Books like A Midsummer Night's Dream
Athens's rulers, four confused young lovers, a troupe of amateur actors rehearsing a tragedy, and a wood full of fairies collide over one summer night in the most performed comedy in English.
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Romeo and Juliet
Two teenagers from warring Verona households fall in love at a masked ball and spend four days outrunning the city's entire machinery of adult hate before it kills them both.
Othello
A Moorish general in the service of Venice marries a senator's daughter and is talked, by a man who tells him he is his friend, into murdering her on their wedding sheets.
Arms and the Man
A play: in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War, a Swiss mercenary fleeing the rout climbs into the bedroom of Raina, a romantic young Bulgarian engaged to the hero of the hour.
Pygmalion
A play: Professor Henry Higgins, an expert in phonetics, bets his friend Colonel Pickering that he can pass Eliza Doolittle, a Covent Garden flower girl, off as a duchess within months.
The Bonds of Interest
A play in the commedia dell'arte style: two penniless adventurers, the clever Crispín and his master Leandro, arrive in a rich city and talk their way into credit, society and a fortune.
The Robber Bridegroom
On the old Natchez Trace a planter's daughter is courted by a gentleman bandit, in a Mississippi fairy tale that crosses the Brothers Grimm with frontier legend.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jack calls himself Ernest in town and Algernon visits an invented invalid friend called Bunbury in the country, and their courtship of Gwendolen and Cecily, who both insist on marrying a man named Ernest, collapses into comic confusion.
Still Life with Woodpecker
Princess Leigh-Cheri, an exiled royal and environmentalist, falls for Bernard Mickey Wrangle, an outlaw bomber known as the Woodpecker, in a love story built out of dynamite, pyramids, a pack of Camels and the moon.
The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Across one long night in Kyoto, a black-haired college freshman sets off alone to drink and explore, and the upperclassman who adores her keeps contriving to cross her path, through bars, a used-book fair and a festival.
Howl's Moving Castle
A young hatmaker cursed by a witch to be an old woman takes shelter in the walking castle of a vain young wizard whose demon is burning through a contract with his heart.
Skinny Legs and All
A can of beans, a dirty sock, a painted stick, and the Dance of the Seven Veils become vehicles for a novel about religion, art, politics, and the third eye.
Medea
A woman scorned by her husband murders their children in an act of revenge that has haunted literature for two and a half millennia.