Much Ado About Nothing is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare. It’s a story about how love makes us do ridiculous things and this is a topic that Shakespeare revisits in his later plays. Much Ado About Nothing is about how a young man from war falls in love with a nobleman’s daughter, which is the complete opposite of his friend’s annoyance with the
Macbeth is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Considered to be one of his greatest plays, Macbeth is about heroic Scottish warrior Macbeth who starts to get taken over by his ambition when three evil witches tell him that he is destined to become the king of Scotland.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a fantasy play written by William Shakespeare. The play is about two worlds: the fairy world and the human world. In the fairy world, King Oberon and Queen Titania are having some arguments and Oberon has decided to play a trick on Titania so that she can see the errors of her ways and come back apologizing to Oberon. In the human world, two secret lovers are running away from arranged marriages while the arranged
Antony and Cleopatra is a play written by William Shakespeare, and is a continuation of Mark Antony’s story from Julius Caesar, though it isn’t necessary to read the former. However, a theme of continuation from the first play into the second play is that there is no good or bad in the world, or rather, there is no certainly that good will always remain good. This
Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and is personally one of my favorite works from him. It’s about Roman general Julius Caesar, a very strong and brilliant, if not arrogant, man who is ultimately assassinated by a couple Romans after they learn that he would become the emperor of Rome. This launches Rome into an all-out Civil War. I love this book because it shows that there is no clear right or wrong in this world. Shakespeare is careful
As You Like It is a comedy written by William Shakespeare, and it proves that William Shakespeare was one of the most meta writers of his time. The story revolves around Rosalind, who is a young and beautiful woman who lives with her cousin and uncle because her father, Duke Senior, was banished to the forest. She’s best friends with her cousin, Celia, but her uncle, Duke Frederick, is less than fond of her because he thinks she’s stealing the attention from his
Twelfth Night is a play by Shakespeare and is unique because of how it comments about gender roles in an era where it was unusual. The story is about a young woman who disguises herself as a man to get a job after getting shipwrecked (and she ends up thinking she loses her brother, even though he survives) and gets caught in the romance of two aristocrats while also having to deal with romantic problems herself. A writer with this kind of story would
The Tempest is Shakespeare’s last play, and one of his most magical. The play is about a wizard, Prospero, who wrecks a ship carrying some people who’ve previously wronged him and manipulates the survivors to exact his revenge and return to his role as the Duke of Milan. But be warned: everything is not as it seems, and the ending of this book carries a lesson that I’ve remembered since reading this book. I love the story of this book because unlike his other
Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare is one of the greatest playwrights of all time and one of the biggest influences on English literature, and Romeo and Juliet is considered to be one of his greatest works. The play takes place in Verona, where Romeo and Juliet meet each other and fall in love. This isn’t any regular love
Atonement written by Ian McEwan is a piece of historical fiction that follows the lives of the Tallis family in the early to mid 20th century. The reader follows the sisters Briony and Cecilia Tallis and the groundskeeper's son Robbie Turner on a hot summer’s day in the family’s household as they prepare for the eldest Tallis son to return from college. Briony is an imaginative and naive 13 year old girl trying to convince her visiting cousins to perform her written play.
