Even if you are completely new to Shakespeare, our interviews with the world’s foremost Shakespeare experts will set you on the right path. It takes over, in a way, from Romeo and Juliet.

The HTML versions of the plays provided here are placed in the public domain. We publish at least two new interviews per week.“Antony and Cleopatra is, in some ways, the most romantic of Shakespeare’s plays. Malam wrote: "I never knew that shakespeare wrote so many books" 40ish plays (exactly how many is debated) and 150ish poems/sonnets. There’s no way to play it straight. Five Books has a series of interviews with world-leading Shakespeare scholars discussing the best William Shakespeare plays and the best books on William Shakespeare.“This is going to sound heretical, but I think that—particularly in the theatre—a lot of Shakespeare is too long. Or do you already know your Hamlet from your Lear but are keen to explore more about the man? High School Teachers Recommend Books by SubjectWilliam Shakespeare has a strong claim to be the most influential writer of all time. Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare “Antony and Cleopatra is, in some ways, the most romantic of Shakespeare’s plays.

And how? Shakespeare's plays are widely regarded as being among the greatest in the English language and are continually performed around the world. by

This Shakespeare play focuses on King John’s endless war with France supported by a rebellious nephew Arthur and Cardinal Pandolph of the Catholic Church. Forming a contemporary view of Shakespeare's plays, including plays missing from other lists. Romeo and Juliet gives a wonderful exploration of young love, of first love, of romantic attitudes to love. I think Act 4 in a lot of Shakespeare plays is a bit of a bum-number, and not much happens. There's quite a few omnibuses/collections in this list.

The original electronic source for this server was the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare. It’s an extraordinarily rich play, poetically—as Romeo and Juliet is—but the poetry of Antony and Cleopatra is that of a mature person who has gone through a lot of experiences himself and is capable of expressing the disillusionment of middle-aged love as well as the raptures of it. Here, Natasha, a 10-year old living in Oxfordshire, recommends some of her favourite retellings of Shakespeare stories.Shakespearean scholar Emma Smith picks her five favourite plays of the Bard, and controversially argues that not only are some of his plays just too long, but also that the most moving moments in Shakespeare’s oeuvre are where we might not expect them” What I really like about this play is its sexual playfulness. It feels to me as if its subtitle This site has an archive of more than one thousand interviews, or five thousand book recommendations. These dramatic works encompass a wide range of subjects and styles, from the playful "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to the gloomy "Macbeth." I like to see Shakespeare intelligently cut, often to speed it up. In the second of a Five Books series marking the 400th year since the world’s most popular playwright’s death, eminent Shakespearean René Weis picks his five favourite plays, and explains why Disillusioned when forced to study him at school but ready to engage with Shakespeare plays again?

You’ve either got Orsino in love with Cesario, or you’ve got Olivia in love with Viola, and you’ve always got Antonio in love with Sebastian. reply | flag * message 41: by Mahrukh (new) May 18, 2016 04:20AM. For other Shakespeare resources, visit the Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet Web site. It takes over, in a way, from Romeo and Juliet. But here he selects the best five books that tackle the life of the Bard.Are you longing to get your children as excited about Shakespeare as you are? Knowing I loved my books, he furnished meFive Books participates in the Amazon Associate program and earns money from qualifying purchases.We ask experts to recommend the five best books in their subject and explain their selection in an interview.Writing a traditional biography of Shakespeare is impossible, says Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro.

“ Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare.The exact number of plays—as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, or comedy—is a matter of scholarly debate. Summaries of Shakespeare’s most popular plays: Macbeth Summary King Duncan’s generals, Macbeth and Banquo, encounter three strange women on a bleak Scottish moorland on their way home from quelling a rebellion. To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link There’s a lot of books out there to introduce kids to the Bard.

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