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Great Comedies and Tragedies
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Discover the brilliance of Shakespeare's storytelling with our carefully curated collection, 'Great Comedies and Tragedies.' This comprehensive edition features 896 pages of timeless works, showcasing the best of Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies, expertly introduced by Judith Buchanan and Emma Smith. Dive into Shakespeare's comedies, where intricate plots unravel to reveal humor and chaos, ultimately leading to joyful resolutions and insightful reflections on identity, love, and the human experience. Each comedy highlights Shakespeare's masterful wordplay and character development, making them perfect for readers seeking both laughter and deeper understanding.
Transition to the tragedies, where Shakespeare explores the darker side of humanity. With stories like 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Hamlet,' 'Othello,' 'King Lear,' and 'Macbeth,' these plays are not just performance art but timeless explorations of love, ambition, and the human condition. 'Great Comedies and Tragedies' captures Shakespeare's unmatched ability to resonate across ages with themes that are still relevant today. This edition not only serves as a great literary resource but also as a compelling addition to any bookshelf. Whether you are an avid follower of Shakespeare or a newcomer, this collection is essential for understanding his impact on world literature and theatre.
Author: William Shakespeare Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Dimensions: 111 x 178 mm
Pages: 896
This work includes the Comedies with Introductions by Judith Buchanan. These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. In each a problem emerges, is then intensified to a point of maximum confusion and potential upset, before the chaos is resolved, however improbably, into general goodwill and a spate of marriages. The triumph of these plays lies in the way they mingle humorous stage business and dexterous word play with a more serious study of identity, gender, dreaming, the meaning of love, even of the theatre itself. They reassure us that with all its faults, the world will always in the end be redeemable.It also includes the Tragedies with Introductions by Emma Smith - 'Not for an age but for all time.' So Ben Jonson established what we now take for granted: Shakespeare's unique place among the world's great authors. Romeo and Juliet shows us the archetypal story of fated young love; Hamlet, the tortured psyche of the young prince of Denmark; Othello, a strikingly modern representation of racial difference; King Lear, a man stripped of all material and psychological comforts; and Macbeth, a dark investigation of the origins and effects of, evil.
Transition to the tragedies, where Shakespeare explores the darker side of humanity. With stories like 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Hamlet,' 'Othello,' 'King Lear,' and 'Macbeth,' these plays are not just performance art but timeless explorations of love, ambition, and the human condition. 'Great Comedies and Tragedies' captures Shakespeare's unmatched ability to resonate across ages with themes that are still relevant today. This edition not only serves as a great literary resource but also as a compelling addition to any bookshelf. Whether you are an avid follower of Shakespeare or a newcomer, this collection is essential for understanding his impact on world literature and theatre.
Author: William Shakespeare Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Dimensions: 111 x 178 mm
Pages: 896
This work includes the Comedies with Introductions by Judith Buchanan. These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. In each a problem emerges, is then intensified to a point of maximum confusion and potential upset, before the chaos is resolved, however improbably, into general goodwill and a spate of marriages. The triumph of these plays lies in the way they mingle humorous stage business and dexterous word play with a more serious study of identity, gender, dreaming, the meaning of love, even of the theatre itself. They reassure us that with all its faults, the world will always in the end be redeemable.It also includes the Tragedies with Introductions by Emma Smith - 'Not for an age but for all time.' So Ben Jonson established what we now take for granted: Shakespeare's unique place among the world's great authors. Romeo and Juliet shows us the archetypal story of fated young love; Hamlet, the tortured psyche of the young prince of Denmark; Othello, a strikingly modern representation of racial difference; King Lear, a man stripped of all material and psychological comforts; and Macbeth, a dark investigation of the origins and effects of, evil.
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