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Twelfth Night Book Reviews
William ShakespeareA storm has caused a terrible shipwreck off the Illyrian coast. Two siblings, Viola and her brother Sebastian, become separated, each believing the other has drowned. Viola washes ...
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Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays Book Reviews
Pierre Loving & Frank ShayWork by such luminaries as Eugene O’Neill and Anton Chekhov are collected in this 1920 anthology of oneact plays.
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Macbeth Book Reviews
William ShakespeareAn 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...
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Shakespeare in an Hour Book Reviews
Christopher BakerPlaywrights in an Hour Designed to provide a platform of knowledge and understanding, this innovative series will connect cast, crew, audience members, and students to the playwrig...
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Hamlet Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThe prince of Denmark tries to summon the will to kill his father's murderer, his uncle and now king.
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Romeo and Juliet Book Reviews
William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare (was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often...
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Troilus and Cressida Book Reviews
William ShakespeareTroilus and Cressida is one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays,” characterized by its duality of tone as it jumps from bawdy comedic to dark tragedy. The plot was sourced from two epi...
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Orgullo y prejuicio Book Reviews
Jane AustenCon la llegada del rico y apuesto Mr. Darcy a su región, las vidas de los Bennet y sus cinco hijas se vuelven del revés. El orgullo y la distancia social, la astucia y la hipocresí...
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Cymbeline Book Reviews
William ShakespeareKing Cymbeline had plans to arrange the marriage between his daughter Imogen and his soninlaw Cloten. Instead, she secretly marries Posthumus Leonatus, a poor gentleman. Before Cym...
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The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Book Reviews
525 BC-456 BC AeschylusThe Trilogy of the Oresteia, which deals with the eternal problem of the evil act causing vengeance which wreaks more evil which must be avenged. Aeschylus declares that the new ru...
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Romeo y Julieta Book Reviews
William ShakespeareRomeo y Julieta (título original en francés,  Roméo et Juliette) es una ópera en un prólogo y cinco actos con música de Charle...
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Othello Book Reviews
William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare (was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often...
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Timon of Athens Book Reviews
William ShakespeareWith its puzzling plot and unexplained characters, Timon is probably unfinished and rarely performed. Timon is a wealthy citizen of ancient Athens, who spends munificently on paras...
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Julius Caesar Book Reviews
William ShakespeareAfter defeating enemies in battle, Roman citizens celebrate in the streets as Julius Caesar and his entourage make their way through the city. As Caesar passes a soothsayer, he rec...
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Coriolanus Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThe brilliant Roman general Coriolanus may be a military genius but he doesn't really have the common touch. Banished because of his patrician opinions, he leads an assault on...
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Lysistrata Book Reviews
AristophanesLysistrata is the greatest work by Aristophanes. This blank and rash statement is made that it may be rejected. But first let it be understood that I do not mean it is a better wri...
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Six Characters in Search of an Author Book Reviews
Luigi Pirandello & Edward StorerSix Characters in Search of an Author ( Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore ) is an Italian threeact play written by Luigi Pirandello in 1921, considered as one of the earliest exampl...
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The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. Book Reviews
EuripidesHis appearance as a dramatist was at an earlier age than that of his predecessors, as he was only five and twenty years old when he produced the “Peliades,” his first tragedy. On t...
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Socrates Book Reviews
1694-1778 VoltaireANITUS: My dear confidants, my dear agents, you know how much money I made you during the last festival of Ceres. I’m getting married and I hope you will do your duty on this grand...
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The Mule-Bone Book Reviews
Zora Neale Hurston & Langston HughesThe plot of this stage comedy by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, in which two men compete for a woman’s affection, is based on a folktale collected by Hurston in Florida. T...
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King Richard II Book Reviews
William ShakespeareAt the play's opening, Richard is seated in full state on the throne. But the flaws of his weak and selfdeluding character, not to mention the high taxes he imposes, bring dis...
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Macbeth Book Reviews
William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare (was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often...
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The Mule-Bone Book Reviews
Langston Hughes & Zora Neale HurstonThe only collaboration between Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, The MuleBone is a threeact comedy depicting the romantic rivalry between two lifelong friends, Jim Weston and...
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Life Is a Dream Book Reviews
Pedro Calderón de la BarcaTwo of the dramas contained in this volume are the most celebrated of all Calderon’s writings. The first, “La Vida es Sueno”, has been translated into many languages and performed ...
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The Duchess of Malfi Book Reviews
John WebsterJohn Webster was a later contemporary of Shakespeare, and The Duchess of Malfi , Webster’s best known play, is considered among the best of the period. It appears to have been firs...
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King Lear Book Reviews
William ShakespeareLear decides to abdicate and split his kingdom between his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Cordelia refuses to flatter her father like her sisters and is banished. Go...
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Fires of St. John Book Reviews
Hermann Sudermann & Charles SwickardThis fouract drama is by German naturalist playwright Hermann Sudermann. American Charles Swickard translated and adapted the play for the Boston stage in 1904.
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The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays Book Reviews
Lady Gregory & W. B. YeatsThis volume published in 1908 contains three plays by the great Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats: The Unicorn from the Stars (coauthored with Lady Gregory), Cathleen ...
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The Taming of the Shrew Book Reviews
William ShakespeareBaptista 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 ...
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Romeo and Juliet Book Reviews
William ShakespeareAn Apple Books Classic edition. Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy has inspired musicals, ballets, operas, and, of course, countless movies, including Italian director Franco Zeffirell...
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Ghosts Book Reviews
Henrik IbsenThe winter of 187980 Ibsen spent in Munich, and the greater part of the summer of 1880 at Berchtesgaden. November 1880 saw him back in Rome, and he passed the summer of 1881 at Sor...
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The Complete Works of Shakespeare Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThe most complete collection of Shakespeare's works available in a single book, containing 41 plays, 7 poems and 154 sonnets. This edition includes coauthored and rare apocryp...
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Romeo and Juliet Book Reviews
William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young starcrossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was...
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Plays of Sophocles Book Reviews
UnknownIn this timeless collection legendary Greek playwright Sophocles tells the tragic story of the Theban royal family.
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Measure for Measure Book Reviews
William ShakespeareDuke Vincentio has given his deputy Angelo temporary power over Vienna before his leave for a diplomatic mission. But instead of leaving the city, the Duke disguises himself as a f...
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The Prophet Book Reviews
Kahlil GibranThe Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the LebaneseAmerican artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who ha...
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The Merchant of Venice Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThe merchant Antonio promises Shylock that if he defaults on his borrowing, he will pay the Jewish moneylender a pound of his flesh. When he can't pay, Shylock insists on his ...
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Cyrano De Bergerac Book Reviews
Edmond RostandA Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tenniscourt arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblo...
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The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 Book Reviews
AristophanesPerhaps the first thing to strike usparadoxical as it may sound to say soabout the Athenian ‘Old Comedy’ is its modernness. Of its very nature, satiric drama comes later than Epic ...
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Henry V Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThe former wastrel Prince Hal has now become a shrewd and courageous monarch. His invasion of France leads to overwhelming triumph at the battle of Agincourt, not least because of ...
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The Merry Wives of Windsor Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThis comedy vehicle for Sir John Falstaff relates how the fat knight gets his comeuppance from the two wealthy married women he is simultaneously courting.
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The Captiva and the Mostellaria Book Reviews
Titus Maccius PlautusThese two captives (pointing to PHILOCRATES and TYNDARUS), whom you see standing here, are standing here becausethey are both [1] standing, and are not sitting. That I am saying th...
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Richard III Book Reviews
William ShakespeareTale of the psychopathic Richard of York's bloody and manipulative rise to the throne and his defeat and death on Bosworth Field by the future Henry VII (grandfather of Elizab...
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Philoktetes Book Reviews
SophoclesWhen Sophokles produced the Philoktetes in 408 B.C., three years before his death at the age of ninety, the ancient story of the tragic archer, abundantly represented in Greek lite...
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Dido, Queen of Carthage Book Reviews
Christopher MarloweChristopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Modern scholars count Marlowe among the most famous of the Eli...
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The Sea-Gull Book Reviews
Anton ChekhovThe scene is laid in the park on SORIN'S estate. A broad avenue of trees leads away from the audience toward a lake which lies lost in the depths of the park. The avenue is ob...
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The Tempest Book Reviews
William ShakespeareProspero, a mage and former Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda have been stranded for 12 years on an island. Prospero's brother Antonio, who deposed him, is shipwrecked w...
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Am I Worthy Lord Book Reviews
Rowlen Delaware Vanderstone III“Am I Worthy Lord” the play is a story of a Claudia Procula, Pilates wife, who discovers many doubts in her life, and a longing that is fueled by Joanna, her maidservant, a young H...
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Faust Book Reviews
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGoethe's FAUST is a classic tragic play, telling the story of a wager between God and Mephistopholes (Satan), who wishes to tempt the central character, Faust, away from right...
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The Merchant of Venice Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThe young venetian noble Bassanio seeks to woo the beautiful heiress Portia of Belmont. He turns to his friend, a merchant named Antonio, who agrees to help him financially. They g...
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Lysistrata Book Reviews
Aristophanes & Norman LindsayLysistrata (/laɪˈsɪstrətə/ or /ˌlɪsəˈstrɑːtə/; Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη, "Armydisbander") is a comedy by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BCE,...
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Uncle Vanya Book Reviews
Anton ChekhovALEXANDER SEREBRAKOFF, a retired professor HELENA, his wife, twentyseven years old SONIA, his daughter by a former marriage MME. VOITSKAYA, widow of a privy councilor, and mother o...
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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Book Reviews
Christopher MarloweThe Tragical History of Doctor Faustus , Christopher Marlowe’s classic interpretation of the Faustus legend, was first performed in London by the Admiral’s Men around 1592. It is b...
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Plays by August Strindberg, Second series Book Reviews
August StrindbergStrindberg was fifty years old when he wrote “There Are Crimes and Crimes.” In the same year, 1899, he produced three of his finest historical dramas: “The Saga of the Folkungs,” “...
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As You Like It Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThe elaborate gender reversals in this pastoral comedy set in the Forest of Arden are of considerable interest to modern critics. At one point in the play, the heroine Rosalind bec...
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Hamlet Book Reviews
William ShakespeareNot only was Hamlet one of William Shakespeare’s most popular works during his lifetime, it is also considered among the most powerful and influential works of world literature. “T...
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Agamemnon Book Reviews
Aeschylus & Ian JohnstonThe “Agamemnon” is one of the great tragedies of ancient Athens. This work contains an updated translation by Ian Johnston, an introduction on the finer points of Greek drama, film...
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The Tempest Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThe Tempest , thought to be one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone, begins with a storm which shipwrecks the king of Naples and his crew. We quickly learn that the temp...
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Nickelodeon and Disney Book Reviews
Lakhan SunderA variety of all the favourite shows and characters on Nickelodeon and Disney channel.
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Julius Caesar Book Reviews
William ShakespeareConspirators, some highminded like Brutus, others not, plot the assassination of the dictator Julius Caesar to save the Roman republic from tyranny. But after Caesar's death, ...
Best Paid Theater Books of 2024
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Twelfth Night Book Reviews
William ShakespeareA storm has caused a terrible shipwreck off the Illyrian coast. Two siblings, Viola and her brother Sebastian, become separated, each believing the other has drowned. Viola washes ...
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Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays Book Reviews
Pierre Loving & Frank ShayWork by such luminaries as Eugene O’Neill and Anton Chekhov are collected in this 1920 anthology of oneact plays.
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Macbeth Book Reviews
William ShakespeareAn 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...
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Shakespeare in an Hour Book Reviews
Christopher BakerPlaywrights in an Hour Designed to provide a platform of knowledge and understanding, this innovative series will connect cast, crew, audience members, and students to the playwrig...
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Hamlet Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThe prince of Denmark tries to summon the will to kill his father's murderer, his uncle and now king.
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Romeo and Juliet Book Reviews
William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare (was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often...
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Troilus and Cressida Book Reviews
William ShakespeareTroilus and Cressida is one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays,” characterized by its duality of tone as it jumps from bawdy comedic to dark tragedy. The plot was sourced from two epi...
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Orgullo y prejuicio Book Reviews
Jane AustenCon la llegada del rico y apuesto Mr. Darcy a su región, las vidas de los Bennet y sus cinco hijas se vuelven del revés. El orgullo y la distancia social, la astucia y la hipocresí...
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Cymbeline Book Reviews
William ShakespeareKing Cymbeline had plans to arrange the marriage between his daughter Imogen and his soninlaw Cloten. Instead, she secretly marries Posthumus Leonatus, a poor gentleman. Before Cym...
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The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Book Reviews
525 BC-456 BC AeschylusThe Trilogy of the Oresteia, which deals with the eternal problem of the evil act causing vengeance which wreaks more evil which must be avenged. Aeschylus declares that the new ru...
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Romeo y Julieta Book Reviews
William ShakespeareRomeo y Julieta (título original en francés,  Roméo et Juliette) es una ópera en un prólogo y cinco actos con música de Charle...
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Othello Book Reviews
William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare (was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often...
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Timon of Athens Book Reviews
William ShakespeareWith its puzzling plot and unexplained characters, Timon is probably unfinished and rarely performed. Timon is a wealthy citizen of ancient Athens, who spends munificently on paras...
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Julius Caesar Book Reviews
William ShakespeareAfter defeating enemies in battle, Roman citizens celebrate in the streets as Julius Caesar and his entourage make their way through the city. As Caesar passes a soothsayer, he rec...
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Coriolanus Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThe brilliant Roman general Coriolanus may be a military genius but he doesn't really have the common touch. Banished because of his patrician opinions, he leads an assault on...
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Lysistrata Book Reviews
AristophanesLysistrata is the greatest work by Aristophanes. This blank and rash statement is made that it may be rejected. But first let it be understood that I do not mean it is a better wri...
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Six Characters in Search of an Author Book Reviews
Luigi Pirandello & Edward StorerSix Characters in Search of an Author ( Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore ) is an Italian threeact play written by Luigi Pirandello in 1921, considered as one of the earliest exampl...
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The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. Book Reviews
EuripidesHis appearance as a dramatist was at an earlier age than that of his predecessors, as he was only five and twenty years old when he produced the “Peliades,” his first tragedy. On t...
-
Socrates Book Reviews
1694-1778 VoltaireANITUS: My dear confidants, my dear agents, you know how much money I made you during the last festival of Ceres. I’m getting married and I hope you will do your duty on this grand...
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The Mule-Bone Book Reviews
Zora Neale Hurston & Langston HughesThe plot of this stage comedy by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, in which two men compete for a woman’s affection, is based on a folktale collected by Hurston in Florida. T...
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King Richard II Book Reviews
William ShakespeareAt the play's opening, Richard is seated in full state on the throne. But the flaws of his weak and selfdeluding character, not to mention the high taxes he imposes, bring dis...
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Macbeth Book Reviews
William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare (was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often...
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The Mule-Bone Book Reviews
Langston Hughes & Zora Neale HurstonThe only collaboration between Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, The MuleBone is a threeact comedy depicting the romantic rivalry between two lifelong friends, Jim Weston and...
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Life Is a Dream Book Reviews
Pedro Calderón de la BarcaTwo of the dramas contained in this volume are the most celebrated of all Calderon’s writings. The first, “La Vida es Sueno”, has been translated into many languages and performed ...
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The Duchess of Malfi Book Reviews
John WebsterJohn Webster was a later contemporary of Shakespeare, and The Duchess of Malfi , Webster’s best known play, is considered among the best of the period. It appears to have been firs...
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King Lear Book Reviews
William ShakespeareLear decides to abdicate and split his kingdom between his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Cordelia refuses to flatter her father like her sisters and is banished. Go...
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Fires of St. John Book Reviews
Hermann Sudermann & Charles SwickardThis fouract drama is by German naturalist playwright Hermann Sudermann. American Charles Swickard translated and adapted the play for the Boston stage in 1904.
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The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays Book Reviews
Lady Gregory & W. B. YeatsThis volume published in 1908 contains three plays by the great Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats: The Unicorn from the Stars (coauthored with Lady Gregory), Cathleen ...
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The Taming of the Shrew Book Reviews
William ShakespeareBaptista 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 ...
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Romeo and Juliet Book Reviews
William ShakespeareAn Apple Books Classic edition. Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy has inspired musicals, ballets, operas, and, of course, countless movies, including Italian director Franco Zeffirell...
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Ghosts Book Reviews
Henrik IbsenThe winter of 187980 Ibsen spent in Munich, and the greater part of the summer of 1880 at Berchtesgaden. November 1880 saw him back in Rome, and he passed the summer of 1881 at Sor...
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The Complete Works of Shakespeare Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThe most complete collection of Shakespeare's works available in a single book, containing 41 plays, 7 poems and 154 sonnets. This edition includes coauthored and rare apocryp...
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Romeo and Juliet Book Reviews
William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young starcrossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was...
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Plays of Sophocles Book Reviews
UnknownIn this timeless collection legendary Greek playwright Sophocles tells the tragic story of the Theban royal family.
-
Measure for Measure Book Reviews
William ShakespeareDuke Vincentio has given his deputy Angelo temporary power over Vienna before his leave for a diplomatic mission. But instead of leaving the city, the Duke disguises himself as a f...
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The Prophet Book Reviews
Kahlil GibranThe Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the LebaneseAmerican artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who ha...
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The Merchant of Venice Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThe merchant Antonio promises Shylock that if he defaults on his borrowing, he will pay the Jewish moneylender a pound of his flesh. When he can't pay, Shylock insists on his ...
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Cyrano De Bergerac Book Reviews
Edmond RostandA Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tenniscourt arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblo...
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The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 Book Reviews
AristophanesPerhaps the first thing to strike usparadoxical as it may sound to say soabout the Athenian ‘Old Comedy’ is its modernness. Of its very nature, satiric drama comes later than Epic ...
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Henry V Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThe former wastrel Prince Hal has now become a shrewd and courageous monarch. His invasion of France leads to overwhelming triumph at the battle of Agincourt, not least because of ...
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The Merry Wives of Windsor Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThis comedy vehicle for Sir John Falstaff relates how the fat knight gets his comeuppance from the two wealthy married women he is simultaneously courting.
-
The Captiva and the Mostellaria Book Reviews
Titus Maccius PlautusThese two captives (pointing to PHILOCRATES and TYNDARUS), whom you see standing here, are standing here becausethey are both [1] standing, and are not sitting. That I am saying th...
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Richard III Book Reviews
William ShakespeareTale of the psychopathic Richard of York's bloody and manipulative rise to the throne and his defeat and death on Bosworth Field by the future Henry VII (grandfather of Elizab...
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Philoktetes Book Reviews
SophoclesWhen Sophokles produced the Philoktetes in 408 B.C., three years before his death at the age of ninety, the ancient story of the tragic archer, abundantly represented in Greek lite...
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Dido, Queen of Carthage Book Reviews
Christopher MarloweChristopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Modern scholars count Marlowe among the most famous of the Eli...
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The Sea-Gull Book Reviews
Anton ChekhovThe scene is laid in the park on SORIN'S estate. A broad avenue of trees leads away from the audience toward a lake which lies lost in the depths of the park. The avenue is ob...
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The Tempest Book Reviews
William ShakespeareProspero, a mage and former Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda have been stranded for 12 years on an island. Prospero's brother Antonio, who deposed him, is shipwrecked w...
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Am I Worthy Lord Book Reviews
Rowlen Delaware Vanderstone III“Am I Worthy Lord” the play is a story of a Claudia Procula, Pilates wife, who discovers many doubts in her life, and a longing that is fueled by Joanna, her maidservant, a young H...
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Faust Book Reviews
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGoethe's FAUST is a classic tragic play, telling the story of a wager between God and Mephistopholes (Satan), who wishes to tempt the central character, Faust, away from right...
-
The Merchant of Venice Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThe young venetian noble Bassanio seeks to woo the beautiful heiress Portia of Belmont. He turns to his friend, a merchant named Antonio, who agrees to help him financially. They g...
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Lysistrata Book Reviews
Aristophanes & Norman LindsayLysistrata (/laɪˈsɪstrətə/ or /ˌlɪsəˈstrɑːtə/; Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη, "Armydisbander") is a comedy by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BCE,...
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Uncle Vanya Book Reviews
Anton ChekhovALEXANDER SEREBRAKOFF, a retired professor HELENA, his wife, twentyseven years old SONIA, his daughter by a former marriage MME. VOITSKAYA, widow of a privy councilor, and mother o...
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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Book Reviews
Christopher MarloweThe Tragical History of Doctor Faustus , Christopher Marlowe’s classic interpretation of the Faustus legend, was first performed in London by the Admiral’s Men around 1592. It is b...
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Plays by August Strindberg, Second series Book Reviews
August StrindbergStrindberg was fifty years old when he wrote “There Are Crimes and Crimes.” In the same year, 1899, he produced three of his finest historical dramas: “The Saga of the Folkungs,” “...
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As You Like It Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThe elaborate gender reversals in this pastoral comedy set in the Forest of Arden are of considerable interest to modern critics. At one point in the play, the heroine Rosalind bec...
-
Hamlet Book Reviews
William ShakespeareNot only was Hamlet one of William Shakespeare’s most popular works during his lifetime, it is also considered among the most powerful and influential works of world literature. “T...
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Agamemnon Book Reviews
Aeschylus & Ian JohnstonThe “Agamemnon” is one of the great tragedies of ancient Athens. This work contains an updated translation by Ian Johnston, an introduction on the finer points of Greek drama, film...
-
The Tempest Book Reviews
William ShakespeareThe Tempest , thought to be one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone, begins with a storm which shipwrecks the king of Naples and his crew. We quickly learn that the temp...
-
Nickelodeon and Disney Book Reviews
Lakhan SunderA variety of all the favourite shows and characters on Nickelodeon and Disney channel.
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Julius Caesar Book Reviews
William ShakespeareConspirators, some highminded like Brutus, others not, plot the assassination of the dictator Julius Caesar to save the Roman republic from tyranny. But after Caesar's death, ...
