This history play is lively in its interplay of political intrigue and boisterous comedy, subtle in the connections between high statecraft and low craftiness, exuberant in its range of vivid characters, and memorable in its thematic concern with honour, loyalty and the quest for power.
Three men in a boat: Three friends along with the dog, Montmorency, experience the hazards and vicissitudues of life in a boating expedition along the Thames.
This edition of one of Shakespeare's best known and most frequently performed plays argues for Julius Caesar as a new kind of political play, a radical departure from contemporary practice, combining fast action and immediacy with compelling rhetorical language, and finding a clear context for its study of tyranny in the last decade of the reign of Elizabeth 1. The richly experimental verse and the complex structure of the play are analysed in depth, and a strong case is made for this to be the first play to be performed at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.'Daniell's edition is a hefty piece of serious scholarship that makes a genuine contribution.'Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada at Reno, Shakespeare Survey'This is a stimulating new look at a play which is too often exhibited in a critical museum.' Paul Dean, English Studies
Maur Othello, dowódca weneckiej armii, żeni się z Desdemoną. Jego chorąży Jago pod wpływem frustracji sugeruje Othellowi, że Desdemona go zdradza. Choć nic nie potwierdza tych zarzutów, w Othellu budzi się zazdrość, która daje początek tragicznym wydarzeniom.
Loose ends and red herrings are the stuff of detective fiction, and under the scrutiny of master sleuths John Sutherland and Cedric Watts Shakespeare's plays reveal themselves to be as full of mysteries as any Agatha Christie novel. Is it summer or winter in Elsinore? Do Bottom and Titania make love? Does Lady Macbeth faint, or is she just pretending? How does a man putrefy within minutes of his death? Is Cleopatra a deadbeat Mum? And why doesn't Juliet ask 'O Romeo Montague, wherefore art thou Montague?' As Watts and Sutherland explore these and other puzzles Shakespeare's genuius becomes ever more apparent. Speculative, critical, good-humoured and provocative, their discussions shed light on apparent anachronisms, performance and stagecraft, linguistics, Star Trek and much else. Shrewd and entertaining, these essays add a new dimension to the pleasure of reading or watching Shakespeare.
This landmark book describes the course of religious thinking within Islam from the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632, to 950.
Professor Watts’s study examines the main phase in Joseph Conrad’s literary development.
Romeo i Julia jest dramatem Williama Szekspira należącym do kanonu literatury angielskiej i światowej. Utwór wpisuje się w tradycję tragedii miłosnych zapoczątkowaną już w Starożytności. Opowiada historię tragicznej miłości dwojga młodych kochanków, których śmierć połączyła ich wrogo nastawione rody. Pomimo że Romeo i Julia należą do pierwszych dzieł Szekspira (dramaturg pisał je, mając około trzydziestu lat), w utworze objawia się wiele elementów charakterystycznych dla talentu twórcy. Przede wszystkim właściwa Szekspirowi konstrukcja sztuki polegająca na przeplataniu się scen komicznych i dramatycznych, co zwiększa napięcie widowiska, czy rozwinięcie ról i intryg drugoplanowych wpływające na dynamizm i atrakcyjność spektaklu. Dzieło Szekspira doczekało się wielu inscenizacji teatralnych, operowych, baletowych i filmowych, a postacie Romea i Julii stały się w kulturze europejskiej wzorcami romantycznych kochanków. Lektura dla klasy VII i szkół średnich
The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.This edition of Macbeth provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts.
Set aboard the Narcissus, a merchant ship journeying from Bombay to London, the novella explores the tensions among the crew as they grapple with the illness of a West Indian sailor suffering from tuberculosis. While some crew members exhibit compassion and take on additional duties to care for him, others question the severity of his condition, leading to a conflict that reveals deeper themes of humanity, duty, and the fragility of life at sea. Joseph Conrad delves into the complexities of human relationships in this poignant narrative.
Contains four stories, written between 1900 and 1902. One of them reveals the differences between instinct and intelligence in a partnership vital to human survival; and the other contains 'land-stories' that explore the utter isolation of an East European emigrant in England and in the other, the plight of a woman.