Written by legendary authors Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb, retellings of twenty of Shakespeare's best known plays, using the playwright's own words when possible.

This reissue features a new overview by Sylvan Barnet, former chairman of the English Department at Tufts University, an updated Bibliography, suggested references, and stage and film history.

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first, Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world...

The complete works; the comedies, histories, tragedies, and poetry, including the sonnets.

"Aitcheson brings excitement and intrigue to a bloody period of medieval history -- one that is underrepresented in the genre ... [and] shows great promise as an adventure novelist in this colorful debut."--

This program paints a picture of William the Conqueror who was at once a great warrior and a ruthless politician and statesman. His twenty-year reign truly shaped the future of England.

Hastings; 1066. Clouds of war darkened the horizon as Saxons and Normans clashed with a vengeance. Yet another battle raged ... as two sparring hearts collided ... They were enemies from birth, their people divided by a bloodstained vision of power and glory: But when Alaric, a fierce Norman warrior, rescued Fallon from a bloody execution at the hands of the Normans, the fiery Saxon princess rebelled. She was determined to resist his seductive charms--and...