Ergebnis für "Shakespeare" in Comedy & Humor

Prinz Hamlet von Dänemark wird nach einer dramatischen Flucht inklusive Schiffbruch am Strand des mystischen Landes Illyria angeschwemmt. Hier herrscht König Macbeth mit seiner Lady und versucht mit aller Kraft, eine Rebellion in Schach zu halten und den aufrührerischen Emporkömmling Richard III in seine Schranken zu weisen. Ist Hamlet der lang ersehnte Schattenkönig, den die Prophezeiung vorausgesagt hat?

Wenn ein Mann und eine Frau sich das Leben teilen, ist das ja schon schwierig. Aber wenn Mann und Frau sich auch noch ein und denselben Körper teilen...

Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star...

Dive into the hilarity of The Comedy of Errors, one of William Shakespeares earliest and shortest plays, crafted between 1592 and 1594. This farcical comedy brings to life the chaotic tale of two sets of identical twins, inadvertently separated at birth. When Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio arrive in Ephesus, they unknowingly stumble into the lives of their twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus and Dromio of Ephesus. The ensuing chaos spirals into a whirlwind of slapstick humor, mistaken identities, wrongful beatings, near-seduction, and wild accusations of theft, infidelity, and ...

Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Marcus Antonius and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumviri and the future first emperor of Rome. The tragedy is a Roman play characterized by swift, panoramic shifts in geographical locations and in registers,...

Shakespeare meets Dashiell Hammett in this wildly entertaining murder mystery from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore—an uproarious, hardboiled take on the Bard’s most performed play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring Pocket, the hero of Fool and The Serpent of Venice...

A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly awaited sequel to the cult classic of anhedonic academe, the Thurber Prize-winning Dear...

Hot on the heels of the New York Times bestseller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next installment of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back. Many a fortnight have passed since the destruction of the Death Star. Young Luke Skywalker and his friends...

A master of Russian realism, Anton Chekhov is renowned for his meticulously observed plays and short stories exploring the human condition, in all its joys and sorrows. Included here are six of his best-known dramas, as well as Michael Frayn's adaptation of Wild Honey, drawn from an early, untitled Chekhov play; and one documentary exploring Chekhov's life and work.

In this BBC full-cast production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius and Helena run to the woods and stumble into a life separate from time itself. Fairy magic wreaks havoc and midsummer madness takes over as lovers tread the delicate line between fantasy and reality...

Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the final installment of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return. Prithee, attend the tale so far: Han Solo entombed in carbonite, the princess taken captive, the Rebel Alliance...

Forty-somethings Fred and Nel embark on an Arctic cruise with a pair of long-time university friends. What they haven’t counted on is the presence of a further journalist friend Heather, and her nemesis, a climate change-denying American oilman called Marvin Ridley. With a potential superpower conflict over oil also now brewing in the background, Fred and Nel discover that this is a journey to the end of the earth in more ways than one.

A reimagining of one of Shakespeare's most well-read tragedies, by the contemporary, critically acclaimed master of domestic drama Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two...

Die Erzählungen des Zyklus "Da Shakespeare auf Bairisch" verweisen mit hintergründigem Humor und kabarettistischem Augenzwinkern darauf, dass die wahre Quelle von Shakespeares weltbekannten Dramen in Leben und Tradition jenes eigensinnigen Volkes am Nordrand der Alpen, inmitten in der "Föhnzone", zu finden ist. So gelingt es Prinz Hamlet, auch Hamlodi genannt, mit Unterstützung der Wandetruppe eines bairischen Volkstheaters den schnöden Mord an seinem königlichen Vater zu enträtseln.

Historiker wie Literatursachverständige streiten seit Jahrhunderten über die wahre Identität des englischen Autors William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616). Unumstritten ist, dass dieser ein ganz besonders Talent hatte, dem Volk wie auch der Obrigkeit direkt aufs Maul und ins Herz zu schauen. Der Zyklus? Da Shakespeare auf Bairisch? Verweist hier mit viel hintergründigem Humor und großem Augenzwinkern darauf, dass der wahre Ursprung des Shakespeare? In Leben und Tradition jenes eigensinnigen Volkes am Nordrand der Alpen inmitten in der Föhnzone zu finden ist.

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s “late plays.” It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through a series of...

Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most unforgettable characters: Shylock Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, Shylock is juxtaposed...

Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty...

A dazzling collection of comedies from the later Restoration period England's 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 and the reign of new monarchs William and Mary signified a turning point for Restoration comedy with laws being passed to restrict playwrights' freedoms. The latter years are marked by a...

Historiker wie Literatursachverständige streiten seit Jahrhunderten über die wahre Identität des englischen Autors William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616). Unumstritten ist, dass dieser ein ganz besonders Talent hatte, dem Volk wie auch der Obrigkeit direkt aufs Maul und ins Herz zu schauen. Der Zyklus "Da Shakespeare auf Bairisch" verweist hier mit viel hintergründigem Humor und großem Augenzwinkern darauf, dass der wahre Ursprung des Shakespeare'schen Œuvre in Leben und Tradition jenes eigensinnigen Volkes am Nordrand der Alpen inmitten in der Föhnzone zu finden ist.