Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

""With detailed notes from the world's leading center for Shakespeare studies.""--Cover.  Read More >>

"""An encounter between the contemporary and the iconic, this translation brings the play to life, illuminating...  Read More >>

For use in schools and libraries only. Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern...  Read More >>

New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes...  Read More >>

An edition of the play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio...  Read More >>

The text of ""Macbeth"" is reproduced and, in addition, five sections of primary documents and illustrations are...  Read More >>

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""The version of Henry V and the corresponding footnotes that appear in this volume were originally published in...  Read More >>

Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It...  Read More >>

Hamlet, Shakespeare’s most famous play, is now available in an all-new, illustrated Norton Critical Edition.  Read More >>

Criticism, notes, and a bibliography accompany the text of the tragedy.  Read More >>

""The New Penguin Shakespeare"" offers a complete edition of the plays and poems. Each volume has been newly prepared...  Read More >>

One of Shakespeare's late romances - along with Pericles, The Tempest and The Winter's Tale - Cymbeline tells three...  Read More >>

New versions of Shakespeare’s history plays from director and translator Douglas Langworthy.   Read More >>

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Set in Rome, the poem tells a tragic tale of lust, conquest, violence and politics. Collatine expresses his love...  Read More >>

The Silly Shakespeare for Students edition of Othello simplifies the challenging tragedy without losing the complexity...  Read More >>

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume....  Read More >>

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New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes...  Read More >>

""The New Penguin Shakespeare"" offers a complete edition of the plays and poems. Each volume has been newly prepared...  Read More >>

This book includes a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and the Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction...  Read More >>

The Wonder of Shakespeare One who reads a few of Shakespeare's great plays and then the meager story of his life...  Read More >>

Legendary lovers come to dramatic life in Shakespeare's gripping tragedy about the conflict of love and duty. Brilliant...  Read More >>