William Shakespeare

This edition of 'The Winter's Tale' provides a newly edited text, an introduction that takes into account current critical thinking, and a commentary on the play's language designed to make it easily accessible to contemporary readers.

'The Oxford Shakespeare' series offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate classic works for modern readers. A detailed introduction considers composition, sources, and critical and theatrical history.

A poor physician's daughter cures the King of France, and in return is promised the hand of any nobleman she wishes. But the man she chooses, the proud young Count of Rossillion, refuses to consummate the forced marriage and flees to Florence.

Shakespeare's sonnets are masterpieces of wit and elaborate erotic word-play, dealing with themes of mortality and memory, art, desire and jealousy. This is a collection of Shakespeare's sonnets, forming an extraordinary meditation on the nature of love, lust, beauty and time.

'Coriolanus' is perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written. Set in ancient Rome, it remains a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics.

The Arden Shakespeare edition of Henry VI Part 1 provides a clear and authoritative text with detailed notes and commentary, and places the play in its historical, cultural and performance contexts.

During Shakespeare's lifetime 'Henry IV, Part I' was his most reprinted play, and it remains enormously popular with theatre- goers and readers. David Bevington's introduction discusses the play in both peformance and criticism from Shakespeare's time to our own, illustrating the variety of interpretations of which the text is capable.

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.

This volume contains Shakespeare's first five history plays - "Henry VI", Parts I, II and III, "Richard III" and "King John". The text of the plays is accompanied by extensive notes, an author chronology, a bibliography and a detailed introduction to each play.

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.