Shakespeare in Autumn (Seasons Edition -- Fall)

William Shakespeare

• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9780785253136
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Shakespeare in Autumn: Select Plays and the Complete Sonnets, by William Shakespeare, the greatest writer in the English language, is available in a fine exclusive collector's edition featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. Each collectible volume will be the perfect addition to any well-appointed library.

The Shakespeare in Autumn Seasons Edition--Fall:

• Features selected works from William Shakespeare, history's greatest and most influential writer of the English language. His poetry and plays have been recited and studied for generation upon generation and remain iconic works of literature
• Presents a small yet wide-reaching collection of the Bard's finest works, including The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and the complete sonnets
• Is distinctively and seasonally nuanced for autumnal reading
• Explores such important themes as love and romance, the economic ramifications of marriage, the immutable irreversibility of fate, the destructive nature of jealousy, the power dynamics of relationships, and the absurdity of ambition
• Is ideal for special-edition book collectors, fans of literary fiction and classic literature, Anglophiles, and people who love all things Shakespearean and the many cinematic adaptations of the Bard's work

Whether you're buying this as a gift or as a self-purchase, this remarkable limited edition features:

• Beautiful hardcover with a distinctive one-of-a-kind, high-end/high-treatment laser-cut jacket, perfect for standing out on any discerning fiction-lover's bookshelf
• Trim Size: 6 x 9
• Beautiful decorative interior pages featuring pull quotes distributed throughout
• An exquisite matching laser-cut bookmark
• Part of a 4-volume Fall Seasons series including Anne of Green Gables, Dracula, and Sense and Sensibility

William Shakespeare has been lauded as one of history's greatest and most influential writers of the English language. His poems and plays have been recited and studied for generations, and remain iconic works of literature. Shakespeare in Autumn includes a nuanced selection of Shakespeare's finest works, including:

• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Twelfth Night
• As You Like It
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Sonnets

Shakespeare in Autumn: Select Plays and the Complete Sonnets by William Shakespeare(Seasons Edition--Fall) is one of four titles available in the Fall Seasons series. The Fall collection also includes Anne of Green Gables, Dracula, and Sense and Sensibility.

THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET

SCENE. During the greater part of the Play in Verona; once, in the Fifth Act, at Mantua.

THE PROLOGUE

Enter CHORUS.

CHORUS

Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;

Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows

Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.

The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,

And the continuance of their parents’ rage,

Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,

Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;

The which, if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

[Exit.]

ACT I

SCENE I. A public place.

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY armed with swords and bucklers.

SAMPSON

Gregory, on my word, we’ll not carry coals.

GREGORY

No, for then we should be colliers.

SAMPSON

I mean, if we be in choler, we’ll draw.

GREGORY

Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o’ the collar.

SAMPSON

I strike quickly, being moved.

GREGORY

But thou art not quickly moved to strike.

SAMPSON

A dog of the house of Montague moves me.

GREGORY

To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand: therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn’st away.

SAMPSON

A dog of that house shall move me to stand.

I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s.

GREGORY

That shows thee a weak slave, for the weakest goes to the wall.

SAMPSON

True, and therefore women, being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push Montague’s men from the wall, and thrust his maids to the wall.

GREGORY

The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.

SAMPSON

’Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I have fought with the men I will be civil with the maids, I will cut off their heads.

GREGORY

The heads of the maids?

SAMPSON

Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense thou wilt.

GREGORY

They must take it in sense that feel it.

SAMPSON

Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and ’tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.

GREGORY

’Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool; here comes of the house of Montagues.

Enter ABRAM and BALTHASAR.

SAMPSON

My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.

GREGORY

How? Turn thy back and run?

SAMPSON

Fear me not.

GREGORY

No, marry; I fear thee!

SAMPSON

Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin.

GREGORY

I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as they list.

SAMPSON

Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them, which is disgrace to them if they bear it.

ABRAM

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

SAMPSON

I do bite my thumb, sir.

ABRAM

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

SAMPSON

Is the law of our side if I say ay?

GREGORY

No.

SAMPSON

No sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir; but I bite my thumb, sir.

GREGORY

Do you quarrel, sir?

ABRAM

Quar...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• The Taming of the Shrew
• The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• As You Like It
• Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will
• The Sonnets