When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. ...

A duke temporarily removes himself from governing his city-state, deputizing a member of his administration, Angelo, to enforce the laws more rigorously. ...

Helena, physician's daughter of humble birth, cures the King of France and in return is promised the hand of any nobleman she wishes. But the man ...

the most romantic and delicate of shakespeare plays, most frequently acted of all his comedies

I come no more to make you laugh; things now That bear a weighty and a serious brow, ...

Falstaff arrives in Windsor very short on money. He decides, to obtain financial advantage, that he will court two wealthy married women, Mistress Ford ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...

If there has ever been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be THE APPLAUSE FOLIO TEXTS. ...