The stories in this collection are taken from plays written at different times in Shakespeare's professional life. The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy of character, and one of the first plays that Shakespeare wrote. The Winter's Tale was almost his last play. It is called a comedy because the ending is happy, but the characters go through much pain and sorrow before that ending is reached. These two stories were written by Mary Lamb. The other stories were written by Charles, and are examples of Shakespeare's finest tragedies.
Considered by many to be the most artistically successful of Shakespeare's history plays, "Henry IV" (Part I) continues to thrill audiences and readers. This invaluable new study guide to one of Shakespeare's greatest plays contains a selection of the finest criticism through the centuries on the play. Students will also benefit from the introduction by Harold Bloom, an accessible summary, analysis of key passages, a comprehensive list of characters, a biography of Shakespeare, and more.
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Shakespeare (DK Eyewitness Books)
Be an eyewitness to one of the world's greatest ever playwrights – from his Elizabethan world and the stories that inspired him to boy actors playing women and dramatic special effects.
See what the interior of the Globe Theatre looked like.
Find out how the music used in plays was like today's film themes.
Discover what Shakespeare did when the theatres were closed due to the plague.
Shakespeare is one of the titles in this classic series that combines visual brilliance with informative text to provide everything a child needs for projects, reference or just plain old discovery.
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The plays have endured, but over the course of 400+ years, the English language has changed in many ways—which is why today's students often find Shakespeare's idiom difficult to comprehend. Simply Shakespeare offers an excellent solution to their problem. Introducing each play is a general essay covering Shakespeare's life and times.
