Thomas Goddard Bergin

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1) The taming of the shrew

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New Folger Library Shakespeare
No fear Shakespeare
The Works of Shakespeare edited for the syndics of Cambridge University Press
A Bantam classic
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Love and marriage and coming to terms with the mate one has chosen are examined in this comedy of cross purposes when a father stipulates that his elder, and shrewish daughter, must be married before the younger.

2) The divine comedy

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Dante Alighieri

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Vintage classics
Great books of the Western World v. 21
Classic collection)
Crofts classics
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Nobel Laureates

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"This convenient single-volume edition contains all three parts of Dante's 14th-century poem; Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso; in an acclaimed translation by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Combining classical and Christian history as well as medieval politics and religion, this trilogy of sublime verse is among Western civilization's most important artistic works and essential reading for students of literature and history. Dante's allegory...