Product Description: Shakespeare’s Richard II presents a momentous struggle between Richard II and his cousin Henry Bolingbroke. Richard is the legitimate king; he succeeded his grandfather, King Edward III, after the earlier death of his father Edward, the Black Prince...read more

Shakespeare's popular comedy of love and mistaken identity is accompanied by a section on reading Shakespeare's language, information on Shakespeare's life and theater, explanatory notes, annotated reading lists, and an essay

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If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. This edition from The Folger Shakespeare Library combines the best possible version of The Taming of the Shrew with wonderful illustrations and ancillary material. Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young men-the hopeful Lucentio and the worldly Petruchio-and the two sisters they meet in Padua...read more

Product Description: The Two Gentlemen of Verona. FOREWORDS. The Two Gentlemen is noteworthy for three things: i. That Shakspere, after casting about for plot, trying topics of his day in Loves Labors Lost Latin drama inT he Come eof Errors and a mixture of supposed Greek life andE nglish iry lore in Midsommer Nights Dreame if that is of earlier date than the present play has recourse to continental story, specially to Italian tsue, and at once settles down to that as the source of his Comedies (even to some extent inT heM erry Wives) and many of hisT ragedies, and writes, says Mr...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The classic play about an aging king, who leans on war hero Sir John Falstaff rather than his unreliable son and heir when rebels threaten the crown, is accompanied by explanatory notes and illustrations.

Product Description: King John

The critically acclaimed series from the leading center for Shakespearean studies presents freshly edited texts of each play based on the earliest printed versions, along with detailed explanatory notes on facing pages, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to famous lines and phrases, an introduction to the language of Shakespeare's time, and essays by outstanding scholars that furnish a modern perspective on the plays.

The critically acclaimed series from the leading center for Shakespearean studies presents freshly edited texts of each play based on the earliest printed versions, along with detailed explanatory notes on facing pages, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to famous lines and phrases, an introduction to the language of Shakespeare's time, and essays by outstanding scholars that furnish a modern perspective on the plays.

Biographical information and critical essays accompany Shakespeare's play about civil war and the maturing of a prince.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. After Falstaff meets Mistresses Page and Ford, two married women said to control their own financial affairs, he writes identical love letters to each of them, never imagining that they will compare notes...read more

Collects Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet in a single volume, providing accurate texts in modern spelling and punctuation as well as scene-by-scene action summaries and explanatory notes.