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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`My Oberon! what visions have I seen!Methought I was enamoured of an ass.''When four young lovers flee from Athens and become lost in an enchanted wood, they stumble into a fairy world where King Oberon, and Queen Titania, are feuding over ownership of a young Indian prince. Seeking his revenge on Titania, Oberon and his servant Puck begin a magical, yet farcical chain of events where all become interwoven in a com...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Considered one of Shakespeare''s most haunting tragic-comedies, The Winter''s Tale is an in-depth analysis of the psychology of family and friendship, jealousy and love, art and nature, all illustrated in rich poetry.Based on Robert Greene''s story Pandosto, the play tells the story of Leontes, king of Sicilia, and his childhood friend, Polixenes, king of Bohemia. In a jealous rage, Leontes mistakenly accuse...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`We are such stuffAs dreams are made on; and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep.\\''Magical and dreamlike in its tone, Shakespeare\\''s The Tempest begins with a storm of epic proportions and a shipwreck. Banished from Italy, Prospero lives on a remote island with his daughter. Using his magic, he vows to seek revenge on the injustice dealt to him by his brother, but in doing so, Shakespeare questions the diffi...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Bianca is beautiful and demure, with a plethora of wood-be suitors, but marriage is forbidden until her older sister Katherina finds a suitable match. The hitch? Fiery Katherina has sworn to deny the hand or demands of any would-be suitor. That is, until she meets her match in the wily Petrucio. As Katherina\\''s own sharp tongue is met by Petrucio\\''s feigned cruelty, the `shrew\\'' apparently capitulates....

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`All the world''s a stage,And all the men and women merely players.''Featuring Rosalind, one of Shakespeare''s most likeable and strong female protagonists, As You Like It is a comedic play centred around concealed identity, love, exile and artifice. Banished from the court by her uncle, Rosalind flees to the forest with her cousin Celia and her jester, joining her already exiled father, and disguising herself as a...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.''The quality of mercy is not strain''d,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven''Bassiano, a noble Venetian, hopes to woo the beautiful heiress Portia. However, he requires financial assistance from his friend Antonio. Antonio agrees, but he, in turn, must borrow from the Jewish moneylender Shylock. As recourse for past ills, Shylock stipulates that the forfeit on the loan must be a pound of Antonio''s fl...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`If music be the food of love, play on;Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.\\''A comedic romance of mistaken identity, Twelfth Night begins with a shipwreck, splitting up Viola and her twin brother, Sebastian. Alone in a strange land, Viola disguises herself as a male servant, Cesario, in order to work for the Duke Orsino. Orsino is in love with Lady Olivia, but it is Cesario ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Hugely ambitious in its historical focus and vast geographical scope, Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare''s most astonishing tragedies. The drama centres on the relationships between his main protagonists, Octavius Ceasar, Mark Antony and Cleopatra, and the highly charged affair between Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen that forms the backdrop to the pervading theme of struggle between East and West...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''Stars, hide your fires!Let not light see my black and deep desires.\\''One of Shakespeare\\''s darkest and most violent tragedies, Macbeth\\''s struggle between his own ambition and his loyalty to the King is dramatically compelling. As those he kills return to haunt him, Macbeth is plagued by the prophecy of three sinister witches and the power hungry desires of his wife.ISBN: 9780007350988Nr pagini: 288 pages...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!For I ne\\''er saw true beauty till this night.\\''Arguably the greatest love story ever told, Shakespeare\\''s Romeo and Juliet continues to touch modern audiences with its passionate depiction of the tragic romance between two young lovers. With a bitter feud between their respective families, Romeo and Juliet\\''s love is troubled from the start, and through their ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Bear you well in this new spring of time,Lest you be cropp\\''d before you come to prime.\\''King Richard II rules England in a wasteful and short-sighted way, spending money unwisely and selecting his counselors foolishly. His manner ostracises him from his people and his country and it\\''s not long before both commoners and noblemen feel Richard has gone too far.When Richard seizes land that rightfully belongs ...