Print Also known as: “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” Written by David Bevington Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Chair of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Chicago. World authority on Shakespeare. Editor ofThe Complete... ...
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Great Expectations, novel by Charles Dickens, first published serially in 1860–61 and issued in book form in 1861. The classic novel was one of its author’s greatest critical and popular successes. It chronicles the coming of age of the orphan Pip whil
Following theinduction, the play opens inPadua, where several eligible bachelors have gathered to claim the hand of Bianca, the youngest daughter of the wealthyBaptista. But Baptista has stated that Bianca will not be wed before her older sister, Katharina. The plot of “the taming of the shr...
Faust, two-part dramatic work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Part I was published in 1808 and Part II in 1832, after the author’s death. The supreme work of Goethe’s later years, Faust is sometimes considered Germany’s greatest contribution to world l