Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twel fth NightRandom House Publishing Group, 26. 8. 2009 - Počet stran: 736 The Taming of the Shrew Robust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom, Petruchio, in a comedy of unmatched theatrical brilliance, filled with visual gags and witty repartee. A Midsummer Night's Dream Fairy magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood turn the mismatched rivalries of four young lovers into a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, all touched by Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationship between dreams and the waking world. The Merchant of Venice This dark comedy of love and money contains one of the truly mythic figures in literature–Shylock, the Jewish moneylender. The “pound of flesh” he demands as payment of Antonio’s debt has become a universal metaphor for vengeance. Here, pathos and farce combine with moral complexity and romantic entanglements, to display the extraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best. Twelfth Night Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy juxtaposes a romantic plot involving separated twins and mistaken identity with a more satiric one about the humiliation of a pompous killjoy. The hilarity is touched with melancholy, and the play ends, not with laughter, but with a clown’s plaintive song. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography |
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... Pyramus and Thisbe” in anticipation of the wedding festivities. The tragic love story of Pyramus and Thisbe, although it seems absurdly ill Suited to a wedding, reminds us of the discord and potentially fatal misunderstandings that ...
... Pyramus and Thisbe” in anticipation of the wedding festivities. The tragic love story of Pyramus and Thisbe, although it seems absurdly ill Suited to a wedding, reminds us of the discord and potentially fatal misunderstandings that ...
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... Pyramus and Thisbe,” and it is tested by the action of A Midsummer Night's Dream as a whole (as well as by other early Shakespearean plays, such as Romeo and Juliet). The archetypal story, whether ending happily Or sadly, is an ...
... Pyramus and Thisbe,” and it is tested by the action of A Midsummer Night's Dream as a whole (as well as by other early Shakespearean plays, such as Romeo and Juliet). The archetypal story, whether ending happily Or sadly, is an ...
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... Pyramus and Thisbe.” This play within a play focuses our attention on the familiarly Shakespearean metaphor of art as illusion and of the world itself as a stage on which men and women are merely players. А5 Т11е5е115 observes ...
... Pyramus and Thisbe.” This play within a play focuses our attention on the familiarly Shakespearean metaphor of art as illusion and of the world itself as a stage on which men and women are merely players. А5 Т11е5е115 observes ...
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... Pyramus and Thisbe,” like the larger play surrounding it, attempts 10 body forth “the forms of things unknown.” The play within the play gives us personified moonshine, a speaking wall, and an apologetic lion. Of course, it is an ...
... Pyramus and Thisbe,” like the larger play surrounding it, attempts 10 body forth “the forms of things unknown.” The play within the play gives us personified moonshine, a speaking wall, and an apologetic lion. Of course, it is an ...
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