The Portable Shakespeare

Description:

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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15203981W/Hamlet), Macbeth, [Romeo and Juliet](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL362705W/Romeo_and_Juliet), Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and [Tempest](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL362699W); memorable passages from the other plays; all the sonnets and all the songs; and a key-word index to one thousand Shakespeare quotations. --back cover

subjects: English literature: Shakespeare texts,  Classics,  performing arts,  English drama,  tragicomedy,  Drama,  Survival after airplane accidents,  shipwrecks,  Magicians,  Fathers and daughters,  Castaways,  Plays,  Spirits,  Shipwreck victims,  English literature,  Political refugees,  English Young adult drama,  Islands,  Shipwreck survival,  Juvenile drama,  Children's plays,  courtship,  Youth,  Vendetta,  Love-Romance-Fiction,  Classic-Classical Literature,  Suspense-Fiction,  Conflict of generations,  Juvenile literature,  Dramatic production,  Tragedy,  Suicide,  Love in adolescence,  English Love stories,  Man-woman relationships,  Families,  Fiction,  Succession,  Fathers,  Regicide,  classic literature,  fathers succession,  quartos,  regicides,  production and direction,  inheritance and succession,  Britons,  English plays,  ageing parents,  scripts,  English language,  open_syllabus_project,  Princes,  English drama (Tragedy),  Texts,  Kings and rulers,  Murder victims' families,  Revenge,  Death,  Homicide,  English,  Drama texts,  Drama texts: from c 1900 -,  Shakespeare plays,  Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616,  British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)

People: Prospero,  Miranda,  Ariel,  Caliban,  Sycorax,  Iris,  Ceres,  Juno,  Alonso,  Sebastian,  Antonio,  Ferdinand,  Gonzalo,  William Shakespeare (1564-1616),  Juliet Capulet,  Romeo Montague,  Escalus,  Mercutio,  Paris,  Lady Montague,  Benvolio,  Abram,  Balthasar,  Lady Capulet,  Tybalt,  Sampson,  Peter,  Gregory,  Friar Lawrence,  Friar John,  Claudius,  Hamlet,  Polonius,  Horatio,  Laertes,  Voltimand,  Cornelius,  Rosencrantz,  Guildenstern,  Osric,  Gentleman,  Priest,  Marcellus,  Bernardo,  Francisco,  Reynaldo,  Players,  Two Clowns,  Fortinbras,  Captain,  English Ambassadors,  Gertrude,  Ophelia,  Lords,  Ladies,  Officers,  Soldiers,  Sailors,  Messengers,  Attendants,  Ghost of Hamlet's father

Places: Denmark,  Norway,  Great Britain,  Russia,  Italy,  Verona,  Naples,  Carthage