A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written around 1594 to 1596. It portrays the adven
Enjoy the best of the Bard with coloring books, paper dolls, bookmarks, and more! The kit contains Ten Tales from Shakespeare — enthralling prose retellings for young readers; 2 paper dolls with costu
The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. The Jolly Corner and Other Tales, 1903–1910 includes the final ten stories James wrote. Many involve satirical critiques of an increasingly narcissistic, acquisitive society - from 'The Papers', with its attack on celebrity culture, to 'The Birthplace', offering a sardonic view of the Shakespeare industry, and 'A Round of Visits', which conducts a horrified tour through selfishness and swindling in early twentieth-century New York. The title story itself was in James's own view 'a miraculous masterpiece in the line of the fantastic-gruesome, the supernatural-thrilling … the best thing of this sort I've ever done'. With its extensive textual history and wide-ranging notes, this volume will interest not only James scholars, but all students of early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and cul
《莎士比亞戲劇故事集》（TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE BY CHARLES AND MARY LAMB）是蘭姆姐弟改寫莎士比亞最膾炙人口的六個悲劇和十四個喜劇而成，1809年出版，副題是“專為年輕人而作”，很快銷售一空。本書保留了莎翁原著的精華，被譽為莎劇與廣大讀者之間的一座寶貴的橋樑，和《伊利亞隨筆》一樣，經歷時間淘洗而熠熠生輝。 本書在中國影響深遠。1903年即以《澥外奇譚》之
這些劇本多以愛情、友誼和婚姻為主題，情節豐富，角色鮮活，故事生動有趣，揭示人們的感情衝突和現實生活中的矛盾，而最後以皆大歡喜的喜劇收場。本套書特選自Charles and Mary Lamb於1807所出版的Tales From Shakespeare，以故事而非劇本的方式呈現，原為英國兒童所寫，無論是語言或情節都較原劇本簡單易懂，文筆精湛，是絕佳的莎劇入門讀物。本套書每篇故事前皆以導讀引導賞析閱
本套書特選自Charles and Mary Lamb於1807所出版的Tales From Shakespeare，以故事而非劇本的方式呈現，原為英國兒童所寫，無論是語言或情節都較原劇本簡單易懂，文筆精湛，是絕佳的莎劇入門讀物。本套書每篇故事前皆以導讀引導賞析閱讀，英文原文一字不漏地完整呈現，保留原用法、語法、標點符號之餘，更適度調整段落，以符合現代學習者的閱讀習慣。除有英漢雙語注釋，並附上莎翁
本書的四大悲劇，特選自Charles and Mary Lamb於1807所出版的Tales from Shakespeare，以故事而非劇本的方式呈現，內容較為簡短，更是絕佳的莎劇入門讀物。本書英文原文一字不漏，除有英漢雙語注釋，並附上莎翁原劇本的名句，以及豐富的練習題，讓您在欣賞文學之餘，亦能增進自己的英文能力。Hamlet是四大悲劇中最早完成的，描寫丹麥王子Hamlet的父王被叔父毒死，叔父
威廉．莎士比亞，英國偉大的文學家。在其作品中，（馴悍記）、A （仲夏夜之夢）、（皆大歡喜）、（第十二夜），又被譽為莎翁的「四大悲劇」。本書的四大喜劇，特選自Charles and Mary Lamb於1807所出版的Tales From Shakespeare，以故事而非劇本的方式呈現，內容較為簡短，是絕佳的莎劇入門讀物。
About Sweet Cherry Easy Classics: From Shakespeare to Austen, Sweet Cherry Easy Classics adapts classic literature into stories for children, introducing these timeless tales to a new generation. All
Mary Cowden Clarke (1809–1898) was the daughter of the music publisher Vincent Novello. Charles and Mary Lamb were family friends, and under the inspiration of their Tales from Shakespeare, Mary became a noted Shakespeare scholar, her major work being the Concordance to Shakespeare, which took twelve years to compile, and was to remain a standard work for half a century. From 1856 Clarke and her husband Charles lived in Italy, continuing to publish essays and books, including their joint Cassell's Illustrated Shakespeare. This autobiography, published in 1896, contains many anecdotes and memories of the literary and musical circles in which Mary moved throughout her life: the Lambs, John Keats, the Shelleys, Dickens, Leigh Hunt and Mendelssohn all appear. The book is written in a vivid and engaging style, and records a fascinating nineteenth century life. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=clarmc
From the self-withdrawn Fanshawe through the posthumously issued Dr Grimshaw's Secret, this compilation of reviews and notices traces Nathaniel Hawthorne's rise from obscurity to world renown as a writer placed in the ranks of Carlyle, Dickens and Shakespeare. Reviews by Henry Fothergill Chorley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Edwin Whipple, Henry James, Edith Simcox, William Dean Howells and many others respond to Hawthorne's tales, romances, notebooks, and fragmentary works in efforts to capture and define the nature of Hawthorne's mind and the quality of his art. The introduction explores the thematic concerns taken up by reviewers, focusing on the elements of Hawthorne's life and art of most interest to his contemporary readers. Several retrospective reviews, one appearing as early as the 1840s, provide thoughtful estimates of Hawthorne's achievement.
From the self-withdrawn Fanshawe through the posthumously issued Dr Grimshaw's Secret, this compilation of reviews and notices traces Nathaniel Hawthorne's rise from obscurity to world renown as a writer placed in the ranks of Carlyle, Dickens and Shakespeare. Reviews by Henry Fothergill Chorley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Edwin Whipple, Henry James, Edith Simcox, William Dean Howells and many others respond to Hawthorne's tales, romances, notebooks, and fragmentary works in efforts to capture and define the nature of Hawthorne's mind and the quality of his art. The introduction explores the thematic concerns taken up by reviewers, focusing on the elements of Hawthorne's life and art of most interest to his contemporary readers. Several retrospective reviews, one appearing as early as the 1840s, provide thoughtful estimates of Hawthorne's achievement.
Troy is familiar to us from the timeless and epic tales of Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid. These have been retold over the centuries by writers from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Madeline Miller and Ri
About Sweet Cherry Easy Classics: From Shakespeare to Austen, Sweet Cherry Easy Classics adapts classic literature into stories for children, introducing these timeless tales to a new generation. All
This book provides a detailed survey of the hundreds of non-biblical serious plays which survive from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. The performers vary from civic groups and literary societies to courts and convents: mainly amateurs, but they left a legacy of stories that was drawn upon by the writers for the professional theatre companies of Elizabethan England, Golden Age Spain and the rich baroque theatre of France. Stories from the Golden Legend and collections of Marian miracles appear side by side with folk tales and traditional stories brought from the Middle East by merchants, pilgrims and other travellers. Muir considers what she terms the 'legacy' of these tales: when playwrights for the public theatres such as Shakespeare and Lope de Vega retain the situations and settings of the older stories but transform them by the emphasis on psychology and the gradual disappearance of the religious element.
This book provides a detailed survey of the hundreds of non-biblical serious plays which survive from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. The performers vary from civic groups and literary societies to courts and convents: mainly amateurs, but they left a legacy of stories that was drawn upon by the writers for the professional theatre companies of Elizabethan England, Golden Age Spain and the rich baroque theatre of France. Stories from the Golden Legend and collections of Marian miracles appear side by side with folk tales and traditional stories brought from the Middle East by merchants, pilgrims and other travellers. Muir considers what she terms the 'legacy' of these tales: when playwrights for the public theatres such as Shakespeare and Lope de Vega retain the situations and settings of the older stories but transform them by the emphasis on psychology and the gradual disappearance of the religious element.
