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William Shakespeare
A major new edition of this perennially successful play which continues to entertain and perplex modern audiences. The play is discussed in its critical and theatrical contexts and Hodgdon, a…
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William Shakespeare,Barbara Everett
This reissue of this popular Shakespeare classic features a New Overview of Shakespeare’s works by Sylvan Barnet, former Chairman of the English Department at Tufts University; an updated bibliography; suggested…
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A major new edition of this perennially succesful play which continues to entertain and perplex modern audiences. The play is discussed in its critical and theatrical contexts and Hodgdon,a leading…
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
With detailed notes from the world’s leading center for Shakespeare studies –Cover.
First Washington Square Press New Folger Library Trade Paperback ed. July 2006 –T.p. verso.
William Shakespeare,William Rosen,Barbara Rosen
The classic drama of the assassination of Julius Caesar, with notes and commentaries.
Newly revised, this edition of The Tempest features a new Overview by Sylvan Barnett, former chairman of the English Department of Tufts University, an updated bibliography, suggested references, and stage…
Part of the Graphic Shakespeare series, this title is an ideal introduction to Shakespeare’s plays. It also includes a portrait gallery of key characters.
These updated editions of classic plays feature new cover art along with the complete text of each work, full explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to famous lines and…
This edition includes freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play, with full explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, and a key to famous lines and…
With detailed notes from the world’s leading center for Shakespeare studies. –Cover.
The full text of Shakespeare’s classic play.
This edition of one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies features a freshly edited text of the play, scene-by-scene explanatory notes, a key to famous lines and phrases, and much more…
Frequently reprinted with these same ISBNs but with slightly differing bibliographical details.
Synopsis coming soon…….
The portrait of a monarchy in crisis, this historical drama concerns the ruler’s efforts to secure a divorce in order to marry an enchanting courtesan and produce a male heir.
The authoritative edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, and Twelfth Night from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students…
Includes detailed explanatory notes –Spine.
These mass market editions of six of Shakespeare’s plays feature freshly edited text based on the best early printed versions of each play, full explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a…
Previous edition: 2009. First published in 1995 by Washington Square Press. Previous editions titled The life of Henry V.
With detailed notes from the World’s Leading Center for Shakespeare Studies –Cover.
From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of one of Shakespeare’s last plays.
This translation dives deep into the joy of the madcap bawdiness, love at first sight, reunions, and happily-ever-afters of this slapstick play; reinterpreting the metaphor, antiquated slang, and double and…
Features a duke who is so anxious about the decline in the moral quality of his subjects’ lives that he temporarily removes himself from the government of his city-state and…
Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second of Shakespeare’s tetralogy that deals with…
Talks about the rotund hero-villain, Sir John Falstaff. This is a play written, history tells us, for Queen Elizabeth I, who had enjoyed the character in Henry IV .
Titus, a model Roman, has led twenty-one of his twenty-five sons to death in Rome’s wars; he stabs another son to death for what he views as disloyalty to Rome…
Set in ancient Britain, the story of a king (Cymbeline), his daughter Imogen and his two lost sons Guiderius and Arviragus.
At head of title: Folger Shakespeare Library.
Coriolanus is the playwright’s last tragedy, telling of Caius Marcius, a proud Roman general who gains the name Coriolanus when he captures the town of Corioli in battle against the…
At head of title: Folger Shakespeare Library
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…
Adapted stories with contemporary illustrations to introduce classical literature to a wider audience.
A revised edition of this play.
One of Shakespeare’s most thought-provoking comedies in which highborn Lord Bertram learns humility and the true worth of his wife, is now newly revised with a special Introduction by Sylvan…
This newly revised edition of Shakespeare’s vision of the Trojan War–which reveals the love between Troilus, a prince of Troy, and Cressida, the daughter of a Trojan traitor–includes a special…
An encounter between the contemporary and the iconic, this translation brings the play to life, illuminating Shakespeare’s text, untangling syntax, and bringing forth the poetry of the verse as audiences…
