Product Description: Shakespeare’s Richard II presents a momentous struggle between Richard II and his cousin Henry Bolingbroke. Richard is the legitimate king; he succeeded his grandfather, King Edward III, after the earlier death of his father Edward, the Black Prince...read more

Shakespeare's popular comedy of love and mistaken identity is accompanied by a section on reading Shakespeare's language, information on Shakespeare's life and theater, explanatory notes, annotated reading lists, and an essay

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Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. This edition from The Folger Shakespeare Library combines the best possible version of The Taming of the Shrew with wonderful illustrations and ancillary material. Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young men-the hopeful Lucentio and the worldly Petruchio-and the two sisters they meet in Padua...read more

Product Description: The Two Gentlemen of Verona. FOREWORDS. The Two Gentlemen is noteworthy for three things: i. That Shakspere, after casting about for plot, trying topics of his day in Loves Labors Lost Latin drama inT he Come eof Errors and a mixture of supposed Greek life andE nglish iry lore in Midsommer Nights Dreame if that is of earlier date than the present play has recourse to continental story, specially to Italian tsue, and at once settles down to that as the source of his Comedies (even to some extent inT heM erry Wives) and many of hisT ragedies, and writes, says Mr...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The classic play about an aging king, who leans on war hero Sir John Falstaff rather than his unreliable son and heir when rebels threaten the crown, is accompanied by explanatory notes and illustrations.

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Product Description: The Wonder of Shakespeare One who reads a few of Shakespeare's great plays and then the meager story of his life is generally filled with a vague wonder. Here is an unknown country boy, poor and poorly educated according to the standards of his age, who arrives at the great city of London and goes to work at odd jobs in a theater...read more

Product Description: Shakespeare explores the minds and motives of assassins plotting to murder apublic man--and then shows the consequences of their act. 2 cassettes.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. After Falstaff meets Mistresses Page and Ford, two married women said to control their own financial affairs, he writes identical love letters to each of them, never imagining that they will compare notes...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Presents the texts of three classic comedies, along with explanatory notes and commentary.