A poor physician’s daughter, Helena has dared to fall in love with the young Count Bertram. After she cures the king who was suffering from a terrible disease, she asks for Bertram’s hand in marriage as a reward.
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The play’s title recalls a verse from St Matthew’s Gospel: ‘With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.’ But the play presents conundrums about justice, liberty and mercy that do not permit a tidy completion.
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The author Joyce Carol Oates famously called Troilus and Cressida ‘that most vexing and ambiguous of Shakespeare’s plays’.
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One of Shakespeare's most thought-provoking comedies, in its early stages The Winter's Tale appears set for tragedy. Leontes suspects his pregnant queen of an adulterous affair with his best friend.
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This comedy of relations between the sexes remains a highly entertaining exploration of the struggle for supremacy within every couple. Limited to just 1,000 copies.
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One of Shakespeare's most joyful comedies. The sparkling repartee between Beatrice and Benedick makes their relationship one of the best-loved in literature. Limited to just 1,000 copies.
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The most frequently performed of all Shakespeare’s comedies, The Merchant of Venice contains some of Shakespeare’s most finely crafted, multi-faceted characters. This Letterpress edition is limited to just 1,000 copies.
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'Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere'
Henry IV Part 1, Act 5, Sc. 4
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'There is a history in all men's lives'
Henry IV Part 2, Act 3, Sc. I
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‘A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene’
Henry V, Prologue
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‘Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe’
Richard III, Act 5, Sc. 5
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One of the greatest love stories of all time, and one of the finest, and most poetic of all the high Shakespearean tragedies.
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Shakespeare's last tragedy, telling of Caius Marcius, a proud Roman General, who gains the name Coriolanus when, successful in battle against the Volscians, he captures the town Corioli.
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Conspiracy, betrayal, and assassination. Shakespeare’ shortest play includes the events leading up to the assassination of Caesar as well as much of the subsequent war, in which the deaths of the leading conspirators constituted a sort of revenge for the assassination.
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One of Shakespeare's earliest plays that represents the dramatist's first foray into the popular genre of revenge tragedy. Its horrors are notorious, but its powerful poetry of grief is the work of a true tragic poet.
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