Four Great Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew / A Midsummer Night's Dream / Twelfth Night / The Tempest by William Shakespeare, Robert B. Heilman, Sylvan Barnet, Wolfgang Clemen

Four Great Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew / A Midsummer Night's Dream / Twelfth Night / The Tempest

William Shakespeare, Robert B. Heilman, Sylvan Barnet, Wolfgang Clemen

437 pages first pub 1625 (editions)

fiction classics play challenging funny informative slow-paced

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"Comedies," as one of Shakespeare's contemporaries wrote, 'begin in trouble and end in peace." This is certainly true of the four masterworks selected for this collection--The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and The ...

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funny 100%

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Loveable characters?

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