Yuma Public Library

Proser examines five Shakespearean tragedies (Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Othello, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra) in an attempt to show that the tragic issue of each of these plays lies in part in the 'discrepancy between the main character's self-conception'and his 'entire human reality'.......

A simplified prose retelling of Shakespeare's play about the exiled Duke of Milan who uses his magical powers to confront his enemies on an enchanted island.

"In sixteenth-century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: serve their monarch or their God. The schism between the Crown and the Catholic Church had widened from a theological dispute in the reign of Henry VIII to bitter political conflict under Elizabeth I. It was also the era of the greatest creative genius the world has ever known: William Shakespeare. How, then, was it possible that such a remarkable...