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Works [37 plays, 4 poems, sonnets]
Shares Mistaken Identities, Rejection, Juvenile drama, Comedy with this book.
Shares Mistaken Identities, Rejection, Juvenile drama, Comedy
Plays (43)
Shares Mistaken Identities, Rejection, Juvenile drama, Comedy with this book.
Shares Mistaken Identities, Rejection, Juvenile drama, Comedy
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…
Shares Mistaken Identities, Rejection, Juvenile drama, Comedy
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Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
Shares Performing Arts, Courtship, English drama, Classics with this book.
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
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
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
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…
Shares Juvenile drama, 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
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
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.…
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Wheel of fire: essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies
Shares Tragedies, Criticism and interpretation, Drama with this book.
Philaster, or, Love lies a bleeding
Shares Performing Arts, English drama, Drama with this book.
Candida
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 English drama, Drama
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
Plays (36)
Shares Performing Arts, English drama, Classics, Drama with this book.
Shares Performing Arts, English drama, Classics, Drama
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.
Shares Juvenile drama, English drama, Drama
The Merchant of Venice
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…
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