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The Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare’s works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night's Dream one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical. 'Lord, what fools these mortals be!', jeers Robin Goodfellow; but the joke may be on him and on his master Oberon when Bottom the weaver, his head transformed into that of an as...

Jest rok 1880, do redakcji wydawnictwa zgłasza się mężczyzna z propozycją wydania kryminału. Redaktor jest początkowo niechętny, ale zasiada do lektury i odkrywa intrygę, której nie spodziewałby się po niepozornym gościu. Śledczy Siergiej Kamyszew poznaje młodą dziewczynę, córkę leśniczego, w której natychmiast się zakochuje i stara się zdobyć jej wdzięki. Nie zdaje sobie jednak sprawy z faktu, że dziewczyna prowadzi własną grę z innymi mężczyznami z okolicy. Niespodziewanie dla wszystkich, Oleńka wybiera podstarzałego rządcę Urbienina, pozbawiając Kamyszewa i pozostałych zalotników wszelkich złudzeń. Dziewczyna jednakże wydaje się niepewna swoich uczuć. Niestety, pewnego dnia w lesie dochodzi do tragedii... Choć Dramat na polowaniu w założeni...

„To zaledwie 13 utworów, a jednocześnie tom spełniony, pełen sensów i maestrii, dający nam znów - jak to przed laty nazwał Marian Stała - „radość czytania Szymborskiej". Nie są to wiersze wydobyte z notatek, rekonstruowane z urywków, ale domknięte i przeznaczone do druku przez samą pisarkę. Także w tym jest, rzec można, pewien gest elegancji, dyskrecji, tak charakterystycznych i dla tej poezji, i dla jej autorki. Podobnie jak w ironicznym, zaproponowanym jeszcze przez Szymborską tytule: Wystarczy" – pisał o ostatnim tomie Noblistki Andrzej Franaszek. W nowym wydaniu czytać Szymborską można w dwóch językach – autorką znakomitego przekładu na angielski jest Clare Cavanagh. Biblioteka Poetycka Wydawnictwa a5 pod redakcją Ryszarda Krynickiego. Tom 81.

Otello to tragedia, która powstała między 1602 a 1604 rokiem. Tytułowy bohater, który jest dowódcą weneckiej armii, poślubia Desdemonę. Kierowany przez Jagona, który pragnie się zemścić, zaczyna bezpodstawnie podejrzewać swoją żonę o zdradę.

This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation, Othello is arguably the most topical and accessible tragedy from Shakespeare's major phase as a dramatist.

The Tempest is the most lyrical, profound and fascinating of Shakespeare's late comedies. Prospero, long exiled from Italy with his daughter Miranda, seeks to use his magical powers to defeat his former enemies. Eventually, having proved merciful, he divests himself of that magic, his 'art', and prepares to return to the mainland. The Tempest has often been regarded as Shakespeare's 'farewell to the stage' before his retirement.

As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its highly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful heroine in disguise, sexual ambiguity, melancholy philosophising and finally a multiplicity of marriages. The ironic medley of pastoral artifice, romantic ardour and quizzical reflection has helped to make As You Like It perennially popular in the theatre.

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this a gripping and exuberant drama of revenge, rich in contrasts and conflicts. Its violence alternates with introspection, its melancholy with humour, and its subtlety with spectacle. The Prince, Hamlet himself, is depicted as a complex, divided, introspective character. His reflections on death, morality and the very status of human beings make him „the first modern man”. Countless stage productions and numerous ada...

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V as its inaugral volume, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing endeavours to take account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his ?band of brothers? to victory in the Battle of Agincourt, could indeed seem to be ?this star of England?. In recent decades the play has attracted increasing critical attention and is now highly controversial. Kenneth Branagh's film-production reflected the changing valuation. Does...

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare?s comedies. The central relationship, in which Petruchio boisterously ?tames? a rebellious Kate, has often appeared problematic. In the theatre, it has been treated in a diversity of ways, so that Kate?s apparent capitulation varies between the ironic and the sincere. Feminists have been divided in their responses. The provocative vitality of this comedy has been transmitted by numerous adaptations for stage and screen, notably the film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and the Cole Porter musical, K...

The Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare’s works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. King Lear has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeare’s most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heart-rending. 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. In the theatre and on screen King Lear continues to challenge and enthral. This Wordsworth edition of King Lear provides a comprehensive, integrated text of the play.

William Wordsworth (1771–1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century. He sought to write in the language of ordinary men and women, of ordinary thoughts, sights and sounds, and his early poetry represents this fresh approach to his art. Wordsworth spent most of his adult life in the Lake District with his sister Dorothy and his wife Mary, by whom he had four children. His remarkable autobiographical poem The Prelude was completed in 1805, but was not published until after his death, and it is included in this full edition of Wordsworth's poetry.

Wenecja, XVI wiek. Młody, lecz niezamożny Bassanio ubiega się o rękę uroczej Porcji. Kupiec Antonio, chcąc pomóc przyjacielowi, bierze pożyczkę od lichwiarza Shylocka. Jest ona nietypowo oprocentowana. Wkrótce Shylock pada ofiarą własnej chciwości…

Edycja limitowana z barwionymi kartami. Pierwszy tom dużej, wyjątkowej edycji z utworami Williama Shakespearea w przekładzie Macieja Słomczyńskiego, dokonanym w sposób niezwykle oryginalny i zarazem na ogromną skalę. Wśród wybranych tragedii znajdą się te najbardziej znane: Romeo i Julia, Hamlet, Makbet, Król Lear i inne.

?We that are true lovers run into strange capers.? Banished from her ambitious uncle?s court, the lovesick Rosalind flees to the forest with her cousin, Celia. Disguised as shepherds, they soon meet the dashing Orlando ? forced into hiding by a plot against his life, heartbroken at the separation from his beloved Rosalind. Oblivious to her identity, Orlando grows close to Rosalind. But a local shepherdess has also fallen for Rosalind. As their hopes and dreams entangle, can everyone get what they want? Offering the complete and unabridged text, set in a dyslexic-friendly font and introduced by renowned YA authors, this beautifully designed collection is the perfect way to introduce YA readers to Shakespeare's most iconic stories.

?I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.? Love, deception and discord are flourishing in the court of Messina. Sweet, innocent Hero and the famed soldier Claudio are immediately infatuated, while the bickering Beatrice and Benedick can agree on just one thing: the other is insufferable. Little do they know, two plans are afoot ? one to make Beatrice and Benedick fall in love, another to break up Hero and Claudio. Offering the complete and unabridged text, set in a dyslexic-friendly font and introduced by renowned YA authors, this beautifully designed collection is the perfect way to introduce YA readers to Shakespeare's most iconic stories.

?For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.? A bloody feud. A tangled love. A senseless tragedy that brings two families to their knees. After a chance meeting at a ball, young Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall desperately in love. But their families are locked in a bitter rivalry, their love forbidden. When blood is spilled, Romeo is banished, forcing Juliet to take desperate measures that spell tragedy for the star-crossed lovers. Offering the complete and unabridged text, set in a dyslexic-friendly font and introduced by renowned YA authors, this beautifully designed collection is the perfect way to introduce YA readers to Shakespeare's most iconic stories.

Otello to tragedia, która powstała między 1602 a 1604 rokiem. Tytułowy bohater, który jest dowódcą weneckiej armii, poślubia Desdemonę. Kierowany przez Jagona, który pragnie się zemścić, zaczyna bezpodstawnie podejrzewać swoją żonę o zdradę.

Mocne, płynne i precyzyjne tłumaczenie Piotra Kamińskiego, opatrzone wnikliwym wstępem i komentarzem Anny Cetery-Włodarczyk, w pięknej szacie graficznej Macieja Buszewicza. Edycja zawiera przypisy, spis przekładów oraz przedstawień Opowieści zimowej na polskiej scenie. W Opowieści zimowej farsowy zazdrośnik ogłasza się prorokiem: Niech błogosławiony Będzie mój trafny, sprawiedliwy sąd! Lecz taki dar to dopust Boży. Lepiej Temu, kto nie wie nic! Nadprzyrodzone dary Leontesa przesądzają o losie królowej. Jeszcze krótko widzimy ją tulącą synka, po chwili jednak sycylijskie oikos ulega pełnej dezintegracji: nie ma domu, nie ma rodziny. Od tej pory rola Hermiony jest poprowadzona jak w antycznej tragedii, której żywiołem jest patos. Hermiona broni się z godności...

Pierwszy tom dużej, wyjątkowej edycji z utworami Williama Shakespeare'a w przekładzie Macieja Słomczyńskiego, dokonanym w sposób niezwykle oryginalny i zarazem na ogromną skalę. Wśród wybranych tragedii znajdą się te najbardziej znane: Romeo i Julia, Hamlet, Makbet, Król Lear i inne.