Complete Collection of Tragedies
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Complete Collection of Tragedies
29.99 €
This edition presents all twelve tragedies by William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens, and Zimbelin. The edition is intended for the widest publishing audience.
Shakespeare's works are included in the golden fund of world literature. In the so-called "First Folio", that is, the first collection of works of the great playwright, printed in 1623 in England from thirty-six plays twelve works were classified as tragedies. These are Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens, and Zimbelin. All of them are included in this collection. Some of Shakespeare's tragedies are widely known and have been screened many times. Other plays are not so familiar to the general public. To read them will be no less interesting, because this is literature of the highest caliber. Interest in Shakespeare's works in Russia began to grow in the first half of the XIX century thanks to the staging on the domestic theaters. In 1830 the first prose account of all Shakespeare's dramas was published in Russian. It was executed by N. H. Ketcher. In 1893 prose translations of Shakespeare's dramas and sonnets were published under the editorship of P. A. Kanshin. By the beginning of the XX century there were already more than a hundred translations of various works of Shakespeare in Russian. The best of them, made by A. I. Kroneberg, P. I. Veinberg, A. V. Druzhinin and other outstanding Russian writers, were included in the fifth complete edition of Shakespeare. It was published in 1902 and became part of the twenty-volume "Library of Great Writers", which was printed by the famous publishing house "Brockhaus and Ephron". The editor of the "Library" was the famous literary historian and literary critic S. A. Vengerov. He attracted the best specialists of his time to work on the edition of Shakespeare's works. Among them were corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences N. P. Dashkevich and A. I. Kirpichnikov, prominent Shakespearean scholar A. V. Druzhinin, doctor of literature M. N. Rozanov, brilliant journalist and polyglot L. A. Polonsky. They and other literary scholars of the highest rank in this edition are the authors of the most interesting prefaces to all of Shakespeare's dramas. In 1842, Charles Knight, the famous British publisher, editor, and writer, published a voluminous volume entitled The Illustrated Shakespeare. Among the several artists whose work was included in this book, the engraver and painter John Gilbert held a special place. He was a talented self-taught artist who produced hundreds of magnificent illustrations for many of the landmark works of English literature. It is his work that graces
Shakespeare's works are included in the golden fund of world literature. In the so-called "First Folio", that is, the first collection of works of the great playwright, printed in 1623 in England from thirty-six plays twelve works were classified as tragedies. These are Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens, and Zimbelin. All of them are included in this collection. Some of Shakespeare's tragedies are widely known and have been screened many times. Other plays are not so familiar to the general public. To read them will be no less interesting, because this is literature of the highest caliber. Interest in Shakespeare's works in Russia began to grow in the first half of the XIX century thanks to the staging on the domestic theaters. In 1830 the first prose account of all Shakespeare's dramas was published in Russian. It was executed by N. H. Ketcher. In 1893 prose translations of Shakespeare's dramas and sonnets were published under the editorship of P. A. Kanshin. By the beginning of the XX century there were already more than a hundred translations of various works of Shakespeare in Russian. The best of them, made by A. I. Kroneberg, P. I. Veinberg, A. V. Druzhinin and other outstanding Russian writers, were included in the fifth complete edition of Shakespeare. It was published in 1902 and became part of the twenty-volume "Library of Great Writers", which was printed by the famous publishing house "Brockhaus and Ephron". The editor of the "Library" was the famous literary historian and literary critic S. A. Vengerov. He attracted the best specialists of his time to work on the edition of Shakespeare's works. Among them were corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences N. P. Dashkevich and A. I. Kirpichnikov, prominent Shakespearean scholar A. V. Druzhinin, doctor of literature M. N. Rozanov, brilliant journalist and polyglot L. A. Polonsky. They and other literary scholars of the highest rank in this edition are the authors of the most interesting prefaces to all of Shakespeare's dramas. In 1842, Charles Knight, the famous British publisher, editor, and writer, published a voluminous volume entitled The Illustrated Shakespeare. Among the several artists whose work was included in this book, the engraver and painter John Gilbert held a special place. He was a talented self-taught artist who produced hundreds of magnificent illustrations for many of the landmark works of English literature. It is his work that graces
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