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This concise, illustrated dictionary of Shakespeariana, compiled by one of the best-known authorities on his works, contains alphabetically arranged entries guiding the reader to a wealth of inform...… more ››$13.95 add to cart -
There are important facets of our humanity that are both non-rational and beyond our control. A Midsummer Night's Dream celebrates this essential fact of life. In this romantic comedy, Shakespeare ...… more ››$1.28 add to cart -
A New Way to Pay Old Debts is a social comedy that features the villainous character Sir Giles Overreach, a cruel and calculating man who deliberately reduces his nephew, Frank Wellborn, to poverty...… more ››$0.99 add to cart -
Jealousy, betrayal, and mistake identities play a large role in this tragicomedy by Shakespeare. King Leontes of Sicilia believes that his friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia, is having an affair wi...… more ››$2.13 add to cart -
The first drama in Aeschylus's trilogy Oresteia, opens with the return of Agememnon from the Trojan War and closes with his murder by his wife, Clytemnestra, to avenge his sacrificing their daughte...… more ››$1.15 add to cart -
Sophocles wrote this tragedy about Ajax, a heroic leader at the siege of Troy. After Achilles death, Greek leaders award his arms to Odysseus rather than Ajax. Bitter disappointment overwhelms his...… more ››$0.99 add to cart -
All for Love is John Dryden's 1678 adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. In his version of the story, Dryden focuses on the last hours in the lives of the two lovers. It is Dryden's mos...… more ››$2.98 add to cart -
A mixture of unrequited love, mistaken identities, and trickery all contribute to the comedic situations in Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well. After saving the King of France from an illnes...… more ››$1.28 add to cart -
In this play by Euripides, Andromache, has been the concubine of Neopotolemus for ten years and has borne his son, Molossus. The wife of Neoptolemus, Hermione, is childless and believes Andromache ...… more ››$1.70 add to cart -
Antigone, by Sohpocles, traces the fates of King Oedipus's children. His sons die at each other's hands in a struggle for Thebes, after their father's death. The new king, Creon, forbids the burial...… more ››$1.70 add to cart
