The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. Over the last two decades there has been a resurgence of theatrical interest in Shakespeare's Pericles, which has been rescued from comparative neglect and is now frequently performed...

It's 1984 and High School is about to come to an end for Danny Curruthers. Everything in his life so far has been normal. Well, when I say normal, I mean dull and repetitive and lacking anything remotely close to excitement, but all that is about to change. When a new girl comes to town, Danny's life is thrown upside-down, literally, and for the first time ever, he feels alive. However, a deeper, darker secret lurks in the shadows for Danny and his friends as he learns that sometimes happi...

In a time when greed is good and money talks, one man has had enough of living in the big, rotten apple. 1986 is coming to an end, the economy is booming, Manhattan looks beautifully white and festive from the back of his private limo. From the outside he seems to have it all, the great job, the money, the clothes, the looks, the women but Toby Robinson is having a crisis of conscience. A typical small town guy who just wanted to make it big in the city but no sooner had his dreams came tr...

Each play Illustrated with Illustrations unique to this release, over 350 Illustrations in total.Biography and literary critique includes annotated inline footnotes.The Plays.The Comedies of William Shakespeare.All's Well That Ends Well. (Illustrated)As You Like It. (Illustrated)Comedy of Errors. (Illustrated)Cymbeline. (Illustrated)Love's Labour's Lost. (Illustrated)Mea...

From the Folger Shakespeare Library comes a new edition of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The Folger's world-class team of scholars, theater makers, and researchers offer a new generation of readers contemporary perspectives on the timeless provocations and questions of this tragic love story.Shakespeare may have died in 1616, but the English playwright and actor is everywhere in our world today. His plays and poemspop up in sitcoms, song l...

Identical twins separated at birth provides the foundation for humour in one of Shakespeare’s earlier plays. The young twin sons of Egeon, alongside another set of young twin boys, purchased as slaves, are lost to one another during a tempest at sea. As each searches for the other, the stage is set for a romp that revolves around mistaken identity, physical mishaps, and the comedy of errors referenced in the title.

Free audiobook link + Interactive table of contents Richard III is a drama in five acts by William Shakespeare. The play is an unflattering depiction of the short reign of Richard III of England, and is believed to have been written in approximately 1591. The play is sometimes classified as a tragedy (as in the earliest quarto); but it more correctly belongs to the histories, as classified in the First Folio. It picks up the story from Henry VI, Part III and concludes the histori...

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.'Stars, hide your fires!Let not light see my black and deep desires.'One of Shakespeare's darkest and most violent tragedies, Macbeth's struggle between his own ambition and his loyalty to the King is dramatically compelling. As those he kills return to haunt him, Macbeth is plagued by the prophecy of three sinister witches and the power hungry desires of his wife.

Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, bawdy comedy and high tragedy.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful hardbacks make perfect gifts for book lovers, or wonderful additions to your own collection. This edition features the classic illustrations by Sir John G...

The stirring continuation of the themes begun in Henry IV, Part One again pits a rebellion within the State and that master of misrule, Falstaff, against the maturing of Prince Hal. Alternating scenes between bawdy tavern and regal court, between revelry and politics, Shakespeare probes at the sources, uses, and responsibilities of power as an old king dies and a young king must choose between a ruler's solemn duty and a merry but dissipated friend, Falstaff. The play repr...

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is instructed to enact on his uncle Claudius. Claudius had murdered his own brother, Hamlet’s father King Hamlet, and subsequently seized the throne, marrying his deceased brother’s widow, Hamlet’s mother Gertrude.Hamlet is Shakespeare’s longest play a...

Sophocles was one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. Sophocles wrote over 100 plays but only 7 have survived including the famous Oedipus trilogy. This edition of Electra includes a table of contents.