King Lear
- 176 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world's literature.
Alfred Harbage Books
Alfred Harbage was an influential Shakespearean scholar of the mid-20th century. He also penned crime fiction under the pseudonym Thomas Kyd. His scholarly work offers profound insights into Shakespeare, while his foray into crime fiction reveals a versatile literary voice. Harbage's unique path through academia and genre fiction invites readers to appreciate the breadth of literary expression.
Macbeth
- 172 pages
- 7 hours of reading
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.
The Complete Pelican Shakespeare
The Histories and the Non-Dramatic Poetry
This selection of his poetry-sonnets, and songs and verse from plays, some justly familiar, others less known-offers the quintessence of his remarkable art and provides an enticing introduction to his work.
The Arden Shakespeare - 275: King Lear
- 246 pages
- 9 hours of reading
The Arden Shakespeare, founded in the 1890s, has, with a continuing process of revision, established itself as the Standard scholarly edition of Shakespeare's works. Each play appears in a seperate volume with critical notes, apparatus, appendices giving extracts from the relevant sources, and a full introduction. For the general Reader and for students who want something more substantial than school texts or a one-volume Shakespeare, the Arden Edition, edited to the highest standards of modern scholarship, has continued to prove invaluable.
SHAKESPEAR'S ROMANCES&COMEDIES COLLECTION,BY THE COMPLETE PELICAN ,1969. PAPERBACK,529 PAGES