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2) Arcadia
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"It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them."—Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the "five hundred acres inclusive of lake" where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the Gothic
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Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Wilde's drama combines epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. This collection of his plays includes 'Lady Windermere's Fan', 'Salome', 'A Woman of No Importance', 'An Ideal Husband' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest'.
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
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English
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"In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sit Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the 'picturesque' Gothic style: 'everything but vampires', as the garden historian Hannah Jarvis remarks to Bernard Nightingale when they stand in the same room 180 years later. Bernard...
10) Night and day
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Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
12) Plays pleasant
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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Presents four plays intended to both amuse and provoke audiences.
16) Tragedies
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Everyman's library volume 92
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Knopf
Pub. Date
[1992-]
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English
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
Description
Contains over three thousand alphabetically arranged entries that provide information and commentary on William Shakespeare's life, times, plays, and poems, covering actors, characters, figures of speech, censorship, film adaptations, and many other topics.
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