Presents William Shakespeare's comedy "Measure for Measure" side by side with scene summaries and explanatory notes, and provides background on Shakespeare, the text, and the play's context, and discussion questions, activities, and essay and project suggestions.

"Taking its title from the old Jewish quarter of Vienna, Stoppard's epic yet intimate drama centers on Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptized Jew married to Gretl, a Catholic. As the play begins, Gretl is hosting her extended family at their fashionable Vienna apartment at Christmastime, 1899. Yet by the time the play closes, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust,...

"From acclaimed screenwriter Steve Thompson (Sherlock), this thrilling crime drama is set in 1900s Vienna -- a hot bed of philosophy, science and art, where a clash of cultures and ideas collide in the city's grand cafes and opera houses. When Max Liebermann, a disciple of Sigmund Freud, meets Oskar Rheinhardt, a Detective Inspector struggling with a strange case, he agrees to help Oskar investigate a series of unusual and disturbing murders. Max's...

Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music-hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is a bit a mystery to him as it is to Franz.

Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.

"Tom Stoppard presents two works which explore in contrasting ways the workings of Viennese society in the 1890s, setting the upper-class stylized codes of behavior against their effects in practice on human relationships. Dalliance was first performed at the National Theatre in 1986. Undiscovered Country was first produced at the National Theatre in 1979"--Publisher.

1781, Vienna. Court composer Antonio Salieri believes that Mozart's music is divine. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. But he is unable to understand why God favored Mozart who is such a vulgar, bawdy and impish creature, to be his instrument. Salieri goes mad with envy and has made himself an enemy of God. He is set to take revenge and plots to destroy Mozart by any means necessary....

A young American man meets a beautiful French student on a train bound for Paris, falls in love and asks her to share his last night in Vienna.

On the eve of her wedding to a priggish Londoner, a Victorian girl and her dashing music teacher elope to Vienna, where he hopes to sell his music.

Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.