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Summary: shakespeare
Review: Many people can not understand the creative lanuage of shakspeare, but once unlocked you can enjoy his many plays, comedies, and tragedies. I may self love everything his has written.
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Summary: Shakespeare provides us with a snapshot of Tudor England.
Review: The works of William Shakespeare provide us with the most accurate view of what life was like during the later half of Tudor England. His tragedies illustrate the paradigm shift from feudalism to capitalism that was occuring in England. Furthermore, his comedies are always fun to read.
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Summary: To buy or not to buy, THAT is the question.
Review: Don't question it. As a complete Shakeperean collection, this book is, by far, the best one of its kind. If you love sonnets, plays, or crave the rush of owning a complet book such as this one, you will undoubtedly enjoy receiving its weighty wisdom in the mail. Whether a curious browser or an avid Shakesperean, you'll find it a literary treasure.
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Summary: Can't go wrong with Shakespeare
Review: You can't go wrong with Shakespeare. He knew people, their strengths, weaknesses, foibles, desires, etc. He was very familiar with human psychology. His comedies are hilarious.
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Summary: Timeless and universal, a mirror of life and human nature.
Review: I first encountered Shakespeare in the Charles and Mary Lamb adaptations for children. I was eight. Enthralled by Puck's magic, moved by Cymbeline's plight, and frightened by Caliban's perverse nature, I thirsted for the real thing. Wading into the lush depths of the plays themselves a few years later, I grappled with the unfamiliar prose. Guides, in the form of teachers and my drama teacher, parted the veils imposed by the passage of centuries -- and soon I was able to venture forth on my own, discovering the treasures that lay in scene after scene, act after act, play after play. When those strangers became friends, it was time to seek new acquaintances -- and thus did the sonnets enter my life. Page after page there are lessons in human nature. Heroes and villains alike teach us about ourselves and the hurly-burly of life itself. And the more one matures, the more one discovers. Like a fine wine, Shakespeare's works get better with age. Like a potent tonic, they nourish the soul. And like a mirror, they reflect to us the very mystery that lurks beneath our collective existence.
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Summary: A classical "must-read"
Review: William Shakespeare is the classical master of words on whom our entire foundation of literature is based. The stories of human nature and everyday people within the guise of princes, sailors, tinkers & soldiers,noble and common men and women transcend time and the archaic language the stories are in. There is a message in each story and it seems to be that as humans, we all are more alike that we believe, that we all share a bond that is a soul bound within a mortal shell. William Shakespeare speaks to all of us across time, tells us that we are not alone and that we all share a common thread of existance in this mortal toil.
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Summary: Complete works of shakespeare a masterpiece
Review: A great book, it includes all the famous plays such at Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet, and all of his others. It also includes shakespeares sonnets, which themselves are great. If Shakespeare hadn't written such good plays he'd be famous for his sonnets alone. It is a must have for the drama lover. Or the poetry lover.
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Summary: As important as the Bible.
Review: William Shakespeare's works make sense out of what it is to be alive. They cover every facet of the human condition, and include some of the most beautiful poetry ever written. Nobody should ever go through life without reading these incredible plays. And this edition is an excellent choice; it's not overpriced, it's thorough and clear; and unlike many collections of Shakespeare's Complete Works, you can pick it up and read it without breaking your arm. Highly, highly recommended.
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Summary: It's NOT Old English
Review: While Shakespeare was producing much of his work hundreds of years ago, he belongs to the Early Modern era of the English Language. This particular period started approximately 60 years before he was born. Many of the comments seem to think that the stilted grammar and flow (that only occur to current speakers of the language)determine whether a work is written in Old English. Some have mentioned Beowulf, which very few have likely read untranslated. If you can't understand a translated work, blame the person who authored IT and not the original work. Old English approximates a German sound. If one were to hear something read in OE, they may guess the language was an older form of German. Middle English, the sort you'll come across reading UNTRANSLATED Chaucer, is much closer to what many would recognize as an English sounding language. It was highly ornate and approximated and Irish sound. Early Modern English is basically what we are provided with when encountering Shakespeare. The language isn't as difficult to navigate as the references, especially in Shakespeare, which are historical as well as contemporary. When considering the importance of Shakespeare or works that came before him, it is useful to consider the endeavor as trying to find one's cultural heritage. Many of today's popular literature is founded, deeply, in what has come before us. Irreverance and often the backdrops surrounding our most beloved characters have references much older than many can imagine. Even Harry Potter closely resembles elements of Beowulf, Chaucer, and Shakespeare to name the 3 of the more recognizeable. Literature that has come before our time does tend to get treated with a little too much reverance, but the reasons people consider these classics to be important can't be denied. This volume, lacking footnotes and perverting line structure, is still nifty in it's economical purpose, and is worth owning if you can make use of it. LL.
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