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Ein Sommernachtstraum
One night two young couples run into an enchanted forest in an attempt to escape their problems. But these four humans do not realize that the forest is filled with fairies and hobgoblins who love making mischief. When Oberon, the Fairy King, and his loyal hobgoblin servant, Puck, intervene in human affairs, the fate of these young couples is magically and hilariously transformed. Like a classic…
Gemeinsame Themen: Stage history, Children's plays, Juvenile drama, Textual Criticism
Der bewundernswerte Crichton
The story of the play concerns an aristocratic English family who revert to the state of Nature when shipwrecked on a desert island. While there, they are willing slaves to their former butler, but on return to civilization, the positions are shifted.
Gemeinsame Themen: Children's plays, Comedy, English drama, Drama
Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung
This play within a play is a delightful farce about a fortune hunter who marries and tames" the town shrew. The comedy, often produced today because of its accessibility, is one of the plays Shakespeare intended for the general public rather than for the nobility.
CliffsComplete combines the full original text of The Taming of the Shrew with a helpful glossary and CliffsNotes-quality commentary…
Gemeinsame Themen: Stage history, Juvenile drama, English drama, Criticism and interpretation
Viel Lärm um nichts
Shakespeare's comedy play Much Ado About Nothing pivots around the impediments to love for young betrothed Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of infidelity and the "lover's trap" set for the arrogant and assured Benedick who has sworn of marriage and his gentle adversary Beatrice. The merry war between Benedick and Beatrice with the promptings of their friends soon dissolves into…
Gemeinsame Themen: Juvenile drama, Comedy, Textual Criticism, English drama
Coriolan
A proud Roman general conquers the Volscians, leads them against Rome in revenge for his banishment, and is killed by the Volscian general when Coriolanus is persuaded to spare the city.
Gemeinsame Themen: Children's plays, Juvenile drama, English drama, Drama
König Lear
King Lear divides his kingdom among the two daughters who flatter him and banishes the third one who loves him. His eldest daughters both then reject him at their homes, so Lear goes mad and wanders through a storm. His banished daughter returns with an army, but they lose the battle and Lear, all his daughters and more, die.
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Gemeinsame Themen: Stage history, Textual Criticism, Fathers and daughters, Drama
Maß für Maß
This play examines the nature of mercy and justice, proposing that a good government is one that is flexible and based on common sense.
Gemeinsame Themen: Comedy, English drama, Drama, Classic Literature
Die Schule für Skandale, 1780
The School for Scandal debuted at Drury Lane Theater in London in 1777. The play is still popular and regularly performed today. It is a comedy of manners about "the deceptive nature of appearances, the fickleness of reputation, [and] the often disreputable guises behind which goodness and honesty can conceal itself."
Gemeinsame Themen: Comedy, English drama, Drama, History
Heinrich IV., Teil 1
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
Gemeinsame Themen: Juvenile drama, English drama, Drama, History
Die beiden Veroneser
"Professor Schlueter approaches this early comedy as a parody of two types of Renaissance educational fiction: the love-quest story and the test-of-friendship story, which by their combination show high-flown human ideals as incompatible with each other and with human nature. A thoroughly researched, illustrated stage history reveals changing conceptions of the play, which nevertheless often fail…
Gemeinsame Themen: Exiles, Children's plays, Drama
Richard III.
"containing his treacherous plots against his brother Clarence, the pittiefull murther of his innocent nephewes, his tyrannicall usurpation, with the whole course of his detested life and most deserved death"
(Subtitle of the 1597 edition.)
Gemeinsame Themen: Stage history, Textual Criticism, Drama, Classic Literature
Der Kaufmann von Venedig
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia but lacks the necessary funds. He turns to his merchant friend, Antonio, who is forced to borrow from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender. When Antonio's business falters, repayment becomes impossible--and by the terms of the loan agreement, Shylock is able to demand a pound of…
Gemeinsame Themen: Juvenile drama, Criticism and interpretation, Drama, History
Der Mann ohne Vaterland
The story of a U.S. Navy officer involved in the treason of Aaron Burr.
Gemeinsame Themen: Exiles, History
Was ihr wollt
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with discussion questions, role-playing scenarios, and other study activities.
Gemeinsame Themen: Children's plays, Juvenile drama, Drama
Major Barbara
This is a play with the theme of societal salvation and salvation of the human soul brought out in characters representing the rich versus the poor.
Gemeinsame Themen: English drama, Fathers and daughters, Drama, Classic Literature
Cymbeline
Cymbeline, King of Britain is one of the best-known works of William Shakespeare. It is a romantic play interwoven with war and tragedy. It revolves around Cymbeline and his daughter, Imogen. Imogen does not abide by her father's wishes and marries a lowborn gentleman, Posthumous. After their marriage, Posthumous is banished from Britain, and Imogen is held as a prisoner in the palace. As the…
Gemeinsame Themen: English drama, Fathers and daughters, Drama, Classic Literature
Hamlet
In this quintessential Shakespeare tragedy, a young prince's halting pursuit of revenge for the murder of his father unfolds in a series of highly charged confrontations that have held audiences spellbound for nearly four centuries. Those fateful exchanges, and the anguished soliloquies that precede and follow them, probe depths of human feeling rarely sounded in any art.
The title role of…
Gemeinsame Themen: Stage history, Criticism and interpretation, Drama
Liebe ist alles
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
Gemeinsame Themen: Stage history, English drama, Drama, Classic Literature