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.

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 ...

Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. Henry V. Macbeth. A Midsummer Night's Dream. King Lear. Lovers of literature will immediately recognise these as signature works of William Shakespeare. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare collects all thirty-seven of the immortal Bard's comedies, tragedies, and historical plays in a beautiful edition.

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 ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery.

It is one of the very few of Shakespeare's plays which do not draw on narrative sources, which suggests that it reflects his deepest imaginative ...