Books by William Shakespeare

Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies. This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation, Othello is arguably the most topical and accessible tragedy from Shakespeare's major phase as a dramatist. Productions on stage and screen regularly renew its power to engross, impress and trouble the imagination.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. This edition of Romeo and first published in 1879, is now thoroughly revised on the same general plan as its predecessors in the new series. While I have omitted most of the notes on textual variations, I have retained a sufficient number to illus trate the curious and significant differences between the first and second quartos. Among the many new notes are some calling attention to portions of the early draft of the play - some of them very bad - which Shakespeare left unchanged when he revised it.

¿Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner: come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.¿ Desperately broke, Falstaff sends love letters to wealthy ladies in the hopes of securing their hearts and wallets. Unconcerned that they are already married, he underestimates their capacity for revenge. The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare.

¿Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, / Not utt'red by base sale of chapmen's tongues¿¿ The King of Navarre and three noblemen take an oath of chastity, committing themselves to three years without women. When the Princess of France comes to court on royal business, the King falls in love. Love¿s Labour¿s Lost is a comedy by William Shakespeare.