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Dr. Faustus is one of the jewels of early modern English drama, and
is still widely performed today. Interestingly, the play has come
down to the contemporary audience in two distinct versions that
have become known as the 'A' and the 'B' texts. David Bevington and
Eric Rasmussen, who edited the original Revels edition over twenty
years ago (and are two of the most eminent editors currently
working), have hit upon the fascinating idea of presenting both
texts on facing pages. This allows readers to compare the two
'versions', the 'A' text which is the one closest to Marlowe, and
the longer 'B' text with additions by Samuel Rowley; in this unique
edition, the reader is made aware of the changing tastes of
audiences, the stage history of the play, and of just how intricate
'editing' a play can be. With a concise and illuminating
introduction, and relevant notes and images, this Revels Student
Edition of the 'A' and 'B' texts of Dr. Faustus will prove to be an
enthralling document, and an excellent edition for student and
theatre-goer alike. -- .
"The text of any Shakespeare play is a living negotiable entity:
scholarship and theatre practice work together to keep the plays
alive and vividly present." - Greg Doran, RSC Artistic Director
Emeritus Developed in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare
Company, this Complete Works of William Shakespeare combines
exemplary textual scholarship with beautiful design. Curated by
expert editors Sir Jonathan Bate and Professor Eric Rasmussen, the
text in this collection is based on the iconic 1623 First Folio:
the first and original Complete Works lovingly assembled by
Shakespeare's fellow actors, and the version of Shakespeare's text
preferred by many actors and directors today. This stunning revised
edition goes further to present Shakespeare's plays as they were
originally intended - as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed
on stage. Along with new colour photographs from a vibrant range of
RSC productions, a new Stage Notes feature documenting the staging
choices in 100 RSC productions showcases the myriad ways in which
Shakespeare's plays can be brought to life. Now featuring the
entire range of Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, this
edition is expanded to include both The Passionate Pilgrim and A
Lover's Complaint. Along with Bate's excellent general introduction
and short essays, this collection includes a range of aids to the
reader such as on-page notes explaining unfamiliar terms and key
facts boxes providing plot summaries and additional helpful
context. A Complete Works for the 21st century, this versatile and
highly collectable edition will inspire students, theatre
practitioners and lovers of Shakespeare everywhere.
From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition
of Shakespeare's most loved comedy. With an expert introduction by
Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical
overview of A Midsummer Night's Dream in performance, takes a
detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film
versions. Included in this edition are three interviews with
leading directors Michael Boyd, Gregory Doran and Tim Supple,
providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of
interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an
essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables
the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended -
as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for students,
theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare
editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to
reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first
century.
The most extenisve new collection in this field published in more than three decades, English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology surveys the astonishing, and astonishingly varied, dramatic works written and performed in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Popular in their own time, the 27 plays included here—by Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, among many others—reveal why these playwrights' achievements, like Shakespeare's, deserve reading, teaching, and performing afresh in our time. Edited by a team of exceptional scholars and teachers, this anthology opens an extraordinary tradition in drama to new readers and audiences.
In their lively and engaging edition of this sometimes neglected
early play, Cox and Rasmussen make a strong claim for it as a
remarkable work, revealing a confidence and sureness that very few
earlier plays can rival. They show how the young Shakespeare,
working closely from his chronicle sources, nevertheless freely
shaped his complex material to make it both theatrically effective
and poetically innovative. The resulting work creates, in Queen
Margaret, one of ShakespeareAEs strongest female roles and is the
source of the popular view of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick as
aekingmakerAE. Focusing on the history of the play both in terms of
both performance and criticism, the editors open it to a wide and
challenging variety of interpretative and editorial paradigms."
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King Lear (Paperback)
Eric Rasmussen, Jonathan Bate
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R298
Discovery Miles 2 980
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From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition
of Shakespeare's bleakest and most profound tragedy. With an expert
introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a
historical overview of King Lear in performance, takes a detailed
look at specific productions, and recommends film versions.
Included in this edition are interviews with three leading
directors - Adrian Noble, Deborah Warner and Trevor Nunn -
providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of
interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an
essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables
the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended -
as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for students,
theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare
editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to
reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first
century.
Everyman and Mankind are morality plays which mark the turn of the
medieval period to the early modern, with their focus on the
individual. Everyman follows a man's journey towards death and his
efforts to secure himself a life thereafter, whilst Mankind shows a
man battling with temptation and sin, often with great humour. Both
texts are modernised here and edited to the highest standards of
scholarship, with full on-page commentaries giving the depth of
information and insight associated with all Arden editions. The
comprehensive, illustrated introduction argues that the plays
signal the birth of the early modern consciousness and puts them in
their historic and religious contexts. An account is also given of
the staging and performance history of the plays and their critical
history and significance. With a wealth of helpful and incisive
commentary this is the finest edition of the plays available.
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Othello (Paperback)
Eric Rasmussen, Jonathan Bate
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R328
Discovery Miles 3 280
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From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition
of Shakespeare's magnificent tragedy of love, jealousy and
explosive racial politics. With an expert introduction by Sir
Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview
of Othello in performance, takes a detailed look at specific
productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition
are interviews with two leading directors and an actor - Trevor
Nunn, Michael Attenborough and Antony Sher - providing an
illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of
interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an
essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables
the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended -
as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for students,
theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare
editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to
reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first
century.
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Coriolanus (Paperback)
Eric Rasmussen, Jonathan Bate
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R260
R246
Discovery Miles 2 460
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From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition
of Shakespeare's gripping political and personal tragedy. With an
expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition
presents a historical overview of Coriolanus in performance, takes
a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film
versions. Included in this edition are interviews with two leading
directors - Gregory Doran and David Farr - providing an
illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of
interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an
essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables
the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended -
as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for students,
theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare
editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to
reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first
century.
This catalogue of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623) is the result
of two decades of research during which 232 surviving copies of
this immeasurably important book were located - a remarkable 72
more than were recorded in the previous census over a century ago -
and examined in situ, creating an essential reference work.
From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition
of Shakespeare's epic retelling of the Wars of the Roses. With an
expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition
presents a historical overview of Henry VI in performance, takes a
detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film
versions. Included in this edition are interviews with two leading
directors and a designer - Edward Hal and Michael Boyd, and Tom
Piper - providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary
variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also
includes an essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre,
and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally
intended - as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for
students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC
Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary
approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the
twenty-first century.
From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition
of Shakespeare's ambiguous, bittersweet fairy tale. With an expert
introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a
historical overview of All's Well that Ends Well in performance,
takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film
versions. Included in this edition are interviews with important
directors Gregory Doran, Stephen Fried and the actor Guy Henry -
providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of
interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an
essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables
the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended -
as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for students,
theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare
editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to
reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first
century.
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Cymbeline (Paperback)
Eric Rasmussen, Jonathan Bate
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R298
Discovery Miles 2 980
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From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition
of Shakespeare's magical late play. With an expert introduction by
Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical
overview of Cymbeline in performance, takes a detailed look at
specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in
this edition are interviews with two leading directors - Dominic
Cooke and Emma Rice - providing an illuminating insight into the
extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This
edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare's career and
Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play
as it was originally intended - as living theatre to be enjoyed and
performed. Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general
readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and
contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's
works for the twenty-first century.
From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition
of Shakespeare's bittersweet comedy of courtship and ethnic
tension. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this
unique edition presents a historical overview of The Merchant of
Venice in performance, takes a detailed look at specific
productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition
are interviews with two leading directors and two actors - Darko
Tresjnak, David Thacker, Anthony Sher and Henry Goodman - providing
an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of
interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an
essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables
the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended -
as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for students,
theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare
editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to
reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first
century.
This Norton Critical Edition of Antony and Cleopatra is based on
the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play.
The edition includes a preface, detailed explanatory annotations,
two maps, and visuals ranging from a silver tetradrachm (34 B.C.E.)
to an Egyptian Queen Barbie. Sources, Analogues, and Contexts, a
rich selection of historical and literary writing, gives readers an
understanding of Antony and Cleopatra s origins, from the earlier
texts that inspired Shakespeare, especially those by Herodotus,
Plutarch, and Virgil, to later works by Chaucer, Mary Sidney
(Countess of Pembroke), and Samuel Daniel. The volume also includes
a wide array of the early modern English views of Egyptians,
gypsies, and women that informed Shakespeare s worldview and his
writing. Criticism includes fourteen essays representing four
centuries of interpretation, from the early observations of Samuel
Johnson to the Romantic readings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and
William Hazlitt, from the razor-sharp analyses of Anna Brownell
Jameson to recent essays by Jonathan Gil Harris, Patricia Parker,
Anston Bosman, and Ania Loomba, among others. Adaptations,
Rewritings, and Appropriations reprints alternative versions of
Antony and Cleopatra s story, including one by John Dryden, a
burlesque version by F. C. Burnand, a poem by Robert Louis
Stevenson, and an Arabic version by Ahmad Shawqi. A Selected
Bibliography is also included.
From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a definitive, fresh new look
at Shakespeare's most compelling villain. With an expert
introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a
historical overview of Richard III in performance, takes a detailed
look at specific productions, and recommends film versions.
Included in this edition are interviews with an actor, a director
and a designer - Simon Russell Beale, Bill Alexander and Tom Piper
- providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety
of interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an
essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables
the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended -
as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for students,
theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare
editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to
reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first
century.
This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions,
with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's
play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included
are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and
staging/performance assessments. -- .
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Pericles (Paperback)
Eric Rasmussen, Jonathan Bate
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R294
Discovery Miles 2 940
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From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition
of Shakespeare's touching fable of loss and reunion. With an expert
introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a
historical overview of Pericles in performance, takes a detailed
look at specific productions, and recommends film versions.
Included in this edition are interviews with three leading
directors and an actor - Adrian Noble, Dominic Cooke, Adrian
Jackson and Laura Rees - providing an illuminating insight into the
extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This
edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare's career and
Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play
as it was originally intended - as living theatre to be enjoyed and
performed. Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general
readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and
contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's
works for the twenty-first century.
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Hamlet (Paperback)
Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen
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R299
Discovery Miles 2 990
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From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition
of Shakespeare's most celebrated play. With an expert introduction
by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical
overview of Hamlet in performance, takes a detailed look at
specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in
this edition are interviews with three leading directors -Michael
Boyd, John Caird and Ron Daniels - providing an illuminating
insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are
possible. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare's
career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to
understand the play as it was originally intended - as living
theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for students,
theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare
editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to
reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first
century.
From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition
of Shakespeare's most loved comedy. With an expert introduction by
Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical
overview of Measure for Measure in performance, takes a detailed
look at specific productions, and recommends film versions.
Included in this edition are three interviews with a leading
director and two actors - Trevor Nunn, Roger Allam and Josette
Simon - providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary
variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also
includes an essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre,
and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally
intended - as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for
students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC
Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary
approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the
twenty-first century.
From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition
of Shakespeare's great tragedy of love and war. With an expert
introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a
historical overview of Troilus and Cressida in performance, takes a
detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film
versions. Included in this edition are interviews with two leading
directors - Trevor Nunn and Michael Boyd - providing an
illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of
interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an
essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables
the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended -
as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for students,
theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare
editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to
reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first
century.
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a
playwright of immense talent, is the most important of
Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major
plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the
few years before his violent death.
Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world
prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Malta
is a drama of villainy and revenge; Edward II was to influence
Shakespeare's Richard II. Doctor Faustus, perhaps the first drama
taken from the medieval legend of a man who sells his soul to the
devil, is here in both its A- and its B- text, showing the enormous
and fascinating differences between the two.
Under the General Editorship of Dr. Michael Cordner of the
University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited
and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In
addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed
annotation.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition
of Shakespeare's much-loved comedy of the battle between the sexes.
With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique
edition presents a historical overview of Much Ado About Nothing in
performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and
recommends film versions. Included in this edition are three
interviews with two leading directors and an actor - Marianne
Elliott, Nicholas Hytner and Harriet Walter - providing an
illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of
interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an
essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables
the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended -
as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for students,
theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare
editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to
reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first
century.
Henry IV sits on a usurped throne, his conscience and his nobles in
revolt, while his son Hal is immersed in a self-indulgent life of
revelry with the notorious Sir John Falstaff. Shakespeare explores
questions of kingship and honor in this masterly mingling of
history, comedy, and tragedy.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric
Rasmussen, two of today's most accomplished Shakespearean scholars,
this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and
authoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Each
play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of
Shakespeare's theatrical career; commentary on past and current
productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and
designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a
chronology of Shakespeare's life and times; and black-and-white
illustrations.
Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers,
these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare
Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the
twenty-first century.
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