Product Description: Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here draws together all the cherishable set pieces ¯ including Somogyi here draws together all the cherishable set pieces ¯ including ""All the world's a stage,"" Hamlet's encounters with the Players, and Bottom's amateur theatricals ¯ along with many other oblique but no less revealing glances, and further insights into theatre practice by Shakespeare's contemporaries and rivals...read more

Product Description: This edition accurately reproduces the text of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623), but in modern type. At a stroke the dust of ages is blown away and what Shakespeare actually intended is revealed to modern readers. On each opposing page the same text appears in a fully modernised version - a useful safety net whenever the Folio becomes problematic...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: "A quite wonderful ideaSo blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself."-- Sir Peter Hall

Product Description: This brand new edition accurately reproduces the First Folio of the plays of William Shakespeare letter for letter, dot for dot, but does so in modern type. As a further aid to understanding, on each opposite page, the same text appears, but this time in a fully modernized version...read more

Product Description: "A quite wonderful ideaSo blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself."-- Sir Peter Hall

Product Description: “A quite wonderful idea …So blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself.”—Sir Peter HallThis brand new edition accurately reproduces the First Folio of the plays of William Shakespeare letter for letter, dot for dot, but does so in modern type...read more

Product Description: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.