William Shakespeare

Vintage Classics Love Poems is a series designed to speak to the experience of love, lust and longing. These special editions will be the perfect gift

The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, both in the classroom and in the theatre. A completely new section of the introduction discuss

"Shakespeare's dexterous comedy of two twin masters and two twin servants continually mistaken for one another is both farce and more than farce. The

Banishing his cousin, Bolingbroke, King Richard II prevents a dispute from turning bloody. But Richard is an arrogant and despotic ruler, prone to tyr

With its cross-dressed heroine, gender games and explorations of sexual ambivalence, its Forest of Arden and melancholy Jacques, this book speaks dire

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear

The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's only thoroughly English comedy, created an archetypal literary figure in the shape of the devious, irrepress

This complex history play is more troubled and troubling than King Henry IV Part 1, as it continues the story of King Henry's decline and Hal's reform

Often described as one of Shakespeare's 'problem plays', Measure for Measure explores issues of mercy and justice in corrupt Vienna. The Duke makes hi

This annotated edition of "King Richard II" takes a fresh look at the first part of Shakespeare's second tetralogy of history plays, showing how it re

This comprehensive edition of King Richard III offers all the features associated with the Arden Shakespeare. Richard is one of Shakespeare's great

"The text of any Shakespeare play is a living negotiable entity: scholarship and theatre practice work together to keep the plays alive and vividly pr

'The finest, most representative instance of what Shakespeare can do' Harold BloomPrince Hal, the son of King Henry IV, spends his time in idle pleasu

‘Verstegen, die de Folioversie uit 1623 vertaalde, en de Quarto uit 1604 er tussen haken bijzette, heeft duidelijk lang over het dilemma van de vertal

In een fonkelende nieuwe vertaling laat Bas Belleman zien waarom William Shakespeare de grootste dichter aller tijden is. Deze 154 sonnetten zijn nooi

Richard III brings the Wars of the Roses cycle of history plays to a close in bloody fashion. Arguably Shakespeare’s most villainous king, we watch in

This edition of "Julius Caesar" provides a lively edition of one of Shakespeare's most familiar and studied plays. The introduction sets the play in t

Suzanne Gossett offers a full and critical performance history, with an introduction showing how the play's performance history has paralled the criti

Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, "Twelfth Night" is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities. T