Cedric Thomas Watts Bücher

Professor Watts’s study examines the main phase in Joseph Conrad’s literary development.

The four tales in this volume share autobiographical origins in Conrad's experience at sea and his exile from Poland, the country of his birth. Typhoon is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by tempest, and of the stolid captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit. In Falk a taciturn young woman is bizarrely courted by a tug-boat master who is haunted by a terrible secret. Amy Foster tells of an emigrant Pole struggling to overcome isolation and prejudice in England. The final tale, The Secret Sharer , is Conrad's most famous short story, a masterpiece of suspense and ambiguity. Giving sanctuary to a fugitive sailor, a young sea-captain risks his ship and his command in order to save him. This revised edition uses the English first edition texts and has a new chronology and bibliography.

When J. the narrator, along with George, Harris, and Montmorency the dog, embark on their comedic misadventures, they are unprepared for the chaos involving tow-ropes, erratic weather forecasts, imaginary ailments, butter pats, and tins of pineapple chunks. Although denounced as vulgar by the literary elite, the book captured the zeitgeist of its era. The rise in education and the growing number of office workers fostered a new mass readership, particularly among the 'clerking classes' yearning to escape the relentless pace and striving that plagued nineteenth-century life. Its immense popularity led Jerome to reunite his characters for a bicycle tour of Germany. In this sequel, despite some astute and prophetic observations about the country, the journey is limited only by the need to return within a set timeframe. For over seventy years, Penguin has been a leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, offering more than 1,700 titles that form a global bookshelf of exceptional works across genres and disciplines. Readers rely on the series for authoritative texts, enhanced by introductions and notes from distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as modern translations by award-winning translators.

»Othello«, eine der großen Tragödien Shakespeares, war schon bei der Uraufführung (vermutlich im Jahre 1604) ein großer Erfolg und ist unverändert aktuell. Wir heute sehen in dem Stück Bezüge, die Shakespeares Zeitgenossen aufgrund eines völlig anderen Weltbildes noch entgingen. Diese Ausgabe enthält den englischen Text, eine genaue deutsche Prosaübersetzung, einen Anmerkungsteil und ein Nachwort.

Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext – ungekürzt und unbearbeitet mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Fürst Macbeth, von seiner Frau angestachelt, erschlägt König Duncan, um selbst den Thron von Schottland zu besteigen. Er verstrickt sich in sein Schicksal und versucht, durch blutige Tyrannei seine Position zu sichern. Ein beispielloses Spektakel von Machtgier, Verführung und Mord. Macbeth ist Shakespeares kürzeste, konzentrierteste und eingängigste Tragödie. Englische Lektüre: Niveau B2 (GER)

Based on Plutarch's account of the lives of Brutus, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony, Julius Caesar is the first of Shakespeare's Roman history plays. Presented for the first time in 1599, the play showcases the dramatist's ability to explore and express profound human emotions and instincts. It offers compelling insights into history and human behavior, making it a staple in secondary-school curricula. The drama unfolds as Brutus, Cassius, and other conspirators plot to overthrow Caesar, the dictator of Rome. After Caesar's assassination, Mark Antony skillfully turns the crowd against the conspirators with one of literature's most famous speeches. The ensuing civil war sees the forces of Mark Antony and Octavius Caesar triumph over Cassius and Brutus. Humiliated and desperate, both conspirators choose to end their lives. These tragic events raise profound questions about power, government, ethics, and loyalty, creating a riveting dramatic spectacle that resonates with timeless themes.

Das ist die Geschichte der beiden Liebenden aus Verona, die wegen einer Familienfehde nicht zusammenkommen konnten, ist dank William Shakespeare weltberühmt geworden.

Loose ends and red herrings are the stuff of detective fiction, and under the scrutiny of master sleuths John Sutherland and Cedric Watts Shakespeare's plays reveal themselves to be as full of mysteries as any Agatha Christie novel. Is it summer or winter in Elsinore? Do Bottom and Titania make love? Does Lady Macbeth faint, or is she just pretending? How does a man putrefy within minutes of his death? Is Cleopatra a deadbeat Mum? And why doesn't Juliet ask 'O Romeo Montague, wherefore art thou Montague?' As Watts and Sutherland explore these and other puzzles Shakespeare's genuius becomes ever more apparent. Speculative, critical, good-humoured and provocative, their discussions shed light on apparent anachronisms, performance and stagecraft, linguistics, Star Trek and much else. Shrewd and entertaining, these essays add a new dimension to the pleasure of reading or watching Shakespeare.