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A young man and woman meet by chance and fall instantly in love. But their families are bitter enemies, and in order to be together the two lovers must be prepared to risk everything. Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, bawdy comedy and high tragedy.

Probably the most famous play in the English language, Hamlet transcends the revenge tradition and explores the nature of man. Learning that Claudius, his uncle, has killed his father Hamlets only honourable course of action is revenge. But Hamlets nature tends not towards action but reflection and in his incapacity to act lies the seed of his own destruction. The text of this edition is edited by G.B.Harrison and contains notes, a glossary and an introduction.

Sparkling with witty dialogue, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies. This up-to-date edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction which discusses Shakespeare's social transformation of his source material, and rethinks the attitudes to gender relations that underlie the comedy and determine its view of marriage.

Shakespeare's Sonnets have caused endless debate and speculation: who is the dark lady, who is the 'only begetter and what light do the poems shed on the life of the poet? Yet the sonnets themselves can be enjoyed for their lyricism rather than their intention. Written as a form of personal confession - of love, of grief, of anger, of jealousy and of lust - the sonnets encompass a huge range of human emotion beautifully expressed within the restrictions of the form. Some, such as 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' or 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds' will be instantly familiar to readers, while others, equally rich in imagery, are less well known. Together they form a powerful meditation on the nature of love, marriage, beauty and time.

En los inicios de su carrera como dramaturgo, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) compuso su obra más alegre y desenfadada, El sueño de una noche de verano (1594). Mitología, costumbrismo cómico, bromas, equivocos, humor y poesia conviven dentro de ella en una zarabanda magica ambientada en la noche pagana de San Juan, en la que todo es posible, si bien al final, frente al caos, se imponen el orden y la armonia. Esta alocada fantasia de amor esta, como no puede ser de otra manera, teñida de elementos inconscientes y oniricos, y de entre la galeria de personajes que la pueblan, Oberon y el duendecillo Puck han alcanzado fortuna en la memoria de los hombres.

El Puck es un follet entremaliat. Una nit, dues parelles entren al bosc per mirar de resoldre els seus problemes amorosos. Pero no compten que trobaran el Puck, que organitzarà un bon sarau.

Shakespeare's last play is a mystical drama of enstrangement and reconciliation. Deposed from his dukedom in Milan and cast out to sea with his daughter, miranda, Prospero has a miraculous power over the osland on wich they have made their home. As the play begins, Prospero has used his art to bring about another shipwreck. This time his usurping brother and his colleagues are cast ashore, but through the power of magic, love and forgiveness, chaos is gradually transformed into order.

Esta obra shakesperiana fue estrenada en 1595 y desde entonces se lee y se representa por doquier. cuenta la historia de dos amantes pertenecientes a familias rivales, los montesco y los capuleto, en la verona del xvi. Los jóvenes hijos de ambos clanes se enamoran contra la autoridad de sus padres y deciden llevar su amor y su historia hasta la muerte. Amor adolescente y puro sumado al egoísmo del poder la trágica historia de romeo y julieta es un clásico de todos los tiempos.

Partint del text original de l'any 1623, Lluís Soler Auladell (actor professional) ens presenta una traducció de La tragèdia del rei Lear on preval mantenir la intentencionalitat de l'autor i de les paraules per sobre del virtuosisme sintàctic i mètric.

Vive con Romeo y Julieta la historia de amor más trágica jamás contada.

Dominoes are full colour readers with extensive Activities and Project pages. They are suitable for students who need more support in their reading than is provided by traditional readers. The Activities and Projects can be used either in class or as homework. * Graded from Starter to Level 3 (Pre-Intermediate) of the Bookworms grading system. * Two pages of Activities at the end of every chapter. * Five pages of poject work. * Glossary on the page to provide full vocabulary support.

“¿Quién vive?” He aquí una preciosa edición en español de Hamlet. Empresa inhabitual que hace jugar por partes iguales una comprensión política del arte de traducir y un discernimiento artístico de l

Classic / British English This Book includes stories based on seven of Shakespeare's greatest plays. We meet many of Shakespeare's most famous characters - magical Prospero; Puck, the badly-behaved fairy; evil Macbeth; Shylock, the greedy moneylender, and many more. This is a wonderful first step on the journey into the world of Shakespeare.

Banishing his cousin, Bolingbroke, King Richard II prevents a dispute from turning bloody. But Richard is an arrogant and despotic ruler who listens only to his flatterers. As favour turns against him and Bolingbroke returns to reclaim his land, Richard is grieved to see that the throne given to him by God might be taken from him by men.

The introduction reviews the few known facts about this early Shakespeare play and discusses the puzzling problems of its date and authorship. The text has been freshly edited with the aim of presenting the play as revised for the first recorded performance in 1594, with the addition of stage business from the prompt-copy from which the Folio edition derives. `sound and often admirable piece of scholarship. It deals judiciously with the problems of text, authorship and sources, and with the business of clearly and concisely annotating the text' Emrys Jones, Literary Review 'Stanley Wells' OUP Complete Works of Shakespeare is now eight years old and has spawned a new Oxford Shakespeare which appears now in splendidly affordable volumes in that nonpareil of libraries of good reading The World's Classics.' The Oxford

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) These are the stories of some of Shakespeare's most famous plays. We travel to Venice, Greece, Denmark and Rome, and meet many different people. There is a greedy money-lender, a fairy king and queen, some Roman politicians and a young prince who meets the ghost of his murdered father.