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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... doth he breathe? SECOND HUNTsMAN [examining Sly] He breathes, my lord. Were he not warmed with ale, This were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly. LORD Oh, monstrous beast, how like a swine he lies! Grim death, how foul and loathsome is ...
... doth he breathe? SECOND HUNTsMAN [examining Sly] He breathes, my lord. Were he not warmed with ale, This were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly. LORD Oh, monstrous beast, how like a swine he lies! Grim death, how foul and loathsome is ...
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... doth limp? Oh, sland'rous world! Kate like the hazel twig 15 straight and slender, and as brown in hue As hazelnuts, and sweeter than the kernels. Oh, let me see thee walk. Thou dost not halt253. KATHARINA Go, fool, and whom thou keep ...
... doth limp? Oh, sland'rous world! Kate like the hazel twig 15 straight and slender, and as brown in hue As hazelnuts, and sweeter than the kernels. Oh, let me see thee walk. Thou dost not halt253. KATHARINA Go, fool, and whom thou keep ...
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... doth make me like thee wellThou must be married to no man but me. Enter Baptista, Gremio, [and] Tranio [as Lucentio] For I am he am born to tame you, Kate, And bring you from a wild Kate274 to a Kate Conformable275 as other household ...
... doth make me like thee wellThou must be married to no man but me. Enter Baptista, Gremio, [and] Tranio [as Lucentio] For I am he am born to tame you, Kate, And bring you from a wild Kate274 to a Kate Conformable275 as other household ...
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... doth freeze. GREMIO But thine doth fry. Skipper337, stand back. 'Tis age that nourisheth. TRANIO But youth in ladies' eyes that flourisheth. BAPTISTA Content you, gentlemen, I will compound339 this strife. 'Tis deeds must win the prize ...
... doth freeze. GREMIO But thine doth fry. Skipper337, stand back. 'Tis age that nourisheth. TRANIO But youth in ladies' eyes that flourisheth. BAPTISTA Content you, gentlemen, I will compound339 this strife. 'Tis deeds must win the prize ...
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... doth court my love. Pedascule49, I'll watch you better yet. BIANCA [to Lucentio] In time I may believe, yet I mistrust. LUCENTIO Mistrust it not, for, sure, Aeacides51 Was Ajax, called so from his grandfather. BIANCA I must believe my ...
... doth court my love. Pedascule49, I'll watch you better yet. BIANCA [to Lucentio] In time I may believe, yet I mistrust. LUCENTIO Mistrust it not, for, sure, Aeacides51 Was Ajax, called so from his grandfather. BIANCA I must believe my ...
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Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew/a Midsummer Night's Dream/the ... William Shakespeare Náhled není k dispozici. - 1988 |
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actors Antonio Athens audience BAPTISTA Bassanio Bianca BIONDELLO BOTTOM Christian comedy daughter Demetrius director doctor of laws doth Duke Egeus Enter Exeunt Exit eyes FABIAN fair fairies father FESTE film fool friends gentleman give GOBBO GRATIANO GREMIO hast hath hear heart Helena Hermia Hippolyta HORTENSIO husband Jessica Julina Kate KATHARINA lady Lancelot lion look lord LORENZO lovers Lucentio Lysander madam MALVOLIO MARIA marriage marry master Merchant of Venice Midsummer Night’s Dream mistress moon Nerissa never o’er Oberon OLIVIA ORSINO PETRUCHIO play’s PORTIA pray production Puck Pyramus and Thisbe Queen QUINCE SALERIO Sebastian servant Shakespeare Shakespeare’s play Shrew Shylock Signor Ansaldo Signor Giannetto Silla Silvio SIR ANDREW SIR TOBY sleep SOLANIO speak stage swear sweet Taming tell theater thee There’s THESEUS thou art Thou shalt Titania TRANIO Twelfth Night unto Vincentio VIOLA What’s wife young апс1