Henry VI, Part II: The Oxford Shakespeare (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

Henry VI, Part II: The Oxford Shakespeare (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

Shakespeare's Henry VI plays dramatize contemporary as much as Elizabethan issues: the struggle for power, the manoeuvres of politicians, social unrest, civil war. This edition draws on experience of the play in rehearsal and performance to focus on both its theatricality and contemporary relevance

Henry VI, Part I: The Oxford Shakespeare (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

Henry VI: Part One is a dramatic tale of the lives of soldiers, diplomats, kings, and insurrectionists. It depicts the fractious instability of the court and nobility of fifteenth-century England, and their squabbles with their French counterparts.Despite its debut performance in 1592, however,

Henry IV, Part I: The Oxford Shakespeare Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

During Shakespeare's lifetime, Henry IV was his most popular play. Today, Sir John Falstaff still towers above Shakespeare's other comic inventions. This edition considers the play in the context of various critical approaches, offers a history of the play in performance from Shakespeare's time to

Henry VI, Part 1 (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of

Henry IV, Part 2: The Oxford Shakespeare (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

This edition offers a fully modernized text of one of Shakespeare's most fascinating plays. Henry IV, Part 2 is the only play in the canon whose structure almost exactly mirrors that of its predecessor, and thereby affords unique perspectives on Shakespeare's art and craft. Far from being the

Henry VI Part Two (Shakespeare William)(Paperback / softback)

Part of Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses, this second play includes an introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre and provides a separate introduction to Henry VI, Part

Richard II: The Oxford Shakespeare (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

Written in 1595, Richard II occupies a significant place in the Shakespeare canon, marking the transition from the earlier history plays dominated by civil war and stark power to a more nuanced representation of the political conflicts of England's past where character and politics are inextricably

Henry VI Part One (Shakespeare William)(Paperback / softback)

After the death of Henry V, the French revolt and threaten to reclaim their country from English rule. Guided by his Lord Protector, the young King Henry VI journeys to Paris to reaffirm his rule over France. But while the British battle Joan of Arc abroad, discontent is also breeding at home

Oxford School Shakespeare: Henry V (Shakespeare William)(Paperback / softback)

Henry V is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists and classroom

Henry V: The Oxford Shakespeare (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

The introduction includes an examination of the Quarto and texts, and of the relationship between them; a critical discussion of the play's historical and literary sources; an examination of conflicting critical attitudes to the play, and of its fluctuating theatrical fortunes; and a demonstration

King Henry VIII: The Oxford Shakespeare (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

This is the first fully annotated modern-spelling edition of King Henry VIII to appear for over a decade and includes up-to-date scholarship on all aspects of the play, including dating authorship, printing, sources and stage history. The editor accepts the view that the play is a collaboration

Henry IV, Part 1 (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of

Henry VI Part Three (Shakespeare William)(Paperback / softback)

Threatened by the Duke of York, King Henry makes a deal to disinherit his own son and make the Duke his heir. Queen Margaret is so angered by her husband's weakness that she declares war on the House of York. Can the vulnerable King hold out against the growing menace of the Duke's son, the future

King Henry IV, Part 1 (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

Like every other play in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, King Henry IV Part 1 has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. This version aims to be different from other editions of the play. It invites you to bring the play to life in your classroom through

Richard II: Oxford School Shakespeare (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

This edition of The Richard II is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including

Hamlet: The Oxford Shakespeare Hamlet (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

This Oxford Shakespeare edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. Arguing that the text currently accepted is not, in fact, the most authoritative version of the play, this new edition turns to the First Folio of

Complete Sonnets and Poems: The Oxford Shakespeare the Complete Sonnets and Poems (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

Much ADO about Nothing: The Oxford Shakespeare Much ADO about Nothing (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

King Henry V (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

Like every other play in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, King Henry V has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. This version of Henry V aims to be different from other editions of the play. It invites you to bring the play to life in your classroom through

Titus Andronicus: The Oxford Shakespeare Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

The introduction reviews the few known facts about this early Shakespeare play and discusses the puzzling problems of its date and authorship. The text has been freshly edited with the aim of presenting the play as revised for the first recorded performance in 1594, with the addition of stage

King Richard II: Third Series (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

This richly annotated edition takes a fresh look at the first part of Shakespeare's second tetralogy of history plays, showing how it relates to the other plays in the sequence. Forker places the play in its political context, discussing its relation to competing theories of monarchy, looking at

King Henry VIII: Third Series (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a new perspective on this ironic, multi-layered, collaborative play, revealing it as a complex

The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Oxford Shakespeare (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

Thought to be Shakespeare's earliest surviving play, The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy filled with passionate lovers, women disguised as men, sword fights and sudden revelations, and a happy denouement, all underscored by a farcical subplot featuring the character Launce and his dog Crab

Cymbeline (Oxford World´s Classics New Edition) - William Shakespeare

This is the first new, full-scale edition of Cymbeline in 37 years. One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso theatrical and poetic means to dramatize a story of marriage imperiled by mistrust and painfully rebuilt in the context of international conflict. Roger Warren's commentary