Speeches, Soliloquies, and Songs From the Plays

Speeches, Soliloquies, & Songs From the Plays brings together in one place the most famous and important passages from over thirty of Shakespeare's plays. At their core the plays of Shakespeare are poetry, and the essential passages from the plays form perhaps the most important and influential body of poetic work in all of English literature. This collection contains those passages that are the most well-known and most highly studied among scholars, actors, and general audiences, and includes some of the most sublime and timeless poetry found in the English language.