Macbeth

Three witches, a power-hungry noble and his plotting wife await in this supernatural Scottish tale. "Double. double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!"

The winter's tale

Two European kings, a young couple in love and a queen with a mysterious fate await in this tale about revenge and forgiveness. As Shakespeare wrote, "a sad tale's best for winter."

Romeo and Juliet

Discover a city torn apart by feuds, meet two lovers with star-crossed fates and despair for a plan-hatcing friar... As Shakespeare wrote, this is "a fool's paradise".

As you like it

Meet an ousted duke who escapes to a forest, two feuding brothers and a pair of best friends in daring disguises. Where will their stories take them? As Shakespeare wrote, "All the world's stage"...

Hamlet

In olden Scandinavia you'll find a prince with a terrible dilemma, a ghost intent on revenge and a king who can't be trusted. As Shakespeare wrote, "Somethingis rotten in the state of Denmark"...

A midsummer night's dream

Meet confused young couples, bickering royal fairies and a dim-witted actor called Bottom... As Shakespeare wore, "the course of true love never did run smooth!"

The winter's tale

The Winter's Tale of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations and reunions. Thematically, there is a rich orchestration of the contrasts between age adn youth, corruption and innocence, decline and regeneration. Both Leontes…

Henry V

Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier;s renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his 'band of brothers' to victory in the Battle of Agincourt, could indeed seem to be 'this star of England'. In recent decades the play has attracte…

Othello

Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies. This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. On its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contesred identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation, O…

Macbeth

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

978-1-85326-035-3

Collation

128 hal.; 20 cm.

Series Title

Wordsworth Classics

Call Number

823 Sha m