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The new edition focuses on the Sonnets as poetry-sometimes strikingly individual poems, but often subtly interlinked in thematic, imagistic and other groupings. Gwynne Evans and Anthony Hecht also address the many questions that cast a veil of mystery over the genesis of the Sonnets: to what extent ... More

"Dances of Shakespeare" gives a brief introduction to how to perform all of the dance styles featured in Shakespeare's plays. Designed for the practicing director, actor, or choreographer, it gives clear instruction on how to perform popular dances of Shakespeare's day, including masques, brawls, ca... More

The new edition of Shaespeare's most celebrated war play points to the many inconsistencies in the presentation of Henry V. In his substantial introduction Andrew Gurr explains the play as a reaction to the decade of war which preceded its writing; he analyses the play's double vision of Henry as bo... More

In this edition of the play David Bevington shows how the theatrical design and imaginative vision of Antony and Cleopatra make it one of Shakespeare's most remarkable tragedies.The edition is throughout attentive to the play as theatre: a detailed, illustrated account of the stage history is follow... More

A series of outstandign productions by the Roiyal Shakespeare Company and others has recently demonstrated the theatrical vitality of Shakespeare's plays about the reign of Henry VI. In the Third Part Shakespeare extends his essay on monarchical politics by contrasting the good but ineffective Henry... More

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 Cymbeline provides, a clear and authoritative text, ... More

The Merry Wives of Windsor The edition foucuses at every point on a theatrical understanding of the play. While emphasising its liveliness in stage terms, David Crane also claims that this Citizen Comedy needs to be taken much more seriously than in the past, as an expression of Shakespeare's fundam... More

The author offers a new approach to the text of the Second Part of King Henry IV, which he sees as an unplanned sequel to the First Part, itself a remake of an old, non-Shakespearean play. The Second Part deliberately exploits the popular success of Sir John Falstaff, introduced in Part One; the res... More

An active approach to Shakespeare in the classroom. This edition of Richard II is part of the Cambridge School Shakespeare series. Like every other play in the series, it has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. This version of Richard II aims to be different from ot... More

The Cambridge School Shakespeare series arises out of the research and development work of the Shakespeare and Schools Project. Each play in the series has been carefully edited to enable students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative word in accessible and creative ways.An active approach to Shakesp... More

Under cover of being a rousing, straight-ahead adventure story, Shakespeare's Henry V manages to become something much more open and complex: a play whose possible meanings point in many directions, often all at once. Focusing on stage directions, implied stage action in the dialogue, and on product... More

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Professor Schlueter approaches this early comedy as a parody of two types of Renaissance educational fiction: the love quest story and the test-of-friendship story, which by their combination show high-flown human ideals as incompatible with each other and with human nature. A thoroughly researched,... More

Giorgio Melchiori sees The Second Part of King Henry IV as an unplanned sequel to the First Part, deliberately exploiting the popular success of Sir John Falstaff, introduced in Part One. The resulting rich huour gives a comic dimension ot the play which makes it a unique blend of history, Morality ... More

"Shakespeare, Spencer and the Matter of Britain" examines the work of two of the most important English Renaissance authors in terms of the cultural, social and political contexts of early modern Britain. Andrew Hadfield demonstrates that the poetry of Edmund Spenser and the plays of William Shakesp... More

Henry VIII was one of Shakespeare's most popular plays in the eighteenth and ninetheenth centuries when grreat actors took the roles of Queen Katherine and Cardinal Wolsey, and elaborate pageantry was much extended. It has not been staged frequently in the twentieth century, but a number of importan... More