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Bring Shakespeare’s most famous plays to your class with this innovative new series. Each play is presented through a number of key scenes in Shakespeare’s original language with a special focus on performance.
Ideal for classwork and individual reading.
After a violent storm Viola is separated from her twin brother Sebastian and shipwrecked on the island of Illyria. She disguises herself as a boy and enters into the service of Duke Orsino who sends her to court Olivia for him. But Olivia falls for Viola instead while Viola becomes infatuated with the duke. Enjoy this timeless tale of mistaken identity and gender.
Othello and Desdemona fall in love and get married. But Othello is a Moor and Venetian society does not approve of the union and conspires, through the envious Iago, to destroy the match.
Enjoy this intense tragedy of love and jealousy.
A boy and a girl meet by chance and fall deeply in love. But their families are sworn enemies and the young couple are forced to risk everything in order to be together. Enjoy the most famous love story of all time in Shakespeare’s original language with a carefully graded modern English translation.
Ed. Deborah J. Ellis
Macbeth, a brave and noble lord, is fatally tempted by supernatural forces, then spurred on by his power-hungry wife and his own unbridled ambition to embark on a murderous course to become king of Scotland. Feel the power of one of the greatest tragic stories of all time in Shakespeare’s original language with a carefully graded modern English translation.
Ed. Deborah Jane Ellis
Hamlet’s life is turned upside down when his father, the king, dies, and his mother Queen Gertrude marries her brother-inlaw, Claudius. When the ghost of his dead father appears to him, Hamlet embarks on a long and difficult journey for the truth. Enjoy this powerful and enduring story of revenge in Shakespeare’s original language with a carefully graded modern English translation.
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