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The texts, authoritatively edited by Sylvan Barnet, are supplemented with textual notes, bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Tony Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeare’s work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished 1958 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44963098263852,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"william-shakespeare-tragedies","title":"William Shakespeare Tragedies","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWilliam Shakespeare’s tragedies introduced the world to some of the most well-known characters in literature, including Romeo, Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello. This handsome Word Cloud volume includes all twelve works from the First Folio that are commonly classified as tragedies—but the feelings that Shakespeare’s words can evoke range across the spectrum of human emotion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished 1959 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44963141615916,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"shakespeare-the-merchant-of-venice","title":"Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father’s will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. 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Stroll through narrow, winding streets crowded with merchants and minstrels, hoist a pint in a rowdy alehouse, and hurry across the river to the open-air Globe Theater to see that latest play written by a young man named Will Shakespeare.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eShakespeare Alive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e! spirits you back  to the very years of that London—as everyday people might have experienced it. Find out how young people fell in love, how workers and artists made ends meet, what people found funny and what they feared most. Go on location with an Elizabethan theater company to learn how plays were produced, where Shakespeare’s plots came from and how he transformed them. Hear the music of Shakespeare’s language and words we still use today that were first  spoken in his time. Open the book and elbow your way into the Globe with the groundlings. You’ll be joining one of the most democratic audiences the theater has ever known—alewives, apprentices,  shoemakers and nobles—in applauding the dazzling wordplay and swordplay brought to you by William Shakespeare.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44973112590636,"sku":"","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"shakespeare-the-tempest","title":"Shakespeare The Tempest","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Written in 1610-1611, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Tempest \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis set on a remote island and is centered on the sorcerer Prospero, his daughter Miranda, and their two servants, Caliban and Ariel, who all live in exile on the island. 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Included in this collection are retellings of Shakespeare's most important works, including: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline, King Lear, Macbeth, All's Well That Ends Well, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, Timon of Athens, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and Pericles, Prince of Tyre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. The Lambs' work was among the most important efforts to popularize Shakespeare's works for a juvenile fiction audience, and it has remained in print ever since.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCharles Lamb\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1775 – 1834) was an English essayist and poet, best known for his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEssays of Elia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and for the children's book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTales from Shakespeare\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847). 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