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One of Shakespeare's most popular plays including information on Shakespeare and the theatre. Viola and Sebastian are twins separated after a shipwreck. Twelfth Night is a companion piece to As You Like It.

This edition of The Tempest is the first dedicated to its stage history. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, it examines four centuries of mainstream, regional, and fringe productions in Britain (including Dryden and Davenant's Restoration adaptation), nineteenth- and twentieth-century American stagings, and recent Australian, Canadian, French, Italian, and Japanese productions. In a substantial, illustrated Introduction Dymkowski analyses the cultural...

Officially designated as lacking education, skills, merits or recommendations, Gully Foyle has managed to survive for 170 days in the airless purgatory of deep space after the wreck of his ship, and has escaped to Earth carrying a murderous grudge and secret that could change the course of history.

The tale of the crew of the tuna-fishing boat Cairo which began its storm-plagued trip off the coast of Costa Rica and ended with their rescue 142 days later, on June 14, 1988, having drifted 4000 miles in the Pacific Ocean.

Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's farce about two pairs of twins involved in an elaborate series of mistaken identities.

After a shipwreck, twin siblings Viola and Sebastian wash up on the shores of Illyria. Viola, disguised as a man named Cesario, takes up service with the Duke Orsino, who is madly in love with the Lady Olivia. But Olivia is in mourning over her brother's death, so Orsino sends Cesario over as an emissary of love, except that Olivia falls for Viola!

Severin travels the Pacific and Caribbean investigating stories of survival that made have inspired Defoe to create Robinson Crusoe.

In 1881, 25 men led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely sailed from the harbor of St. John's, Newfoundland. Their destination was Lady Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they planned to collect a wealth of scientific data from a vast area of the world's surface that had been described by a British admiral as a 'sheer blank.' Three years later, only six survivors returned, with a daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny, and cannibalism.