Classic and pre-20th century plays

Robert Lepage''s work is situated within the political and social context of Quebec and Canada in the 1980s.

Robert Lepage''s work is situated within the political and social context of Quebec and Canada in the 1980s.

Explores Shakespeare''s plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.

Andrew Hiscock locates Shakespeare''s history plays within debates over the status and function of violence in a nation''s culture.

Andrew Hiscock locates Shakespeare''s history plays within debates over the status and function of violence in a nation''s culture.

Explores Shakespeare''s plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.

Re-appraises Shakespeare''s early career, situating his writings and activities in their time, place, and cultural moment.

Re-appraises Shakespeare''s early career, situating his writings and activities in their time, place, and cultural moment.

Illuminates the ways Shakespeare''s works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about war in all its complexity.

Offers a new introduction and commentary notes designed for the student reader, an updated reading list, appendices and extensive illustrations.

Claims that Shakespeare resists an emergent, exclusionary post-reformation ideology of ''true'' Englishness in his early plays.

Reassess the relationship between Shakespeare''s Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and the emerging genre of domestic tragedy by other early modern playwrights.

Claims that Shakespeare resists an emergent, exclusionary post-reformation ideology of ''true'' Englishness in his early plays.

The 71st in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

Demonstrates how Much Ado about Nothing models an understanding of Stoicism as performance, rather than intellectual doctrine.

Demonstrates how Much Ado about Nothing models an understanding of Stoicism as performance, rather than intellectual doctrine.

Reassess the relationship between Shakespeare''s Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and the emerging genre of domestic tragedy by other early modern playwrights.

Features a new introductory section on the latest scholarly trends, performance and adaptation practices.

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

The 71st in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

Illuminates the ways Shakespeare''s works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about war in all its complexity.

Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.

Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.

The third New Cambridge edition of Shakespeare''s Othello, updated by Christina Luckyj for the contemporary student reader.

Features an updated introduction analysing recent critical and performance interpretations, and a revised reading list.

Examining how technological developments in performance practices affect spectator experience of Shakespeare and early modern drama.

Examining how technological developments in performance practices affect spectator experience of Shakespeare and early modern drama.

The seventieth volume in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

The seventieth volume in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

Offers a completely new introduction, with a particular emphasis on the play''s afterlife in global performance and adaptation.

This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

For this second edition David Lindley has revised his introduction and added a new section.

For this second edition David Lindley has revised his introduction and added a new section.

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design
 
The Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans.

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design
 
The Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans.

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design
 
The Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans.

'The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie' was written by the German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883).