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Measure for Measure (annotated by H...

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Measure for Measure (annotated by Henry N. Hudson with an introduction by Charles Harold Herford)

Originally published in the First Folio of 1623, “Measure for Measure” is William Shakespeare’s play which was likely written sometime in 1603 or 1604. The play begins with Vincentio, the Duke of Vienna, who leaves the government in charge of the authoritarian justice, Angelo, when he departs the city on a diplomatic mission. Lord Angelo believes that there is too much debauchery in the city and seeks to more strictly enforce laws against certain sexual activities. The story centers on Claudio...

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Great Speeches & Soliloquies of Sha...

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Great Speeches & Soliloquies of Shakespeare

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Richard II (annotated by Henry N. H...

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Richard II (annotated by Henry N. Hudson with an introduction by Charles Harold Herford)

The first play in William Shakespeare’s tetralogy of plays which also includes “Henry IV, Part 1”, “Henry IV, Part 2”, and “Henry V”, “Richard II” is believed to have been written around 1595. A history play, the drama concerns the last two years of the life of King Richard II of England, spanning the years 1398 to 1400. The drama begins with a dispute between Richard’s cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, who would later become King Henry IV, and Thomas de Mowbray, first Duke of Norfolk. Henry has...

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Taming of the Shrew

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Taming of the Shrew

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Hamlet (Gielgud)

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Hamlet (Gielgud)

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Oedipus Rex

Sophocles

Oedipus Rex

Considered by many the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies, Oedipus Rex is Sophocles' finest play and a work of extraordinary power and resonance. Aristotle considered it a masterpiece of dramatic construction and refers to it frequently in the Poetics.In presenting the story of King Oedipus and the tragedy that ensues when he discovers he has inadvertently killed his father and married his mother, the play exhibits near-perfect harmony of character and action. Moreover, the masterly...

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King Lear

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King Lear

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Helen

Euripides

Helen

Though little is known for certain of his early life, Euripides was probably born around 460 b.c.e. to the farmer Mnesarchus and his wife Clito, and his studious nature quickly led him to a literary life in Athens. He turned to playwriting at a young age, achieving his first of five victories in the dramatic competitions of the Athenian City Dionysia in 441 b.c.e. His plays are often ironic, pessimistic, and display radical rejection of classical decorum and rules. Together with Aeschylus and...

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Книга правителя области Шан

Шан Ян

Книга правителя области Шан

«Книга правителя области Шан» – один из наиболее значительных памятников общественно-политической мысли Древнего Китая. В нем излагается учение Шан Яна (IV в. до н.э.) – основателя школы легистов, отстаивавшей деспотическую форму правления. Учение Шан Яна, воспринятое конфуцианцами в период с III в. до н. э. по III в. н. э., способствовало превращению конфуцианства в государственную идеологию, оказало огромное влияние на дальнейшее развитие законодательства и правовых теорий Китая и остается до...

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Comedy of Errors

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Comedy of Errors

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The Complete Plays (The Tragedies:...

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The Complete Plays (The Tragedies: Volume I of III)

This comprehensive anthology provides every single one of Shakespeare's tragedy plays, from the earliest «Titus Andronicus» to «Coriolanus.» Follow one of the greatest love stories ever told in perhaps his most widely known play, «Romeo and Juliet.» In this classic tale, the two young lovers are members of feuding families, but they believe that their love transcends their families' hate. In «Othello,» a Moorish general in the Venetian army is destroyed because of the jealousy and envy...

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Scenes from Shakespeare

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Scenes from Shakespeare

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Hamlet

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Hamlet

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The Oresteia Trilogy

Aeschylus

The Oresteia Trilogy

Perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Aeschylus wrote 90 plays, but only seven have survived complete. Among them is this classic trilogy dealing with the bloody history of the House of Atreus.In Agamemnon, the warrior who defeated Troy returns to Argos and is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra for sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia before the start of the Trojan War. In The Libation-Bearers, Orestes, Agamemnon’s son, avenges his father by murdering his mother. In The Furies,...

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Henry VI, Part 2

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Henry VI, Part 2

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Henry VI, Part III

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Henry VI, Part III

The third play of Shakespeare's 'First Tetralogy,' this «Part III» is widely regarded as the best of the three works on Henry VI. The Bard's skill in producing scenes of moving drama is readily apparent, for Queen Margaret journeys to France in search of military aid after King Henry brokers a deal with his enemy Richard, Duke of York, for physical protection. Many bloody and heart-rending battles take place in this play as the War of the Roses reaches its climax, with Henry...

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Everyman

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Everyman

Western drama, having all but disappeared during the Dark Ages, reemerged spontaneously in the liturgy and life of the medieval church. Vernacular miracle plays of England's Middle Ages were performed by lay people — many by trade guilds — unschooled in church Latin, but familiar with the biblical events upon which the dramas were based. Morality plays provided moral instruction, their principal characters vivid personifications of virtue and vice. The most durable of...

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Love's Labour's Lost (Annotated by...

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Love's Labour's Lost (Annotated by Henry N. Hudson with an Introduction by Charles Harold Herford)

One of Shakespeare’s early comedies and most ornately intellectual plays, “Love’s Labour’s Lost” is a mental adventure in hilarity and wit. First published in 1598, the play is filled with lexical puns, literary allusions, and shifting poetic forms, a rich example of the Bard’s linguistic mastery. The play opens with King Phillip of Naverre announcing that the men of his court will devote the coming years to ascetic studies and to reduce distractions, no women will be allowed into the court for...

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