Contains the complete script to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and includes a running synopsis of the action, explanations of unfamiliar words, and activities designed to help students better understand the play.

Contains facsimile reproduction of the "title-page of the genuine edition of 1600. The photograph is made from the Elizabethan club copy."Includes bibliographical references (p. 92) and index.

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with discussion questions, role-playing scenarios, and other study activities. Marc Antony comes "to bury Caesar, not to praise him," and his funeral oration unleashes a power struggle among the Roman Empire's mightiest generals and statesmen. Books in this new, illustrated series present complete texts of Shakespeare's plays. However, the lines are set up so students...

With facsimile of the t-p. of the Elizabethan Club copy of the only early quarto edition.Bibliography: p. [130].Includes index.

Shakespeare's tragedy of a royal father and his daughters is presented scene by scene in comic book format. As flies are to wanton boys, so are we to th' gods: they kill us for their sports, howls King Lear. In artist Ian Pollock's surreal interpretation of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the abstract wail of "the unaccomodated man" is dramatized in subtle shadings of the old king's anguish. Every line of dialogue is preserved, and every scene is illustrated...

Contains facsimile reproduction of the frontispiece to 'The comedy of errors' in Rowe's edition of Shakespeare (1709)The text is that of Craig's Oxford Shakespeare with alterations.Bibliography: p. [91]-92.Includes index.

An edition of Shakespeare's history play, including discussion of its perspectives, theatrical and historical aspects, language, and author.

"Aristotle's Poetics is one of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history." "A penetrating, near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, it demonstrates how the elements of plot, character and spectacle combine to produce 'pity and fear' - and why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. It introduces the crucial concepts of mimesis ('imitation'), hamartia ('error') and katharsis, which...