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Richard II
Original price was: $9.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dramatic cycle which helped to generate England’s national identity.
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Richard III
Original price was: $9.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare’s historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast, Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charismatically Machiavellian, always dominates the play.
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The Merchant of Venice
Original price was: $9.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Features one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. Here, the text may well seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly, in performance, it has revealed a contrasting nature. Shylock, though vanquished in the law-court, often t
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The Taming of the Shrew
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare’s comedies.
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The Tempest
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Prospero, long exiled from Italy with his daughter Miranda, seeks to use his magical powers to defeat his former enemies. Eventually, having proved merciful, he divests himself of that magic, his ‘art’, and prepares to return to the mainland.
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The Winter’s Tale
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.A romantic comedy which offers a challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations and reunions.
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Twelfth Night
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Sir Toby Belch and his companion outwit the pretentious Malvolio, who despite suffering their most outrageous and insulting practical jokes, emerges as an almost noble figure.
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Meditations
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Stirring reflections on the human condition provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind and personality of a highly principled Roman warrior and emperor of the 2nd century.
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The Plays of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics)
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
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Daniel Deronda
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Follows lives of the beautiful but spoiled Gwendolene Harleth and selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship. Set in the degenerate English aristocratic society of the 1860s, t
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The Best Short Stories
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce.
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Adam Bede
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, this book relates a story of seduction issuing in ‘the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis’.
