Tells the tales of a man who has his best friend seduce his wife to prove her infidelity, and of a tyrant who overthrows a king to win a woman's affection, only to court her corpse when she chooses death over his love

Dramma in cinque atti in versi e in prosa, Timone d'Atene si ispira direttamente a uno dei più celebri dialoghi di Luciano e fu scritto probabilmente nel 1608 per essere poi pubblicato nell'in folio del 1623. Timone è circondato dalle adulazioni dei suoi favoriti e dai doni che ricambia in modo stravagante. Ma, girata la fortuna, Timone sperimenta l'ingratitudine degli amici e si ritira a vivere solitario in una caverna maledicendo la città. Trovato casualmente un tesoro, lo offre ad Alcibiade perché paghi i soldati. Timone sarà quindi raggiunto dai senatori ateniesi perché aiuti la città minacciata da Alcibiade. Ma il misantropo li schernisce offrendo loro l'albero presso la sua caverna perché ci si impicchino.

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The complete script to the critically acclaimed play. 'Shakespeare as written by Reader's Digest, acted by Monty Python, and performed at the speed of the minute waltz.' - L.A. Herald

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This edition of Henry V is part of the Cambridge School Shakespeare series. Like every other play in the series, it has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. This version of Henry V aims to be different from other editions of the play. It invites you to bring the play to life in your classroom through enjoyable activities that will help increase your understanding. You are encourage to make up your own mind about the play, rather than have someone else's interpretation handed down to you. Whatever you do, remember that Shakespeare wrote his plays to be acted, watched and enjoyed.

A series of outstanding productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company and others have recently demonstrated the theatrical vitality of Shakespeare's plays about the reign of Henry VI. In the Third Part Shakespeare extends his essay on monarchical politics by contrasting two kings, the good but ineffective Henry VI with his rival, the sensual and victorious Edward IV. He also offers more evidence of the perils of aristocratic factionalism in a series of scenes that display the grievous wounds caused by the Wars of the Roses. Here we watch the savage death of the Duke of York at the hands of Queen Margaret, the moving lament of King Henry as he witnesses the slaughter of the battle of Towton where the Lancastrians were defeated, and finally, Henry's death at the hands of Richard of Gloucester, later King Richard III.

Definiti la chiave con la quale Shakespeare era in grado di aprire qualsiasi cuore, i Sonetti presentano un lato inedito e affascinante del grande drammaturgo. Studiate a lungo dai critici alla ricerca di indizi sulla vita privata di un autore per molti versi ancora misterioso, queste poesie introducono anche personaggi straordinari come la fatale 'Dark Lady' o l'odiato poeta rivale.

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If William Shakespeare had never written a single play, if his reputation rested entirely upon the substantial and sterling body of nondramatic verse he left behind, he would still hold the position he does in the hierarchy of world literature. The strikingly modern ?sonnets–intimate, baroque, and expansive at once; the invigorating narratives drawn from classical subjects; and the flawless lyricism represented by a poem like “The Phoenix and the Turtle”–permanently deepen our understanding of the multiplicity and extravagant energy of our greatest poet.

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Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies were written in a remarkably short period of time, between 1598 and 1606. Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear are each so singular an achievement that any rereading of them reinforces the awe and almost idolatrous worship that this most uncanny of the world's great writers invariably inspires. In these four plays, Shakespeare engages the problem that is central to tragedy and crucial to any human community—the problem of violence and revenge—on an unprecedented scale. No other literary texts have been more instrumental in deepening our knowledge of ourselves as individuals and as a civilization.

This authoritative edition of the plays is supplemented with footnotes, bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Tony Tanner discusses each play individually while setting each in context.

This joyous play, the last comedy of Shakespeare's career, sums up his stagecraft with a display of seemingly effortless skill. Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, living on an enchanted island, has the opportunity to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore—as well as to forestall a rebellion, to arrange the meeting of his daughter, Miranda, with an eminently suitable young prince, and, more important, to relinquish his magic powers in recognition of his advancing age. Richly filled with music and magic, romance and comedy, the play's theme of love and reconciliation offers a splendid feast for the senses and the heart.