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The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of Twelfth Night provides, a clear and authoritative te... More

Modern editions of a popular and trusted series. This new edition of Twelfth Night is part of the established Cambridge School Shakespeare series and has been substantially updated with new and revised activities throughout. Remaining faithful to the series' active approach it treats the play as a s... More

Harold F. Brooks takes this popular Shakespearean comedy/fantasy to task, examining all the aspects of the play with regard to characterization, story, plot twists, and other aspects designed to engage inquiring students' minds.The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. ... More

Much Ado About Nothing boasts one of Shakespeare's most delightful heroines, most dancing wordplay, and the endearing spectacle of intellectual and social self-importance bested by the desire to love and be loved in return. It offers both the dancing wit of the "merry war" between the sexes, and a s... More

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 meditat... More

Critics have praised either "Hamlet" or "King Lear" as the greatest of Shakespeare's "mature" tragendies. Ernst Honigmann, in the most significant edition of the play for a generation, asks: why not "Othello"? This edition sheds new light on the text of the play as we have come to know it, and on ou... More

This classic text, reprinted several times since its first publication in 1976, has been extensively revised in this new edition and includes new chapters on "Henry V, As You Like It," and on "the study of the audience and the study of response." Both readers and actors/theater-goers will find will ... More

Philip Edwards aims to bring the reader, playgoer and director of Hamlet into the closest possible contact with Shakespeare's most famous and most preplexing play. He has concentrated on essentials, dealing succinctly with the huge volume of commentary and controversy which the play has provoked and... More

Two Gentlemen of Verona is commonly agreed to be Shakespeare's first comedy, and probably his first play. A comedy built around the confusions of doubling, cross - dressing and identity, it is also a play about the ideal of male friendship and what happens to those friendships when men fall in love.... More

"No edition of these difficult and controversial poems will command agreement at all points, but this must now be the edition of first resort," says Paul Hammond, "Review of English Studies." This new edition, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones, is the clearest, most complete and up-to-date there is.'... More

Along with "Macbeth" and "Othello, Hamlet" falls into the category Shakespeare's mature tragedies. Focusing on the play's vital characters and complex storyline, Harold Jenkins discusses the work's major themes as well as many nuances that may escape the reader's study.The Arden Shakespeare is the e... More

'By far the best edition of King Lear - in respect of both textual and other matters - that we now have.' John Lyon, English Language Notes 'This volume is a treasure-trove of precise information and stimulating comments on practically every aspect of the Lear-universe. I know of no other edition wh... More

John Wilders - literary advisor to the BBC TV Shakespeare series - brings thorough scholarship and a practical understanding of performance needs to this new edition. Clarity, accessibility and rigour are the hallmarks of an edition which will provide invaluable guidance for all its readers. "This e... More

The New Cambridge Shakespeare presents critical edictions in modern-spelling of Shakespeare's individual plays, of his Sonnets, and of his narrative poems.The series has won a high reputation for its lively new emphases, which are constantly supported by the state-of-the art scholarship and judiciou... More

Modern editions of a popular and trusted series. This new edition of King Richard III is part of the established Cambridge School Shakespeare series and has been substantially updated with new and revised activities throughout. Remaining faithful to the series' active approach it treats the play as ... More

With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberre demonstrates that Rosalindas authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeareas heroine reinvents herself for every age. But the play is also ... More

Distinguished editor T.W. Craik makes an independent and balanced examination of the many textual problems of Henry V, providing many new emendations. "Craikas commentary is particularly ample and detailed, with careful attention to the playas language, textual problems, the interpretation of stage ... More

This edition of Shakespeare's most celebrated war play points to the many inconsistencies in the presentation of Henry V. Andrew Gurr's introduction explains the play as a reaction to the decade of war that preceded its writing, and analyzes the play's double vision of Henry as both military hero an... More