It follows the form of a "revenge tragedy," in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father's murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Hamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play. Synopsis: Hamlet: An UPDATED EDITION from the Folger Shakespeare Library
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The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
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The authoritative edition of Othello from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: Iago’s false insinuations about Desdemona’s infidelity draw Othello into his schemes, and Desdemona is subjected to Othello’s horrifying verbal and physical assaults. Yet most readers and audiences believe the couple’s strong love would overcome these differences were it not for Iago, who sets out to destroy Othello. Shakespeare builds many differences into his hero and heroine, including race, age, and cultural background. Synopsis: In Othello, Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona that begins with elopement and mutual devotion and ends with jealous rage and death. Now available in this inexpensive edition, it offers a powerful and provocative reading experience to modern readers. Lawrence in its treatment of infidelity."Īlthough the theme of marital infidelity no longer shocks, few novels have plumbed the psychology of a woman involved in an illicit relationship with the perception, artistry, and honesty that Kate Chopin brought to The Awakening. Edmund Wilson characterized it as a work "quite uninhibited and beautifully written, which anticipates D.
Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the straitened confines of her domestic situation.Īside from its unusually frank treatment of a then-controversial subject, the novel is widely admired today for its literary qualities. When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. With Frankenstein, she succeeded admirably in the task she set for herself: to create a story that, in her own words, "would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror - one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart." The illustrious poets failed to complete their ghost stories, but Mary Shelley rose supremely to the challenge. When continued rains kept them confined indoors, all agreed to Byron's proposal. The friends were summering on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, Shelley still unknown as a poet and Byron writing the third canto of Childe Harold. "We will each write a story," Byron announced to his next-door neighbors, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley. Considering the novel's enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron's. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Synopsis: Approved by the Holden-Crowther Literary Organisation.įew creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
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