Essays by eminent critics accompany the complete texts of eight important dramatic plays

"A remarkably rich and stimulating volume...A unique blending of emotional and intellectual experience." —Los Angeles TimesHere in one volume are the complete texts of eight of the world's greatest plays, masterful examples of the comic view of life in drama. This outstanding treasury of great reading includes the bawdy humor of Machiavelli's Mandragola; the poignant, searching wit of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; the ironic social comment of Shaw's Arms and the Man; and five other influential works, including a new translation of Molière's satire The Miser, which the editors have prepared especially for this book. Accompanied by provocative essays that define and explore the spirit, structure, and meaning of comedy, this unique volume is an ideal companion to the editors' Eight Great Tragedies (also available in a Meridian edition). (view table of contents)

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Shakespeare's poems and sonnets accompany his thirty-eight comedies, tragedies, and historical plays presented in chronological order

Critical and biographical essays accompany influential works by such authors as Tolstoy, Conrad, Faulkner, Kafka, and Solzhenitzyn

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A discussion of Shakespeare's life, language, and literary style prefaces a study of the comedies, histories, tragedies, and nondramatic poems and the staging techniques, and cinematic portrayals of Shakespearean works

Dramatizes the relationship between money and virtue, the rise of the new woman, and doctor's abuse of public and private trust

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Biographical information and critical essays accompany Shakespeare's two plays concerning misguided actions and ingratitude.

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This text presents a full range of drama from Ancient Greece to the present. It features an informal tone and an apparatus that provides students with reading strategies for the 27 plays anthologized in the text and discussions on how to critique them. An emphasis on writing explains how to write an analytical paper, a review of a play and a short play. This edition, supported by pedagogy such as biographical notes and introductions for each play, presents more plays from outside the traditional canon, including works by such playwrights as Gertrude Stein, Joyce Carol Oates, Luis Valdez and Harvey Fierstein. Other new features include more new one-act plays and new "Contexts", which provide comments on 11 plays written by the playwrights themselves.

The Everyman Signet Shakespeare series continues with the second volume of Histories, containing 'Henry IV' parts I and II, 'Henry V' and 'Henry VIII'. The plays are lightly annotated, and the text is therefore suitable for both students and general readers.

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The first volume of Shakespeare's comedies contains: 'The Comedy of Errors', 'The Taming of the Shrew', 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona', 'Love's Labour Lost', 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

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Product Description: Presenting the complete texts of eight of the world’s greatest plays, this important volume illuminates the changing concept of tragedy from Sophocles to O’Neill.   Some of the world’s greatest dramas unfold on these pages...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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