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Best Selling Books by william shakespearewilliam shakespeare is the author of The Tempest (2015), Henry VI, Part 3 (2015), William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (2020), The Merry Wives of Windsor (2015), Macbeth by William Shakespeare. (2016).
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release date: Jul 28, 2015
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skilful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to lure his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to the island. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio''s lowly nature, the redemption of the King, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso''s son, Ferdinand. There is no obvious single source for the plot of The Tempest, but researchers have seen parallels in Erasmus''s Naufragium, Peter Martyr''s De orbe novo, and eyewitness reports by William Strachey and Sylvester Jordain of the real-life shipwreck of the Sea Venture on the islands of Bermuda, and the subsequent conflict between Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Somers. In addition, one of Gonzalo''s speeches is derived from Montaigne''s essay Of the Canibales, and much of Prospero''s renunciative speech is taken word for word from a speech by Medea in Ovid''s poem Metamorphoses. The masque in Act 4 may have been a later addition, possibly in honour of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V in 1613. The play was first published in the First Folio of 1623. The story draws heavily on the tradition of the romance, and it was influenced by tragicomedy, the courtly masque and perhaps the commedia dell''arte. It differs from Shakespeare''s other plays in its observation of a stricter, more organised neoclassical style. Critics see The Tempest as explicitly concerned with its own nature as a play, frequently drawing links between Prospero''s "art" and theatrical illusion, and early critics saw Prospero as a representation of Shakespeare, and his renunciation of magic as signalling Shakespeare''s farewell to the stage. The play portrays Prospero as a rational, and not an occultist, magician by providing a contrast to him in Sycorax: her magic is frequently described as destructive and terrible, where Prospero''s is said to be wondrous and beautiful. Beginning in about 1950, with the publication of Psychology of Colonization by Octave Mannoni, The Tempest was viewed more and more through the lens of postcolonial theory—exemplified in adaptations like Aimé Césaire''s Une Tempête set in Haiti—and there is even a scholarly journal on post-colonial criticism named after Caliban. The Tempest did not attract a significant amount of attention before the ban on the performance of plays in 1642, and only attained popularity after the Restoration, and then only in adapted versions. In the mid-19th century, theatre productions began to reinstate the original Shakespearean text, and in the 20th century, critics and scholars undertook a significant re-appraisal of the play''s value, to the extent that it is now considered to be one of Shakespeare''s greatest works. It has been adapted numerous times in a variety of styles and formats: in music, at least 46 operas by composers such as Fromental Halévy, Zdeněk Fibich and Thomas Adès; orchestral works by Tchaikovsky, Arthur Sullivan and Arthur Honegger; and songs by such diverse artists as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Michael Nyman and Pete Seeger; in literature, Percy Bysshe Shelley''s poem With a Guitar, To Jane and W. H. Auden''s The Sea and the Mirror; novels by Aimé Césaire and The Diviners by Margaret Laurence; in paintings by William Hogarth, Henry Fuseli, and John Everett Millais; and on screen, ranging through a hand-tinted version of Herbert Beerbohm Tree''s 1905 stage performance, the science fiction film Forbidden Planet in 1956, Peter Greenaway''s 1991 Prospero''s Books featuring John Gielgud as Prospero, to Julie Taymor''s 2010 film version which changed Prospero to Prospera (as played by Helen Mirren), and Des McAnuff''s 2010 Stratford Shakespeare Festival production which starred Christopher Plummer.
release date: Jul 29, 2015
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
release date: Dec 13, 2020
The Merry Wives of Windsor
release date: Jul 28, 2015
Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
release date: May 21, 2016
William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Illustrated
release date: Nov 18, 2020
Henry VIII by William Shakespeare - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
release date: Jul 17, 2017
release date: Jul 28, 2015
release date: Jan 01, 2007
release date: Mar 17, 2022
The Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare
release date: Jan 05, 2017
William Shakespeare's - Romeo and Juliet
release date: Feb 14, 2017
Much Ado About Nothing By William Shakespeare (Comedy Drama) "The Annotated Classic Version"
release date: May 13, 2020
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Amazon Classics Annotated Original Edition)
release date: Feb 26, 2022
Much Ado About Nothing By William Shakespeare The New Annotated Edition
release date: Jul 17, 2020
Shakespeare's Romeo Und Julia - Scholar's Choice Edition
release date: Feb 18, 2015
William Shakespeare Complete Works The Comedies
release date: Jan 14, 2025
release date: Aug 29, 2019
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Illustrated Edition
release date: May 31, 2021
Much Ado About Nothing By William Shakespeare (Comedy Drama) "Annotated"
release date: May 13, 2020
Hamlet By William Shakespeare Annotated Latest Version
release date: May 06, 2020
...the Works of William Shakespeare, in Reduced Facsimile from the Famous First Folio Edition of 1623;
release date: Sep 28, 2015
release date: Dec 11, 2016
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark By William Shakespeare (Tragedy & Drama) "Unabridged & Annotated Volume"
release date: May 12, 2020
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark By William Shakespeare (Tragedy & Drama) "Unabridged & Annotated Edition"
release date: May 12, 2020
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Annotated and Illustrated Edition
release date: Jul 12, 2020
King Lear by William Shakespeare Illustrated
release date: Aug 26, 2021
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare(Annotated Edition)
release date: Jun 11, 2021
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark By William Shakespeare (Tragedy, Drama) "The Annotated Edition"
release date: Apr 23, 2020
release date: Jul 11, 2018
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