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Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soon take an interest in human affairs, dispensing love potions and casting mischievous spells. In this dazzling comedy, confusion ends in harmony, as love is transformed, misplaced, and - ultimately...
| Автор | Shakespeare William |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
When four young lovers flee from Athens and become lost in an enchanted wood, they stumble into a fairy world where King Oberon, and Queen Titania, are feuding over ownership of a young Indian prince. Seeking his revenge on Titania, Oberon and his servant Puck begin a magical, yet farcical chain of events where all become interwoven in a comedic and mischievous play about the difficulties of love.
| Автор | Shakespeare William |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2011 |
'Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.' Set in Athens, A Midsummer Night's Dream is a sparkling comedy centred on the theme of love and delightfully peopled with some of Shakespeare's best-loved characters such as the unintentionally comical weaver Bottom and the mischievous fairy, Puck. Perfectly combining a fantastical fairyland with the mortal world, this is Shakespeare at his wittiest and most entertaining. This...
| Автор | Shakespeare William |
| Год | 2022 |
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by William Shakespeare. There are broken hearts and kisses and then weddings, so this is a story about love. There are actors who are funny because they cannot act, so it is also a story that makes people laugh. And there are fairies, spirits of the night, so it is a story about mischief and magic too. What happens when love and laughter come together with magic in an Athenian forest? A Midsummer Night's Dream was...
| Автор | Shakespeare William |
| Жанр | Английский язык, Зарубежная образовательная литература |
This wonderful story of fairies, dreams and lovers is as popular today as it was in Shakespeare’s time. In a wood outside Athens, four young people are following their dreams, while fairies play strange games with them. Their world seems unreal – but is it really very different from our own?
Retold by Chris Rice.
| Автор | Shakespeare William |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
This wonderful story of fairies, dreams and lovers is as popular today as it was in Shakespeare’s time. In a wood outside Athens, four young people are following their dreams, while fairies play strange games with them. Their world seems unreal – but is it really very different from our own?
Retold by Chris Rice.
| Автор | Shakespeare William |
| Год | 2008 |
Уильям Шекспир - один из самых значимых и таинственных писателей в мировой литературе, бесспорный мастер драматургии. В комедии "Всё хорошо, что хорошо кончается" автор тонко затрагивает вопрос неравного брака, блистательно демонстрирует знание психологии мужчины и женщины. Так что же победит в итоге: любовь знатного графа Бертрама к простолюдинке Елене или его страх перед осуждением общества?.. Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
| Автор | Shakespeare William |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
A poor doctor's daughter cures the King of France and, in return, is promised marriage to any nobleman she wishes. But the proud young count she chooses refuses to consummate the marriage and flees to Florence - after setting her a seemingly impossible task. Depicting the triumph of trickery over youthful arrogance, All's Well That Ends Well is among Shakespeare's darkest romantic comedies, yet it remains a powerful tribute to the strength of love.
| Автор | Shakespeare William |
| Год | 2015 |
In its towering central characters, vast geographical and historical sweep, and its variety of style and mood, Anthony and Cleopatra is perhaps the most ambitious of Shakespeare's designs. Yet the degree and nature of its success remain surprisingly contentious, and performances of the play have seldom matched the extravagant expectations of its admirers. Michael Neill's wide-ranging introduction from a number of angles, including those of gender and race. He examines the sources and...
| Автор | Shakespeare William |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2008 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Hugely ambitious in its historical focus and vast geographical scope, Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare’s most astonishing tragedies. The drama centres on the relationships between his main protagonists, Octavius Ceasar, Mark Antony and Cleopatra, and the highly charged affair between Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen that forms the backdrop to the pervading theme of struggle between East and West...
| Автор | Shakespeare William |
| Жанр | Зарубежная современная проза, Историческая литература |
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, B.A., Ph.D., Emeritus 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 power and the intensities of his sexual relationship with Cleopatra. She, variously generous and ruthless, loving and jealous, petulant and majestic, emerges as Shakespeare’s most...
| Автор | Shakespeare William, Shakespeare W |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 1993 |
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to readers worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series, edited by an expert international team, includes all Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and poems, presented in attractively designed volumes. - modernised texts - full notes and lively introductions - informative illustrations - precise details of staging and performance. This edition is for the playgoer and the actor as well as the scholar. David Bevington analyses the...
| Автор | Shakespeare William |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
A battle-hardened soldier, Antony is one of the three leaders of the Roman world. But he is also a man in the grip of an all-consuming passion for the tempestuous and alluring queen of Egypt, Cleopatra. And when their life of pleasure together is threatened by encroaching politics, the conflict between love and duty has devastating consequences. A tragic drama of love and loss, sex and power, told in language of poetic sublimity, Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's supreme...
| Автор | Shakespeare William |
| Год | 2015 |
'All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players' Rosalind, banished by her cruel uncle, travels secretly to the Forest of Arden, where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves - now a fellow exile - and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her. One of Shakespeare's most sunny, fast-paced and accessible comedies, As You Like It is an exuberant combination of concealed...
| Автор | Shakespeare William |
| Год | 2015 |