William Shakespeare

'The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.' How should society treat its bankrupts? What are the ethics of debt collection? What does it mean to be rich, to be poor? And can you ever really buy friendship? In Timon of Athens, Shakespeare and Middleton pose these and other questions as they chart the dramatic downfall of an Athenian nobleman, exposing the corrosive effects of money and status. At once a critique of wealth inequality and a meditation on the fragility of human bonds, the play presents Timon as one of the playwright's most puzzling and enigmatic creations. In her introduction, Sophie Battell connects early modern debates on usury to the continuing reverberations of the recent financial crisis and global recession. The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems. Using the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition, these volumes offer readers the latest thinking on the authentic texts (collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work) alongside innovative introductions from leading scholars. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive set of critical apparatus to give readers the best resources to help understand and enjoy Shakespeare's work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

'O mother, mother! What have you done?' Failing harvests, fragile supply chains, food shortages, a spike in the cost of living; military insurgency and counter-insurgency locked in bloody stalemate; a political system on the brink of collapse, unable to respond to democratic demands, and unwilling to secure its citizens' basic material needs. This is Coriolanus: the last of Shakespeare's tragedies, and perhaps his timeliest. The action takes place in the early days of Rome, in a fragile republic surrounded by external enemies and riven with internal conflict. At its centre is the strong-willed, self-sabotaging figure of Caius Martius Coriolanus, who uses his military prowess to defend the city, but ends up bent on destroying it. Based on events from Roman history, but glancing at contemporary popular discontent, Coriolanus is a highly sophisticated analysis of crisis: social, political, economic, ecological, and psychological. It stages the unpredictable struggle between Rome's ruling class and its people, testing out the prospects and limits of political action, and reflecting on the tragic inflections of politics itself. At the same time, it shows how those political antagonisms can erupt within other, seemingly separate areas of life: the domestic, the erotic, the familial, even the tightly clenched mind of its protagonist. In Coriolanus, Shakespeare offers his fullest examination of a mother-child dynamic, as its protagonist negotiates the demands and desires of his formidable mother Volumnia. And all these elements, psychic and social, come together in the play's astonishing climax, where the survival of the city hangs on the encounter between a mother and her son, holding hands, silent. The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems. Using the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition, these volumes offer readers the latest thinking on the authentic texts (collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work) alongside innovative introductions from leading scholars. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive set of critical apparatus to give readers the best resources to help understand and enjoy Shakespeare's work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

'I have had a most rare vision.' A Midsummer Night's Dream evokes images of fairies, dreams, changeling children, and actors being transformed into asses. But is the play as ethereal as these associations suggest? Varsha Panjwani argues that it a rare work of art that is both hilarious and profound, dream and nightmare, submissive and yet subversive. She demonstrates how this play uses dreams as a device to make us examine our reality and the power structures that we have constructed based on class, gender, sexuality, ability, race, nationality, religion, and age. This new edition maps the global appeal of this play and shows how it has inspired various artists around the world and urges readers to participate in the play's restless questioning and creative dreaming. The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems. Using the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition, these volumes offer readers the latest thinking on the authentic texts (collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work) alongside innovative introductions from leading scholars. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive set of critical apparatus to give readers the best resources to help understand and enjoy Shakespeare's work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

'Born in a tempest when my mother died! This world to me is as a lasting storm.' Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a tale of adventure, fateful journeys, true love, and marvels. The play recycles a millennia-old story of a prince who sails around a mythic Mediterranean, starts a family, loses his wife and daughter, and is miraculously reunited with them years later. It packs in exciting incidents, from shipwreck to storms to murder, and a colourful cast of characters including knights, assassins, pirates, brothelkeepers, and the goddess of chastity. Written by Shakespeare and George Wilkins, Pericles capitalises on the seventeenth-century vogue for tragicomic romance and it proved to be a hit on the stage and in print. In the twenty-first century, Pericles has again surged in popularity. Inspiring novels by bestselling writers and theatrical adaptations around the globe, this ancient story is used to explore contemporary concerns such as displacement, the treatment of women, the abuse of authority, and the persistence of hope in the face of tragedy. The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems. Using the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition, these volumes offer readers the latest thinking on the authentic texts (collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work) alongside innovative introductions from leading scholars. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive set of critical apparatus to give readers the best resources to help understand and enjoy Shakespeare's work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

'Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.' Richard III is Shakespeare's most charismatic protagonist-villain, exercising his wrongdoing with devilish glee and dazzling loquaciousness. He is also one of the most notorious examples in English literature of a damaging equation of disability with moral failing. The introduction to this edition provides a fresh take on this play's attractions and repulsions. Susan L. Anderson details how Shakespeare's telling of the final chapter in the Wars of the Roses has irrevocably shaped both the reputation of the historical figure of Richard III and the way disability is represented on stage and in fiction. The introduction draws on the recent burgeoning of work on early modern disability to demonstrate how the lens of disability can provide fresh and interesting readings of the play. While acknowledging the recent archaeological findings about the historical Richard III, Anderson carefully distinguishes the literary character from the historical king and explores his relationship to a wider swathe of histories. Anderson highlights how the play's poetic and linguistic features contribute to the pleasures and fascinations of reading this text, and shows readers that Richard III as a play can also prompt us to think differently about disability in the past and now. The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems. Using the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition, these volumes offer readers the latest thinking on the authentic texts (collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work) alongside innovative introductions from leading scholars. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive set of critical apparatus to give readers the best resources to help understand and enjoy Shakespeare's work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

‘O time, thou must untangle this, not I.’ Rediscover Shakespeare’s tale of crossed loves and mistaken identities. Love gets complicated. After a catastrophic shipwreck, identical twins Viola and Sebastian are separated, each believing that the other is dead. To get her life back on track, Viola begins dressing as a man and working for Duke Orsino – mostly passing love letters to his beau, Countess Olivia. Unfortunately, Viola fancies the Duke for herself, and Olivia has fallen for Viola! All it would take was another Viola in play to set the whole thing unravelling … Offering the complete and unabridged text, set in a dyslexic-friendly font and introduced by renowned YA authors, this beautifully designed collection is the perfect way to introduce YA readers to Shakespeare's most iconic stories.

Tragedija, kotoraja obrela neverojatnuju populjarnost esche pri zhizni Shekspira, okazala ogromnoe vlijanie na mirovuju kulturu. Osnovannaja na starinnoj skandinavskoj legende, ona do sikh por trogaet serdtsa i porozhdaet samye raznye traktovki. Prints Gamlet, potrjasennyj vnezapnoj smertju ottsa, vozvraschaetsja v Daniju. Tam on uznajot, chto ovdovevshaja mat skoro stala zhenoj ego djadi, zanjavshego tron pokojnogo korolja... Posle chego v odnu iz nochej skorbjaschemu printsu javljaetsja prizrak, trebujuschij vozmezdija. Chtoby raskryt pravdu i svershit mest, Gamlet reshaet pritvoritsja bezumtsem... Dlja kogo eta knigaDlja tekh, kto khochet poznakomitsja s odnoj iz samykh znamenitykh tragedij Shekspira. Dlja chitatelej, kotorye ljubjat klassicheskuju literaturu. Dlja kollektsionerov serii "Vechnye istorii". Dlja starshikh shkolnikov, studentov i vsekh, kto khochet glubzhe ponjat proizvedenie, povlijavshee na mirovuju literaturu, teatr i kulturu.

Zagadochnye, chuvstvennye i do sikh por vyzyvajuschie spory - sonety Uiljama Shekspira otkryvajut pered chitatelem mir strasti, revnosti i tajnykh priznanij. Avtobiografija ili genialnaja khudozhestvennaja igra? Realnyj ljubovnyj treugolnik ili poeticheskij vymysel? Eta kniga priglashaet vas prikosnutsja k odnoj iz velichajshikh literaturnykh zagadok i najti sobstvennye otvety. Pered vami - pervyj klassicheskij perevod Nikolaja Gerbelja, s kotorogo nachalas istorija znakomstva russkojazychnykh chitatelej s bessmertnymi sonetami Shekspira.

The complete and unabridged dyslexia-friendly edition of Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy, Othello The complete and unabridged dyslexia-friendly edition of Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy, Othello, where the dark side of ambition unfolds into a tale of manipulation, jealousy and revenge.

The complete and unabridged dyslexia-friendly edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream The complete and unabridged dyslexia-friendly edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s enchanting comedy, where love, magic and mischief intertwine in a whimsical tale of mistaken identities.

Celebrate the timeless beauty of Shakespeare’s words and the natural world in this exquisitely illustrated anthology. Pairing some of the Bard’s most evocative verse with the botanical watercolours of artist Harrison Dix, Darling Buds is the perfect literary gift. Inside this beautiful book, you’ll find each quotation illustrated, and notes on every plant’s significance, symbolism - and even medicinal or culinary uses. • Perfect for fans of The Language of Flowers and nature-inspired art. • Beautiful literary and botanical gift book for readers, gardeners and art lovers. • A charming gift package (with fine paper and delicate watercolour illustrations). • Features original, never-before-seen watercolour illustrations.