15 似ている本: お気に召すまま
真夏の夜の夢
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…
共通テーマ:Stage history, Children's plays, Juvenile drama, Textual Criticism
立派なクライトン
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.
共通テーマ:Children's plays, Comedy, English drama, Drama
じゃじゃ馬ならし
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…
共通テーマ:Stage history, Juvenile drama, English drama, Criticism and interpretation
から騒ぎ
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…
共通テーマ:Juvenile drama, Comedy, Textual Criticism, English drama
リア王
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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共通テーマ:Stage history, Textual Criticism, Fathers and daughters, Drama
尺には尺を
This play examines the nature of mercy and justice, proposing that a good government is one that is flexible and based on common sense.
共通テーマ:Comedy, English drama, Drama, Classic Literature
ヘンリー四世 第一部
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.
共通テーマ:Juvenile drama, English drama, Drama, History
ヴェローナの二人の紳士
"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…
共通テーマ:Exiles, Children's plays, Drama
リチャード三世
"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.)
共通テーマ:Stage history, Textual Criticism, Drama, Classic Literature
ヴェニスの商人
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…
共通テーマ:Juvenile drama, Criticism and interpretation, Drama, History
国なき男
The story of a U.S. Navy officer involved in the treason of Aaron Burr.
共通テーマ:Exiles, History
第十二夜、またはなんでもご勝手に
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.
共通テーマ:Children's plays, Juvenile drama, Drama
大尉バーバラ
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.
共通テーマ:English drama, Fathers and daughters, Drama, Classic Literature
恋の骨折り
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
共通テーマ:Stage history, English drama, Drama, Classic Literature
純潔
The Reverend James Mavor Morell, a respectable socialist clergyman, spends his days giving lectures and sermons while his wife, Candida, sees to his comfortable London home. That home is disrupted by the arrival of the poet Eugene Marchbanks, who is in love with Candida and determined to rescue her from what he sees as an unromantic life. Shaw wrote Candida as a reaction to Henrik Ibsen’s social…
共通テーマ:English drama, Drama