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How I met Myself (Level 3)
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How I met Myself (Level 3)How I met Myself (Level 3)

One icy winter's evening in Budapest, John Taylor is on his way home from the office when a man runs into him and knocks him over. The man turns to say sorry and John is amazed at what he sees: the man is John's double. The double rushes away but leaves no footprints in the snow. Over the next year it becomes clear to John that the meeting was no accident and that his double has a very important message to give him.
 
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Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet - (The New Cambridge Shakespeare, Updated Edition)Romeo and Juliet - (The New Cambridge Shakespeare, Updated Edition)

Professor Evans helps the reader to visualise the stage action of Romeo and Juliet, a vital element in the play's significance and useful to students approaching it for the first time. The history of the play in the theatre is accompanied by illustrations of notable productions from the eighteenth century onwards. A lucid commentary alerts the reader to the difficulties of language, thought and staging.
 
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Macbeth
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Macbeth - (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)Macbeth - (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)

This is the most extensively annotated edition of Macbeth currently available, offering a thorough reconsideration of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays.
 
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Measure for Measure
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Measure for Measure - The New Cambridge Shakespeare, UpdatedMeasure for Measure - The New Cambridge Shakespeare, Updated

Since the rediscovery of Elizabethan stage conditions early in the twentieth century, admiration for Measure for Measure has steadily risen. It is now a favourite with the critics and has attracted widely different styles of performance. At one extreme, the play is seen as a religious allegory; at the other, it has been interpreted as a comedy protesting against power and privilege.
 
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Othello
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Othello - The New Cambridge Shakespeare, Updated EditionOthello - The New Cambridge Shakespeare, Updated Edition

Professor Sanders provides a full analysis of the textual problem and theories of transmission of Othello, and offers possible solutions to the stylistic and racial problems which face modern readers and spectators. His edition includes contemporary maps of Venice and Cyprus, photographs of famous actors who have played the leading roles, and reconstructions of staging at the Globe and Blackfriars Theatres.

 
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