Shakespeare Plays

This book offers a theoretical rationale for the emerging presentist movement in Shakespeare studies and goes on to show, in a series of close read...

Long regarded as a problem play, Measure for Measure has provoked much critical disagreement. Staged during James I's first Christmas at Whitehall,...

This monograph is the first history of ballets based on William Shakespeares works from the birth of ballet as an independent art form in the eight...

Perhaps the most important, difficult, and unresolved issue in Shakespeare studies is the question of Lears last lines; the whole meaning of Shakes...

This book will serve to help the reader of Shakespeares plays by providing an introduction to the various literary critical issues that this great ...

This book will serve to help the reader of Shakespeares plays by providing an introduction to the various literary critical issues that this great ...

Shakespeares King Lear is often called his mightiest play. This comprehensive edition by S. Nagarajan (who edited the evergreen Signet edition of M...

This tragi-comedy is one of the plays we know Shakespeare worked with a collaborator on -- John Fletcher -- and is based on Chaucer's Knight's Tal...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's epic retelling of the Wars of the Roses. With an expert introduct...

From Allie Esiri, editor of the bestselling A Poem for Every Day of the Year and A Poem for Every Night of the Year, comes this beautiful gift anth...

The brilliant mind behind the Secret Tory presents 14 years of Tory rule as told by William Shakespeare 'O, ...

I wish I had copies like this at Drama School. Essential notes on the language for those who will get up and speak it, not purely for those who wil...

This book presents an innovative, scientifically grounded interpretation of Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice. It offers solutions to problems in...

This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes all of Shakespeares plays, poems and sonnets, edite...

A master at engaging students in the process of performing a Shakespearescene.—Janet Field-Pickering, head of education, Folger Shakespeare Library...

A truly fun, emotional, and sometimes magical first experience, usually guided by a sagacious, knowledgeable, and intuitive educator. Library Journ...

Othello famously supplicates, 'Speak of me as I am', pleading for the Venetians to 'nothing extenuate', leave out, or make thin (5.2.352). Othello'...

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...

The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commenta...

This book examines the adaptations of Amleth, a legendary Danish prince, in different works including Ur-Hamlet, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Rosencrantz ...

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by...

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in Engl...

Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War illuminates the ways Shakespeare's works provid...

Described by the TLS as 'a formidable bibliographical achievement destined to become a key reference work for Shakespeareans', Shakespeare in Prin...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The First Folio (1623) text, accompanied by the editors preface and detailed explanatory annotations. A r...