"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed." - William Shakespeare Arm yourself with this volume from the Knickerbocker Classic series, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, including 16 comedies, 10 histories, 12 tragedies and all the poems and sonnets of the world's most influential writer. This collection includes poems and plays that were not included in Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623 to make one complete, authentic...

This is one of Shakespeare's darkest comedies, for the romantic story of a young man, Bassanio, who has squandered his fortune and must borrow money to woo the wealthy lady he loves is set against the more disturbing story of the Jewish moneylender Shylock and his demand for the 'pound of flesh' owed him by the Venetian merchant, Antonio. Here pathos and farce combine with moral complexity and romantic entanglement to display the extraordinary power...

The content of this edition include a list of the illustrations featured within the text and a preface by the editor on her work with the play. The thorough introduction discusses the tragicomedy as a genre, the writers thought to have collaborated on this play and the question of its authorship, and the significance of collaboration and censorship in the era when the play was written, as well as other notes on historical context. The editor goes

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A Lover's Complaint William Shakespeare - A Lover's Complaint is a narrative poem published as an appendix to the original edition of Shakespeare's sonnets. It is given the title A Lover's Complaint in the book, which was published by Thomas Thorpe in 1609. Although published as Shakespeare's work, the poem's authorship has become a matter of critical debate. The majority opinion is that it is by Shakespeare.

The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Roman noblewoman Lucretia. In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in which he promised to compose a "graver labour". Accordingly, The Rape of Lucrece has a serious tone throughout. The poem begins with a prose dedication addressed directly to the Earl of Southampton,...

Situada en Venecia en el siglo XVI, Desdémona, profundamente enamorada de Otelo, decide escaparse con él a pesar de la desaprobación de Brabancio, su padre. El moro Otelo es un brillante general de la guardia veneciana que, tras elegir a Casio como su lugarteniente, enfurece y provoca a Yago, su alférez. Dejándose llevar por incontrolables celos y furia, Yago comienza a elaborar un plan para deshacerse de Casio y vengarse de Otelo, lo que lo...

Al llegar a Windsor, John Falstaff se encuentra escaso de fondos. Es por ello que decide cortejar, escribiendo dos cartas idénticas, a dos mujeres casadas, la señora Ford y la señora Page, para mejorar su situación económica. Así comienza esta historia de disparates, llena de ingeniosos personajes, como los criados Pistol y Nym, y divertidas confusiones y juegos de palabras, que lo entretendrán de principio a fin.En esta comedia clásica, presentada...

Este livro contém 27 das principais obras de Shakespeare: - A Comédia dos Erros - A Megera Domada - As Alegres Senhoras de Windsor - Conto de Inverno - Medida por Medida - Muito Barulho por Nada - O Mercador de Veneza - Os Dois Cavalheiros de Verona - Sonho de uma Noite de Verão - Trabalhos de Amor Perdidos - Tudo Bem Quando Termina Bem - Henrique IV (parte 1) - Henrique IV (parte 2) - Henrique VIII - Vida e Morte do Rei João - Ricardo II - Ricardo...

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. En esta comedia romántica, y pese a tener un final feliz, Shakespeare nos enseña que el amor puede llegar a producir dolor. De hecho, varios de los protagonistas dicen sufrir por amor.La confusión de géneros que se usa en la obra es un buen recurso para producir situaciones cómicas: Viola se disfraza de hombre para protegerse y conseguir trabajo cerca del duque Orsino, pero su disfraz va a causar toda...

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Si nos paramos a pensar por un momento, ¿con qué identificamos el nombre "Romeo"? ¡Efectivamente! Se ha convertido en sinónimo de amante o enamorado. En la obra, Romeo experimenta un amor de tal pureza y pasión que cuando cree que el objeto su amor, Julieta, ha muerto...El amor está por encima de cualquier otro valor y los enamorados van a desafiar a la sociedad y sus convenciones, mostrándose dispuestos...