Ugo Dettore Book order (chronological)

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature people. On his travels he continues to meet others who force him to reflect on human behaviour - the giants of Brobdingnag, the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos. In this scathing satire on the politics and morals of the 18th Century, Swift's condemnation of society and its institutions still resonates today.

This new edition is based on the quarto, the version closest to the original manuscript. The introduction illminates the plays' origins and practicalities of composition, its reception and influence. Detailed notes pay especial attention to language and staging, and the volume includes King Lear's first derivative, a contemporary ballad, and guides to appreciation of the play and its multiple offshoots.

Macbeth, traduzione Ugo Dèttore Amleto, traduzione Luigi Squarzina Re Lear, traduzione Ugo Dèttore Otello, traduzione Emilio Cecchi e Suso Cecchi D'Amico Antonio e Cleopatra, traduzione Francesco Franconeri Cimbelino, traduzione Luigi Squarzina Pericle, traduzione Giorgio Albertazzi