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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare’s work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden editions guide you to a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare’s plays. This edition
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Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics
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As You Like It
As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd.
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Hamlet (Collector’s Editions)
Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature
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Henry IV Parts 1 & 2
This history play is lively in its interplay of political intrigue and boisterous comedy, subtle in the connections between high statecraft and low craftiness, exuberant in its range of vivid characters, and memorable in its thematic concern with honour,
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Henry V
Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare’s history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages.
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Julius Caesar
Dealing with events surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., the drama vividly illustrates the ways in which power and corruption are linked.
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King Lear
Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world’s literature.
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Macbeth (Collector’s Edition)
Encompasses witchcraft, bloody murder, and ghostly apparitions. This work tells the tragedy of a good, brave and honourable man turned into the personification of evil by the workings of unreasonable ambition.
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Measure for Measure
Although this play ends like a comedy, with reconciliations, forgiveness and marriages, it has often been regarded as one of Shakespeare’s problem plays. It shows the difficulty of effecting an appropriate balance between judicial severity and mercy, betw
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Measure For Measure: Third Series
Often described as one of Shakespeare’s ‘problem plays’,Measure for Measureexplores issues of mercy and justice in corrupt Vienna. The Duke makes his strict moralistic deputy, Angelo, temporary leader of Vienna, while he disguises himself as a friar to wi
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Much Ado About Nothing
This book has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare’s popular comedies. It describes the central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, which is combative until love prevails.
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Othello
Desdemona’s love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. This novel renders racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation.
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Othello
A tragic play by William Shakespeare that explores themes of jealousy, betrayal, and racism through the story of Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army.
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Richard II
Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dramatic cycle which helped to generate England’s national identity.
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Richard III
Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare’s historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast, Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charismatically Machiavellian, always dominates the play.