Books by William Shakespeare

Based on the 1608 quarto of "King Lear", this commentary aims to help readers understand the language and dramaturgy of the play, in relation to the theatres in which it was performed.

Together, these verses give a comprehensive view of shakespeare the poet by assembling all the well-known passages together with less familiar but equally powerful extracts.

Based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale the central themes of play are the claims of love and friendship. The introduction offers an illuminating account of Shakespeare's collaboration with his younger colleague John Fletcher, and there are full and helpful notes on unfamiliar words, stage business, allusions, and the play's often complex language.

This edition of one of Shakespeare's more neglected plays offers a wide-ranging critical introduction, concentrating on its relevance to Elizabethan political issues and on the role played in it by women, by legal concepts and practices, and by the family. Full and helpful annotation pays special attention to the play's language and staging.

A complete and annotated edition of Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, including the sonnets, "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece".

Simple and engaging on the surface, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery. Peter Holland traces the material out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows, and the strange but enchanting amalgam he makes of them.

Written near the end of Shakespeare's creative period, this play is perhaps the most ambitious of all Shakespeare's designs in its geographical and historical sweep. A critical section examines how the technique of the play may have contributed to the disappointment of various performances.

Titus Andronicus was the young Shakespeare's audacious, sporadically brilliant experiment in sensational tragedy. E.M. Waith provides a fresh view of the play in its historical context and an illustrated account of performances leads to an assessment of the play's qualities in the light of its critical reception.

This is the full text of "Twelfth Night or What You Will" a tale of shipwrecked twins, love, and mistaken identity.

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of "The Taming of the Shrew "on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains

Hamlet with Anton Lesser in the title role and supported by Edward de Souza, Susan Engel, Emma Fielding and Heathcote Williams.

A Scottish nobleman murders the king in order to succeed to the throne. Tortured by his conscience and fearful of discovery, he becomes tangled in a web of treachery and deceit that ultimately spells his doom. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Over 150 exquisite poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's evanescence, death, and other themes in language of remarkable power, precision, and beauty. Glossary of archaic terms.

The sonnets in this collection divide into two parts; the first 126 are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive love and the second chronicles his love for the notorious "Dark Lady". In addition to the sonnets, this volume includes two lengthy poems on classical themes.

Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world's literature.

The everyman Signet Shakespeare series continues with the first volume of Comedies containing THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. LOVES LABOUR'S LOST, ROMEO AND JULIET (sic) and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Sir Toby Belch and his companion outwit the pretentious Malvolio, who despite suffering their most outrageous and insulting practical jokes, emerges as an almost noble figure.

The Everyman Complete Shakespeare will publish the History plays in two volumes. The text of the plays is accompainied by extensive notes, author chronology, bibliography and a detailed introduction to each play and to Shakespeare's history plays in general by Tony Tanner.

Shakespearean comedy has as much to do with the structure and movement of the drama as with the wit of its dialogue or the humour of its characters. This title contains four comedies wherein there is a near-tragic crisis at which disaster or happiness may ensue.

The series of which this title forms a part examines the way in which all the major editions of Shakespeare's plays have been interpolated by a series of editors who have been systematically changing Shakespeare's texts from the 18th century onwards. This text looks at "Measure for Measure".

In this volume, Tony Tanner introduces Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies - "Hamlet", "Othello", "Macbeth" and "King Lear".

An active approach to Shakespeare in the classroom.

An active approach to Shakespeare in the classroom.

Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages.