The Two Noble Kinsmen in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

The Two Noble Kinsmen in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
Author:
Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2012-08-16
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1621073548

The Two Noble Kinsmen is loosely based on Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale." But it's not your traditional remake--it's just as hard to understand as Chaucer's original! If you are having trouble understand the play, then let BookCaps help with this modern translation. If you have struggled in the past reading Shakespeare, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation of The Two Noble Kinsmen. The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of both text. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

Shakespeare After All

Shakespeare After All
Author: Marjorie Garber
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 1010
Release: 2008-11-19
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0307490815

A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen. Supremely readable and engaging, and complete with a comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare’s life and times and an extensive bibliography, this magisterial work is an ever-replenishing fount of insight on the most celebrated writer of all time.

The Book of Will

The Book of Will
Author: Lauren Gunderson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2018-06-18
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0822237725

Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation)

The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation)
Author: BookCaps
Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2012
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 162107207X

Friendship, infidelity, love--sound like a Spanish soap opera?! Nope. It's Shakespeare! Of course you probably miss a lot of the humor if you don't understand archaic English. Let BookCaps help! If you have struggled in the past reading Shakespeare, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation of The Two Gentlemen of Verona. The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of both text. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Two Gentlemen of Verona
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1909
Genre: Exiles
ISBN:

Contains the work "Two gentlemen of Verona" by William Shakespeare along with notes and commentary by Shakespearean authorities.

Late Shakespeare, 1608-1613

Late Shakespeare, 1608-1613
Author: Andrew J. Power
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2013
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1107016193

In Late Shakespeare, 1608-1613, leading international Shakespeare scholars provide a contextually informed approach to Shakespeare's last seven plays.