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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare plays, texts
Often described as one of Shakespeare's 'problem plays', Measure
for Measure explores issues of mercy and justice in corrupt Vienna.
The Duke makes his strict moralistic deputy, Angelo, temporary
leader of Vienna, while he disguises himself as a friar to witness
all that ensues. In the comprehensive introduction to this new,
fully-illustrated Arden edition, with commentary and notes from A.
R. Braunmuller, Robert N. Watson explores the recent increased
attention to the play and the shifting judgements of key characters
such as the Duke and Isabella. He analyses the social foundations
of these changes, their validity as readings of the text, and their
manifestations in performance. It also explores the play's
implications on topics including love, marriage, sexuality,
consent, mortality, religion, statecraft, moderation, and theatre
itself.
Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of
Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is
its bold treatment of racial and gender themes. It is also the only
tragedy to feature a main character, Iago, who truly seems evil,
betraying and deceiving those that trust him purely for spite and
with no political goal. This edition, the first to give full
attention to these themes, includes an extensive introduction
stresses the public dimensions of the tragedy, paying particular
attention to its treatment of color and social relations. Designed
to meet the needs of theatre professionals, the edition includes an
extensive performance history, while on-page commentary and notes
explain language, word play, and staging. Collated and edited from
all existing printings, this entirely new edition uses modern day
spelling to make readings smoother. Appendices are included which
explain the dating problems many have found in the play, describe
the music that has traditionally accompanied it, and provide a full
translation of the Italian novella from which the story derives.
Like all editions of the Oxford Shakespeare in the Oxford World
Classics series, Othello includes a full index to the introduction
and commentary. It is illustrated with production photographs and
related art, and features a durable sewn binding for lasting use.
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading
scholars in editions designed to interpret and
Our Signet Classic Shakespeare Series was extensively revised in
1998. We offer the best of everything -- unforgettable works edited
by eminent Shakespeare scholars, comprehensive notes on the text,
an essay on Shakespeare's life and times, source material, critical
commentaries, extensive bibliographies, and footnotes. And there's
more
-- Grow with the times by including both historical and thoroughly
contemporary critical commentary on such issues as feminist,
political, and theatrical interpretations of the plays -- with
recent full-length essays by such respected scholars as Frank
Kermode, Carolyn Heilbrun, Michael Goldman, Linda Bamber, and many
others.
-- Provide more bibliographic listings and more up-to-date and
relevant listings of pertinent books and articles in the Suggested
Reference Section than the competition offers.
-- Feature essays on the Performance or Stage History of each play,
written by Sylvan Barnet.
The two-part tale of King Henry IV, rewritten with new language for
the twenty-first century. Shakespeare's two Henry IV plays follow
the exploits of King Henry IV after usurping the crown from his
cousin Richard II. Featuring some of Shakespeare's most
recognizable characters such as Prince Hal and the roguish Sir John
Falstaff, Henry IV, Part 1 delves into complicated questions of
loyalty and kingship on and off the battlefield. Henry IV, Part 2
follows Prince Hal as he grapples with his eventual ascent to the
throne and his increasingly strained relationship with Falstaff. As
the king falls sick and Hal's ascent appears imminent, Hal's
decisions hold significant implications for all those around him.
Modernizing the language of the two plays, Yvette Nolan's
translation carefully works at the seeds sown by
Shakespeare-bringing to new life the characters and dramatic arcs
of the original. These translations of Henry IV were written as
part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which
commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays.
These translations present work from "The Bard" in language
accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of
Shakespeare's verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of
contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from
diverse backgrounds, this project reenvisions Shakespeare for the
twenty-first century. These volumes make these works available for
the first time in print-a new First Folio for a new era.
This teaching edition of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew"
responds to the needs of instructors using a variety of approaches
to Shakespeare, including feminist, historical, and cultural
studies approaches. The play is accompanied by four sets of primary
documents and illustrations thematically arranged to offer a richly
textured understanding of early modern culture and Shakespeare's
work within that culture. The texts include facsimiles of period
documents, excerpts of conduct literature on marriage and on wife
and servant beating, sermons, popular ballads, literary works
offering alternative endings to Shakespeare's play, and documents
on women's legal status. The primary documents contextualize the
play's treatment of assertive women, marital conflict, and domestic
disorder and violence. Editorial features designed to help students
read the play in light of the historical documents include an
intelligent and engaging general introduction, and introduction to
each thematic group of documents, thorough headnotes and glosses
for the primary documents (presented in modern spelling), and an
extensive bibliography.
In Shakespeare's Language, Keith Johnson offers an overview of the
rich and dynamic history of the reception and study of
Shakespeare's language from his death right up to the present.
Tracing a chronological history of Shakespeare's language, Keith
Johnson also picks up on classic and contemporary themes, such as:
lexical and digital studies original pronunciation rhetoric
grammar. The historical approach provides a comprehensive overview,
plotting the attitudes towards Shakespeare's language, as well as a
history of its study. This approach reveals how different cultural
and literary trends have moulded these attitudes and reflects
changing linguistic climates; the book also includes a chapter that
looks to the future. Shakespeare's Language is therefore not only
an essential guide to the language of Shakespeare, but it offers
crucial insights to broader approaches to language as a whole.
The Merchant of Venice is best known for its complex and ambiguous
portrait of the Jewish moneylender Shylock - and of European
anti-Semitism. Fascinating in its engagement with prejudice, the
play is also a comedy of cross-dressing and disguise and a dramatic
exploration of justice, mercy and vengeance. This volume contains
the full text of the play with explanatory footnotes and marginal
glosses for contemporary readers. A well-rounded selection of
background materials not only illuminates anti-Semitism in early
modern England but also provides context for other facets of the
play, including its comic plot of love and marriage, its
examination of usury and international trade and its themes of
revenge and the law.
A new section of the Introduction to this updated edition considers important professional theater productions and the large output of scholarly criticism on the play which have appeared in recent years. The Reading List has been revised and augmented to reflect the scope of the revised edition. First Edition Hb (1985): 0-521-22194-3 First Edition Pb (1985): 0-521-29389-8
Henry IV, Part One has been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays
since it was first produced, and was reprinted several times during
the playwright's lifetime. The play encompasses the tragic pathos
of Hotspur's death, the thrill of Hal's battlefield valour, the
intrigue of power politics, and the broad humour of tavern scenes.
It has been performed as a play that celebrates England and
engenders national pride, but also as a play that thumbs its nose
at patriotism and notions of empire. This Broadview Edition
provides a discussion of the play's performance history, and both
the introduction and footnotes encourage readers to think about the
play as a performance text. The appendices gather a selection of
historical sources and contemporary philosophical and political
writings from England and Europe, and interleaved pages throughout
the play provide illustrations and extended discussion of key
phrases, plot points, and allusions in the text. Further historical
and performance materials are available on the Internet Shakespeare
Editions website.
This tragi-comedy is one of the plays we know Shakespeare worked
with a collaborator on -- John Fletcher -- and is based on
Chaucer's "Knight's Tale." The Arden Third series edition was first
published in 1996. This revised edition includes a new introductory
essay bringing the edition up-to-date in terms of both the play's
performance and critical history, and in particular with current
thinking about the nature of Shakespeare's collaboration with other
playwrights. As scholars have begun to discover more about this
aspect of his career, interest in the play has grown. This revised
edition is ideal for undergraduate study, offering on-page
annotations to the play text as well as a lengthy, illustrated
introduction.
An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare's
greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy
"Thoughtful, astute, invitingly readable-and uncommonly timely.
Especially now that so many younger readers are casting suspicious
glances at Shakespeare, Of Human Kindness shows with mind-changing
clarity why his work has never been more relevant to our common
problems."-Terry Teachout, drama critic, Wall Street Journal "A
warm and committed book, firmly rooted in long experience of the
classroom."-Emma Smith, Times Literary Supplement While discussing
Shakespeare's plays in her university classroom, Paula Marantz
Cohen discovered that they unlocked a surprising sense of
compassion in both herself and her students. In this short and
illuminating book, she shows how Shakespeare's genius lay in his
ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien
contexts and behave in reprehensible ways. Cohen takes her readers
through a selection of Shakespeare's most famous plays, including
Hamlet,Othello,King Lear, and The Merchant of Venice, to
demonstrate the ways in which Shakespeare thought deeply and
clearly about how we treat "the other." Cohen argues that only
through close reading of Shakespeare can we fully appreciate his
empathetic responses to race, class, gender, and age. Wise,
eloquent, and thoughtful, this book is a forceful argument for
literature's power to champion what is best in us.
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Romeo and Juliet
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William Shakespeare; Contributions by Mint Editions
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No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of "The Comedy of
Errors" on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an
easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear
Shakespeare contains
- The complete text of the original play
- A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday
language
- A complete list of characters with descriptions
- Plenty of helpful commentary
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The Tempest
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William Shakespeare; Illustrated by Oscar Grillo
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Featuring spectacular and quirky illustrations, this astounding
take on Shakespeare's famous work reimagines but in no way detracts
from the feel of the original. The full text of the play is worked
into this thrilling and visually stunning graphic novel.
Completing the 8 volume Everyman Signet Shakespeare contains
Shakespeare series, this final volume contains Shakespeare's four
Last Plays - THE TEMPEST, PERICLES, THE WINTER'S TALE AND
CYMBELINE. The beautifully produced, single-column text of the
plays, with the Signet footnotes, is supplemented with
bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespear's life and
times, and a substantial introduction in which Professor Tony
Tanner discusses each play individually while setting each in
context.
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Macbeth
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William Shakespeare; Illustrated by Oscar Grillo Von
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King Lear
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William Shakespeare; Illustrated by Ian Pollock
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Includes the unabridged text of Shakespeare's classic play plus a
complete study guide that helps readers gain a thorough
understanding of the work's content and context. The comprehensive
guide includes scene-by-scene summaries, explanations and
discussions of the plot, question-and-answer sections, author
biography, analytical paper topics, list of characters,
bibliography, and more.
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William Shakespeare
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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. This is the third
New Cambridge edition of The Taming of the Shrew, one of
Shakespeare's most popular yet controversial plays. Ann Thompson
considers its reception in the light of the hostility and
embarrassment that the play often arouses, taking account of both
scholarly defences and modern feminist criticism. For this version
the editor pays lively attention to the problematic nature of
debates about the play and its reception in the twenty-first
century. She discusses recent editions and textual, performance and
critical studies.
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Hamlet
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William Shakespeare; Edited by Burton Raffel
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The Annotated Shakespeare Series allowsreaders to fully understand
and enjoy the rich plays of the world's greatest dramatist "If any
work deserves a student's closest attention, it is Hamlet. Burton
Raffel's fully annotated edition is a teacher's and student's
dream: the words are fully explained, and they get a wonderful
essay by Harold Bloom as well."-George Soule, Carleton College One
of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works,
Shakespeare's Hamlet isunsurpassed in its complexity and richness.
Now the first fully annotated version of Hamlet makesthe play
completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. It
has been carefully assembled with students, teachers, and the
general reader in mind. Eminent linguist and translator Burton
Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary and usage of
Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative
readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations provide
readers with all the tools they need to comprehend the play and
begin to explore its many possible interpretations. This version of
Hamlet isunparalleled for its thoroughness and adherence to sound
linguistic principles. In his Introduction, Raffel offers important
background on the origins and previous versions of the Hamlet
story, along with an analysis of the characters Hamlet and Ophelia.
And in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom meditates on the
originality of Shakespeare's achievement. The book also includes a
careful selection of items for "Further Reading."
Two years, 190,000 miles, 197 countries, one play. For the 450th
anniversary of Shakespeare's birth the Globe Theatre in London
undertook an unparalleled journey to share Hamlet with the entire
world. The tour was the brainchild of Dominic Dromgoole, artistic
director of the Globe, and in Hamlet Globe to Globe, Dromgoole
takes readers along with him on this wildly ambitious expedition.
From performing in sweltering deserts, capital and remote cities,
heaving marketplaces and on Pacific islands, and despite food
poisoning in Mexico, the threat of ambush in Somaliland, an Ebola
epidemic in West Africa, and political upheaval in Ukraine, the
Globe's players tirelessly pushed on. They carried their own props,
instruments, and costumes throughout the journey, and could
construct an entire set in less than two hours. Dromgoole
introduces this impressive cast of sturdy souls, recounting the
highs and lows of their tour, paying witness to Shakespeare's power
to transcend borders and bring people closer together. Dromgoole
also shows us the world through the prism of Shakespeare and why,
in its mystery, it resonates so widely how a sixteenth-century play
can touch the lives of men and women in Sudan, citizens of Beijing,
and Syrian refugees alike. Through the lens of this epic theatrical
journey, Dromgoole gleans new insight into Shakespeare's
masterpiece, exploring the play's history, its meaning, and its
pleasures, and offering a dramatic and heartfelt testament to
Shakespeare's enduring presence on the modern stage.
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