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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
An annotated edition of Shakespeare's comedy in which young lovers enter a world of sprites and fairies, and an amateur play production entertains all; also includes essays on Shakespeare's theatrical world and his texts, and a scholarly introduction.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Edition
Washington Square Press new Folger's ed.
Language
English
Description
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays.
4) The tempest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents the annotated text of the darkly humorous play about Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who is exiled to a magical island with his daughter, Miranda; and includes an introduction, an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, and a note on the text used.
5) Henry V
Author
Language
English
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Description
Believed to have been written in 1599, William Shakespeare's "Henry V" forms the final installment of a tetralogy of plays, which includes "Richard II", "Henry IV, Part I", and "Henry IV, Part II". The play focuses on the events surrounding the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War. Henry, who is introduced in the earlier plays as a wild and undisciplined youth, has now come of age and ascended to the thrown following the death of his...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An annotated edition of Shakespeare's comedy about young lovers, throne usurpers, and banishment in the Forest of Arden; also includes essays on Shakespeare's theatrical world and his texts, and a scholarly introduction.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A comedy revolving around the mistaken identities of a merchant's twin sons and twin slaves, separated in infancy and reunited as adults; includes the annotated play and information on Shakespeare's life, theater, and texts.
Author
Language
English
Description
Antony and Cleopatra (1607) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Inspired by Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives-a series of biographies on influential figures of the ancient world-Shakespeare wrote Antony and Cleopatra sometime between 1599 and 1601. Often considered a sequel of sorts to his earlier play Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra has served as source material for countless film and television adaptations. "Let Rome in Tiber melt,...
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Language
English
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Description
Valentine and Proteus are devoted comrades ― until they travel to Milan and meet Silvia, the Duke's ravishing daughter. Torn between the bonds of friendship and the lure of romance, the two gentlemen are further bedeviled by Proteus's prior commitment to Julia, his hometown sweetheart, and the Duke's disdain for Valentine. Thus the stage is set for a comic spree involving a daring escape into a forest, capture by outlaws, and the antics of a clown...
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