Books by William Shakespeare

Dive into Shakespeare and discover twenty simplified stories that will bring the magical world of literature to any young reader.

Dive into Shakespeare and discover twenty simplified stories that will bring the magical world of literature to any young reader.

John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary.

John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary.

John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary.

If you have ever been stuck trying to identify a Shakespearean quote then this is the book for you! With over 3,000 quotes from single lines to quite long extracts organized by topic and by play, this is an essential book for anyone with an interest in Shakespeare.

The Tempest isone of Shakespeare's enduringly popular and much-studied later plays. The introduction has been extended to focus on new scholarship about the play's first production and to take account of major theatre and film versions since first publication in 1999, including Julie Taymor's 2010 film starring Helen Mirren.

For four centuries Twelfth Night has inspired theatre directors and performers. Surveying a dazzling range of Twelfth Night productions - including many significant productions which have not received due critical attention previously - Schafer provides the reader with an indispensable stage history of this popular play, from its first performance to today.

Frantic Assembly fuses a taut adaptation of the classic text with its trademark hard-hitting choreography.

Some are familiar - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? - others unexpected, but together they form an extraordinary meditation on the nature of love, lust, beauty and time.

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This is the first modernized critical edition of Shakespeare's Henry V in the form of its original staging at the Globe in 1599. Andrew Gurr provides a most extensive commentary on the Quarto text of Shakespeare's last English history.

The introduction to this edition of "Troilus and Cressida" places it in its late Elizabethan context, examines and assimilates the wide variety of critical responses the play has elicited, and argues its importance in the context of late 20th-century culture as an experimental and open-ended work.

In this edition, R.A. Foakes brings to bear a number of historical perspectives and critically addresses recent explorations of "King Lear" as a play of redemption, a play of despair and a play that destabilises all commentary.

This 2001 book presents the first modernized and edited version of the 1622 Othello, this edition consists of a detailed introduction, quarto text, select collation and textual notes. An important book for scholars in Shakespeare and Elizabethan-Jacobean drama, with wide ramifications for other Shakespeare textual studies and for students of early theatre history.

This is a modernised edition of a play which appears to be an alternative version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Stephen Miller suggests that an anonymous person wrote a simpler version of Shakespeare's more complicated play. His edition provides a modernized text and extensive commentary.

Reproduces the text of the "Shakespeare First Folio" (1623) in modern type.

One of the "Shakespearean Originals" series which reproduces 16th- and 17th-century playtexts as closely as possible to their original forms. Each comprises an introduction to the play, the text, a select bibliography, full annotations and some sample facsimile pages from the text itself.

This edition of "Julius Caesar" provides a lively edition of one of Shakespeare's most familiar and studied plays. The introduction sets the play in the context of the last years of Elizabeth I's reign, with rebellion stirring and conflicts over the calendar.

This is the first of three volumes of Shakespeare's plays compiled and edited by Howard Staunton, originally published in 1858 and acclaimed for their combination of meticulous research and common sense. The text is embellished by numerous handsome black-and-white illustrations by John Gilbert and accompanied by critical notes.

In their introduction to this play, the editors show how the young Shakespeare, working closely from his chronicle sources, nevertheless freely shaped his complex material to make it both theatrically effective and poetically innovative.

Sir Thomas More deals with matters so controversial that it may never have reached performance on stage. A compelling play of riots and religious politics, it is also an intriguing document of what could, and could not, be articulated in the early modern public theatre.