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First published in 1599, 'Julius Caesar' was a tragedy and Roman history play by William Shakespeare, an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely considered the most splendid writer in the English language and the world's most remarkable dramatist. Based on Plutarch's narrative of the lives of Brutus, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony, it reveals the great dramatist's consummate ability to explore and express the most profound human emotions and instincts. So clearly and urgently it impacts its insights into the history and human behavior. It is traditionally among the first of Shakespeare's plays to be studied at the secondary-school level. After Caesar is assassinated, Mark Antony cleverly turns the crowd against the conspirators in one of the most famous speeches in literature. In the civil war that follows, the forces of Mark Antony and Octavius Caesar eventually win out over the armies of Cassius and Brutus. Humiliated and desperate, both conspirators choose to end their lives. These tragic events unfold in a riveting dramatic spectacle that also raises profound questions about power, government, ethics, and loyalty. Top 10 Hardcover Library Books: A Wrinkle in Time (9789389440188) How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (9789387669161) Their Eyes Were Watching God (9789389440577) The Magic of Believing (9789388118217) Zen in the Art of Archery (9789354990298) A Cloud by Day, a Fire by Night (9789391181611) Siddhartha by Hermann hesse (9789387669116) The Richest Man in Babylon (9789354990717) The Book of Five Rings (9789389440553) The Knowledge of the Holy (9789389157239) Note: Search by ISBN

C'est le seul acte dont l'action se déroule à Venise. Iago et Roderigo se rendent chez Brabantio pour lui apprendre que sa fille, Desdémone, a quitté le toit paternel pour rejoindre Othello. Ils cherchent à discréditer le Maure, qui aurait bafoué l'honneur de Brabantio. Cherchant Othello, ils le trouvent alors qu'il vient de recevoir une convocation chez le Doge. Celui-ci vient d'apprendre que les navires ottomans menacent Chypre.

Dans la grande salle du palais des rois de l'île de Bretagne, le vieux roi Lear réunit ses filles, leurs maris et son fidèle ami le comte de Kent. Il annonce son désir de se retirer du pouvoir et sa décision de diviser son royaume entre ses trois filles, Goneril mariée au duc d'Albany, Régane épouse de Cornouailles et Cordélia, la plus jeune, courtisée par le duc de Bourgogne et le roi de France. La plus large part sera offerte à celle qui saura lui déclarer qu'elle l'aime le mieux.

When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But famine threatens the city, the citizens' hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of an angry people.This is one of Shakespeare's last tragedies, best known for its political and military themes. Shakespeare's searing play of political manipulation and revenge is here abridged and this version was first produced at the Donmar Warehouse, London, directed by Josie Rourke and with Tom Hiddleston in the title role.The script has been edited and abridged by Rob Hastie and Josie Rourke.

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is a comedy play - one of Shakespeare's lighter works, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1597. Both in text, and on stage, it is one of Shakespeare's most popular narratives, and remains widely performed across the world.This book, originally published in 1912, contains twelve incredible colour illustrations and many beautiful and intricate black and white drawings by W. Heath Robinson. An English cartoonist and illustrator, best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines - for achieving deceptively simple objectives. Such was (and is) his fame, that the term 'Heath Robinson' entered the English language during the First World War, as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance. Pook Press publishes rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.

Romeo and Juliet is William Shakespeare's most celebrated stories of tragedy and romance. The story revolves around Romeo and Juliet, two star-crossed lovers whose love only knows the most heartbreaking ending.The romance between Romeo and Juliet began when Romeo, Montague's son, was advised to go to the ball at the Capulet house. Despite the mutual hatred between the Montagues and Capulets, Romeo attends the function where he sees the beautiful Juliet. They fall in love with each other and are inseparable. However, their families will not allow it and this leads to the young lovers making severe decisions on their own. Readers mourn the tragic ending to their love story even today.

The Tempest is one of the plays in which William Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. The Tempest gives us a magician, Prospero, a former duke of Milan who was displaced by his treacherous brother, Antonio.Prospero is exiled on an island, where his only companions are his daughter, Miranda, the spirit Ariel, and the monster Caliban. When his enemies are among those caught in a storm near the island, Prospero turns his power upon them through Ariel and other spirits.William Shakespeare, also known as the "Bard of Avon," is often called England's national poet and considered the greatest dramatist of all time. Shakespeare's works are known throughout the world. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. His surviving works consist of 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language,and are performed more often than those of any other playwright

Double Falshood was staged at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane at the end of 1727, and the following year Lewis Theobald (1688-1744) published the text, which was reprinted several times. Theobald was an energetic editor who translated Sophocles' Electra and Aristophanes' Plutus for performance in London, wrote and edited many other dramatic works, and caused great controversy in literary circles with his Shakespeare Restored (1726), a critique of Pope's edition. Scholars have debated for nearly three centuries to what extent, if at all, Double Falshood derives from a lost play by Shakespeare, as Theobald claimed. There is now widespread agreement that it is the only surviving version of Shakespeare and Fletcher's Cardenio, which was based on episodes from Cervantes' Don Quixote and is known to have been performed in 1613. Interest generated by the play's partial acceptance into the Shakespearean canon has also led to modern revivals.