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The "Shakespeare at Stratford" series discusses and analyzes the wide range of theatrical interpretation stimulated and provoked by the most frequently performed plays. The focus is on productions at Stratford-upon-Avon since 1945.

Shakespeare's tragedy of one of the most famous assassinations in the world at an epoch-changing time in history.

"All the world's a stage." Shakespeare's beloved pastoral comedy is now available in a Norton Critical Edition.

William Shakespeare's great Roman tragedy of adultery amid political conflict is now available in a richly documented and illustrated Norton Critical Edition.

The Merchant of Venice is best known for its complex and ambiguous portrait of the Jewish moneylender Shylock--and of European anti-Semitism. Fascinating in its engagement with prejudice, the play is also a comedy of cross-dressing and disguise, and a dramatic exploration of justice, mercy, and vengeance. This volume contains the full text of the play with explanatory footnotes and marginal glosses for contemporary readers. An extensive introduction and well-rounded selection of background materials not only illuminate anti-Semitism in early modern England but also provide context for other facets of the play, including its comic plot of love and marriage, its examination of commerce and international trade, and its themes of revenge and the law.

Measure for Measure is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists and classroom notes.

Richard II is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This Oxford School Shakespeare edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists and classroom notes.

Covered in this book is the study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his friends, and, when he is finally impoverished, learns to despise humanity with a hatred that drives him to his grave. This edition offers a commentary on the play, as well as a discussion of Thomas Middleton's collaboration with Shakespeare.

Deftly combining history and tragedy, Shakespeare's tale of bad government and usurpation had great political immediacy for its first audiences. This version of the text is based on the early quartos and first Folio of 1623. It is complemented by an introduction that places the play in its own time, thorough textual notes, and full commentary.

Propeller's blood-chilling staging of the famous play on this most famous tyrant. Features details and photos of the production, including notes on the design and music.

This volume includes the text of Twelfth Night as prepared and annotated by David Swain for The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, and is accompanied by the excellent introduction and supplementary materials from the anthology. The diverse and extensive appendices acquaint readers with Shakespeare's sources and contextualize the play within Elizabethan society.

In William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night, a young woman finds herself shipwrecked on the shore of Illyria. Her twin brother is missing, presumed drowned. All alone in a strange land, Viola decides to disguise herself as a man for safety. And so the comedy begins! This play contains a new introduction, character notes and exam themes.

Here in a handy paperback format are all Shakespeare's tragedies (there are companion volumes of the histories and comedies), with brief introduction, and the texts established by "The Complete Oxford Shakespeare", which was re-edited from the original editions.

Here in a paperback format are all Shakespeare's comedies (there are companion volumes of the histories and tragedies), with brief introductions, and the texts established by "The Complete Oxford Shakespeare", which was re-edited from the original editions.

Here in a handy paperback format are all Shakespeare's histories (there are companion volumes of the comedies and tragedies), with brief introductions, and the texts established by "The Complete Oxford Shakespeare", which was re-edited from the original editions.

One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso theatrical and poetic means to dramatize a story of a marriage imperilled by mistrust and painfully rebuilt, in a context of international conflict. This edition emphasizes the play's theatrical impact and pays close attention to its complex, evocative language.

Challenging conventional thinking about the earliest texts of the play, Martin chooses the Folio version, contributing new evidence about Shakespeare's methods of revision. The introduction discusses the meaning and appeal of the play's action, language, and anti-war themes, and describes its history in the theatre; and the commentary supplies historical information and clarifies meaning.

This new edition of one of Shakespeare's greatest history plays offers a freshly considered text fully alert to its intense theatrical aspects. A helpful Introduction discusses the play's structure, language, and performance history, and the notes provide an illuminating commentary on details of the text.

Despite the foundational place of Shakespeare's poems within his oeuvre, modern readers seldom engage with his non-dramatic works as a whole. This volume, which inludes all Shakespeare's sonnets and poems, explains how this state of affairs has arisen, and why it should be changed.

This edition of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" offers modernized texts of both the 1599 "good" quarto and the short, or "bad" quarto of 1597, regarding each as an independent witness to a "mobile text" which changed in composition as Shakespeare wrote it.

Much Ado About Nothing is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.

Twelfth Night is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.

Julius Caesar is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.

The Merchant of Venice is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.

This edition had a profound influence on Shakespeare scholarship marking a crucial change in 18th century attitudes to Shakespeare and the canon of English literature, as well as setting new standards of collaborative textual scholarship

Prospero, the Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda are far away from home, alone on an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. They want to return to Milan... Then, one day, Prospero sees a ship near the island carrying his greatest enemies. Prospero, with the help of his magic and the island spirit, Ariel, makes a magic storm - a tempest - to bring them to the island.

The text, with few departures, is that of the First Quarto (1598) edition of the play.

In The Tragedy of King Richard III, Shakespeare chronicles the rise and fall of one of history's most repellent, and the theater's most mesmerizing, figures.

As You Like It is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.