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The Merchant of Venice” - is a magnificent work by one of the best playwrights in the world William Shakespeare (eng. William Shakespeare, 1564- 1616). The Venetian merchant Antonio, while helping young Bassanio to solve his money troubles, appears to be the victim of the Jew money-lender Shylock.
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"Hamlet" ist das meistgespielte Stück Shakespeares und Hamlet ist Shakespeares berühmteste Figur. Als vor rund 250 Jahren die Shakespeare-Begeisterung in Deutschland um sich griff, gehörte auch ein sogenanntes ›Hamlet-Erlebnis‹, nämlich die Identifikation mit dem melancholischen Dänenprinzen, zu den Reaktionen auf Shakespeares Stücke. Die menschliche Psyche und ihre Widersprüchlichkeiten sowie die Reflexion über Ich, Fiktion und Welt stehen...
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The comedy «the Taming of the Shrew» - is a magnificent play by an outstanding English playwright William Shakespeare (eng. William Shakespeare, 15641616). We have the story of the courting by a generous nobleman Petruchio after a proud and self-will Katherina just in front of us. Only he knows what is hidden under this obstinate girl's rebelliousness. The comedy «the Taming of the Shrew» is known to the reader thanks to the magnificent staging...
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"König Lear" gehört und zu berühmtesten (und grausigsten) Tragödien Shakespeares und ist eine exemplarische Darstellung von Generationenkonflikten, familiären Machtkämpfen, Intrigen und den extremen Emotionen, die sie freisetzen: Liebe und Hass, Angst und Wahnsinn.
Die sogenannte Schlegel-Tieck-Übersetzung, zu der August Wilhelm Schlegel und - unter Mitübersetzer- und Herausgeberschaft von Ludwig Tieck - auch Dorothea Tieck und Wolf Heinrich...
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Mr. Burckhardt does not discuss the plays as theatre. Instead he states: "This book is concerned with what Shakespeare meant. I believe that Shakespeare's plays, to put it bluntly, have messages and that these messages are discoverable, in fact, statable.... Shakespeare not only abides our questions, he tells us what questions to ask; he took infinite pains to be precisely understood."
Originally published in 1968.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses...
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Twelfth Night” - is one of the most fascinating comedies by an English playwright of genius William Shakespeare (eng. William Shakespeare, 1564- 1616). This is a story of two twins, Sebastian and Viola - a brother and a sister, who were fortunate to survive during the shipwreck, lost each other, experienced a lot of adventures and at the end met again by unusual circumstances. Viola's «love affairs», who has to hide under the mask of the court...
7) Macbeth
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The tragedy «macbeth» - is one of the most famous works by an English playwright William Shakespeare (eng. William Shakespeare, 1564-1616). This is a famous story about the Scottish king Macbeth, who, being tempted by witches and his wife, craved for the immeasurable power. Nevertheless, his downfall was inevitable.
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It is part of Shakespeare's extraordinary contribution to our culture that, through his dramas based on English history, he played a unique part in forming our view of ourselves and our nationhood. From King John, in which through Magna Carta the king's absolute power was first limited and the people's freedoms assured, to--almost in his own lifetime--Henry VIII, Shakespeare wrote a series of ten plays portraying the course of history. It represents...
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"Othello" war schon bei seiner Uraufführung 1604 ein großer Erfolg und gehört bis heute zu den beliebtesten Stücken Shakespeares. Wie kein anderes ruft es beim Zuschauer spontane Reaktionen hervor. Jagos Auftritte sind in der Vergangenheit oft mit Zischen lauten Protesten und gar mit direkten, an Othello gerichteten Warnrufen begleitet worden. Immerhin ist das Publikum heute bereit, die schauspielerische Leistung des Jago-Darstellers am Schluss...
11) King Richard III
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The tragedy «Richard III» - is a historical play by an outstanding poet and playwright William Shakespeare (eng. William Shakespeare, 1564−1616). This is a story about hostile intentions of Richard III on his way to power, and also about complicated and contradictory events of the period of his reigning.
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The Promised End explores how the endings of Shakespeare's tragedies work – how, in effect, they resist conventional closure. It looks back from the endings of five plays – Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear – to explore how their structures of action, imagery and the interaction of different genres – comedy, tragedy and romance – bring them to conclusions that are both inevitable and yet strangely incongruous, beyond...
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A fascinating playbill of stories from the weird and wonderful world of Shakespearean theatre through the centuries, including distinguished actors falling off stages, fluffed lines, performances in the dark, and why you must never, ever say the name of that Scottish play, especially if you are Peter O'Toole. Discover a wealth of Shakespearean shenanigans over the years, including the terrible behaviour of the groundlings at Shakespeare's Globe, how...
14) Shakespeare
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Gregory Moore is lecturer in German at the University of St. Andrews. He is the editor and translator of Herder's Selected Writings on Aesthetics (Princeton) and the author of Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor.
Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact, much literature and art besides Shakespeare would neither look the same nor be the same without the influence of Herder's "Shakespeare"...
15) Y is for Yorick
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The perfect gift for Shakespeare fans, Y Is for Yorick is full of witty references to the Bard's unforgettable plots and characters. Readers will love perusing the cheeky illustrations and reading such entries as "J is for Juliet. Juliet teaches all young girls that if you truly love someone, wholly and completely, it will be the death of you."
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Der Kaufmann von Venedig William Shakespeare - In »Der Kaufmann von Venedig« erzählt William Shakespeare von den gesellschaftlichen Strukturen der Handelsmetropole Venedig. Die geschäftlich geprägten Beziehungen der Menschen kontrastiert er mit dem märchenhaft anmutenden Geschehen auf dem italienischen Landsitz Belmont. Der in Venedig spielende Handlungsstrang erzählt vom Kaufmann Antonio, der ein Pfund Fleisch aus seinem Körper an den Juden...
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Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. His many books include Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. He is a general editor of The Norton Shakespeare and The Norton Anthology of English Literature
In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into...
18) Love Me
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Within these pages, you will find verses that speak of love's exhilarating highs, as well as its challenging lows. Love can be a source of unbridled joy, filling us with laughter, warmth, and a profound sense of connection. Yet, it can also bring forth vulnerability, heartache, and bittersweet longing. Through the tapestry of poems and reflections, we celebrate the universal human experience of love. It is an invitation to pause, to contemplate, and...
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Tackling Romeo and Juliet? Easily understand every line and quickly master Shakespeare's classic tragedy of young love and family feuding.
Does Shakespeare's 400-year-old language often leave you confused? Do you wish there was an easier way to get to the heart of the story without tedious cross-referencing? Award-winning Shakespearean author James Anthony unlocks each line of Romeo and Juliet via a modern, versified retelling alongside the brilliant...
20) How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol
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How to Do Things with Dead People studies human contrivances for representing and relating to the dead. Alice Dailey takes as her principal objects of inquiry Shakespeare's English history plays, describing them as reproductive mechanisms by which living replicas of dead historical figures are regenerated in the present and re-killed. Considering the plays in these terms exposes their affinity with a transhistorical array of technologies for producing,...