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Per poter corteggiare degnamente Porzia il nobile Bassanio deve chiedere un prestito al mercante di Venezia Antonio. Antonio deve a sua volta farsi prestare il denaro dall'usuraio ebreo Shylock che, come pegno per la restituzione pone la possibilità di prelevare una libbra di carne sul corpo di Antonio, se il denaro non gli sarà reso il giorno fissato. Bassanio sposa Porzia, ma le navi di Antonio hanno fatto naufragio e Shylock pretende la libbra di carne. Porzia, travestita da avvocato, perora la causa di Antonio davanti al doge che grazia Shylock, ne confisca i beni e li divide tra Antonio e lo stato veneziano. Antonio rinuncia alla sua parte purché Shylock si faccia cristiano. Intanto alcune navi di Antonio compaiono salve in porto.

Testo inglese a fronte Fate e folletti popolano il mondo fantastico di questa commedia di Shakespeare, lieve e raffinata, in cui amori e tradimenti si susseguono con comicità e grazia incantevole. Dalla bellissima Titania, regina delle fate, innamorata perdutamente di un uomo dalla testa d'asino, al comico e irresistibile Bottom fino al capriccioso folletto Puck, i cui errori nel somministrare i filtri d'amore muovono le sottili trame della vicenda. Una commedia lieve e briosa, ricca di improvvisazioni e colpi di scena, che inaugura un nuovo tipo di rappresentazione nel panorama shakespeariano.

The Arden Shakespeare, founded in the 1890s, has, with a continuing process of revision, established itself as the Standard scholarly edition of Shakespeare's works. Each play appears in a seperate volume with critical notes, apparatus, appendices giving extracts from the relevant sources, and a full introduction. For the general Reader and for students who want something more substantial than school texts or a one-volume Shakespeare, the Arden Edition, edited to the highest standards of modern scholarship, has continued to prove invaluable.

New Shakespeare, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary.

Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps the reader to understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in the series contains the complete text with an extensive range of notes, background information on Shakespeare's England, suggestions for further reading, a brief biograohy of Shakespeare, and a complete list of his plays.

The arrival of shipwrecked twins in the land of Illyria creates havoc in this comical story of love in disguise.

The book explores themes of ambition, power, and guilt through the tragic story of Macbeth. It begins with three witches who prophesy that Macbeth will become king, igniting his dark desires. Struggling with his murderous thoughts, he is ultimately spurred on by his wife, Lady Macbeth, leading him to kill King Duncan in his sleep. As Macbeth ascends to the throne, he becomes increasingly paranoid about losing his power, prompting him to murder Banquo, whose ghost haunts him during a banquet. In a desperate search for reassurance, Macbeth consults the witches again, who mislead him into a false sense of security with their cryptic prophecies. However, his downfall is sealed when Macduff, who was born by caesarean section, confronts him. The weight of his actions drives both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to madness and death, leaving a powerful commentary on the consequences of unchecked ambition and moral decay.