Product Description: ing Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It depicts the gradual descent into madness of the title character, after he disposes of his kingdom giving bequests to two of his three daughters based on their flattery of him, bringing tragic consequences for all...read more

Product Description: Shakespeare's Histories 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 Histories and three other genre volumes–Shakespeare's Tragedies, Shakespeare's Comedies, and Shakespeare's Romances and Poems–are also available for purchase on their own...read more

Product Description: More than 60 minutes of audio on the CD including key scenes and excerpts from great performances past and presentBringing Shakespeare to life, from stage to pageIn the book:Photographs from notable productions including:-the 1935 Dieterle/Reinhardt film with James Cagney as Bottom and Mickey Rooney as Puck-Peter Brook's seminal 1970 production at the Royal Shakespeare Company-contemporary American productions with James Earl Jones as Oberon, F...read more

Offers a general introduction to Shakespeare's play, the text of the play itself, a series of essays on 'Othello' written by scholars, and an audio CD of various performers, including Paul Robeson and F. Scott Fitzgerald, reading selected scenes and speeches from the play.

Book by Bevington, David M.

Product Description: Galatea and Midas are two of John Lyly's most engaging plays. Lyly took up the story of two young women, Galatea (or Gallathea) and Phillida who are dressed up in male clothes by their fathers so that they can avoid the requirement of the god Neptune that every year “the fairest and chastest virgin in all the country be sacrificed to a sea-monster...read more

John Lyly was undisputed master of the private theatre stage in the 1570s and 1580s, and this play represents his individual Euphuistic style. It is a love comedy, and retells an ancient legend of the prolonged sleep of the man with whom the moon (Cynthia) fell in love. The fable is piquantly relevant to Queen Elizabeth and her exasperated, if adoring, courtiers. This edition makes an argument for the relevance of "Endymion" to the threat of the Spanish Armada invasion of 1599, and to the role of the Earl of Oxford in England's politics of that troubled decade. Full commentary is provided for every aspect of the play, including its philosophical allegory about the relation of the moon to mortal life on earth.

Product Description: Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death...read more

Product Description: This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and staging/performance assessments...read more

Product Description: This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and staging/performance assessments...read more

Product Description: PericlesThe first of Shakespeare’s late romances moves spectacularly from one dramatic period to another as the hero, Pericles, sails off to adventure and love, and experiences what for him is a miracle.CymbelineA favorite romantic drama, this play of a wife unjustly accused of faithlessness moves from a world of intrigue and slander to one of reconciliation and forgiveness, and contains two of Shakespeare’s most poignantly beautiful songs...read more

Product Description: The medieval cycle plays from such cities as York and Chester culminated in a drama about the end of time, the Last Judgment. David Bevington and the other contributors to this book look at this final event of history as depicted in pre-modern times, and the result is a work of scholarly precision that, according to Bevington's introduction, attempts to see medieval drama in the context of other medieval art forms...read more

Seventeen critical essays analyze the themes, structure, and literary viewpoints of this Shakespearean play

Product Description: Cambridge, Mass. 1968 2nd printing. (1962 first edition.) Harvard. Hardcover. 310p. Fine in VG DJ. No ownership marks.