This student-friendly introduction to Shakespeare offers a balanced editorial approach, expanded coverage of stage performance and film, updated notes and glossaries and a general introduction providing historical and cultural contexts.

* Second edition of this highly innovative introduction to the extraordinary phenomenon of Shakespeare. * Offers readers insights into what makes Shakespeare great, and why we still read and perform…

Offers a complete edition of the play. Each volume in the series has been prepared from the original texts and includes an introduction, a list of further reading, a full…

For this second edition, David Bevington has included in his introductory section a thorough consideration of recent critical and stage interpretations of Antony and Cleopatra, demonstrating how the theatrical design…

During Shakespeare’s lifetime Henry IV, Part I was his most reprinted play and Falstaff still towers among Shakespeare’s comic inventions. David Bevington analyses the play’s richly textured language in a…

This collection of essays adopts a novel, interdisciplinary approach to a diverse group of texts composed in London during the Renaissance. Eight literary scholars and eight historians from two continents…

The drama about King Henry V’s attempt to unite England under his rule is accompanied by information about the play’s background, style, and performance.

When the ghost of his father appears to Prince Hamlet of Denmark, urging him to avenge his murder upon his uncle, the tragic flaw of indecision leads Hamlet to ruin.