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Romeo and Juliet
This book is the most familiar love classic among Shakespeare's plays. In this play, Shakespeare highlights the sharp conflict between humanistic ideals of love and feudal concepts and feudal forces. He linked the fate of young people with the safety of the entire city where they lived. The bloody vendetta between feudal families not only caused the love tragedy of young people, but also brought disaster to the city. In the script, themes common in historical dramas condemning feudal disputes an
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Wuthering Heights
"Wuthering Heights" is the masterpiece of Emily Brontë (1818-1848), the second sister of the three famous Brontë sisters in the British literary world. It is a shocking "strange novel". The abandoned child Hickley and his childhood sweetheart Catherine, the only daughter of the owner of "Wuthering Heights", eventually parted ways due to the pressure of the world. After Catherine's tragic early death, Hickley's affection turned into full of resentment, and he launched a crazy revenge on everyone
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One Thousand and One Nights
A collection of Arabic folktales. According to legend, there was a country between India and China in ancient times. The king was cruel and jealous by nature. He killed the queen because of her misbehavior. After that, he married a girl every day and killed her the next morning as revenge. In order to save the innocent woman, the prime minister's daughter voluntarily married the king. She told the story to attract the king. Every night she told the most exciting part. At dawn, the king couldn't
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Catching Wind and Shadow
Created during Shakespeare's most mature period of comedy writing, the content is lively, joyful, and philosophical. Compared to Shakespeare's other comedies. The characteristic of this play is that the scenes and language are closer to real life. Claudio fell in love with Hero, but was afraid of being rejected. As a result, his friend Don Pietro came to help and arranged a unique masquerade ball to bring them together. Just when everyone thought that everything would have a happy ending, Don Jo
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Merchant of Venice
"The Merchant of Venice" is Shakespeare's important early work and a highly satirical comedy. It was made around 1596-1597. The theme of the script is to praise benevolence, friendship and love. It also reflects the contradiction between the commercial bourgeoisie and loan sharks in the early stage of capitalism, and expresses the author's humanistic thoughts on issues such as money, law and religion in bourgeois society. An important literary achievement of this play is to create the typical im
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Henry IV (Two Volumes)
"Henry IV" is the most successful and popular of Shakespeare's historical dramas, and is regarded as the representative work of Shakespeare's historical dramas. The main content of this work is to reflect the process of Henry IV and his princes' desperate struggle against the rebellious princes and nobles. Shakespeare breaks through the network structure of traditional historical dramas in which multiple clues intertwine and develop, and adopts a structure in which two clues develop in parallel
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is the most mature comedy work of the British playwright William Shakespeare in his youth. It is also one of William Shakespeare's most famous comedies. It tells a love story in which lovers finally get married.
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The Decameron (Set of Volumes 1 and 2)
The work "The Decameron (Set Volume 1 and 2)" tells the story of ten young men and women who took refuge in a villa during the plague epidemic in Florence in 1348. They feasted all day long, each telling a story every day, and told a hundred stories in ten days, hence the name "The Decameron". Many of the stories are based on historical events and medieval legends. In "The Decameron", Boccaccio praised real life, praised love as the source of wisdom and beautiful sentiments, condemned asceticism
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The Decameron (Two Volumes)
"The Decameron" is the first realist masterpiece in the history of European literature. It tells the story of 10 young men and women who took refuge in a villa during the plague epidemic in Florence in 1348. They feasted all day long and each told a story every day. They told 100 stories in 10 days, hence the name "The Decameron". Many of the stories are based on historical events and medieval legends. In "The Decameron", Boccaccio eulogized worldly life, praised love as the source of wisdom and
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Hamlet
Hamlet is the longest of all Shakespeare's plays. This play is the most frequently performed play by the Royal Shakespeare Company, formerly known as the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. One of the world's famous tragedies and Shakespeare's most famous play, it has profound tragic significance, complex characters and rich and perfect tragic artistic techniques, and represents the highest achievement of the entire Western Renaissance literature. Together with "Macbeth", "King Lear" and "Othello", it
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