William Shakespeare

A complete and annotated edition of Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, including the sonnets, "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece".

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The Everyman Signet Shakespeare series continues with the second volume of Histories, containing "Henry IV" parts I and II, "Henry V" and "Henry VIII". The plays are lightly annotated, and the text is therefore suitable for both students and general readers.

Lauded on publication in 1997 as the complete Shakespeare for a new generation of students, this second edition introduces new scholarship and editorial features that invite readers afresh to Shakespeare's plays and poems.

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.

'Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?' With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire's Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It's the beginning of a remarkable friendship. Elsewhere in the Golden Triangle, the rich, manipulative Plurabelle is the face of her own TV series, existing...

Down at the theatre, Sam is about to star in Shakespeare's new play, 'Romeo and Juliet,' but people are whispering that a plague is spreading through the city. Will Sam get his big break or will the plague shut down the theatre? Meanwhile on stage, Romeo and Juliet are in love but their families can't stand each other. With plots and poison, the lovers must find a way to be together.

Jan and John have uncovered a wicked plot to steal the throne from Queen Elizabeth I of England while she watches a play. Can they stop it in time? Meanwhile, on stage, Olivia loves the boy Caesario , who is in fact not a boy but a girl, Viola. Viola loves Orsino loves Olivia. What a tangle, what a jumble.

In 'Twelfth Night', Shakespeare turned a tale of unrequited love, family dispute and fatal shipwreck into a miraculously evergreen Christmas story. At the beginning of the story, everyone is alone; at the end, everyone - well, almost everyone - has found their other half.