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Description edit
Contains The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night.
Books in This Collection
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The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare (Author)A Shakespeare comedy. The beautiful Bianca is courted by many suitors, but her bad-tempered sister Kate frightens young men away. Then Kate is courted by Petruchio, who begins "the taming of the shrew"...chaos ensues.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare (Author)A delightful, easily accessible comedy of misdirected attraction containing some of Shakespeare's loveliest verse.
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As You Like It
by William Shakespeare (Author)A pastoral comedy following its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin Celia and Touchstone the court jester, to find safety and eventually love in the Forest of Arden.
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Twelfth Night
Or, What You Will
by William Shakespeare (Author)In the modern theater, Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities in both the introduction and the full and detailed commentary. Where original...
Characters/People edit
- Rosalind: Add a description of this character.
- Olivia
- Katherina
- Hortensio
- Malvolio
- Toby
- Demetrius
- Celia
- Bianca
- Kate
- Shakespeare
- Jaques
- Andrew
- Lysander
- Tranio
- Baptista
- Sebastian
- Grumio
- Duke
- Helena
- Gremio
- Lucentio
- Theseus
- Cesario
- Maria
- Biondello
- Adam
- Oliver
- Oberon
- Phebe
- Charles
- Corin
- Vincentio
- Feste
- Diana
- Hermia
- Audrey
- Katherine
- Silvius
- Egeus
- Love
- Hippolyta
- Peter Quince
- Robin
- Philostrate
- Curtis
- Rosalynde
Setting & Locations edit
- Orlando
- Count Orsino
- Folio
- Padua
- Titania
- Athens
- London
- Pyramus
- Amiens
- Pisa
- Shrew
- Bottom
- England
- Thisbe
- Illyria
- Lodge
- Ganymede
- Romeo
- Mantua
- Carthage
- Egypt
- Venice
- Plautus
- Stratford
- Crete
- Viola
- Verona
- India
- Court
- Persia
- Italy
- Fairies
- Polynesta
- Middle Temple
- Heaven
- Marseilles
- Hecate
- Wall
- New Cambridge
Authors & Contributors edit
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 822.33
Subjects edit
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