The book Enchanted Island,contain eleven different stories from Shakespeare stories are,'A wild-cat for a wife','Bottom the actor','a pound of flesh','Falstaff and prince Hal','God for harry,England and st George','The love-letter','Death of a dictator','Hamlet,prince of Denmark','King Lear of Britain','Murder at dunsinane',and lastly'The enchanted island'.'A wild-cat for a wife'is the story i find that it is more interesting then the other ten story.
THE TEMPEST The story draws heavily on the tradition of the romance, and it was influenced by tragicomedy and the courtly masque,a fictitious narrative set far away from ordinary life.In the story it begins on a boat ,tossed about in a storm. Aboard is Alonzo The King of Naples, Ferdinand, Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzalo, Adrian, Francisco, Trinculo, and Stefano. The storm created by Prospero who crashed the boat, but all survived. Ariel his servant spirit asks when he will be freed. After all that anger was taken out he forgave his enemies including Caliban and grants Ariel his freedom.
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Antonio, a Venetian merchant, complains to his friends of a melancholy that he cannot explain. His friend Bassanio is desperately in need of money to court Portia, a wealthy heiress who lives in the city of Belmont. Bassanio asks Antonio for a loan in order to travel in style to Portia’s estate. Antonio agrees, but is unable to make the loan himself because his own money is all invested in a number of trade ships that are still at sea. Antonio suggests that Bassanio secure the loan from one of the city’s moneylenders and name Antonio as the loan’s guarantor. In Belmont, Portia expresses sadness over the terms of her father’s will, which stipulates that she must marry the man who correctly chooses one of three caskets. None of Portia’s current suitors are to her liking, and she and her lady-in-waiting, Nerissa, fondly remember a visit paid some time before by Bassanio.
HAMLET On a dark winter night, a ghost walks the ramparts of Elsinore Castle in Denmark. Discovered first by a pair of watchmen, then by the scholar Horatio, the ghost resembles the recently deceased King Hamlet, whose brother Claudius has inherited the throne and married the king’s widow, Queen Gertrude. When Horatio and the watchmen bring Prince Hamlet, the son of Gertrude and the dead king, to see the ghost, it speaks to him, declaring ominously that it is indeed his father’s spirit, and that he was murdered by none other than Claudius. Ordering Hamlet to seek revenge on the man who usurped his throne and married his wife, the ghost disappears with the dawn.
TWELFTH-NIGHT In the kingdom of Illyria, a nobleman named Orsino lies around listening to music, pining away for the love of Lady Olivia. He cannot have her because she is in mourning for her dead brother and refuses to entertain any proposals of marriage. Meanwhile, off the coast, a storm has caused a terrible shipwreck. A young, aristocratic-born woman named Viola is swept onto the Illyrian shore. Finding herself alone in a strange land, she assumes that her twin brother, Sebastian, has been drowned in the wreck, and tries to figure out what sort of work she can do. A friendly sea captain tells her about Orsino’s courtship of Olivia, and Viola says that she wishes she could go to work in Olivia’s home. But since Lady Olivia refuses to talk with any strangers, Viola decides that she cannot look for work with her. Instead, she decides to disguise herself as a man, taking on the name of Cesario, and goes to work in the household of Duke Orsino.