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1) Electra
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Although it has been at times overshadowed by his more famous Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone, Sophocles' Electra is remarkable for its extreme emotion and taut drama.
Electra recounts the murders of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus by Clytemnestra's son Orestes, to avenge their murder of his father Agamemnon, commander of the Greeks at Troy, upon his return home. Sophocles' version is presented from the viewpoint of Electra, Orestes' sister, who laments...
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William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" is a gripping political drama that delves into the complex themes of power, betrayal, and the consequences of ambition.
Set in ancient Rome, the play unfolds in the wake of Caesar's triumphant return from war. As the city celebrates his victories, a group of senators, including Brutus and Cassius, grows increasingly concerned about Caesar's growing influence and potential tyranny. They plot his assassination...
4) King Lear
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English
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Shakespeare has been called the greatest writer in the English language- but his language and settings can seem remote and forbidding. Welcome to Black Dog' s Graphic Shakespeare Library, where each play comes to life in a new way, panel after illustrated panel. "King Lear" is a story of kingship, honor, and bloody revenge. Graphic Shakespeare brings all of the action to vivid life while retaining every word of the original play. "King Lear" is illustrated...
5) Hamlet
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English
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
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The New Folger Library edition of Shakespeare's plays provides accurate texts in modern spelling and punctuation, as well as scene-by-scene action summaries, full explanatory notes, many pictures clarifying Shakespeare's language, and notes recording all significant departures from the early printed versions. The play is prefaced by a brief introduction, by a guide to reading Shakespeare's language, and by accounts of his life and theater, followed...
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[This drama] is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest-and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed.
12) Titus Andronicus
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ACMRS Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"One of Shakespeare's goriest plays, Titus Andronicus traces the fall of the Andronicus family in ancient Rome. This translation is careful and meticulous, making small but mighty changes in moments that enhance the drama of each scene giving this extraordinary play an even faster track on which to run"-- Provided by publisher.
15) Timon of Athens
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ACMRS Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Never performed in Shakespeare's lifetime, the disjointed plot and gaps in the story present an intriguing puzzle for contemporary audiences. This translation unveils poetic lines and phrases that have sat stubbornly in the cobwebs, cutting these voices through the time barrier and into the 21st-century world as we know it"--
16) Hamlet
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ACMRS Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"This translation unties the language knots that can make some of the play difficult to understand in a single theatrical viewing and makes it accessible to new audiences, drawing out its timeless themes while helping to contextualize the familiar lines so that contemporary audiences can feel their full weight"--
17) Julius Caesar
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ACMRS Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"This translation updates Shakespeare's language to allow more of the playwright's ideas to come through, opening the wonders and blazing relevance of the play's rhetorical brilliance to the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.
20) Dickensian
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BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A bold reinvention of Charles Dickens' timeless novels, it takes familiar characters on new journeys as their stories intersect in the same world. Discover the events that lead up to Miss Havisham's wedding day, the true sacrifices made by a young Lady Dedlock, what happens to ruthless moneylender Jacob Marley and more. One doesn't need to know Dickens' novels to fall in love with these stories--packed with romance, scandal and intrigue, they deliver...
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