Love's Labour's Lost (Esprios Classics)

Love's Labour's Lost (Esprios Classics)
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Blurb
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2022-01-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781034984900

Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years in order to focus on study and fasting. Their subsequent infatuation with the Princess of France and her ladies makes them forsworn, (break their oath). In an untraditional ending for a comedy, the play closes with the death of the Princess's father, and all weddings are delayed for a year. The play draws on themes of masculine love and desire, reckoning and rationalisation, and reality versus fantasy.

The Sonnets (Esprios Classics)

The Sonnets (Esprios Classics)
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Blurb
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9781034662730

Shakespeare's sonnets are poems written by William Shakespeare on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first published all together in a quarto in 1609. However, there are six additional sonnets that Shakespeare wrote and included in the plays Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Love's Labour's Lost. There is also a partial sonnet found in the play Edward III.

Shakespeare's Sonnets (Esprios Classics)

Shakespeare's Sonnets (Esprios Classics)
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Blurb
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2022-01-24
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Shakespeare's sonnets are poems written by William Shakespeare on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first published all together in a quarto in 1609. However, there are six additional sonnets that Shakespeare wrote and included in the plays Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Love's Labour's Lost. There is also a partial sonnet found in the play Edward III.

The Poems of Schiller (Esprios Classics)

The Poems of Schiller (Esprios Classics)
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2018-03-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1387701932

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788-1805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works he left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents to their philosophical vision.