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The Wordsworth Classics author series, with this book V as its inaugural volume, presents a newly-edited sequence of authors works. The textual editing endeavours to talk account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. This book is the most famous and influential of authors history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Oliviers renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his band of brothers to victory in the Battle of Agincourt, could indeed seem to be this star of England. In recent decades the play has attracted increasing critical attention and is now highly controversial. Kenneth Branaghs film-production reflected the changing valuation. Does this play have a sceptical sub-text which subverts its patriotism Is Henrys achievement beset by irony Has current scepticism distorted a predominantly and proudly nationalistic drama This book demonstrates authors acclaimed ability to bring new complexity to the material that he adapted, so that different eras may find within his work the familiar and the strange, the congenial and the challenging.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. This book is the most famous and influential of authors history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Oliviers renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his band of brothers to victory in the Battle of Agincourt, could indeed seem to be this star of England. In recent decades the play has attracted increasing critical attention and is now highly controversial. Kenneth Branaghs film-production reflected the changing valuation. Does this play have a sceptical sub-text which subverts its patriotism Is Henrys achievement beset by irony Has current scepticism distorted a predominantly and proudly nationalistic drama This book demonstrates authors acclaimed ability to bring new complexity to the material that he adapted, so that different eras may find within his work the familiar and the strange, the congenial and the challenging.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. In recent decades the play has attracted increasing critical attention and is now highly controversial. Kenneth Branaghs film-production reflected the changing valuation. Does this play have a sceptical sub-text which subverts its patriotism Is Henrys achievement beset by irony Has current scepticism distorted a predominantly and proudly nationalistic drama This book demonstrates authors acclaimed ability to bring new complexity to the material that he adapted, so that different eras may find within his work the familiar and the strange, the congenial and the challenging.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. This book demonstrates authors acclaimed ability to bring new complexity to the material that he adapted, so that different eras may find within his work the familiar and the strange, the congenial and the challenging.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Unusually for the author, this book is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However human joy is not excluded thanks to \'Mr Sleary\'s Horse-Riding\' circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown.Macaulay attacked Han! Times for its \'sullen socialism\', but 2Oth-century critics such as George Bernard Shaw and F.R. Leavis have praised this book in the highest terms, while readers the world over have found inspiration and enjoyment from what is both author\' shortest completed novel and also one of his important statements on Victorian society. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Macaulay attacked Han! Times for its \'sullen socialism\', but 2Oth-century critics such as George Bernard Shaw and F.R. Leavis have praised this book in the highest terms, while readers the world over have found inspiration and enjoyment from what is both author\' shortest completed novel and also one of his important statements on Victorian society. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

The Wordsworth Classics Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeares works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Romeo and Juliet is the worlds most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying the feud which divides their families, Romeo and Juliet enjoy the fleeting rapture of courtship, marriage and sexual fulfilment; but a combination of old animosities and new coincidences brings them to suicidal deaths. This play offers a rich mixture of romantic Lyricism, bawdy comedy, intimate harmony and sudden violence. Long successful in the theatre, it has also generated numerous operas, ballets and films; and these have helped to make Romeo and Juliet perennially topical. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Defying the feud which divides their families, Romeo and Juliet enjoy the fleeting rapture of courtship, marriage and sexual fulfilment; but a combination of old animosities and new coincidences brings them to suicidal deaths. This play offers a rich mixture of romantic Lyricism, bawdy comedy, intimate harmony and sudden violence. Long successful in the theatre, it has also generated numerous operas, ballets and films; and these have helped to make Romeo and Juliet perennially topical. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.This play offers a rich mixture of romantic Lyricism, bawdy comedy, intimate harmony and sudden violence. Long successful in the theatre, it has also generated numerous operas, ballets and films; and these have helped to make Romeo and Juliet perennially topical. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

The Wordsworth Classics \' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeares works The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeares most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. The text may seem anti-Semitic: yet repeatedly, in performance, it has revealed a contrasting nature. Shylock, though vanquished in the law-court, often triumphs in the theatre. In his intensity he can dominate the play, challenging abrasively its romantic and lyrical affirmations. What results is a bitter-sweet drama. Though The Merchant of Venice offers some of the traditional pleasures of romantic comedy, it also exposes the operations of prejudice. Thus Shakespeare remains our contemporary. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeares most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. The text may seem anti-Semitic: yet repeatedly, in performance, it has revealed a contrasting nature. Shylock, though vanquished in the law-court, often triumphs in the theatre. In his intensity he can dominate the play, challenging abrasively its romantic and lyrical affirmations. What results is a bitter-sweet drama. Though The Merchant of Venice offers some of the traditional pleasures of romantic comedy, it also exposes the operations of prejudice. Thus Shakespeare remains our contemporary. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. In his intensity he can dominate the play, challenging abrasively its romantic and lyrical affirmations. What results is a bitter-sweet drama. Though The Merchant of Venice offers some of the traditional pleasures of romantic comedy, it also exposes the operations of prejudice. Thus Shakespeare remains our contemporary. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información