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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, Shakespeare, English literature
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: Children's plays, Shakespeare, English literature
Das leere Haus und andere Geistergeschichten
Collection of short fiction horror stories by the weird fiction writer Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951).
Gemeinsame Themen: English literature, Short Stories
Verlorene Liebesmüh
King Ferdinand and his three friends, Biron, Longaville, and Dumain, plan to study philosophy for the next three years. During their academic pursuits, they must vow to sleep only three hours a night and not let any woman within a mile of court. These strict rules will prevent any distractions from their work—but their promises are soon put to the test when a princess and her three companions…
Gemeinsame Themen: Shakespeare, English literature
Romeo und Julia (Adaption)
Presents in graphic novel format an adaptation of Shakespeare's play of the tragic consequences of a deadly feud between two rival families in Renaissance Verona.
Gemeinsame Themen: Shakespeare, Adaptations
Baums amerikanische Märchen
Presents fifteen fairy tales, mostly set in America, from a cowboy who stops time to a tale of a magical beetle.
Gemeinsame Themen: Tales, Short Stories
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, English literature
Romeo und Julia, 1750
Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
Gemeinsame Themen: Shakespeare, Adaptations
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: Shakespeare, English literature
König Heinrich VIII.
"This is the first fully annotated and comprehensive modern-spelling edition of King Henry VIII - known in its early performances as All is True - for over ten years. It makes full use of current scholarship on the dating, authorship, printing, and sources of the play, as well as critical interpretations, and includes an up-to-date survey of the play in performance.
It is the first edition to…
Gemeinsame Themen: Shakespeare, English literature
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, English literature
Belohnungen und Feen
Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies are classic children's books which speak powerfully to adult readers. Una and Dan, performing a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream one Midsummer's Eve, accidentally summon Puck to a fairy ring near their Sussex home. Through Puck the children are witnesses to tales of English history, subtly called forth by Kipling's brilliant and fluid adventure…
Gemeinsame Themen: Tales, Short Stories