Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twel fth NightRandom House Publishing Group, 26.08.2009 - 736 Seiten 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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... Helena and Lysander to Hermia. Their experience in the forest is an unsettling one for the four young lovers. Although some of them seek 0111 111е 101е51 as a refuge from the Athenian law, the place rapidly takes on the darker aspect of ...
... Helena and Lysander to Hermia. Their experience in the forest is an unsettling one for the four young lovers. Although some of them seek 0111 111е 101е51 as a refuge from the Athenian law, the place rapidly takes on the darker aspect of ...
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... Helena in Act 1, transposed “Pyramus and Thisbe” 10 111е 101е51 а5 Ве11е11011 had done, and concluded with a grand pageant of Theseus's legendary triumphs: his defeat 0f the Amazons, his finding his way through the labyrinth with ...
... Helena in Act 1, transposed “Pyramus and Thisbe” 10 111е 101е51 а5 Ве11е11011 had done, and concluded with a grand pageant of Theseus's legendary triumphs: his defeat 0f the Amazons, his finding his way through the labyrinth with ...
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... Helena, Helen Mirren as Hermia, David Warner as Lysander, Ian Holm as Puck, Derek Godfrey as Theseus, Barbara Jefford as Hippolyta, Paul Rogers as Bottom, and still more. Richardson and Dench had acted in Hall'5 RSC Stage production of ...
... Helena, Helen Mirren as Hermia, David Warner as Lysander, Ian Holm as Puck, Derek Godfrey as Theseus, Barbara Jefford as Hippolyta, Paul Rogers as Bottom, and still more. Richardson and Dench had acted in Hall'5 RSC Stage production of ...
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... Helena were bright spots in a production that otherwise lacked movement and comic energy. Joseph Papp's 1982 production, based on his staging of the play in the Delacorte Theatre in New York's Central Park, is aggressively Americanized ...
... Helena were bright spots in a production that otherwise lacked movement and comic energy. Joseph Papp's 1982 production, based on his staging of the play in the Delacorte Theatre in New York's Central Park, is aggressively Americanized ...
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... Helena (Emily Raymond), 01 1111е11 Puck (Finbar Lynch) amorously climbs onto the back of the asinine Bottom (Desmond Barrit). Lindsay Duncan's Hippolyta/Titania is energized by unconsummated desire. Yet to most reviewers the film has ...
... Helena (Emily Raymond), 01 1111е11 Puck (Finbar Lynch) amorously climbs onto the back of the asinine Bottom (Desmond Barrit). Lindsay Duncan's Hippolyta/Titania is energized by unconsummated desire. Yet to most reviewers the film has ...
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