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A guide to Shakespeare's plays, life, and times.

Provides a brief summary of each of Shakepeare's works, a list of key phrases and themes, brief assessments of main ideas and important concepts in the text, excerpts from key passages, and quotes from critics.

A collection of fifteen short scenes from five Shakespeare plays: "Romeo and Juliet," "The Merchant of Venice," "Julius Caesar," "Othello," and "Hamlet." Each scene is preceded by a plot synopsis and descriptions of the characters.

Includes an abridgement of the original text, an adaptation into vernacular English, and discussions of Shakespearean English, character analysis, and performance and production.

A guide to the major and minor characters of Shakespeare's plays, arranged alphabetically by work. Includes act-by-act plot summaries and an essay on significant themes in each piece.

Discusses characteristics of Shakespeare's writing style and elements of his plays, covering his language, types of stage action, the plays' meanings in performance, and his genres, and examines several of his comedies, histories, tragedies, romances, and mixed-genre plays.

Presents thirty-five essays, each examining a theme as it is treated in several of Shakespeare's plays; examples include fate, fathers and daughters, male friendship, and the tragic flaw.