Oxford School Shakespeare: King Lear
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
An edition of Shakespeare's tragedy, including discussion of its plot, themes, characters, language, production, and author.






An edition of Shakespeare's tragedy, including discussion of its plot, themes, characters, language, production, and author.
Encompasses witchcraft, bloody murder, and ghostly apparitions. This work tells the tragedy of a good, brave and honourable man turned into the personification of evil by the workings of unreasonable ambition.
An active approach to Shakespeare in the classroom.
In The Merchant of Venice, the penniless but attractive Bassanio seeks, and finally wins, the hand of the fabulously wealthy Portia. But even as the play provokes laughter, it also provokes something disturbing, as Bassanio's courtship is actually financed by the magnificent villain Shylock the moneylender -- the focus of anti-Semitic sentiment, and one of the most controversial yet strangely sympathetic of Shakespeare's characters, whose actions and whose treatment in the play are still debated to this day.This simplified retelling of the Shakespearean comedy also includes activities related to the text.
The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps the reader to understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in the series contains the complete text with an extensive range of notes, background information on Shakespeare's England, suggestions for further reading, a brief biograohy of Shakespeare, and a complete list of his plays.
New Shakespeare, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary.
The arrival of shipwrecked twins in the land of Illyria creates havoc in this comical story of love in disguise.