18 books like Works (38 plays, 5 poems, sonnets)
Plays (37)
Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Castaways, Shipwrecks with this book.
Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Castaways, Shipwrecks
Works (46)
Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Castaways, Shipwrecks with this book.
Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Castaways, Shipwrecks
Plays (36)
Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Shipwrecks, Performing Arts with this book.
Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Shipwrecks, Performing Arts
Elizabethan Drama
Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Shipwrecks, Performing Arts with this book.
Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Shipwrecks, Performing Arts
The Tempest
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skilful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to lure his…
Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Performing Arts, Survival after airplane accidents
Samson Agonistes
Shares English drama, Poetry with this book.
Marmion
Shares Poetry, History with this book.
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Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
Shares Performing Arts, English drama, Classics, Poetry with this book.
Shares Performing Arts, English drama, Classics, Poetry
The Shipwreck, a poem
Shares Shipwrecks, Poetry with this book.
Cymbeline
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 Tragicomedy, English drama, Fathers and daughters, Drama
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Works [37 plays, 4 poems, sonnets]
Shares Performing Arts, English drama, Classics, Poetry with this book.
Shares Performing Arts, English drama, Classics, Poetry
When the World Shook
Depicts the adventure of three Englishmen who uncover a pair of 250,000 year old super-humans in suspended animation. The super-humans, awakened, view Europe in the midst of the First World War and decide that human civilization must be destroyed.
Shares Castaways, Shipwrecks
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
Marlowe's play has two different recognized texts, with most editions based on the B text. Due to recent arguments for the authenticity of A, this edition is based on the A text. It includes a discussion of biographical, dramatic and theatrical aspects of the play.
Shares Magicians, English drama, Poetry, Drama
Winter's Tale
"Neither comedy nor tragedy, The Winter's tale contains elements of each genre, and defies easy classification. It experiments, like many of Shakespeare's late plays, with different styles and tones, and draws on a wide range of sources and inspirations. Full of mysteries and miracles, grief and dark humour, this strange play has fascinated critics and theatregoers for centuries. Theatrical and…
Shares Tragicomedy, Castaways, Fathers and daughters, Drama
The gentle shepherd
Shares English drama, Poetry, Drama with this book.
The Lady of the Rivers
The Lady of the Rivers
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
Les contemplations
Shares Poetry with this book.
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.…
Shares Drama