Product Description: The play, set in Verona, begins with a street brawl between Montague and Capulet servants who, like their masters, are sworn enemies. Prince Escalus of Verona intervenes and declares that further breach of the peace will be punishable by death...read more

Product Description: This is an invaluable reference to all the characters who appear in English drama from 1500, when drama first appeared in print, to 1660. The book indexes well over a thousand printed plays. In addition to characters' names it indexes character types (Dwarf, Gypsy), nationalities, military ranks, psychological states (Jealousy, Melancholy), occupations and professions...read more

Product Description: This Malone Society Reprint contains the 1594 Quarto of Titus Andronicus, the rarest of Shakespeare quartos. It was discovered in Sweden in 1902 and now resides in the Folger Shakespeare Library. The last edited single-volume facsimile appeared in 1936.

Product Description: Valuable to cultural historians and textual scholars alike, this volume analyzes the development of textual theory and practice in the twentieth century, questioning not just the assumptions and methodologies of textual study but its very genesis, as well as current definitions of the field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A Midsummer Night's Dream was performed around 1595 and published in 1600, in a quarto printed by Richard Bradock. This edition provides a photographic facsimile of this text taken from the Huntingdon Library. In his introduction Berger discusses the nature of the manuscript, and reconstructs the printing process...read more