The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. As well as the complete and unabridged text, each play in this series has an extensive range of notes. These include detailed explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot and summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters.
Travel to Ancient Egypt to meet Cleopatra, the queen of the realm, and Mark Antony, a powerful ruler of Rome. Will their love end happily? As Shakespeare wrote, "All strange and terrible events are welcome" ...
Discover two people in denial, a couple in love and a devious trickster in this hilarious tale. Open these pages to become, as Shakespeare wrote, "as merry as the day is long."
Before the Tudors, there was Richard Plantagenet - a manipulative noble who would do anything to get his hands on the crown. As Shakespeare wrote, Richard is "determined to prove a villain" ...
Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare's comedy about love, illusions, marriage, and deception - has engrossed audiences for more than 400 years. Now in this elegant book, Much Ado about Nothing is beautifully illustrated as never before, with stunning hand-cut paper art that enhances the struggles and deceptions that are explored in this play.
RIchard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare's historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast, Richard himself, gleefully wieked, charismatically Machiavellian, always dominates the play: a role to gratify such leading actors as David Garrick, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Sher, Ian McKellen and Al Pacino. Since, in real life, political Machiavellianism is never out of date, Richard III remains…
Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. The central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, is wittily combative until love prevails. Broader comedy is provided by Dogberry, Verges and the watchmen. The drama ranges between the destructively sinister and the lyrically romantic, giving the whole a complex and sometimes problematic chara…
Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectaculer, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of Imperial power and the intensities of his sexual relationship with Cleopatra. She, variously generous and ruthless, loving and jealous, petulant and majestic, emerges as Shakespeare's mos complex depiction o…