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This play has two principal settings: the court that Frederick has usurped from his brother, the rightful Duke, and the Forest of Arden, where the Duke and his followers (including the disgruntled Lord Jaques and the jester Touchstone) are living.
Gemeinsame Themen: Juvenile drama, Comedy, Textual Criticism, English drama
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, Shakespeare, English drama, Drama
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: Juvenile drama, Courtship, Textual Criticism, 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: Juvenile drama, Shakespeare, English drama, Drama
Werke
Gemeinsame Themen: Performing Arts, Courtship, English drama, Drama
Gemeinsame Themen: Performing Arts, Courtship, English drama, Drama
Liebe ist alles
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
Gemeinsame Themen: Quartos, Shakespeare, English drama, Drama
Perikles, Prinz von Tyre
This book includes a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre, a seperate introduction to Pericles, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary.
Gemeinsame Themen: Quartos, English drama, Criticism and interpretation, Drama
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
Romeo und Julia, 1750
Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
Gemeinsame Themen: Juvenile drama, Shakespeare, Drama
Das Lachen: Essay über die Bedeutung des Komischen
En este ensayo Henri Bergson analiza las diversas cosas que provocan la risa con el fin de determinar los elementos humorísticos que nos hacen reí. Bergson describe la risa como un ser vivo que tiene un objetivo en gran parte social.
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) fue el primer gran filósofo del siglo XX. Su originalísima obra, a menudo situada entre el análisis psicológico, la sociología, la…
Gemeinsame Themen: Comedy, Performing Arts
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: Juvenile drama, English drama, Criticism and interpretation, 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
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: Quartos, Textual Criticism, Drama
König Lear
The Tragedy of King Lear, often shortened to King Lear, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare in late 1605 or early 1606. Set in pre-Roman Britain, the play depicts the consequences of King Lears love-test, in which he divides his power and land according to the praise of his daughters. The play is known for its dark tone, complex poetry, and prominent motifs concerning blindness, madness…
Gemeinsame Themen: Shakespeare, Drama
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
König Richard II.
"Richard is King. A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years"--Container.
Gemeinsame Themen: Quartos, English drama, Drama
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: Comedy, English drama, Drama