One of Shakespeare\'s most played comedies. Duke of Athens, Theseus, is celebrating his marriage to the newly conquered queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta. Meanwhile, four young Athenian lovers go to the woods, along with a group of six amateur actors. They all become controlled and manipulated by the fairies and tricksters who inhabit the forest. The play\'s themes feauture aristocratic culture, problem of time, individual identity, love and feminism. It is one of Shakespeare\'s most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.

Great Expectations, described as a “study in human weakness and the slow human surrender”, may be called Charles Dickens’s finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career.

In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan named Pip. The convict terrifies the young boy and threatens to kill him unless Pip helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in the ruined garden where he meets the bitter and crazy Miss Havisham and her foster child Estella, with whom he immediately falls in love. After a secret benefactor gives him a fortune, Pip moves to London, where he cultivates great expectations for a life which would allow him to discard his impoverished beginnings and socialize with the idle upper class. As Pip struggles to become a gentleman and is tormented endlessly by the beautiful Estella, he slowly learns the truth about himself and his illusions.

Written in the last decade of his life, Great Expectations reveals Dickens’s dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure, and its materialism. Yet this novel persists as one of Dickens’s most popular. Richly comic and immensely readable, Great Expectations overspills with vividly drawn characters, moral maelstroms, and the sorrow and pity of love.

King Shahryar, a ruler in ancient Persia discovers his Queen has been unfaithful to him; he becomes enraged and has her put to death. Heartbroken and distrustful of all women, he marries a young maiden every night and has her beheaded the next day to avoid further betrayal. In an attempt to save all the girls in Persia, the beautiful and witty, young Shahrazad, puts herself forward as his wife... On the first night she begins a tale of high adventure that captures the King’s imagination but as the dawn approaches she does not finish it. The king delay’s her execution so that he can hear the end of the story and so begin the tales of One Thousand and One Nights...join us with King Shahryar in the magical adventures of Aladdin and his flying carpet, Sindbad the Sailor and man-eating ogres, Ali Baba, treasure caves and bandits.

Macbeth, or the Scottish play as it is also called, is set in Scotland in medival times when strong men and clans fought for power. In those unenligtened days people were more prone to superstition than today, so that omens by witches and other future predictors often were believed to be true and relied upon. Macbeth starts out as a brave and dutyful general, loyal to the King. Following a meeting with three witches who foresee him becoming King, Macbeth and his ambitous and scheeming wife, Lady Macbeth, cannot resist the temptation to grab for the power they believe is destined for him. The couple stops at nothing in their ambitious and arrogant manuevering to get and keep the Crown. Starting with murdering the King, Duncan, they commit more and more murders to protect themselves from enmity and suspicion. Macbeth is not unaffected of his misdeeds, though, and becomes ridden of guilt, remorse and paranoia. Finally, the bloodbath and the following civil war take the arrogant and ambitious couple into the realms of madness and death.

About the author

William Shakespeare lived in England 400 years ago 1564 to 1616. He wrote plays for theaters in London in the Elisabethan era, which was a great era in England for arts and literature, and he sometimes performed on stage. He also invested in the theater business and became quite wealthy. He is considered to be the the greatest playwright of all times and his plays are still as thoughtful, human, thrilling, charming and funny as ever before. Shakespeares plays are timeless and no writer in the English language has been quoted as often as he.Shakespeare was also a master poet. His more than 150 love poems, the Sonnets, are, this very day, being read and loved all over the world think of Shall I compare Thee to a summers day. Thou art more lovely and more temperate, as Sonnet 18 begins. Find more in a book shelf, library, book store or on the web.

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