Arcadia Public Library

"Including life of the author, brief summary of the play, time sequence, list of characters, summaries & commentaries, character analyses, critical analysis, review questions, selected bibliography."

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

Shakespeare's comedy play Much Ado About Nothing pivots around the impediments to love for young betrothed Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of infidelity and the "lover's trap" set for the arrogant and assured Benedick who has sworn of marriage and his gentle adversary Beatrice. The merry war between Benedick and Beatrice with the promptings of their friends soon dissolves into farcical love, while Hero's supposed infidelity

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Professor Higgins attempts to transform an unkempt London flower girl into a society belle.

A dramatization of Anne Frank: Diary of a young girl.

""Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen, when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Like her, neither audiences nor critics could get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the...

Presents an annotated text of Shakespeare's tragedy about the Prince of Denmark, and includes background essays, extracts from the sources, and critical commentary.

Algernon pretends to be Jack's troublesome younger brother, in Wilde's satirical assault on nineteenth-century fashions, manners, and morality.

Presents the text of Shakespeare's tragedy in which Othello, a Moorish general, is led by a jealous and evil ensign to believe his wife, Desdemona, has been unfaithful, and includes explanatory notes, background, critical essays, and other reference material.

Truculent, hard drinking, pretentious Irish immigrant in Massachusetts stands in the way of his daughter's marriage to an American. Irish dialect, 4 acts, 7 men, 3 women, 1 interior.