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The book is, quite simply, a line-by-line translation of Shakespeare's play The Tempest translated into modern English.

The lovely Viola disguises herself as a young man and quickly falls in love with the Duke she serves. The Duke in turn sends the disguised Viola to woo his lady - the fiesty and impetuous Olivia.

After seeing the ghost of his murdered father, Hamlet realizes that his new stepfather was the killer and plots revenge and ponders the value of life.

Presents five dozen sonnets of Shakespeare, including some of the best known in all of English literature.

Henry V is a study of kinship, patriotism, and heroic determination, tempered by tender comedy as Henry courts Katherine, Princess of France.

Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice, has married Desdemona, beautiful daughter of a Venetian Senator.

Julius Caesar has become the most powerful man in Rome. Does his power now threaten the very existence of the Republic itself?

Believed to have been written in 1603, Shakespeare's Othello is a tragedy that puts the playwright's prodigious creative gifts on full display.

Shakespeare's comedy play Much Ado About Nothing pivots around the impediments to love for young betrothed Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of infidelity and the "lover'

Presents Shakepeare's classic drama in which the murderous King Richard is tormented by the ghosts of his victims until he meets his own violent end.

The noble Veronese houses of Montague and Capulet are locked in a bitter fued.

Many of Shakespeare's greatest and best-loved speeches are brought together in this superb collection, performed by outstanding artists who bring to vivid life words which are an integral part of o

Robyn Carr is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Virgin River and Thunder Point series. Her Trade Women's Fiction novel Four Friends debuted at #5 on the NYT.

Dr. Leigh Culver loves practicing medicine in Timberlake, Colorado. It is a much-needed change of pace from her stressful life in Chicago.

Cassie, Julie, Marty, and Beth have been best friends since seventh grade. But this summer, teetering on the threshold of thirty, the four women each have quite a history of romance going bad.