Product Description: Shakespeare's drama tells the story of a young man who can only come into his own upon his father's death and the father who longs for immortality. Using only Shakespeare's words, this adaptation tells the deeply personal story of Prince Hal's coming of age and his relationships with two father figures: the mistrustful King Henry IV and the hilarious, irrepressible Falstaff...read more

Product Description: This book takes a new look at the courtly masque--a unique combination of music, dance, speech, and elaborate costume--in early-seventeenth-century England. The essays, written by distinguished scholars from around the world, present an interdisciplinary approach, with experts on dance, music, visual spectacle and politics all addressing the masque from the point of view of their speciality...read more

Product Description: The Sourcebooks Shakespeare Edition of Macbeth features an integrated audio CD with 26 classic performances by different actors throughout the twentieth century, narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi. Detailed essays, commentary and photos accompany our newly edited text of the play with insights from a noted Shakespeare scholar...read more

Product Description: The discipline's most reader-friendly Shakespeare anthology is now available in a Portable Edition: a boxed set of four portable, paperback volumes organized by genre.   This convenient new format features all the content of the hardcover original, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 5e, in four paperbacks packaged in a slipcase...read more

Product Description: This clear and succinct book is designed for general readers who want to know how to go about reading Shakespeare’s works for pleasure. Encourages readers to approach Shakespeare's works aggressively, interactively, and questioningly Focuses on six popular Shakespeare plays - A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV Part I, Hamlet, King Lear and The Tempest Recommends the best editions, recordings and DVDs / videos of these plays Discusses the production of the plays on stage and screen Introduces readers to different genres in Shakespeare – romantic comedy, English history, tragedy and romance Avoids jargon and abstract literary theory...read more

Product Description: Shakespeare's Comedies features all the scholarship and pedagogy of David Bevington's The Complete Works of Shakespeare in a genre-specific, paperback volume.   Pulled from Bevington's popular and authoritative hardcover The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 5e, Shakespeare's Comedies and three other genre volumes–Shakespeare's Tragedies, Shakespeare's Histories, and Shakespeare's Romances and Poems–are also available  for purchase on their own...read more

Product Description: This remarkable edition features a newly edited text of Much Ado About Nothing based on the latest scholarship, along with detailed essays, commentary and photos. On the integrated audio CD, narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi, you can hear the play through multiple productions from different eras, and experience different actors' interpretations of the characters...read more

Presents the story of Antonio who risks his life to borrow money from his enemy, Shylock, and is saved by Portia, an heiress posing as a lawyer

Product Description: Based on the original and authoritative Revels texts, Plays on women brings together four plays which dramatise the lives of women in Shakespeare's England The only available anthology focusing on women and including the four plays most often discussed. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This anthology of plays, containing two domestic tragedies and two city comedies, is annotated using contemporary and feminist critical approaches and illustrates the ways in which theatrical pleasures and social relations complicate the connection between women and plays in early modern drama...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: One of a series of play texts by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists other than Shakespeare, this volume discusses the plays "Campaspe" and "Sappho and Phao" by John Lyly. The series aims to throw light on the plays and to offer views of the plays that have been neglected in the past...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This volume offers the most comprehensive and critically up-to-date edition of Troilus and Cressida available today. Bevington's learned and engaging introduction discusses the ambivalent status and genre of the play, variously presented in its early printing as a comedy, a history, and a tragedy. He examines and assimilates the wide variety of critical responses the play has elicited, and argues its importance in today's culture as an experimental and open-ended work. Themes of women as objects of desire and bonds of friendship between men, for instance, are not limited by historical context. He also, however, suggests that this experimentalism may have contributed to its lack of immediate stage success, and goes on to place the work in its late Elizabethan context of political instability and theatrical rivalry. A thorough performance history focuses chiefly on recent productions. The complex text situation is re-examined and the differing textual readings carefully explicated. Influential sources for this work and the surviving texts of Troilus and Cressida are discussed in appendices. The Arden Shakespeare has developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full commentary by one or more of the play’s foremost contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain allusions and significant background information. Highly informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of Shakespeare available to a reader. Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsGeneral Editor's Preface Preface Introduction    'A new play, never staled with the stage': genre and the question of original performance   'An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation': historical context in the last years of Elizabeth's reign   'Wars and lechery': demystification of the heroes of ancient Greece   ''Tis but the chance of war': sceptical deflation of Trojan honour and chivalry   'The gods have heard me swear': tragic irony and the death of Hector   'As true as Troilus': male obsessions about honour and sexuality   'As false as Cressid': women as objects of desire   'Call them all panders': voyeurism and male bonding   'What's aught but as 'tis valued?': commercial and subjective valuation of identity and worth   'Divides more wider than the sky and earth': the fragmentation of the divided self   'Stuff to make paradoxes': performance history of Troilus and Cressid'Troilus and CressidaLonger Notes    'Instructed by the antiquary times': Shakespeare's sources   'Words, words, mere words': The text of Troilus and CressidaAbbreviations and references                Abbreviations used in notes   Shakespeare's works and works partly by Shakespeare   Editions of Shakespeare collated   Ancient texts   Other worksIndex

Product Description: One of a series of play texts by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists other than Shakespeare, this volume discusses the plays "Campaspe" and "Sappho and Phao" by John Lyly. The series aims to throw light on the plays and to offer views of the plays that have been neglected in the past...read more

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Featuring revised introductory essays, glossaries, appendixes, and updated notes, a collection of Shakespeare's most powerful tragic plays, all set against the backdrop of ancient Greece and Rome, includes Titus Andronicus, Timon of Athens, and Coriolanus. Reissue.

Product Description: This collection of essays represents, in the view of the editors, the best critical work represented at the World Shakespeare Congress in 1976. The work of leading Shakespeareans is represented, along with the work of several younger scholars and critics on a wide variety of subjects...read more