Plays, Playscripts

Both a witty satire of literary cliché and a tender meditation on the varieties of love, As You Like It continues to be one of Shakespeares most be...

Upon opening their expensive new book in 1623, buyers of the folio collection of William Shakespeares plays were promised The Life of Henry the Fif...

Neither comedy nor tragedy, The Winters Tale contains elements of each genre, and defies easy classification. It experiments, like many of Shakespe...

The Merchant of Venice is best known for its complex and ambiguous portrait of the Jewish moneylender Shylockand of European anti-Semitism. Fascina...

Twelfth Night has seldom been off the stage since Shakespeares day. It has been performed for its romantic high comedy and its boisterous low comed...

Canadians have enjoyed a long history of encounters with Shakespeare, from the visual arts to creative new adaptations, from traditional and nontra...

A Midsummer Nights Dream, one of Shakespeares most popular works for the stage and widely performed across the world, is now available as a Norton ...

This edition of Sir Thomas More is the first to bring the play into the context of a major Shakespeare series, to provide a substantial critical an...

Often described as one of Shakespeares problem plays, Measure for Measure explores issues of mercy and justice in corrupt Vienna. The Duke makes hi...

More troubled and troubling than King Henry IV Part 1, the play continues the story of King Henrys decline and Hals reform. Though Part 2 echoes th...

A beautiful set of playing cards featuring illustrations of Shakespeare's most famous characters.Play your favourite card games with Romeo and Juli...