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'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is a comedy play - one of Shakespeare's lighter works, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1597. Both in text, and on stage, it is one of Shakespeare's most popular narratives, and remains widely performed across the world.This book, originally published in 1912, contains twelve incredible colour illustrations and many beautiful and intricate black and white drawings by W. Heath Robinson. An English cartoonist and illustrator, best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines - for achieving deceptively simple objectives. Such was (and is) his fame, that the term 'Heath Robinson' entered the English language during the First World War, as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance. Pook Press publishes rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.

Romeo and Juliet is William Shakespeare's most celebrated stories of tragedy and romance. The story revolves around Romeo and Juliet, two star-crossed lovers whose love only knows the most heartbreaking ending.The romance between Romeo and Juliet began when Romeo, Montague's son, was advised to go to the ball at the Capulet house. Despite the mutual hatred between the Montagues and Capulets, Romeo attends the function where he sees the beautiful Juliet. They fall in love with each other and are inseparable. However, their families will not allow it and this leads to the young lovers making severe decisions on their own. Readers mourn the tragic ending to their love story even today.

The Tempest is one of the plays in which William Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. The Tempest gives us a magician, Prospero, a former duke of Milan who was displaced by his treacherous brother, Antonio.Prospero is exiled on an island, where his only companions are his daughter, Miranda, the spirit Ariel, and the monster Caliban. When his enemies are among those caught in a storm near the island, Prospero turns his power upon them through Ariel and other spirits.William Shakespeare, also known as the "Bard of Avon," is often called England's national poet and considered the greatest dramatist of all time. Shakespeare's works are known throughout the world. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. His surviving works consist of 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language,and are performed more often than those of any other playwright

Double Falshood was staged at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane at the end of 1727, and the following year Lewis Theobald (1688-1744) published the text, which was reprinted several times. Theobald was an energetic editor who translated Sophocles' Electra and Aristophanes' Plutus for performance in London, wrote and edited many other dramatic works, and caused great controversy in literary circles with his Shakespeare Restored (1726), a critique of Pope's edition. Scholars have debated for nearly three centuries to what extent, if at all, Double Falshood derives from a lost play by Shakespeare, as Theobald claimed. There is now widespread agreement that it is the only surviving version of Shakespeare and Fletcher's Cardenio, which was based on episodes from Cervantes' Don Quixote and is known to have been performed in 1613. Interest generated by the play's partial acceptance into the Shakespearean canon has also led to modern revivals.

Antony and Cleopatra (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was first performed, by the King's Men, at either the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre in around 1607; its first appearance in print was in the Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's 1579 English translation of Plutarch's Lives (in Ancient Greek) and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Sicilian revolt to Cleopatra's suicide during the Final War of the Roman Republic. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumvirs of the Second Triumvirate and the first emperor of the Roman Empire.

Coriolan (anglais : Coriolanus) est une tragédie de William Shakespeare, créée en 1607 et publiée pour la première fois en 1623. Elle s'inspire de la vie de Coriolan, figure légendaire des débuts de la république romaine. Elle fait partie d'une série d'oeuvres dont le sujet est tiré de l'histoire romaine comme Le Viol de Lucrèce, Titus Andronicus, Jules César et Antoine et Cléopâtre.Caius Marcius Coriolanus soit Coriolan est une figure de la République romaine archaïque. Il appartient à la gens romaine patricienne des Marcii, descendants d'Ancus Marcius, quatrième roi de Rome.