With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the premiere choice for students, professors, and general readers well into the twenty-first century.

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This edition of Shakespeare's Macbeth allows a variety of approaches to Shakespeare, including historical, feminist, and cultural studies. Shakespeare's text is accompanied by an intriguing collection of thematically arranged historical and cultural documents and illustrations, including excerpts fr[...]

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and t[...]

Unabridged. Two cassettes, 2.5 hours.

Read by Sinead Cusack, Ciaran Hinds, Eileen Atkins, Paul Jesson and Sir John Gielgud[...]

This is the most famous of all Shakespeare's plays - a story of passionate young love. What's in a name? Does it really matter if you are called Montague or Capulet? When Romeo, son of Lord and Lady Montague, falls in love with the most beautiful girl he's ever seen, he finds out that it does matter[...]

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. The Tempest is a popular text for study by secondary students the world ov[...]

What was Shakespeare's attitude to Semitism? The Introduction to this edition of The Merchant of Venice opens by addressing this vital issue raised by the play, and goes on to study the sources, background, and date, includuing a discussion of Sigmund Freud's essay on 'The Three Caskets'. Professor[...]

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[...]

A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel[...]

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.[...]