Compass Publishing brings Shakespeare's most popular and influential comedies to its line of Compass Classic Readers. English language learners of all ages will enjoy developing their vocabulary and r
Compass Publishing brings Shakespeare's most powerful and influential tragedies to its line of Compass Classic Readers. English language learners of all ages will enjoy developing their vocabulary and
With its witty heroine Rosalind, who has the longest role of Shakespeare's female characters, As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted and most performed comedy. This edition includes nu
不管在莎士比亞年代裡或是現代,這部有關精靈、睡夢和情人的故事都同樣膾炙人口。在雅典城外的森林裡,四個年輕人追逐著他們的夢,精靈的介入則產生了奇怪的後果。這看起來像是虛構的世界--但是和我們的世界真的很不一樣嗎?This wonderful story of fairies, dreams and lovers is as popular today s it was in Shakespeares
Compass Books brings William, Shakespeare’s play of revenge, romance, and comedy to its Compass Classic Readers line of readers. English language learners of all ages will enjoy deve1oping their vocab
In The Merchant of Venice, the penniless but attractive Bassanio seeks, and finally wins, the hand of the fabulously wealthy Portia. But even as the play provokes laughter, it also provokes something
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 Tamin
Usually classifed as a 'problem comedy', All's Well that Ends Well invites a fresh assessment. Its psychologically disturbing presentation of an agressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooe
A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters—the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a vir
This important new edition of one of Shakespeare's more neglected plays offers a wide-ranging critical introduction, concentrating on its relevance to Elizabethan political issues and on the role play
Based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale, the central themes of this humourous and moving play are the claims of love and friendship. The introduction to this new edition offers an illuminating account of Sha
Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in the modern theatre, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities throughout. Peopled with lovers misled ei
Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. Indeed, for 250 years - until early this century - it was performed with grand operatic additions set to
Julius Caesar's exciting plot, brilliant rhetoric, and searching characterisation have made it one of Shakespeare's most popular plays with both readers and theatre-goers. Introducing this thoroughly
Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies. The central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, is wittily combative until love prevails. Broade
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Love’s Labour’s Lost, now recognized as one of the most delightful and stageworthy of Shakespeare’s comedies, came into its own both on the stage and in critical esteem only during the 1930s and 1940s