18 类似书籍： 冬天的故事
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, Fathers and daughters, Married people, Kings and rulers
King Lear
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.
([source][1])
[1]:…
Shares Stage history, Fathers and daughters, Kings and rulers, Drama
Arthurian legends in medieval art
Shares Illumination of books and manuscripts, Illustrations with this book.
Plays (37)
Shares Tragicomedy, Castaways, Fathers and daughters, Drama with this book.
Shares Tragicomedy, Castaways, Fathers and daughters, Drama
Works (38 plays, 5 poems, sonnets)
Shares Tragicomedy, Castaways, Fathers and daughters, Drama with this book.
Shares Tragicomedy, Castaways, Fathers and daughters, Drama
Works (46)
Shares Tragicomedy, Castaways, Fathers and daughters, Drama with this book.
Shares Tragicomedy, Castaways, Fathers and daughters, 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.…
Shares Drama
The two destinies
One of Wilkie Collins's 'sensation' novels of two lovers who face a life of accidents and vicissitudes when they are parted cruelly as children. Unknown to each other as the children they once were, they meet again and again in their adult lives, only to be separated. Wilkie brings in in his favourite tricks - bigamy, embezzlement, desertion, disfigurement, love that cannot be undone even in the…
Shares Married people
Henry V
Written by William Shakespeare around 1599, The Life of Henry the Fifth, more commonly known as Henry V, chronicles the later history of King Henry the Fifth of England and his efforts during Hundred Years’ War to reclaim disputed territories in France. The play starts with Henry’s claims to be the rightful heir to the French throne and, after his invasion of France, culminates with his famous…
Shares Stage history, Kings and rulers, Drama
Jane Eyre
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her…
Shares Fathers and daughters, Married people, 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 Stage history, Married people, Drama
Faust
A complete annotated translation of Goethe's "Faust," plus extensive interpretive notes, "Faust" illustrations and other visual sources used by Goethe, several pieces of Goethe's correspondence and commentary, eleven contemporary reviews by well-known writers, and ten modern pieces of criticism; also includes a Goethe chronology and selected bibliography.
Shares Stage history, Illustrations, Drama
Idylls of the King
Shares Illustrations, Kings and rulers, Drama with this book.
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 Stage history, Fathers and daughters, Drama
Taming of the Shrew
Baptista Minola has two daughters, the beautiful Bianca and the shrewish Katherina. A visiting stranger, Petruchio, learns of Katherina's large dowry, marries her and through his own even more extreme actions modifies her behavior.
Shares Married people, Drama
Once upon a time
Shares Kings and rulers with this book.
Macbeth
An Apple Books Classic edition.Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s darkest and most tragic works, a drama so steeped in legend that actors won’t even say its name for fear of bringing bad luck. The Bard’s shortest tragedy is a tale of murder, madness, and ambition full of iconic speeches. It’s been adapted countless times during its 400 years—and now director Joel Coen has created a bold and fierce…
Shares Stage history, Kings and rulers, Drama
Othello. Interpretationshilfe.
"Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school."--Back jacket.
Shares Jealousy, Stage history, Drama