho na jevišti vidět zamilovaného. Shakespeare elegantně královně vyšel i nevyšel vstříc, neboť jeho Falstaff není zamilován do dvou windsorských manželek, ale pouze do peněz jejich manželů. Jeho záměr zmocnit se těchto peněz nakonec nevyjde a v komediálním konci hry je rituálně potrestán a zesměšněn ve windsorském parku. Veselé paničky windsorské jsou jedinou komedií Williama Shakespeara odehrávající se v Anglii a je to jediná jeho komedie měšťanská. Zaujme především gejzíry jazykového vtipu, neboť každá její postava má výraznou a osobitou řeč. Velšský kněz Hugo Evans deformuje angličtinu svým přízvukem a komediálně vykloubenými slovními spojeními, doktor Cajus je Francouz, který komolí angličtinu francouzskou výslovností a idiomy, zcela osobitou řečí mluví paní Čiperná a samozřejmě i rytíř Jan Falstaff, jedna z největších Shakespearových komediálních postav vůbec.

This is the first fully annotated modern-spelling edition ofKing Henry VIIIto 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 biography of Wolsey, neglected in earlier editions. This edition includes a fully detailed commentary and a selective collation of major variant readings appear immediately beneath the text. Special attention has been paid to the frequent allusion to scripture and proverb law. An index to all words glossed and authorities cited appears at the end of the volume.

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Aj v tomto slávnom Prosperovom výroku sa skrýva metafora začarovaného ostrova. A ostrov, kde milánsky vojvoda a čarodejník Prospero pomocou kníh nadobudne moc nad divochom Calibanom, to nie je len veľká metafora Shakespearovej doby, v ktorej sa rodilo anglické impérium - je to aj ustavične aktuálna metafora súčasného sveta. Je iba krásnym snom dobro kultúry, ak jej pomocou mocné impérium expanduje na územie kohosi slabšieho? A máme iba ako zlý sen odsudzovať impérium, ktoré napokon suverenitu toho slabšieho uznáva a z jeho územia odchádza, ale svoju kultúru mu zanecháva? Aj Shakespearova predposledná samostatná hra bola dielom génia, ktorý si vždy vedel položiť tie najťažšie otázky v tej najbásnickejšej podobe. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) nebol len veľký dramatik, o ňom sa vždy bude hovoriť aj ako o najväčšom básnikovi divadla. Aj nový slovenský preklad je dielom básnika - hru preložil Ľubomír Feldek.

This is the most famous of all Shakespeare's plays - a story of passionate young love. What's in a name? Does it really matter if you are called Montague or Capulet? When Romeo, son of Lord and Lady Montague, falls in love with the most beautiful girl he's ever seen, he finds out that it does matter. It makes all the difference in the world, because both families hate each other bitterly. For a time, Romeo and Juliet manage to keep their love secret. But when Romeo is sent away from Verona, and arrangements are made for Juliet to marry Paris, a friend of her father's, hope begins to die. Can any of their friends help the young lovers to be together for ever?

Troilus and Cressida is perhaps Shakespeare's most philosophical play, and its preoccupation with war, sex, and time has seemed peculiarly relevant since the First World War. Fine productions have demonstrated the play's theatrical power, and critics have explored and illuminated its ideas and its exceptionally complex language. Kenneth Muir, in his introduction, sets the play in its historical context, discusses its odd career in the theatre, examines Shakespeare's handling of his multiple sources, and assesses the contribution of interpretative criticism to a deeper understanding of this sombre examination of a fallen world. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Classic / British English These are the stories of some of Shakespeare's most famous plays. We travel to Venice, Greece, Denmark and Rome, and meet many different people. There is a greedy money-lender, a fairy king and queen, some Roman politicians and a young prince who meets the ghost of his murdered father.

Coriolanus is perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written. Set in Ancient Rome, it remains a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics. The introduction to this new edition considers Shakespeare's adaptation of his historical material (Plutarch's Lives) in relation to the social and political conditions in London and Stratford at the time of the play's composition, also offering new evidence that it was written in 1608. Professor Parker examines the play's history and particularly its staging at the Blackfriars theatre, where it was probably the first of Shakespeare's plays to be presented and for which it may have been written. A thorough commentary pays special attention to the needs of actors and directors.