Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twel fth NightRandom House Publishing Group, 26/08/2009 - 736 páginas The Taming of the Shrew Robust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom, Petruchio, in a comedy of unmatched theatrical brilliance, filled with visual gags and witty repartee. A Midsummer Night's Dream Fairy magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood turn the mismatched rivalries of four young lovers into a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, all touched by Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationship between dreams and the waking world. The Merchant of Venice This dark comedy of love and money contains one of the truly mythic figures in literature–Shylock, the Jewish moneylender. The “pound of flesh” he demands as payment of Antonio’s debt has become a universal metaphor for vengeance. Here, pathos and farce combine with moral complexity and romantic entanglements, to display the extraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best. Twelfth Night Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy juxtaposes a romantic plot involving separated twins and mistaken identity with a more satiric one about the humiliation of a pompous killjoy. The hilarity is touched with melancholy, and the play ends, not with laughter, but with a clown’s plaintive song. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography |
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... Feste the Clown is officiously interrupted by the killjoy apostle of decorum, Malvolio. In The Taming of the Shrew, Kate must endure a purgative vision of illusion until she is finally brought to submission by Petruchio. For Shakespeare ...
... Feste the Clown is officiously interrupted by the killjoy apostle of decorum, Malvolio. In The Taming of the Shrew, Kate must endure a purgative vision of illusion until she is finally brought to submission by Petruchio. For Shakespeare ...
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... Feste's first song in Twelfth Night celebrates a “present mirth” that enjoys “present laughter,” but the song also acknowledges that “what's to come is still unsure,” and Feste's final plaintive ditty about the rain that “raineth every ...
... Feste's first song in Twelfth Night celebrates a “present mirth” that enjoys “present laughter,” but the song also acknowledges that “what's to come is still unsure,” and Feste's final plaintive ditty about the rain that “raineth every ...
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... Feste's disguise as “Sir Topas,” the priest, Feste's joke about living by the church (3.1.3-7), Sir Toby's defense of “cakes and ale” (2.3.114-15), Feste's swearing by Saint Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary (2.3.116-17), Feste's joking ...
... Feste's disguise as “Sir Topas,” the priest, Feste's joke about living by the church (3.1.3-7), Sir Toby's defense of “cakes and ale” (2.3.114-15), Feste's swearing by Saint Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary (2.3.116-17), Feste's joking ...
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... Feste the professional fool, an original stage type for Shakespeare in Twelfth Night and in As Yau Like It, also reinforces the theme of seizing the moment of mirth. This great lesson, 0f savoring life'5 pleasures while one is still ...
... Feste the professional fool, an original stage type for Shakespeare in Twelfth Night and in As Yau Like It, also reinforces the theme of seizing the moment of mirth. This great lesson, 0f savoring life'5 pleasures while one is still ...
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... Feste, who is Malvolio's opposite in every way. Hard-pressed to defend his mirthful function in a household so given over to melancholy, Feste must find some way of persuading his mistress that her very gravity is itself the essence 01 ...
... Feste, who is Malvolio's opposite in every way. Hard-pressed to defend his mirthful function in a household so given over to melancholy, Feste must find some way of persuading his mistress that her very gravity is itself the essence 01 ...
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