The Oxford Shakespeare

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
    The Oxford Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
    By William Shakespeare

    This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction.

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew
    The Oxford Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew
    By William Shakespeare

    Introducing this new edition, H.J. Oliver pays attention to the play's theatrical virtues while also providing a deeply considered study of its textual problems, structural complexities, and interpretive challenges.

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: All's Well that Ends Well
    The Oxford Shakespeare: All's Well that Ends Well
    By William Shakespeare

    Usually classifed as a 'problem comedy', All's Well that Ends Well invites a fresh assessment. Its psychologically disturbing presentation of an agressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by...

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor
    The Oxford Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor
    By William Shakespeare

    The Merry Wives of Windsor was almost certainly required at short notice for a court occasion in 1597 and Shakespeare threw into it all the creative energy that was going into his Henry IV plays.

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: Cymbeline
    The Oxford Shakespeare: Cymbeline
    By William Shakespeare

    This is the first full-scale edition of Cymbeline for 37 years. During that time, there has been considerable interest in Shakespeare's late work in the theatre, and several notable productions...

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: Anthony and Cleopatra
    The Oxford Shakespeare: Anthony and Cleopatra
    By William Shakespeare

    In its towering central characters, vast geographical and historical sweep, and its variety of style and mood, Anthony and Cleopatra is perhaps the most ambitious of Shakespeare's designs. Yet the...

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida
    The Oxford Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida
    By William Shakespeare

    Troilus and Cressida is perhaps Shakespeare's most philosophical play, and its preoccupation with war, sex, and time has seemed peculiarly relevant since the First World War.

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: Hamlet
    The Oxford Shakespeare: Hamlet
    By William Shakespeare

    The Oxford Shakespeare edition presents a radically new text, based on that First Folio, which printed Shakespeare's own revision of an earlier version.

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen
    The Oxford Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen
    By William Shakespeare, John Fletcher

    The exceptionally full introduction to this edition explains the relevance to the play of ideas of chivalry and of the classical idea of friendship.

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part One
    The Oxford Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part One
    By William Shakespeare

    This edition in the Oxford Shakespeare series completes the trilogy of Henry VI plays.

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: Measure for Measure
    The Oxford Shakespeare: Measure for Measure
    By William Shakespeare

    This is among Shakespeare's most vivid dramatic projections of moral duplicity. The introduction discusses the origins of his treatment of the well-known story and examines his sources.

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: Henry IV
    The Oxford Shakespeare: Henry IV
    By William Shakespeare

    David Bevington's introduction discusses the play in both performance and criticism from Shakespeare's time to our own, illustrating the variety of interpretations of which the text is capable.

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
    The Oxford Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
    By William Shakespeare

    This innovative edition offers modernized texts not only of the 1599 quarto but also of the short, or 'bad', quarto of 1597, regarding each as witness to a 'mobile text' which changed in composition as Shakespeare wrote it and which has ...

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: The Tragedy of King Richard III
    The Oxford Shakespeare: The Tragedy of King Richard III
    By William Shakespeare

    Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition recognizes the play's pre-eminence as a...

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors
    The Oxford Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors
    By William Shakespeare

    Appendices include the complete text of the play's main source, Plautus' Menaechmi, and extracts from Gesta Grayorum and the Geneva Bible.

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
    The Oxford Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
    By William Shakespeare

    The most famous of Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Julius Caesar was written and first performed in 1599, and was apparently one the plays his contemporaries enjoyed most. Recounting the death of...

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, or What You Will
    The Oxford Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, or What You Will
    By William Shakespeare

    Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in the modern theatre, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities throughout.

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida
    The Oxford Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida
    By William Shakespeare

    Troilus and Cressida is perhaps Shakespeare's most philosophical play, and its preoccupation with war, sex, and time has seemed peculiarly relevant since the First World War. Fine productions have demonstrated...

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost
    The Oxford Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost
    By William Shakespeare

    This edition offers a number of new readings of difficult and disputed passages, together with some suggestions about the way in which the play's notorious `tangles' may have come about.