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Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...
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English
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In an enchanted forest outside Athens, four young lovers stumble into a world where nothing is as it seems. Fairies quarrel, mischief reigns, and a mischievous sprite named Puck delights in turning order into chaos. As spells are cast and hearts are tangled, dreams and reality blur in a night of comedy, confusion, and unexpected love.
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a sparkling comedy of romance and imagination. Filled with magic, mistaken...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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"Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most complex and beautiful poems ever written. Their exploration of love, praise, homo- and hetero-sexual desire is enacted in the richest, densest writing in English. And the first printed work to which Shakespeare's name was attached was the erotic narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, which developed a sumptuous vocabulary in which to explore love, praise of the beloved, sexual desire, and the power of rhetoric....
6) Richard II
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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The first play in William Shakespeare's tetralogy of plays which also includes "Henry IV, Part 1", "Henry IV, Part 2", and "Henry V", "Richard II" is believed to have been written around 1595. A history play, the drama concerns the last two years of the life of King Richard II of England, spanning the years 1398 to 1400. The drama begins with a dispute between Richard's cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, who would later become King Henry IV, and Thomas de...
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The Arden Shakespeare
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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This new "Complete Works" marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes the complete plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this edition are the 'apocryphal' plays, part-written by Shakespeare: "Double Falsehood", "Sir Thomas More", and "King Edward III." The anthology is unique in giving all three extant texts of "Hamlet" from Shakespeare's time: the first and second Quarto texts of 1603...