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A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare 9781408133491
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.53The 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... -
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.53This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key... -
Twelfth Night: Third Series William Shakespeare 9781903436998
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.13Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, Twelfth Night is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities. In recent years it has returned to the centre of... -
!["King Richard II" by William Shakespeare](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/59379/59097/9781903436332__31350.1686642343.jpg?c=1 ""King Richard II" by William Shakespeare")
"King Richard II" by William Shakespeare
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.18This richly annotated edition takes a fresh look at the first part of Shakespeare's second tetralogy of history plays, showing how it relates to the other plays in the sequence. Forker places the... -
Antony and Cleopatra: Third Series William Shakespeare 9781904271017
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.53John Wilders - literary advisor to the BBC TV Shakespeare series - brings thorough scholarship and a practical understanding of performance needs to this new edition. Clarity, accessibility and... -
Macbeth: Third Series by William Shakespeare
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.53Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied tragedies. This major new Arden edition offers students detailed on-page commentary notes highlighting meaning and theatrical ideas and... -
As You Like it by William Shakespeare
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.36With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberredemonstrates that Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about... -
Marx and Freud: Great Shakespeareans: Volume X by Crystal Bartolovich
Booksplease Price: $79.83This volume looks at Marx and Freud, who, though not 'Shakespeareans' in the usual academic or theatrical sense, were both deeply informed by Shakespeare's writings, and have both had enormous... -
Woman Killed with Kindness by A. Heywood
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.32The most studied of Thomas Heywood's plays, A Woman Killed With Kindness explores the boundaries of marital punishment and the moral weight of mercy. This major new edition of this startling domestic... -
The Duchess of Malfi by John Fletcher
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.30The Duchess of Malfi is one of the major tragedies of the early modern period and remains popular in the theatre as well as in the classroom. The story of the Duchess's secret marriage and the... -
Hamlet: Arden Performance Editions by Dr. Abigail Rokison-Woodall
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.13The young Prince Hamlet, returning from university, finds his Kingdom in disarray: 'something is rotten in the state of Denmark'. With his father dead, and his uncle and mother marrying, Hamlet is... -
Women's Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England by Dr Valerie Wayne
Booksplease Price: $55.71This collection reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books, from those who worked in the book trade to those who composed,... -
Shakespeare and Textual Theory by Prof. Suzanne Gossett
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $44.71There is no Shakespeare without text. Yet readers often do not realize that the words in the book they hold, like the dialogue they hear from the stage, has been revised, augmented and emended since... -
Arden of Faversham Catherine Richardson, PhD (University of Kent, UK) 9781474289290
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $29.70Based on the true story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife, her lover and accomplices in 1551, Arden of Faversham is one of the earliest domestic tragedies and a play which has continued to... -
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Mark Rylance at the Globe by Stephen Purcell
Booksplease Price: $52.46Shakespeare in the Theatre: Mark Rylance at the Globe Each volume in the Shakespeare in the Theatre series focuses on a director or theatre company who has made a significant contribution to... -
Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory by Karen Raber
Booksplease Price: $63.14Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory charts challenges in the field of Shakespeare studies to the assumption that the category "human" is real, stable, or worthy of privileging in discussions of the... -
Sir Thomas More William Shakespeare 9781904271482
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.52This edition of Sir Thomas More is the first to bring the play into the context of a major Shakespeare series, to provide a substantial critical analysis, and to offer a comprehensive modern stage... -
The Jew of Malta Christopher Marlowe 9781904271758
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.94The Jew of Malta, written around 1590, can present a challenge for modern audiences. Hugely popular in its day, the play swings wildly and rapidly in genre, from pointed satire, to bloody revenge... -
Hamlet: Language and Writing by Dympna Callaghan
Booksplease Price: $44.71This lively and informative guide reveals Hamlet as marking a turning point in Shakespeare's use of language and dramatic form as well as addressing the key problem at the play's core: Hamlet's... -
The White Devil Benedict S. Robinson (Stony Brook University, USA) 9781904271741
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $31.38Adultery, intrigue, murder, revenge: the densely-packed plot of The White Devil touches on topics that are representative of the atmosphere of Jacobean tragedy. Part tragedy, part satire of a corrupt... -
Studying Shakespeare Adaptation: From Restoration Theatre to YouTube by Dr. Pamela Bickley
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $46.41Shakespeare's plays have long been open to reimagining and reinterpretation, from John Fletcher's riposte to The Taming of the Shrew in 1611 to present day spin-offs in a whole range of media,... -
Shakespearean Character: Language in Performance by Jelena Marelj
Booksplease Price: $53.78Why do we continue to experience many of Shakespeare's dramatic characters as real people with personal histories, individual personalities, and psychological depth? What is it that makes Falstaff... -
Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean: Great Shakespeareans: Volume II by Peter Holland
Booksplease Price: $73.73The four actors whose careers the essays in this volume explore are not only the greatest English actors of their own times but also performers whose brilliance is still invoked by all interested in... -
As You Like It: Arden Performance Editions by William Shakespeare
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $18.04'I wish I had copies like this at Drama School. Essential notes on the language for those who will get up and speak it, not purely for those who will sit and study it. An incredibly useful tool with... -
Springboard Shakespeare: Macbeth by Ben Crystal
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $25.02Macbeth is one of the most popular and bloody of Shakespeare's tragedies. This accessible introduction offers a springboard into the play, taking a hands-on, performance-based approach, exploring the... -
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare 9781472520296
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.53Much Ado About Nothing presents a battle of the sexes in more ways than one: as both a lightning-fast skirmish of wits between two famously disputatious lovers, and a near-deadly conflict built on... -
Coriolanus: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition by David George 9781350157835
RRP: $292.50Booksplease Price: $155.03First published in 2004, David George's majestic compendium of criticism relating to Shakespeare's Coriolanus was recognised as a major contribution to teaching and scholarship on the play. This new... -
New Places: Shakespeare and Civic Creativity by Paul Edmondson 9781474244541
Booksplease Price: $71.80New Places: Shakespeare and Civic Creativity documents and analyses the different ways in which a range of innovative projects take Shakespeare out into the world beyond education and the theatre... -
Coriolanus: Third Series William Shakespeare 9781904271284
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.60This Roman play is one of Shakespeare's last tragedies, best known for its political and military themes. Its hero, Coriolanus, is a proud General who does not hesitate to show his arrogant and... -
Shakespeare and Feminist Theory by Marianne Novy 9781472567062
Booksplease Price: $61.05Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first... -
The Revenger's Tragedy by Gretchen E. Minton 9781472520463
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $174.10The Revenger's Tragedy treads a line between macabre humour and moral commentary. Thomas Middleton's aptly named play begins with a man called Vindice holding the skull of his dead fiancee and vowing... -
'You' and 'Thou' in Shakespeare: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers by Penelope Freedman 9781350118683
Booksplease Price: $120.18Romeo and Juliet always use 'thou' to each other, but they are the only pair of lovers in Shakespeare to do this. Why? All the women in Richard III address Richard as 'thou', but no man ever does... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Language and Writing R.S. White 9781350103887
Booksplease Price: $157.42Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the writing skills you need to develop in order to... -
The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Perspectives on Culture, Performance and Identity Michelle M. Dowd 9781350462229
Booksplease Price: $92.96How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more inclusive approach to early modern drama help enable students to... -
Cymbeline Ed3 Arden William Shakespeare 9781904271291
Booksplease Price: $191.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904271291Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint The Arden... -
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare 9781903436820
Booksplease Price: $187.92Much Ado About Nothing boasts one of Shakespeare's most delightful heroines, most dancing wordplay, and the endearing spectacle of intellectual and social self-importance bested by the desire to love... -
Reading Shakespeare's Dramatic Language: A Guide by Lynette Hunter 9781903436295
Booksplease Price: $55.71This accessible and interdisciplinary volume addresses a fundamental need in current education in language, literature and drama. Many of today's students lack the grammatical and linguistic skills... -
Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Text and Performance by Pamela Bickley 9781472577139
Booksplease Price: $59.55Where does Shakespeare fit into the drama of his day? Getting to know the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries offers an insight into Elizabethan and Jacobean preoccupations and the theatrical... -
Othello: The State of Play by Lena Cowen Orlin 9781408184561
Booksplease Price: $53.78Othello has a long history of provoking profound emotion in its audiences and readers. This 'freeze frame' volume showcases current debates and ideas about the play's provocative effects. Each... -
Shakespeare's Common Language by Alysia Kolentsis 9781350007017
Booksplease Price: $187.88What can developments in contemporary linguistics and language theory reveal about Shakespeare's language in the plays? Shakespeare's Common Language demonstrates how methods borrowed from language...