Presents Shakespeare's dark comedy about young lovers and a Jewish money lender who demands a pound of flesh in payment for a debt. Includes explanatory notes on facing pages, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to famous lines and phrases, a modern perspective essay, and an introduction to the play and the language of Shakespeare.

Bibliography: p. 131.

The complete text with explanations and an easy translation to help you understand the play.

Presents the text of Shakespeare's comedy of love and redemption in exile, and includes information about the performance history of the play, explanatory notes, and other reference materials.

In swinging 60s England, the nation is mesmerized by unlikely comedy star Sophie Straw, the former Blackpool beauty queen who just wants to make people laugh, like her heroine Lucille Ball. Behind the scenes, the cast and crew are having the time of their lives. But when the script begins to get a bit too close to home, and life starts imitating art, they all face a choice...and Sophie Straw, who changed her name and abandoned her old life, must decide...

Contains facsimile reproduction of "the t.-p. of Bartholomew Yonge's translation (1598) of Montemayor's Diana"."Suggestions for collateral reading": p. [98].Includes index.

Jack Worthing creates a fictitious brother Earnest who lives in London to escape his dull country routine, but finds the lie backfiring when he falls in love.

Contains an introduction to the play, the text of the play, and notes.

Alceste is against duplicity and false flattery, but the woman he loves, Céliméne, is the embodiment of all that he abhors which makes this a comedy of manners.