Shakespeare Plays

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's ambiguous, bittersweet fairy tale. With an expert introduction b...

'What is honour? A word. What is in that word 'honour'? What is that 'honour'? Air.' A history play that combines a coming-of-age narrative with a...

'Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the King's English.' The Merry Wives of Windsor is the only Shakespeare play named entirely aft...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's anarchic comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bat...

Rome was a recurring theme throughout Shakespeare's career, from the celebrated Julius Caesar, to the more obscure Cymbeline. In this book, Paul In...

Theatre

'Cry "havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war' Set against the backdrop of a nation breaking out into civil war, Julius Caesar raises questions of go...

'Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.' In Shakespeare's first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, the Ro...

'Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues We write in water.' Henry VIII or All is True is Shakespeare's retelling of one of the defining p...

'I see a man's life is a tedious one.' Set in Ancient Britain, Cymbeline is a play of deceit, disguise, banishment, and fidelity against the backd...

'For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings' Crowned as a child, Richard II only knows power. The King...

'How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!' The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's most farcical plays, with not one but two sets of twins sli...

We share with Shakespeare, it seems, the assumption that to be human is to be an interpreter of oneself, others and the world seeking but not alwa...

This book explores the possibilities and limitations of violence on the Early Modern stage and in the Early Modern world. This collection is divide...

African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies, and experimentations that have ...

Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism aims to articulate the reception of Shakespeare by the 19th-century Indian intelligentsia from Bengal and their ...

Explores disturbing connections between authors and informers revealed in the metadrama of Shakespeare and JonsonHave you ever wondered what was re...

The first comprehensive and fully systematic study of all soliloquies and solo asides in Shakespeare's playsThe Shakespearean Inside is a study of ...