The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers * a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings * on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions, and[...]

In Neo Verona, the Montagues attempt to overthrow the ruling Capulets and kill all of them in the process ...with the exception of the daughter of the Capulets, Juliet. Rescued by servants, the sole surviving Capulet randomly encounters Romeo, the son of the Montagues, fourteen years later and falls[...]

Shakespeare's tragedy of the famous assassination is now available in a Norton Critical Edition. The 1623 First Folio text is accompanied by a note on the text, a detailed introduction and annotations. "Sources and Contexts" presents possible sources as well as analogues to Julius Caesar and a study[...]

A rich Sources and Contexts section provides readers with an understanding of Macbeth s origins from earlier texts, specifically the works of the Roman playwright Seneca, the Tudor historian Raphael Holinshed, and a medieval drama The Slaughter of the Holy Innocents and the Death of Herod. The conte[...]

The cast of this unabridged version of ^IHamlet^R includes Anton Lesser who plays Hamlet, Edward de Souza, Susan Engel, Emma Fielding and Heathcote Williams.[...]

Kenneth Branagh plays Shakespeare?s Richard III in this new recording for the acclaimed Naxos AudioBooks series. A full supporting cast of distinguished actors performs the complete, unabridged New Cambridge Shakespeare text of the play, with sound effects and accompanying music. The set of three cd[...]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is perhaps Shakespeare’s most popular comedy, and also a profound, archetypal play. The Introduction describes the two main traditions in the stage history, one emphasising charm and innocence, the other stressing darker suggestions of violence and sexuality, and [...]

This 2008 book is an extensively-annotated edition of Macbeth, offering a thorough reconsideration of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. A full and accessible updated introduction studies the immediate theatrical and political contexts of Macbeth's composition, especially the Gunpowder Plot an[...]

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 is available both individually and as a set, and each contains a lengthy and li[...]

Classic / British English Othello is a popular soldier who is in love with his beautiful new wife. He also has good friends -- like Iago, another soldier. So when Iago tells him terrible stories about his wife, Desdemona, who should Othello believe? Will jealousy destroy all their lives? This is one[...]

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.[...]

Part of the "BarnesNoble Shakespeare" series, this play sees the metamorphosis of Henry V from a wild and wayward lad into an mature adult, who embarks on an attempted conquest of France. It gives an interesting treatment of warfare.[...]