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As You Like It
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd.
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Henry IV Parts 1 & 2
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.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
Original price was: $9.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.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
Original price was: $10.00.$7.00Current price is: $7.00.Power, corruption and betrayal are at the heart of Shakespeare’s most well-known historical and political drama. As Julius Caesar moves closer to securing power for himself and is perceived by some as a threat to Roman citizens, his senators plot to bring
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Julius Caesar
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.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
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.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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Measure for Measure
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.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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Much Ado About Nothing
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.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
Original price was: $10.40.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.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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Richard II
Original price was: $9.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.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
Original price was: $9.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.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.
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Romeo And Juliet
Original price was: $10.00.$7.00Current price is: $7.00.Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.Romeo and Juliet is the world’s most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying the feud which divides their families, Romeo and Juliet enjo
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Romeo and Juliet
Original price was: $19.49.$14.00Current price is: $14.00.Love, sex and death are the components in this story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers of family and convention. It encompasses great love, high drama, low comedy and a tragic ending.
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Original price was: $49.40.$38.00Current price is: $38.00.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the tragedies of “Hamlet”, “King Lear”, “Othello”, and “Macbeth” as well as history plays and the comedies such as “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, and “As You Like It”
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The Merchant of Venice
Original price was: $9.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Features one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. Here, the text may well seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly, in performance, it has revealed a contrasting nature. Shylock, though vanquished in the law-court, often t
