An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare's love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre.Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised i...

Romeo and Juliet is the world's most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying the feud which divides their families, Romeo and Juliet enjoy the fleeting rapture of courtship, marriage and sexual fulfilment; but a combination of old animosities and new coincidences brings them to suicidal deaths.

"Romeo and Juliet" is a tragic play written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding households. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal "young lovers"

PROLOGUE:

Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ...

Het verhaal van Julius Caesar, zijn leven en zijn moord met alle gevolgen van dien, is door de eeuwen heen verteld, beschreven, uitgebeeld en ook nagespeeld. Aan dat naspelen heeft William Shakespeare een belangrijke bijdrage geleverd in zijn beroemde toneelstukken “Julius Caesar” & “Antonius en Cleopatra”. Beide toneelstukken verschijnen nu in één boek.

De moord op Julius Caesar is wel één van de meest dramatische politieke moorden uit de geschiedenis. Dat is omdat de moordenaa...

An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare's love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre.

Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised ...

Op veler verzoek: een prachtige nieuwe editie van de verzamelde Shakespeare

Weinig schrijvers hebben onze beschaving zo beïnvloed als William Shakespeare. Tot op vandaag zijn de theaterteksten van Shakespeare een zeldzaam literair hoogtepunt. Meer dan ooit worden zijn stukken over de hele wereld gelezen, opgevoerd, bewerkt en geciteerd. Koning Lear, Hamlet, Een Mid-zomernachtdroom, of Richard III, de zevenendertig aan Shakespeare toegeschreven theaterteksten staan in ons geheugen gegrift. We ...

"The text of any Shakespeare play is a living negotiable entity: scholarship and theatre practice work together to keep the plays alive and vividly present." – Greg Doran, RSC Artistic Director EmeritusDeveloped in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company, this Complete Works of William Shakespeare combines exemplary textual scholarship with beautiful design. Curated by expert editors Sir Jonathan Bate and Professor Eric Rasmussen, the text in this collection is based on the iconic 16...

Shakespeare's delightful comedy of misunderstanding and misidentification, illustrated throughout by Sir John Gilbert and with introduction by Dr Robert Mighall.

The second Oxford edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon and chronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuation are modernized, and there is a brief introduction to each work, as well as an illuminating and informative General Introduction.

Included here for the firsttime is the play The Reign ...