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When this volume of Shakespeare’s poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous
The Macmillan Graded Readers series is one of the most popular simplified readers for learners of English. The series is published at six levels – Starter, Beginner, Elementary, Preintermediate, Intermediate and Upper Intermediate.
The Macmillan Graded Readers series is one of the most popular simplified readers for learners of English.
The Macmillan Graded Readers series is one of the most popular simplified readers for learners of English.
The Macmillan Graded Readers series is one of the most popular simplified readers for learners of English. The series is published at six levels – Starter, Beginner, Elementary, Preintermediate, Intermediate and Upper Intermediate.
Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare’s plays. A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and her best friend.
In this thrilling and hugely influential tragedy, ageing King Lear makes a capricious decision to divide his realm between his three daughters according to the love they express for him. When the youngest daughter refuses to take part in this charade, she is banished, leaving the king dependent on her manipulative and untrustworthy sisters.
Undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, Romeo and Juliet has spawned a host of imitators on stage and screen and been adapted countless times. A young man and woman meet by chance and instantly fall in love. But their families are bitter enemies, and in order to be together the two lovers must be prepared to risk everything.
First staged in 1599, Shakespeare’s history of Henry V’s remarkable victory over the French at Agincourt and the subsequent peace between the two nations is also a study of war and kingship
The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, a cycle of 154 linked poems, were first published in 1609. Filled with ideas about love, beauty and mortality, the sonnets are written in the same beautiful and innovative language that we have come to know from Shakespeare’s plays.
Othello is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona’s love for her husband Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but his trusted ensign, the envious Iago, conspires to devastate their lives.
Richard, Duke of Gloucester – the bitter, deformed brother of the King – is secretly plotting to seize the throne of England. Charming and duplicitous, powerfully eloquent and viciously cruel, he is prepared to go to any lengths to achieve his goal.
The Merchant of Venice is most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex, unforgettable figure of the money-lender, Shylock. It is Shylock who finances Antonio’s friend Bassanio in his pursuit of the beautiful Portia
A young prince meets with his father’s ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost’s accusation.
In Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare uses the most notorious murder in classical history to tell a tragic tale of friendship, ambition and betrayal. As the greatest figures of the Roman Republic are swept along on the tide of a terrifying conspiracy.
Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions are realized.
Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf, she is stunned to find herself the object of his beloved’s affections.
Controversial and sexually charged, The Taming of the Shrew is possibly William Shakespeare’s first play, and certainly among the most performed. Petruchio’s courtship of the unwilling ‘shrew’ Katherina poses the question: is it an examination of brute male domination or a passionate love story with a powerful moral message?
