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Shakespeare William: The Lost Treasure of Bodega Bay (+ CD-ROM)

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Kate, Mike and Carlos go on another trip to Bodega Bay near San Francisco, where more than a year ago they found a pirate's old treasure map. An incredibly exciting and dangerous adventure awaits them as they follow a mysterious clue and go on a treasure hunt to find a lost treasure from centuries ago. The GREEN APPLE series is composed of illustrated graded readers. The readers are graded into…

Shakespeare William: Hamlet

Скачать книгу (размер 1 131 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 223) Аннотация: Pour mener à bien sa vengeance sans éveiller les soupçons, Hamlet feint la folie. Lorsque le fantôme de son père lui révèle que Claudius, souverain actuel et frère du défunt roi, est le meurtrier de celui-ci, on s'attend à une stratégie ingénieuse, d'autant que le prince semble plein de courage, d'insolence et d'esprit. Or, durant quatre…

Shakespeare William: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps Shakespeare's most popular play, particularly as a first introduction to Shakespeare for children--filled as it is with a marvelous mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies. For this edition, Peter Holland's introduction looks at dreams and dreamers, tracing the materials out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows.

Shakespeare William: All's Well that Ends Well

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «Usually classified as a «problem comedy», All's Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery. In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible, and offers a fully reconsidered, annotated text for both readers and actors.»

Shakespeare William: Coriolanus

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written, Coriolanus is a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics, and its Roman hero one of the most memorable Shakespeare ever created. The introduction to this new edition offers the first full stage history and analysis of the original production of Coriolanus at the Blackfriars theater, and also examines…

Shakespeare William: Love's Labour's Lost

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Love's Labour's Lost, the first work to bear Shakespeare's name on its title page, differs greatly from his other early plays both for its highly unorthodox ending and its extraordinary use of language. This new edition presents a highly readable, modernised text of the play, freshly edited from the first quarto published in 1598. A thorough but concise scholarly and critical commentary provides…

Shakespeare William: As You Like It

Скачать книгу (размер 1 294 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 255) Аннотация: Shakespeare's As You Like It can appear bright or sombre in performance: a feast of language and a delight for comic actors; or a risk-taking exploration of gender roles. This updated edition, containing a brand new Introduction, provides an account of what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. There is a section on recent critical, stage and film interpretations of the play, an…

Shakespeare William: King Richard III

Скачать книгу (размер 1 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 252) Аннотация: King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular and frequently performed plays. Janis Lull's introduction to this new edition, based on the First Folio, emphasises the play's tragic themes — individual identity, determinism and choice — and stresses the importance of women's roles in the play. It also underscores the special relationship between Richard III and Macbeth, demonstrating that…

Shakespeare William: Macbeth

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: A dark, rainy day in Scotland, long ago. Returning from battle, Macbeth and his friend Banquo meet three witches. 'Macbeth, the king!' they say, but Macbeth is not a king, he is just a simple soldier. Macbeth and Banquo cannot forget the witches' words. Soon Macbeth is king, but his wife walks in her sleep at night, and dreams of blood. What lies in the future for Banquo? And how many people must…

Shakespeare William: The Merchant of Venice: Level 4

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: Classic / British English Bassanio wants to get married, but he has no money and a lot of debts. He asks his friend Antonio for a loan, but Antonio is waiting for his ships to return. Until then, he has nothing to lend. To help Bassanio, he borrows money from a money-lender and agrees to an unusual condition. If Antonio cannot repay the loan in three months, the money-lender will cut a pound of…

Shakespeare William: Henry IV, Part I

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: «Memorable historical drama concerns rebellion against King Henry led by Harry Percy («Hotspur») and other nobles, complicated by the king's difficulties with his wayward son, Prince Hal. Superb blend of courtly intrigue, battlefield action, and low comedy featuring Sir John Falstaff, all expressed in fine blank verse and stirring prose.»

Shakespeare William: The Winter's Tale

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Running an emotional gamut from betrayal and broken hearts to romance and reconciliation, this 1611 tragicomedy begins with the tyrannical actions of a jealous king, whose baseless suspicions destroy his own family. The play's second half takes place 16 years later, when the lively plot takes a lighthearted turn, abounding in song and dance.

Shakespeare William: Macbeth

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Samurai warriors have reclaimed a future post-nuclear world of mutants in the original manga version of Shakespeare's tale of skulduggery. The series keeps true to Shakespeare's original text, but is specially abridged for use in the manga, which makes it ideal for students to use as a primer and a way of getting to grips with the themes in Shakespeare's plays. A fusion of classic Shakespeare…

Shakespeare William: Julius Caesar

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This manga recreation of Shakespeare's text transfers the action from Ancient Rome to a future Iraq, once again facing dictatorship after its prolonged struggles to establish a democracy. Part of the successful Manga Shakespeare series, a fusion of classic Shakespeare with manga visuals. The titles available in the series so far are Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Richard III, The Tempest, A Midsummer…

Shakespeare William: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Shakespeare's enduring characters are set adrift in present-day Athens, but a present with a massive difference — an alternative history. Rigid class systems and 'god given' monarchies of the past have not been lost. Modern technologies meet ancient tradition; and the citizens of Athens are frustrated by continuing restrictions and hierarchies. Only the forest, home to the fairies and fey spirits…

Shakespeare William: Macbeth

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This is the most extensively annotated edition of Macbeth currently available, offering a thorough reconsideration of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. A full and accessible updated introduction studies the immediate theatrical and political contexts of Macbeth's composition, especially the Gunpowder Plot and the contemporary account of an early performance at the Globe. It treats such…

Shakespeare William: Anthony and Cleopatra

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Representing the full richness of Shakespeare's writing, the World's Classics offer the best value critical editions of his plays. Authoritative and up to date, they are 'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare'.

Shakespeare William: The Taming of the Shrew

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Audiences have always delighted in the robust comedy and verbal inventiveness of The Taming of the Shrew. It has survived many adaptations ranging from, probably, the play printed in 1594 as The Taming of the Shrew through several eighteenth-century versions to modern-dress productions and transformations into ballet, musical, film, and opera. Introducing this new edition, H.J. Oliver pays…

Shakespeare William: Much Ado About Nothing

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: There are two love stories in this fast-moving comedy. Brave young Claudio and Leonato's pretty daughter Hero are in love and want to marry, but Don John has a wicked plan to stop their wedding. Will he succeed, or will the truth come out? Will Claudio and Hero marry, after all? Beatrice and Benedick are always arguing with each other, but how do they really feel? Perhaps they are more interested…

Shakespeare William: Macbeth (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: This full colour graphic novel presents The Scottish Play in as few words as possible whilst keeping the essence of the story. Macbeth is probably the most dramatic of Shakespeare's tragedies and this version will give you a brand new and totally fulfilling view of the sheer genius of Shakespeare's story telling.