Macbeth by William Shakespeare

$6.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Series: Heinemann Shakespeare | Reading Level: good

A study edition of "Macbeth", featuring facing notes, activities, text graded by importance and illustrations.

William Shakespeare and the Birth of Merlin by Mark Dominik

$14.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good

As You Like It by William Shakespeare; Alan Brissenden (Editor)

$10.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good

As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy and one of the best-loved and most performed of all his plays. In his introduction to this new edition Alan Brissenden suggests reasons for its delayed publication and discusses in detail how productions have changed radically over the years. Sha kespeare's use of his sources, his handling of the themes of love, doubleness, and pastoral are dealt with, as well as the significance of men playing women's parts on the Elizabethan stage. Detailed annotations explain allusions, puns, and difficult passages, enabling student, reader, actor, and director to savor the humor and the seriousness of the play to the full. There are illustrations, and appendices on "wit" and the songs, for which the earliest known music is printed. ...Show more

The Songs and Poems of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

$10.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Series: The Pilgrim's Books | Reading Level: very good

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare; Edited by M. R. Ridley

$10.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Series: The New Temple Shakespeare | Reading Level: good

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

$6.00 NZD

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

Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare; S. C. Campbell

$10.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date   William Shakespeare wrote some of the greatest poetry in all world literature, in compact sonnets bursting with beautiful imagery and timeless insights about love, life, and human nature. This pocket edition makes available to those who love the words of the Immortal Bard all 154 of his exquisite sonnets   Shakespeare's Sonnets is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an elegantly designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging.     ...Show more

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare; Maurice R. Ridley (Editor)

$12.00 NZD

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

"Sources, Analogues, and Contexts," a rich selection of historical and literary writing, gives readers an understanding of Antony and Cleopatra's origins, from the earlier texts that inspired Shakespeare, especially those by Herodotus, Plutarch, and Virgil, to later works by Chaucer, Mary Sidney (Counte ss of Pembroke), and Samuel Daniel. The volume also includes a wide array of the early modern English views of Egyptians, gypsies, and women that informed Shakespeare's worldview and his writing."Criticism" includes fourteen essays representing four centuries of interpretation, from the early observations of Samuel Johnson to the Romantic readings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt, from the razor-sharp analyses of Anna Brownell Jameson to recent essays by Jonathan Gil Harris, Patricia Parker, Anston Bosman, and Ania Loomba, among others."Adaptations, Rewritings, and Appropriations" reprints alternative versions of Antony and Cleopatra's story, including one by John Dryden, a burlesque version by F. C. Burnand, a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, and an Arabic version by Ahmad Shawqi.A Selected Bibliography is also included. ...Show more

Shakespeare - An Illustrated Dictionary by Stanley W. Wells

$12.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good

A reference book providing a fascinating collection of information for anyone interested in the Bard, his plays, and the actors

An Introduction to Shakespeare's Poems by Peter Hyland

$16.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good

An Introduction to Shakespeare's Poems provides a lively and informed examination of Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry: the narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece; the Sonnets; and various minor poems, including some only recently attributed to Shakespeare. Peter Hyland locates Shakesp eare as a sceptical voice within the turbulent social context in which Elizabethan professional poets had to work, and relates his poems to the tastes, values and political pressures of his time. Hyland also explores how Shakespeare's poetry can be of interest to twenty-first century readers. ...Show more

A Shakespeare Glossary by C T Onions; Robert D. Eagleson

$15.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good

Shakespeare and Text by John Jowett

$15.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics Ser. | Reading Level: very good

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Shakespeare and Text is an indispensable and u nique guide to its topic. It takes Shakespeare readers to the very foundation of his work, explaining how his plays first took shape in the theatre where writing was part of a larger collective enterprise. As the resulting manuscripts are virtually all lost, the account then turns to the early modern printing industry that produced the earliest surviving texts of Shakespeare's plays. It describes the roles of publisher and printer, the controls exerted through the Stationers' Company, and the technology of printing. A chapter is devoted to the book that gathered Shakespeare's plays together for the first time, the First Folio of 1623. Shakespeare and Text goes on to survey the major developments in textual studies over the past century. It builds on the recent upsurge of interest in textual theory, and deals with issues such as collaboration, the instability of the text, the relationship between theatre culture and print culture, and the book as a material object. Later chapters examine the current critical edition, explaining the procedures that transform early texts in to a very different cultural artefact, the edition in which we regularly encounter Shakespeare. ...Show more