The Contemporary Shakespeare Series: Hamlet. Julius Caesar. The merchant of Venice. A Midsummer night's dream. Romeo and Juliet. The tempest |
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o play of Shakespeare is more important to see in the perspective of the time than The Merchant of Venice . For it deals with the distasteful subject of anti - Semitism in that age . Paradoxically , tragically , that makes it all the ...
o play of Shakespeare is more important to see in the perspective of the time than The Merchant of Venice . For it deals with the distasteful subject of anti - Semitism in that age . Paradoxically , tragically , that makes it all the ...
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INTRODUCTION Midsummer Night's Dream is the most magical of Shakespeare's early plays , and we now know the ... But the play when finished presents the young lovers coming home not from Midsummer revels , but from celebrating Mayday .
INTRODUCTION Midsummer Night's Dream is the most magical of Shakespeare's early plays , and we now know the ... But the play when finished presents the young lovers coming home not from Midsummer revels , but from celebrating Mayday .
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That is an old device , and it was played When I from Thebes came last a conqueror . ... Which is as brief as I have known a play ; But by ten words , my lord , it is too long , Which makes it tedious ; for in all the play There is not ...
That is an old device , and it was played When I from Thebes came last a conqueror . ... Which is as brief as I have known a play ; But by ten words , my lord , it is too long , Which makes it tedious ; for in all the play There is not ...
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| Title | The Contemporary Shakespeare Series: Hamlet. Julius Caesar. The merchant of Venice. A Midsummer night's dream. Romeo and Juliet. The tempest Volume 1 of The Contemporary Shakespeare Series, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Alfred Leslie Rowse |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 8 Aug 2007 |
| ISBN | 0819139084, 9780819139085 |
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