William Shakespeare: 2151 books

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 comprehensive anthology provides every single one of Shakespeare's tragedy plays, from the earliest "Titus Andronicus" to "Coriolanus." Follow one of the greatest love stories ever told in perhaps his most widely known play, "Romeo and Juliet." In this classic tale,...

Comedy and tragedy intertwine when two very different couples fall in and out of love in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books...

RSC CLASSICS - a series of rarely performed plays from the 16th and 17th centuries, published alongside their resurrection by the RSC in Stratford and the West End in 2002/03. Officially attributed to Shakespeare only in 1998, Edward III is set in the age of chivalry and chronicles the beginning...

Karl Klein's edition of Timon of Athens introduces Shakespeare's play as a complex exploration of a corrupt, moneyed society. Klein sees the protagonist not as a failed tragic hero, but as a rich and philanthropic nobleman, surrounded by greed and sycophancy, who is forced to recognise the inherent...

The Tempest is Shakespeare's masterpiece of magical effects, redemptive romance, poetry and politics. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a...

Here are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own. Each play is presented with Shakespeare's original lines on each left-hand page, and a modern, easy-to-understand...

Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeare's earliest tragedy; it is believed to have been written sometime between 1584 and the early 1590s. It depicts a Roman general who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with his enemy Tamora, the Queen of the Goths. The play is by far Shakespeare's bloodiest work. It...

Perhaps one of Shakespeare's most adventure-filled plays, "Pericles" follows the extended sailing journeys of a young prince. Pericles is forced to flee Antioch when he correctly guesses a riddle that reveals the incestuous activity of King Antiochus. Unable to stay at home in Tyre because of Antiochus'...

Come i grandi criminali, Macbeth è al di là dell’odio. Ha il potere di lusinga, d’inganno, di sommovimento e di fascino della dea Persuasione; è uomo di egoismo, di passione, di vanità, di desiderio: facendo leva sulla sua smodata tracotanza il fato lo ha sollevato sul palco tragico dei re,...

Poche opere al mondo hanno interessato e continuano a interessare pubblico e studiosi come l’Amleto. Molti sono i versi citati da questa tragedia, molte le scene memorabili. Si può ben dire che la figura del protagonista, con l’abissale densità dei suoi spessori umani e della sua problematica...

Una Venezia cosmopolita ma già offuscata dalle sinistre ombre della discriminazione etnica e religiosa, fa da sfondo a una storia incrinata dal male, dal disgusto, dalla percezione che i rapporti umani siano solo violenza e inganno. La tragedia, andata in scena per la prima volta nel 1596, ruota intorno...

In una Britannia senza tempo, a picco su abissali scogliere sferzate dal vento, il vecchio re Lear è in procinto di abdicare: intorno a lui, alle sue spalle, si consuma lo scontro tra i pretendenti al trono. Ottenuto il potere a forza di pubbliche quanto fasulle proteste d’amore, due delle figlie...

Rappresentato per la prima volta nel 1604, Otello è la tragedia della gelosia: mostro che avvelena la mente e il cuore, creato dal nulla e sul nulla; strumento che il perfido Iago utilizza per corrompere l’animo del Moro insinuando in lui il sospetto che la dolce Desdemona lo abbia tradito con il...