18 books like Works [37 plays, 5 poems, sonnets]
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Works [37 plays, 4 poems, sonnets]
Shares: Mistaken Identities, Rejection, Juvenile drama, Comedy
Shares: Mistaken Identities, Rejection, Juvenile drama, Comedy
Plays (43)
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Much Ado About Nothing
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…
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Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
Shares: Performing Arts, Courtship, English drama, Classics
Shares: Performing Arts, Courtship, English drama, Classics
As You Like It
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.
Shares: Juvenile drama, Comedy, English drama, Criticism and interpretation
The Rivals
A comedy of manners revolving around false identities, romantic entanglements, and parental disapproval satirizes the pretentiousness and sentimentality of 18th-century society.
Shares: Comedies, English drama, Criticism and interpretation, Drama
The Alchemist, 1612
Samuel Taylor Coleridge said of Ben Jonson's _The Alchemist_ that it had one out of the three most perfect plots in literature. This play, with its sharp portrayal of human folly, is considered by many to be Jonson's best comedy. First performed 1610, its popularity has endured to this day.
Shares: Comedies, English drama, Drama
Pericles
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.
Shares: Tragedies, English drama, Criticism and interpretation, Drama
Wheel of fire: essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies
Shares: Tragedies, Criticism and interpretation, Drama
The school for scandal, 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."
Shares: Comedy, English drama, Drama
Love's Labour's Lost
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: Comedies, Drama
Le rire; essai sur la signification du comique
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…
Shares: Comedy, Performing Arts
Titus Andronicus
Dismemberment, rape, cannibalism and murder make 'Titus Andronicus' Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy. The boundless grief and savage justice of Titus explores the expression of tragic passion, the Senecan tradition, Roman history and government, the body and structures of interpretation.
Shares: Tragedies, Criticism and interpretation, Drama
The Taming of the Shrew
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…
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Henry IV, Part 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.
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Philaster, or, Love lies a bleeding
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Measure for Measure
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: Comedy, English drama, Drama
Tragedy
Tarentum (Modern Day Taranto) believed to depict scenes from Greek tragedy: at left Electra and Orestes, who murder their mother Clytemnestra in order to avenge their father, Agamemnon; Clytemnestra was motivated by Agamemnon taking the princess Cassandra as concubine, and by Agamemnon sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia.At right is Oedipus and Antigone; Oedipus was abandoned as an infant and…
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