A prose retelling of William Shakespeare's play about the love affair between the Roman soldier, Antony, and the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra.

Describes the duties and privileges of a medieval knight in warfare and in service to a lord, and explores aspects of daily life such as clothing, apprenticeship, heraldry, and obedience to the chivalric code.

Presents a history of fashion in England during the reign of Elizabeth I.

Describes the fashions of the 1970s and discusses the world events occurring during that time that influenced them.

Product Description: When people think about en vogue fashion, many think of France. This country's rich cultural heritage has often expressed itself through chic fashions for any occasion. This book lets you learn what men and women in France wear for work and relaxation.

Product Description: Lets you discover what kind of clothes people wear in Spain, from celebrating fiestas to relaxing during siestas.

Product Description: Explores how the Roman Catholic Church has influenced clothing and culture in Italy. This book explains why clothes and fabrics that are found in Italy are coveted worldwide.

People in Shakespeare's time loved to be entertained, and the fashionable entertainment was the theatre. This book goes behind the scenes of Shakespearean theatre, examining the working lives of playwrights and actors and showing how plays were staged in theatres like the Globe.

Daily Life in Shakespeare's time was very different. Marriages were mostly arranged by parents, and many children did not survive childhood. Meals could be enormous - up to a dozen courses, and bear-baiting was a popular entertainment. This book is about daily life in Tudor times, with information on houses, servants, clothing, and, school.

Describes diseases and treatments during the Renaissance era, including blood letting, laxatives, and herbal medicines.

Product Description: Describes crime and punishment in 16th and 17th century England, and connects these problems to works written by famous playwright William Shakespeare. Includes timeline.

Product Description: This book provides a brief introduction to early Egyptian civilization, a retelling of eighteen Egyptian myths, and a who's who of characters.

Product Description: This book provides a brief introduction to Roman civilization, a retelling of eighteen stories from Roman mythology, and a who's who of characters.

Product Description: There's only one way to enter the city of the dead. With the help of the enigmatic warrior princess Lolya, Amos Daragon embarks upon an unearthly voyage. Armed with nothing but his cunning, he must retrieve the Key of Braha - and restore balance to the worlds of the living and the dead...read more

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet is instructed to enact on his uncle Claudius. Claudius had murdered his own brother, Hamlet's father King Hamlet, and subsequently seized the throne, marrying his deceased brother's widow, Hamlet's mother Gertrude. Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature, with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others." The play seems to have been one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime and still ranks among his most-performed, topping the performance list of the Royal Shakespeare Company and its predecessors in Stratford-upon-Avon since 1879. It has inspired writers from Goethe and Dickens to Joyce and Murdoch, and has been described as "the world's most filmed story after Cinderella". The story of Hamlet ultimately derives from the legend of Amleth, preserved by 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum as subsequently retold by 16th-century scholar François de Belleforest. Shakespeare may also have drawn on an earlier (hypothetical) Elizabethan play known today as the Ur-Hamlet, though some scholars believe he himself wrote the Ur-Hamlet, later revising it to create the version of Hamlet we now have. He almost certainly created the title role for Richard Burbage, the leading tragedian of Shakespeare's time. In the 400 years since, the role has been performed by highly acclaimed actors from each successive age. Three different early versions of the play are extant, the First Quarto (Q1, 1603), the Second Quarto (Q2, 1604), and the First Folio (F1, 1623). Each version includes lines, and even entire scenes, missing from the others. The play's structure and depth of characterisation have inspired much critical scrutiny. One such example is the centuries-old debate about Hamlet's hesitation to kill his uncle, which some see as merely a plot device to prolong the action, but which others argue is a dramatization of the complex philosophical and ethical issues that surround cold-blooded murder, calculated revenge, and thwarted desire. More recently, psychoanalytic critics have examined Hamlet's unconscious desires, and feminist critics have re-evaluated and rehabilitated the often maligned characters of Ophelia and Gertrude.