The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare Abridged Novels & Stories

She looked from the left to the right and saw that she had their attention. “My father wrote that, when the ten sovereigns were created, the top three were created with their very own personal limits in the form of the three books, the book of Enoch, the Necronomicon and the Pandora, in each of these books were weaknesses of how to defeat God, Ymir and Azathoth should they start to rebel. God, after getting his own faction, created a scripture basing on the Book of Enoch but he contradicted the book and wrote the first scripture, the Bible which is by far the most well known.”

She’s speechless. I merely recap, verbatim, “The descent into darkness by an antihero in Macbeth. The comedic relief of Much Ado About Nothing. The intensity of Othello. The romanticism and tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, of course. And the magical fantasy of The Tempest. Then... There’s the madness of Hamlet.” “I—” Words apparently fail her. So I give a shrug and modestly say, “They’re not first editions or from the original Globe, but they are from the Globe.”

"Are you sure these Author's biography is on the syllabus?" "Read or fail?" I purse my lips with a dismissing sigh. "It’s a hugely readable book, since B**e is happy to speculate – drawing on what evidence is available – as to many of the great mysteries of Shakespeare’s life and work, such as the identity of the ‘Mr W. H.’ to whom the 1609 printing of the Sonnets was dedicated. It has been called ‘the best modern book on Shakespeare’ (by RSC founder Sir Peter Hall) and is essential reading for anyone interested in the Bard. Also well worth the read is B**e’s biography of the Bard."

He uses the bottle opener on his keys to flick the cap off his beer. "It's one of Shakespeare's history plays," I say. "Which makes it sound boring, but it's not. It's much more interesting than Hamlet, if you ask me." Back in tenth grade when they tried to force me to read Hamlet, I ended up watching the movie instead. The character Hamlet was still way too whiny for my tastes, but at least it was over faster. When my grandmother bought me this giant Complete Works of Shakespeare volume the following year for Christmas, I'd popped it onto my bookshelf without even cracking the spine. I never thought it would come in handy. "It's all about the War of the Roses," I tell Justin. "Lots of plott