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I enjoyed this. It’s nice and heartfelt. Lots of silliness and doubles and a real summery feel.
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This book is a collection of three plays by the renowned English playwright William Shakespeare. The first play, Twelfth Night, is a comedy that follows the story of Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work in the household of Duke Orsino. The play is filled with mistaken identities, love triangles, and humorous situations.The second play, A Winter's Tale, is a tragicomedy that tells the story of King Leontes, who becomes jealous of his wife's relationship with his best friend and accuses her of infidelity. The play explores themes of jealousy, forgiveness, and redemption.The third play, The Tempest, is a romance that takes place on a remote island where the sorcerer Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been living in exile for many years. The play features themes of magic, revenge, and forgiveness.Overall, this book is a great introduction to Shakespeare's works and showcases his ability to write both comedic and tragic plays that are still relevant and entertaining today.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
496 pages, Paperback
First published June 17,2004
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496 pages, Paperback
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June 17, 2004 by Kessinger Publishing
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9781419191299
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1419191292
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English
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William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner ("sharer") of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men after the ascension of King James VI and I of Scotland to the English throne. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and even certain fringe theories as to whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.
Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. However, in 1623, John Heminge and Henry Condell, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that includes 36 of his plays. Its Preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson, a former rival of Shakespeare, that hailed Shakespeare with the now famous epithet: "not of an age, but for all time".
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner ("sharer") of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men after the ascension of King James VI and I of Scotland to the English throne. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and even certain fringe theories as to whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.
Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. However, in 1623, John Heminge and Henry Condell, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that includes 36 of his plays. Its Preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson, a former rival of Shakespeare, that hailed Shakespeare with the now famous epithet: "not of an age, but for all time".
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This book was okay, the main storyline was interesting but there was too much going on, which took the focus off of the bigger issues.
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Except I only read the Winter's Tale. From what I can remember, that was my favorite Shakespeare play.
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Read Twelfth Night out of this edition
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Thoroughly enjoyed the twelfth night.
Wrote an essay based on the play and have learnt all the dialogues. Perfect message as well as light-hearted comedy. A real feel of what love is and how one-sided love is felt. Beautiful. One of my favourite plays by Shakespeare.
Wrote an essay based on the play and have learnt all the dialogues. Perfect message as well as light-hearted comedy. A real feel of what love is and how one-sided love is felt. Beautiful. One of my favourite plays by Shakespeare.
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Shakespeare was a woman
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You know what. Did not like when I started it, was iffy throughout because I honestly thought Leontes was annoying. The story was like any Shakespeare story, but I couldn't figure out what exactly the moral message was supposed to be. But the longer I sat with it the more I liked it. 3.5/5.
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