William Shakespeare

Presents Shakespeare's sonnets and major long poems, each with text notes on facing pages, and includes critical commentary, and a key to famous lines.

Contents: Tempest; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Merry Wives of Windsor; Measure for Measure; Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing; Love's Labour's Lost; Midsummer Night's Dream; Merchant of Venice; As You Like It; Taming of the Shrew; All's Well That Ends Well; Twelfth Night; Winter's Tale. Edited, with an introduction to each play and a glossary, by Peter Alexander. Introduction by Tyrone Guthrie, and illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Collector's...

Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge. After 12 years...

This book introduces the poetry of William Shakespeare through a sampling of sonnets and excerpts from his plays.