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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Its l ...Show more
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of imperial po ...Show more
As You Like it - Wordsworth Classics by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction and Notes by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its boldly implausible plot generates a pr ...Show more
Hamlet by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a carefu ...Show more
Henry IV: Parts 1 & 2 by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics
In Henry IV, Part 1, the King is in a doubly ironic position. His rebellion against Richard II was successful, but now he himself is beset by rebels, led by the charismatic Harry Hotspur. The King's son, Prince Hal, seems to be more concerned with the pleasures of the tavern world and the company of the ...Show more
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Julius Caesar is among the best of Shakespeare's historical and political plays. Dealing with events surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., the drama vividly illustrates the ways in which power and corruption are linked. The cry 'Peace, freedom and liberty!' is used to exculpate brut ...Show more
King Henry V by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics - Shakespeare S.
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 Aginc ...Show more
King Lear by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful ...Show more
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, encompassing witchcraft, bloody murder, ghostly apparitions as well as high poetry, blended in such a way as to demonstrate the assured dramatic touch of Shakespeare's maturity. Macbeth's tragedy is that of a good, brave and honourable man turned int ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. The central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, is wittily combative until love prevails. Broader comedy is provided by Dogberry, Verges and the watchmen. The drama ranges between the destructively si ...Show more
Othello by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
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. In its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisatio ...Show more
Richard II by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dramatic cycle which helped to generate England's national identity. Today, to some of us, Richard II may appear cons ...Show more