King Lear by William Shakespeare

$8.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Series: The New Penguin Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good

Part of "The New Penguin Shakespeare" series, this text looks at "King Lear" with an introduction, a list of further reading, commentary and a short account of the textual problems of the play. The series is used and recommended by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

$7.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Series: The New Penguin Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good

Part of the "New Penguin Shakespeare" series, this book offers a complete edition of "Much Ado About Nothing". It has been prepared from the original texts and is accompanied by an introduction, a list of further reading, a full commentary, and a short account of the textual problems of the play.

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

$12.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: near fine

The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, based on the 1623 Folio text - on-page commentary and notes explain mea ning, staging, language and allusions - detailed introduction considers composition, sources, and critical and theatrical history - includes full text of Plautus' Menaechmi and extracts from Gesta Grayorum and the Geneva Bible - illustrated with production photographs and related art - full index to introduction and commentary - durable sewn binding for lasting use 'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.' Times Literary Supplement ...Show more

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

$12.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Series: The Oxford Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good

The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi- comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, throughout, for the richness and complexity of its poetry. It concludes, moreover, with the most daring and moving reconciliation scene in all Shakespeare's plays. Th ough the title may suggest an escapist fantasy, recent criticism has seen in the play a profoundly realist psychology and a powerful commentary on the violence implicit in family relationships and deep, longlasting friendships. Stephen Orgel's edition considers the play in relation to Renaissance conceptions of both dramatic genre and the family, traces the changing critical and theatrical attitudes towards it, and places its psychological and dramatic conflicts within the Jacobean cultural and political context. The commentary pays special attention to the play's linguistic complexity, and the edition also includes a complete reprint of Shakespeare's source, Pandosto, by Robert Greene. ...Show more

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare; Peter Holland (Editor)

$10.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good

A Midsummer Nights Dream, by William Shakespeare, is part of the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare series. This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world's foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kasta n of Columbia University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that Shakespeare wrote. Each volume in the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare series includes: New Scholarship - Premiere scholars introduce each play with contemporary scholarship. An essay on editing the text provides an in-depth look at the quartos and folios used in the edition.Contextualizing Essays - Essays on Shakespeare's England, language, and life, along with essays on performing Shakespeare and significant performances frame the play in both historical and theatrical context for readers. A look at the lasting influence of the play on music, art, film, and dance creates an interdisciplinary framework with which to approach the play.Better Notes - Through one-word margin definitions, facing-page glosses, and longer end notes after the play, our innovative approach to notes pulls readers away from the text fewer times while providing them with more information and comprehensive analysis.Further Reading - An annotated bibliography of titles, hand-selected by the introduction author, takes readers beyond the edition for further reading. Shakespeare's hilarious though often unnerving story of desire, confusion, and magic has delighted audiences for 400 years. The editor, Mario DiGangi, provides a set of notes rich in insight into the play's many literary and cultural points of reference. ...Show more

Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare; John Gilbert (Illustrator)

$10.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Comedy turns to tragedy as two couples fall in and out of love in Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shak espeare's most frequently performed plays. This edition features illustrations by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert and a new introduction from Professor Tiffany Stern. Whilst Beatrice and Benedick both despise love, exchanging insults and banter rather than vows, for Hero and Claudio it is love at first sight. But as their marriage preparations begin so do Don John's dirty tricks, resulting in humiliation, rejection and disguise. Through masqued layers of deception and tight prosaic wit Shakespeare weaves together a comedy full of tragedy and romance in which nothing is as it seems. ...Show more

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

$6.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Plays Ser. | Reading Level: good

The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. ''The Winter's Tale' is high fantasy, a tale to be told by the fire...The play belongs to the type known as "tragicomedy", but Shakespeare has separated the tragedy from the comedy. The first part has th e same kind of tragic development as 'Othello'; the second part is pure idyllic comedy. 'The Winter's Tale' is a far better play to hear and see than to read; it needs the voice of the actor to give it life.' G.B. HARRISON, editor of texts for The Shakespeare Recording Society. ...Show more

Shakespeare: For All Time by Stanley W Wells

$40.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Series: Oxford Shakespeare (Hardcover) | Reading Level: very good

A leading Shakespeare scholar pens an entertaining and informative account of Shakespeare's life work and legacy. of color illustrations.

No Bed for Bacon - The story of Shakespeare and Lady Viola in love by Caryl Brahms; S J Simon

$8.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: good

By Me, William Shakespeare by Robert Payne

$16.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: good-very good

"....entertaining, and ... highly illuminating ... his research has been thorough and he offers some intriguing speculations regarding the influence on certain plays of ... national events ... He also offers some excellent shafts of criticism, particularly with respect to the final plays." -Publishers' Weekly ...Show more

The Complete Sonnets and Poems of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

$10.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good

The greatest sonnets and poems ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language.

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare; Barbara A. Mowat (Editor); Paul Werstine (Editor)

$14.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Series: Folger Shakespeare Library | Reading Level: good-very good

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1594. It was published in 1623 The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a drunken tinker named Sly is tricked into thinking he is a nobleman by a mischiev ous Lord. The Lord has a play performed for Sly's amusement, set in Padua with a primary and sub-plot. The main plot depicts the courtship of Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew. Initially, Katherina is an unwilling participant in the relationship, but Petruchio tempers her with various psychological torments -- the "taming" -- until she is an obedient bride. The sub-plot features a competition between the suitors of Katherina's more tractable sister, Bianca. The play's apparent misogynistic elements have become the subject of considerable controversy, particularly among modern audiences and readers. It has nevertheless been adapted numerous times for stage, screen, opera, and musical theatre ...Show more