Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing and the Romantic Comedies Shakespeare's three great romantic comedies, so widely studied and perf...

Othello

by William Shakespeare

'Othello', in the words of Edward Pechter, 'has become the tragedy of choice for the present generation.'

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

1 WITCH When shall we three meet again

The Alchemist, 1612

by Ben Jonson

BEleeu't I will.

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.

Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant, And breath short-winded accents of new...

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

OF all the commentators on Shakespeare, perhaps the oddest is Ulrich Braker, a Swiss weaver, who in 1780 finished writin...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

'Tom!' No answer.

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

WHETHER I SHALL TURN OUT TO BE THE HERO OF MY own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these page...

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any pres- " grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

Анна Каренина

by Лев Толстой

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...

The Comedy of Errors

by William Shakespeare

texts read sith or apricocks or porpentine, we have not modernized to since, apricots, porcupine.

Henry IV, Part 2

by William Shakespeare

IT is never easy to come second.

Survey of historic costume

by Phyllis G. Tortora, Keith Eubank