18 books like Othello

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Othello. Interpretationshilfe. William Shakespeare · 1800 · ★ 3.0 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school."--Back jacket. Shares Habimah, Othello, Interracial marriage, Theater programs

Othello Fully New Edition Annotated William Shakespeare · 1830 · 196p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The authoritative edition of Othello from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. In Othello, Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona that begins with elopement and mutual devotion and ends with jealous rage and death. Shakespeare builds many… Shares Othello, Interracial marriage, Jealousy, Muslims

Othello William Shakespeare · 1794 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Othello was written in 1603 and first performed in 1604. The underlying story is based on “A Moorish Captain,” one of the stories in Cinthio’s Gli Hecatommithi, written in 1565. Othello is a Moorish black general in Venice, known for his military prowess. He elopes with Desdemona, a noble Venetian lady, who is the daughter of Brabantio, a senator. When Othello promotes Cassio to be his… Shares Othello, Jealousy, Muslims, British and irish drama

Othello William Shakespeare · 1622 · ★ 3.9 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shakespeare's tragedy of jealousy and suspicion presented scene by scene in comic book format. Shares Othello, Interracial marriage, Jealousy, Muslims

A study of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark William Shakespeare · 1800 · 193p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shares Habimah, Theater programs, British and irish drama, Drama with this book.

Roaring Girl Thomas Middleton · 1998 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares British and irish drama, Literary Criticism, Drama with this book.

Cha guan She Lao · 1980 · 146p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares Literary Criticism, Drama with this book.

Comedies Publius Terentius Afer · 1616 · ★ 5.0 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Shares Ancient & Classical, Literary Criticism, Drama with this book.

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

Candida George Bernard Shaw · 1905 · ★ 3.7 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Moderate 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… Shares British and irish drama, Drama

King Lear William Shakespeare · 1800 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What, then, keeps bringing us back to King Lear? For all the force of its language, King Lear is almost equally powerful when translated,… Shares British and irish drama, Drama

Walter Hawkesworth's Labyrinthus

Walter Hawkesworth's Labyrinthus Walter Hawkesworth · 1988 · 332p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Literary Criticism, Drama with this book.

L'Ecole Des Femmes Molière · 1950 · ★ 4.0 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Chrysalde. Vous venez, dites-vous, pour lui donner la main ? Arnolphe. Oui, je veux terminer la chose dans demain. Chrysalde. Nous sommes ici seuls ; et l'on peut, ce me semble, sans craindre d'etre ouis, y discourir ensemble : voulez-vous qu'en ami je vous ouvre mon coeur ? Votre dessein pour vous me fait trembler de peur ; et de quelque facon que vous tourniez l'affaire, prendre femme est a… Shares Literary Criticism

History of American Literature Reuben Post Halleck · 1911 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The wide use of the author's History of English Literature, the favor with which it has been received in all parts of the United States, and the number of earnest requests for a History of American Literature on the same plan, have led to the writing of this book. It has not appeared sooner because the author has followed his rule of making a careful first-hand study, not only of all the matter… Shares Literary Criticism

History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides · 1526 · ★ 4.0 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war. He applied thereafter a passion for accuracy and a contempt… Shares Ancient & Classical, Literary Criticism

Plays of George Colman the Younger George Colman · 2019 · 796p · ≈ 26h · Moderate Shares Literary Criticism, Drama with this book.

La Symphonie pastoral André Gide · 1919 · 145p · ≈ 4h · Moderate La neige qui n'a pas cesse de tomber depuis trois jours, bloque les routes. Je n'ai pu me rendre a R... ou j'ai coutume depuis quinze ans de celebrer le culte deux fois par mois. Ce matin trente fideles seulement se sont rassembles dans la chapelle de La Brevine. Shares Jealousy, Drama

Love's Labour's Lost William Shakespeare · 1891 · ★ 3.5 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… Shares British and irish drama, Drama

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