While usually classified as a comedy, four of William Shakespeare's plays can be classified as romances: The Tempest, Pericles, The Winter's Tale, and Cymbeline. Occasionally, Cymbeline is classified as a history, since the title character was based on Cunobeline King of the Britons during pre-Roman British History fr...
A Comedy Don Pedro and his soldiers return from war, covered in glory, stopping at Signior Leonato's in Messina. Count Claudio, Don Pedro's lieutenant, has fallen in love with Hero and begs Don Pedro to arrange the marriage with Leonato, Hero's father. Beatrice and Benedick, hurt from a previous relationship together...
William Shakespeare tarafından 1599 ile 1601 yılları arasında yazılan ve temasında trajediyi işleyen oyundur. Danimarka'da geçen oyunda Prens Hamlet'in, kral olan babasını öldürdükten sonra tahta geçen ve annesi Gertrude ile evlenen amcası Claudius'tan nasıl intikam aldığını anlatır. Oyun renkli bir biçimde kahır dolu...
Oyun yazarı olarak en çok trajedi, komedi ve tarihsel oyunlarıyla tanınan William Shakespeare'in en ünlü trajedilerinden biri olan Othello ilk kez 1604 yılında Londra'da sahnelenmiştir. Venedik Devleti'nin hizmetindeki soylu bir Arap olan Othello ile çavuşu Iago, karısı Desdemona ve emir subayı Cassio arasında gelişen...
William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Oyunları ve şiirlerinde insanlık durumlarını dile getiriş gücüyle dört yüz yıldır bütün dünya okur ve seyircilerini etkilemeyi sürdüren efsanevi yazar, en ünlü ve en güçlü eserlerinden biri olan Venedik Taciri'nde hemen her karakterle seyirciyi büyülemektedir. Shylock başta olmak üzere...
"Quasimodo", Paskalya'dan sonraki ilk pazara verilen addır aslında. XX. yüzyıl Parisi'nde Notre-Dame Kilisesi'nin ön avlusundaki kerevete, kimsesiz bebekler bırakılırdı. Başrahip Frollo, böyle bir günde bulduğu sakat bebeği himayesine aldı ve ona Quasimodo adını verdi. Onu büyüttü ve zangoçluk işini verdi; ancak çanın...
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes...
Othello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603. It is based on the story Un Capitano Moro ("A Moorish Captain") by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565. The story revolves around its two central characters: Othello, a...
"Twelfth Night; or, What You Will" is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601-02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. Viola is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria and she comes ashore with the help of a captain. She loses contact with her twin bro...
Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, "Hamlet" dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother. Cover by @vkbloodgood
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, t...
"Macbeth" tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and parano...
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.
A Study in Scarlet is a 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become two of the most famous characters in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, an amateur detect...
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular long novels and is regarded by critics as one of his finest. The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young Am...
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women...
"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy" (1842), is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, hosts a masquera...
"Little Women" follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters.
"Jane Eyre" follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall.
The first of Charlotte Bronte's works. A story of William Crimsworth from his perspective on his maturation, career, and relationships.
Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, "Dracula" tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
"Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" is about an eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertf...
Gurur ve Önyargı, taşralı bir beyefendinin kızı olan Elizabeth Bennett ile varlıklı ve soylu toprak sahibi Fitzwilliam Darcy arasındaki çatışmayı anlatır. Gerçi Jane Austen bu iki karakteri birbirlerinin tuzağına düşmüş kişiler gibi sunar, ama "ilk izlenim"i tersine çevirmekte gecikmez: Soyluluk ve servetten kaynaklan...
Jane Austen, 1815'te, 39 yaşındayken tamamladığı Emma'nın en sevdiği romanı olduğu söyler. Aşk ve Gurur ve Mansfield Parkı gibi romanların yazarının gözbebeğidir Emma. Bir taşra kasabasındaki üç genç kızın "gerçek aşk"ı arayışını anlatan roman, bir yandan insan yaradılışının zayıf yönlerini, bir yandan da 19. yüzyıl İ...
Vadideki Zambak, ilk yayımlanışında (1836) beklenen ilgiyi görmemiş, Balzac'ın en az satan kitaplarından biri olmuştu. Oysa yazar, üzerinde en çok çalıştığı, en kusursuz, en büyük romanlarından birini yarattığı kanısındaydı. Zaman Balzac'ı haklı çıkardı: Vadideki Zambak, yazarın en sevilen, en çok okunan romanlarından...
On yaşında öksüz kalan Jane Eyre, kendisini hiçbir zaman sevmeyen, ancak kocasının vasiyeti üzerine bakımını üstlenen yengesiyle zor bir yaşam sürmektedir. Gönderildiği katı kuralları olan yatılı okulda (aslında Charlotte Brontë'nin bir yılını geçirdiği Lancashire'daki okuldur) kötü günler geçirir. Ancak Jane Eyre, Ch...