18 libros parecidos a El rey Juan

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Measure for Measure William Shakespeare · 1700 · ★ 3.7 · 222p · ≈ 7h · Challenging This play examines the nature of mercy and justice, proposing that a good government is one that is flexible and based on common sense. Shares English Young adult drama, Problems, English drama, Drama

All's Well That Ends Well William Shakespeare · 1734 · ★ 3.6 · 124p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "For this updated edition, Alexander Leggatt has written a wholly new introduction to Russell Fraser's edition of one of Shakespeare's most puzzling, ambiguous and demanding plays. Leggatt's interest in performance informs his introduction and his account of the instability of the main characters. He offers a full, illustrated and thoughtful account of the play's critical and theatrical fortunes… Shares English Young adult drama, Concordances, Problems, English drama

Henry IV, Part 2 William Shakespeare · 1600 · ★ 3.8 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Summer festival, June 27th to September 10th, 1932. "The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, containing his death, and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth," by William Shakespeare. The prologue will be spoken by Eugene Wellesley and the epilogue by Hilda Coxhead. Shares English Historical drama, English Young adult drama, English drama, Kings and rulers

Two Gentlemen of Verona William Shakespeare · 1632 · ★ 3.4 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "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… Shares English Young adult drama, Concordances, Shakespeare, Problems

Henry V William Shakespeare · 1600 · ★ 3.8 · 162p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Introducing this edition, Gary Taylor shows how Shakespeare shaped his historical material, examines controversial critical interpretations, discusses the play's fluctuating fortunes in performance, and analyses the range and variety of Shakespeare's characterization. The first Folio text is radically rethought, making original use of the First Quarto (1600). Shares English Young adult drama, Problems, English drama, Kings and rulers

Henry IV, Part 1 William Shakespeare · 1598 · ★ 3.8 · 162p · ≈ 5h · Challenging 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. Shares Shakespeare, English drama, Kings and rulers, Drama

The Tragedy of Jane Shore Nicholas Rowe · 1714 · 60p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Shares Restoration, English drama, Drama, History with this book.

King Henry VI. Part 2 William Shakespeare · 1600 · ★ 3.6 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Challenging King Henry VI by William Shakespeare Shares English Historical drama, Shakespeare, Kings and rulers, Drama

King Richard II William Shakespeare · 1597 · ★ 3.8 · 88p · ≈ 2h · Challenging "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. Shares English Young adult drama, Problems, English drama, Drama

The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare · 1631 · ★ 3.7 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Challenging 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… Shares English Young adult drama, Problems, English drama, Drama

King Henry VIII William Shakespeare · 1670 · ★ 3.5 · 136p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "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… Shares Shakespeare, English drama, Kings and rulers, Drama

Love's Labour's Lost William Shakespeare · 1598 · ★ 3.5 Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare Shares Concordances, Shakespeare, English drama, Drama

Cymbeline William Shakespeare · 1734 · ★ 3.6 · 178p · ≈ 5h · Challenging 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… Shares English drama, Kings and rulers, Drama, Classic Literature

Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw · 1924 · ★ 3.8 · 163p · ≈ 5h · Moderate This classic traces the life of Joan of Arc from the time she appears to her regional governor, her visit to the Dauphin (where she is undeceived by his disguise) to the siege of Orleans, coronation at Rheims, trial and recantation, and culminating with her death at the stake. Followed by the famous epilogue regarding her canonization, Shaw explores the themes of faith, nationalism and… Shares English Historical drama, English drama, Drama, History

The Lady of the Rivers

The Lady of the Rivers Philippa Gregory · 2011 · ★ 4.0 The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her house­hold for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's… Shares History

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand · 1897 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. On both sides of the stage are benches.… Shares Drama

Dead Men's Money Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself… Shares History

The Awful Secret

The Awful Secret Bernard Knight · 2006 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares History with this book.

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