All 38 of Shakespeare's Plays Ranked From Worst to Best

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  • The Globe Guide to Shakespeare: The Plays, the Productions, the Life

    • ASIN: 1681772604
    • ISBN: 1681772604
    • Brand: Pegasus Books
    • Manufacturer: Pegasus Books

    In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death and fully endorsed by Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, this is the ultimate guide to the life and work of the world's greatest playwright. With full coverage of the thirty-nine Shakespearian plays (including a synopsis, full character list, stage history, and a critical essay for each), thi... [Read More]

  • Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare)

    • UPC: 720593384591
    • ASIN: 1586638459
    • ISBN: 9781586638450
    • Brand: Sparknotes
    • Manufacturer: SparkNotes

    No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Romeo and Juliet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.

  • How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare

    • ASIN: 0307951502
    • ISBN: 0307951502
    • Brand: Broadway Books
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

    Winner of the Falstaff Award for Best Shakespeare Book, How To Teach Your Children Shakespeare is a foolproof, enormously fun method of teaching your children the classic works of William Shakespeare by Tony-Award winning playwright, Ken Ludwig. To know some Shakespeare provides a head start in life. His plays are among the great bedrocks of We... [Read More]

  • Shakespeare's Sonnets, Retold: Classic Love Poems with a Modern Twist

    • ASIN: 1984823469
    • ISBN: 1984823469
    • Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press

    An enlightening and entertaining collection of the most esteemed love poems in the English canon, retold in contemporary language everyone can understand   James Anthony has long enjoyed poetry with a strict adherence to beat, rhythm, and rhyming patterns, which he likens to the very best pop songs. This drew him to the rewarding 14-line structure... [Read More]

  • How to Read a Poem (Meridian)

    • ASIN: 0452010330
    • ISBN: 0452010330
    • Manufacturer: Plume

    An introductory text that is both an anthology of over 200 poems and a comprehensive exploration of the form. Over 100 poets featured; those most widely represented include Blake, Byron, cummings, Dickinson, Donne, Alan Dugan, Frost, Louise Gluck, George Herbert, Keats, Pope, Pound, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Yeats.

  • Hamlet (No Fear Shakespeare)

    • ASIN: 1586638440
    • ISBN: 1586638440
    • Brand: Sparknotes
    • Manufacturer: SparkNotes

    Read Shakespeare’s plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means!   Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable.Each No Fear guide contains:The complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday languageA comp... [Read More]

  • Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)

    • ASIN: 074347712X
    • ISBN: 9780743477123
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    Hamlet: An UPDATED EDITION from the Folger Shakespeare LibraryHamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a "revenge tragedy," in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father's murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Much of its fascination, however, lies in its uncertainties. ... [Read More]

  • Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library)

    • ASIN: 0743482751
    • ISBN: 0743482751
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Washington Square Press

    Much Ado About Nothing includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happiness. Beatrice and Benedick are kept apart by pride and mutual antagonism until others decide to play Cupid. The authoritative edition of Much Ado About Nothing from ... [Read More]

  • Othello

    • ASIN: 0743477553
    • ISBN: 9780743477550
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    In Othello, Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona that begins with elopement and mutual devotion and ends with jealous rage and death. Shakespeare builds many differences into his hero and heroine, including race, age, and cultural background. Yet most readers and audience... [Read More]

  • The Comedy of Errors (Folger Shakespeare Library)

    • ASIN: 0743484886
    • ISBN: 9780743484886
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors is the slapstick farce of his youth. In it, the lost twin sons of the old merchant Egeon—both named Antipholus—find themselves in Ephesus, without either one even knowing of the other’s existence. Meanwhile, Egeon has arrived in search of the son he thinks is still alive—and has been sentenced to death f... [Read More]

  • Summer's Lease (Shakespeare Sisters Book 1)

    • ASIN: B073WCW9FH
    • Manufacturer: Enchanted Publications

    An enemies-to-lovers story full of secrets and second chances.Cesca Shakespeare has hit rock bottom. She has no job, no cash and no possible way of paying next month's rent. So when a friend offers her the free use of an Italian villa she jumps at the chance. That's before she finds out the house belongs to her arch-enemy, movie star Sam Carlton. ... [Read More]

  • Reduced Shakespeare: The Attention-impaired Readers Guide to the World's Best Playwright

    • ASIN: 1401302203
    • ISBN: 1401302203
    • Manufacturer: Hyperion

    From the theater troupe whose sidesplitting production The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Abridged] is the longest-running comedy in London's history comes an openly hysterical, yet surprisingly informative, guide to everything you ever wanted to know about the Bard of AvonLove Shakespeare Youll like this book. Hate Shakespeare Youll love t... [Read More]

  • Collins Little Books - Little Book of Shakespeare: Quotations for Every Occasion

    • ASIN: 0008175373
    • ISBN: 0008175373
    • Brand: Collins
    • Manufacturer: Collins

    A carefully-selected collection of themed quotations to honor Shakespeare's legacy to the world in the 400th anniversary of the death of the most famous writer of all time. No one will ever say it better. This little book contains the best quotations from the works of Shakespeare, gathered into sections that cover love and sex, money, work, reflect... [Read More]

  • Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)

    • ASIN: 0814325068
    • ISBN: 9780814325063
    • Brand: Brand: Wayne State University Press
    • Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press

    Full of Secrets contains virtually everything you need to know about Twin Peaks. This fascinating collection of essays considers David Lynch's politics, the enigmatic musical score, and the show's cult status, treatment of family violence, obsession with doubling, and silencing of women. Also included are a director and writer list, a cast list, a ... [Read More]

  • The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd Edition

    • ASIN: 0395754909
    • ISBN: 0395754909
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company

    The Second Edition of this complete collection of Shakespeare's plays and poems features two essays on recent criticism and productions, fully updated textual notes, a photographic insert of recent productions, and two works recently attributed to Shakespeare. The authors of the essays on recent criticism and productions are Heather DuBrow, Univers... [Read More]

  • The New Oxford Shakespeare: Authorship Companion

    • ASIN: 0199591164
    • ISBN: 0199591164
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    This companion volume to The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works concentrates on the issues of canon and chronology--currently the most active and controversial debates in the field of Shakespeare editing. It presents in full the evidence behind the choices made in The Complete Works about which works Shakespeare wrote, in whole or part. A m... [Read More]

  • Titus Andronicus (Folger Shakespeare Library)

    • ASIN: 0671722921
    • ISBN: 0671722921
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    Titus Andronicus is the earliest tragedy and the earliest Roman play attributed to Shakespeare. Titus, a model Roman, has led twenty-one of his twenty-five sons to death in Rome’s wars; he stabs another son to death for what he views as disloyalty to Rome. Yet Rome has become “a wilderness of tigers.” After a death sentence is imposed on two ... [Read More]

  • Starting Shakespeare (Collins Starting Shakespeare)

    • ASIN: 0003222977
    • ISBN: 0003222977
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins UK

    A best-selling introduction to Shakespeare, his world and his plays. Stimulating idea and resources enable students to get to grips with the plays in an enjoyable way.

  • Communication Mosaics: An Introduction to the Field of Communication

    • ASIN: 1305403584
    • ISBN: 9781305403581
    • Brand: Wadsworth Pub Co
    • Manufacturer: Cengage Learning

    COMMUNICATION MOSAICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD OF COMMUNICATION, 8E draws from the most up-to-date research, theories, and technological information to provide both an overview of the field and practical applications you can immediately use to improve your personal, professional, and public communication skills. Extremely student friendly, the... [Read More]

  • The Tempest (No Fear Shakespeare)

    • ASIN: 1586638491
    • ISBN: 1586638491
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: SparkNotes

    Read Shakespeare’s plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means!   Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable.Each No Fear guide contains:The complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that puts the words into everyday languageA complete ... [Read More]

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