Shakespeare's English Tragedies: Shake Shakespeare's Hand and Make a Friend for Life

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Jeanne Arthur

Shakespeare's English Tragedies

Name: Shakespeare's English Tragedies
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ISBN: 9781665779913

Shake Shakespeare's Hand and Make a Friend for Life

Jeanne Arthur

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English

Archway Publishing
16 March 2026

The Arts: General & Reference; Organisation & management of education

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Shakespeare's English Tragedies is a translation of the tragedies that Shakespeare set in Great Britain. The translations stand on their own without the original text so that they may be read quickly and easily eliminating the need to search for the meaning of every second word. They are also supplemented by notes specific to each play about the world in which Shakespeare lived. Jeanne Arthur's translations bring a lively, vivid, new approach to Shakespeare's dialogue for twenty first century people. The tragedies selected for this book reflect the interest of Shakespeare's audience in its own English and Scottish history. They include The Tragedy of Cymbeline, King of Britain which is set in the time when Britain was part of the Roman Empire and The Tragedy of King Lear set before the time of Merlin. Shakespeare drew on Holinshed's Chronicles for the story of The Tragedy of Macbeth set in Scotland in the eleventh century for his explanation of why Scottish thanes then began to be called earls and to explain the reverence for Edward the Confessor who helped to remove the tyrant Macbeth from the Scottish throne. Old plays set in the past and written in sixteenth century English come alive in this new translation written for twenty first century people.

By: Jeanne Arthur
Imprint: Archway Publishing
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 191mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 785g
ISBN: 9781665779913
ISBN 10: 1665779918
Pages: 460
Publication Date: 16 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active