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This edition of "The Comedy of Errors" bases itself directly on the 1623 Folio text and provides helpful explanatory notes. The introduction argues that it was written for and performed at the Gray's Inn Christmas revels on 28 December 1594 and was among the first plays composed by Shakespeare.

Emphasises "Othello's" bold treatment of racial themes. Suitable for theatre professionals as well as general readers, this work includes a performance history, a commentary illuminating the complexities of Shakespeare's language, and an appendix on the music in the play.

Covered in this book is the study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his friends, and, when he is finally impoverished, learns to despise humanity with a hatred that drives him to his grave. This edition offers a commentary on the play, as well as a discussion of Thomas Middleton's collaboration with Shakespeare.

Here in a handy paperback format are all Shakespeare's tragedies (there are companion volumes of the histories and comedies), with brief introduction, and the texts established by "The Complete Oxford Shakespeare", which was re-edited from the original editions.

Here in a paperback format are all Shakespeare's comedies (there are companion volumes of the histories and tragedies), with brief introductions, and the texts established by "The Complete Oxford Shakespeare", which was re-edited from the original editions.

Here in a handy paperback format are all Shakespeare's histories (there are companion volumes of the comedies and tragedies), with brief introductions, and the texts established by "The Complete Oxford Shakespeare", which was re-edited from the original editions.

One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso theatrical and poetic means to dramatize a story of a marriage imperilled by mistrust and painfully rebuilt, in a context of international conflict. This edition emphasizes the play's theatrical impact and pays close attention to its complex, evocative language.

Challenging conventional thinking about the earliest texts of the play, Martin chooses the Folio version, contributing new evidence about Shakespeare's methods of revision. The introduction discusses the meaning and appeal of the play's action, language, and anti-war themes, and describes its history in the theatre; and the commentary supplies historical information and clarifies meaning.

This new edition of one of Shakespeare's greatest history plays offers a freshly considered text fully alert to its intense theatrical aspects. A helpful Introduction discusses the play's structure, language, and performance history, and the notes provide an illuminating commentary on details of the text.

Despite the foundational place of Shakespeare's poems within his oeuvre, modern readers seldom engage with his non-dramatic works as a whole. This volume, which inludes all Shakespeare's sonnets and poems, explains how this state of affairs has arisen, and why it should be changed.

This edition of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" offers modernized texts of both the 1599 "good" quarto and the short, or "bad" quarto of 1597, regarding each as an independent witness to a "mobile text" which changed in composition as Shakespeare wrote it.

Shakespeare's Henry VI plays have come fully into their own in the modern theatre. For this new edition of Henry VI, Part Two, Roger Warren draws on his experience of the play both in rehearsal and performance to focus its theatricality and contemporary relevance, as well as providing a detailed commentary and a fresh consideration of the relation between the two original texts.

Designed to meet the needs of theatre professionals, as well as general readers, the edition includes an extensive performance history, a commentary illuminating the complexities of Shakespeare's language, and a setting of the song 'Who is Silvia?' prepared from an Elizabethan source.

Completing the trilogy of Henry VI plays in The Oxford Shakespeare, Michael Taylor edits the play for students, scholars, and theatregoers with an informative commentary on all aspects of the language, action, characters, and staging.

'Pericles' was one of the most popular plays of its time, and it has regained much of that popularity in the modern theatre. Roger Warren draws upon his extensive experience of the play in rehearsal and performance to suggest why.

Henry V, is an inspiring, often comic celebration of a young warrior-king. Gary Taylor shows how Shakespeare shaped his historical material, examines controversial critical interpretations, discusses the play's fluctuating fortunes in performance, and analyses the range and variety of Shakespeare's characterization.

Deftly combining history and tragedy, Shakespeare's tale of bad government and usurpation had great political immediacy for its first audiences. This version of the text is based on the early quartos and first Folio of 1623. It is complemented by an introduction that places the play in its own time, thorough textual notes, and full commentary.

This edition recognizes "Richard III" as a performance work: a perspective that informs the editing. The text is based on the 1597 Quarto which, it is argued, is closest to the play as it would have been staged in Shakespeare's theatre. There are commentaries and an analytical introduction.

The Merry Wives of Windsor was almost certainly required at short notice for a court occasion in 1597. T. W. Craik discusses the play's probable occasion, its relationship to Shakespeare's English history plays and to other sources, its textual history, and its original quality as drama.

Simple and engaging on the surface, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery. Peter Holland traces the material out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows, and the strange but enchanting amalgam he makes of them.

Written near the end of Shakespeare's creative period, this play is perhaps the most ambitious of all Shakespeare's designs in its geographical and historical sweep. A critical section examines how the technique of the play may have contributed to the disappointment of various performances.

Titus Andronicus was the young Shakespeare's audacious, sporadically brilliant experiment in sensational tragedy. E.M. Waith provides a fresh view of the play in its historical context and an illustrated account of performances leads to an assessment of the play's qualities in the light of its critical reception.

This is the full text of "Twelfth Night or What You Will" a tale of shipwrecked twins, love, and mistaken identity.

This is an annotated and comprehensive modern-spelling edition of "King Henry VIII", known in early performances as "All is True". It makes use of scholarship on the dating, authorship, printing, and sources of the play, as well as interpretations, and includes a survey of the play in performance.

"The Winter's Tale" is regarded as Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragicomedy. This edition considers the play in relation to Renaissance conceptions of both dramatic genre and the family.

Coriolanus is perhaps the most brilliant play ever written. The Introduction to this new edition illuminates its relevance to Shakespeare's own time and to later ages while also emphasizing the wide range of interpretations that are possible in performance.

During Shakespeare's lifetime Henry IV, Part I was his most reprinted play and Falstaff still towers among Shakespeare's comic inventions. David Bevington analyses the play's richly textured language in a detailed commentary on individual words and phrases and clearly explains its historical background.

Troilus and Cressida is perhaps Shakespeare's most philosophical play. Muir sets the play in its historical context, discusses its odd career in the theatre, examines Shakespeare's handling of his multiple sources, and assesses the contribution of interpretative criticism to a deeper understanding of this sombre examination of a fallen world.

Based on the 1608 quarto of "King Lear", this commentary aims to help readers understand the language and dramaturgy of the play, in relation to the theatres in which it was performed.

Based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale the central themes of play are the claims of love and friendship. The introduction offers an illuminating account of Shakespeare's collaboration with his younger colleague John Fletcher, and there are full and helpful notes on unfamiliar words, stage business, allusions, and the play's often complex language.