The Tempest - The Pelican Shakespeare: The Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Series: The Pelican Shakespeare
This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st century by editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world o ...Show more
The Merchant of Venice: The Pelican Shakespeare by A. R. (EDT) William; Braunmuller Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Series: Pelican Shakespeare | Reading Level: General Adult
The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare' ...Show more
Henry IV, Part 1: The Pelican Shakespeare by A. R. (EDT) Stephen (EDT); Braunmuller Claire (INT); Orgel Claire (EDT); McEachern William; McEachern Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Series: Pelican Shakespeare | Reading Level: General Adult
These easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage appeared between 1956 and 1967. With these electrifying new covers, dependable texts, and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remains a valued ...Show more
Julius Caesar: The Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare; A. R. Braunmuller (Series edited by); Stephen Orgel (Series edited by); William Montgomery (Editor); Douglas Trevor (Introduction by)
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Category: Plays | Series: The\Pelican Shakespeare Ser.
Julius Caesarby William ShakespeareJulius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator of the same name, his assassination and its aftermath. It is one of several Roman plays that he wrote, based on true events f ...Show more
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays
The jealous King of Sicily becomes convinced that his wife is carrying the child of his best friend. Imprisoned and put on trial, the Queen collapses when the King refuses to accept the divine confirmation of her innocence. The child is abandoned to die on the coast of Bohemia. But when she is found and ...Show more
King Lear: The Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Series: The\Pelican Shakespeare Ser.
This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st century by general editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series | Reading Level: very good
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Plays
Written in 1879, 'A Doll's House' has been called the first truly feminist play. A scathing critique of the traditional roles of men and women in 19th century marriage, it caused scandal throughout Europe at a time when marriage was regarded as the most sacred of society's institutions.
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
As You Like It: Staged: the origins of YA's greatest tropes by William Shakespeare; Talia Hibbert (Foreword by)
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Category: Plays | Series: Staged Ser.
STAGED- Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection 'We that are true lovers run into strange capers.' Banished from her ambitious uncle's court, the lovesick Rosalind flees to the forest with her cousin, Celia. Disguised as shepherds, they soon meet the dashing Orlando - ...Show more
An Oresteia translated by Anne Carson by Anne Carson; Aiskhylos; Sophokles; Euripides
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Category: Plays | Reading Level: very good
In this innovative rendition of "The Oresteia", the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions - Aischylos' 'Agamemnon', Sophokles' 'Elektra', and Euripides' 'Orestes' - giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of vengeance. After the murd ...Show more
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Reading Level: very good
'Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble' Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return ...Show more