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The Portable Shakespeare

This is the book-lover's Shakespeare, a convenient little volume, for reading and rereading—a book you will always want within easy reach. The Portable Shakespeare contains the brightest gems from the Shakespearean treasury, including seven favourite plays complete: Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and Tempest; memorable passages from the other plays; all the sonnets and all the songs; and a key-word index to one thousand Shakespeare quotations.

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Audience
childrens
Length
epic · 792 pages

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