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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... Look in the chronicles; we came in with Richard4 Conqueror. Therefore paucas pallabris, let the world slide. Sessa5! HOSTESS You will not pay for the glasses you have burst? SLY No, not a denier. Go by, Saint Jeronimy, go to thy8 cold ...
... Look in the chronicles; we came in with Richard4 Conqueror. Therefore paucas pallabris, let the world slide. Sessa5! HOSTESS You will not pay for the glasses you have burst? SLY No, not a denier. Go by, Saint Jeronimy, go to thy8 cold ...
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... look unto them all. Tomorrow I intend to hunt again. FIRST HUNTSMAN I will, my lord. LORD [seeing Sly] What's here? One dead, or drunk? See, doth he breathe? SECOND HUNTsMAN [examining Sly] He breathes, my lord. Were he not warmed with ...
... look unto them all. Tomorrow I intend to hunt again. FIRST HUNTSMAN I will, my lord. LORD [seeing Sly] What's here? One dead, or drunk? See, doth he breathe? SECOND HUNTsMAN [examining Sly] He breathes, my lord. Were he not warmed with ...
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... look through the overleatherlz. LORD Heaven cease this idle humorï3 in Your Honor! Oh, that a mighty man of such descent, Of such possessions and so high esteem, Should be infused with so foul a spirit! SLY What, would you make me mad ...
... look through the overleatherlz. LORD Heaven cease this idle humorï3 in Your Honor! Oh, that a mighty man of such descent, Of such possessions and so high esteem, Should be infused with so foul a spirit! SLY What, would you make me mad ...
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... Look how thy servants do attend on thee, Each in his office ready at thy beck34. Wilt thou have music? Hark, Apollo35 plays, And twenty cagèd nightingales do sing. Or wilt thou sleep? We'll have thee to a couch, Softer and sweeter than ...
... Look how thy servants do attend on thee, Each in his office ready at thy beck34. Wilt thou have music? Hark, Apollo35 plays, And twenty cagèd nightingales do sing. Or wilt thou sleep? We'll have thee to a couch, Softer and sweeter than ...
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... look and practice by myself. LUCENTIO [aside to Tranio] Hark, Tranio, thou mayst hear Minerva84 speak. HORTENSIO Signor Baptista, will you be so strange85? Sorry am I that our good will effects86 Bianca's grief. GREMIO Why will you ...
... look and practice by myself. LUCENTIO [aside to Tranio] Hark, Tranio, thou mayst hear Minerva84 speak. HORTENSIO Signor Baptista, will you be so strange85? Sorry am I that our good will effects86 Bianca's grief. GREMIO Why will you ...
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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