Browsing: Great Britain

Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a “revenge tragedy,” in which the…

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures…

In Richard III, Shakespeare invites us on a moral holiday. The play draws us to identify with Richard and his…

Love and marriage are the concerns of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Lucentio’s marriage to Bianca is prompted by…

In 1603, James VI of Scotland ascended the English throne, becoming James I of England. London was alive with an…

The Winter’s Tale, one of Shakespeare’s very late plays, is filled with improbabilities. Before the conclusion, one character comments that…

“The Merchant of Venice” is the story of Antonio, the drama’s title character, and his friend Bassanio. Bassanio is in…

“A sweeping historical love story that hits all the marks” (Publishers Weekly). Destitute Kathleen Deacey leaves Ireland to support her family — and develops unexpected feelings for Jack Montgomery, an English sea captain. But with society’s expectations against them, do they have a chance at love?

Prince Myshkin, a trusting and compassionate man, struggles to fit into modern society. A classic from the 19th-century Russian master hailed as “the man more than any other who has created modern prose” (James Joyce).

Amadeus meets Little Women in this irresistibly delightful historical novel by award-winning author Stephanie Cowell. The year is 1777 and…