Wasatch County Library

"Othello" by William Shakespeare is a captivating tale of love, jealousy, and the destructive power of deceit. Set against the backdrop of Venice, this timeless tragedy follows the noble Moorish general Othello as he falls deeply in love with the beautiful Desdemona. However, their happiness is short-lived as the ensign Iago, consumed by jealousy and ambition, begins to manipulate Othello into believing that Desdemona has been unfaithful. What unfolds...

General discussion of Shakespeare's life, world and Theater.Dramatic criticism from the past and the present.

Twenty of Shakespeare's plays, including both tragedies and comedies, retold in prose.

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of supposition arranged around scant facts. With his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, and, emulating the style of his travelogues, records episodes in his own research. He celebrates Shakespeare...

This is a prose retelling of William Shakespeare's play about two young people who fall in love despite their families' age-old feud.

This is a prose retelling of William Shakespeare's play about a power-hungry Scottish nobleman and his wife and their seizing of Scotland's throne.

This is a retelling of Shakespeare's "Hamlet," the story of a grieving young prince and his obsession with bringing his father's killer to justice.

Professor Raphael Shargel channels his passion for teaching and expertise as a Shakespearean scholar into this illuminative study of the Immortal Bard's eight great comedies. Shakespeare's genius is as readily apparent in these comedies as in his timeless tragedies. Often marked by internal and external conflicts, young lovers struggling for union, mistaken identities, and intertwining plots, Shakespeare's comedies to this day reveal the master's...

A boy playing among the warehouses of London kicks a soccer ball into an abandoned theater. There he finds an enchanted cape that transports him back in time right onto the stage of one of William Shakespeare's plays!

"A literary analysis of the play Hamlet. Includes information on the history and culture of Elizabethan England"--Provided by publisher.