William Shakespeare

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. This edition of Romeo and Juliet includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes....

The History of King LearThe Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers- a new, modern-spelling text, based on the Quarto text of 1608- on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions and much else- detailed introduction considers...

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the most popular texts for study by secondary students the world over. This edition...

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Macbeth is one of the most popular texts for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations,...

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Much Ado About Nothing is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations,...

Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare&'s tragedies. Indeed, for 250 years - until early this century - it was performed with grand operatic additions set to baroque music.  In his introduction Nicholas Brooke relates the play&'s changing fortunes to changes within society and the theatre and investigates...