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Aeschylus I: Oresteiaby AeschylusISBN 0226307786 (0-226-30778-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus I: Oresteia'Book summary:"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."Robert Brustein, The New Republic[via]
"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation
"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."Times Education Supplement
"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian
"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."Commonweal
"Grene is one of the great translators."Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times
"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Aeschylus I: Oresteia:
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Aeschylus IIby David Grene, Richmond LattimorISBN 0226307948 (0-226-30794-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus II'Book summary:The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.[via]
For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.
All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.More editions of Aeschylus II:
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Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Oedipus the King, Antigoneby Richmond Lattimore, David GreneISBN 0226307743 (0-226-30774-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Amadeus: A Playby Peter ShafferISBN 0233972722 (0-233-97272-2)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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Antony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198320574 (0-19-832057-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'Book summary:For this new edition, the text of the play, the notes, and the introductory matter have all been revised so as to make them clearer and more accessible. In addition, the entire text of the book has been redesigned and reset to make it easier to read. The illustrations have been completely redrawn, photographs of recent stage production have been included and there is a new, attractive cover design. [via]
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As You Like Itby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198320485 (0-19-832048-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As You Like It'Book summary:The new editions contain new sections: Classwork and Examinations and Background to Shakespeare's England . There are also short sections on Date and Text, and Source. [via]
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The Autobiography of an Unknown Indianby Nirad C. ChaudhuriISBN 0201155761 (0-201-15576-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian'Book summary:Evokes the first 24 years of the author's life in Calcutta and in his ancestral village in East Bengal. The book combines memoirs with a sweeping survey of Indian history and culture in the last years of the Raj. [via]
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The British Empire 1558-1995by Trevor Owen LloydISBN 0198731337 (0-19-873133-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The British Empire, 1558-1983by Trevor Owen LloydISBN 0198730241 (0-19-873024-1)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0198323727 (0-19-832372-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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Catechism of the Catholic Churchby Catholic ChurchISBN 022566867X (0-225-66867-X)
Hardcover, Geoffrey Chapman
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The Confessionsby St Augustine, James J. O'DonnellISBN 0198140754 (0-19-814075-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Consolation of Philosophyby P.G. Walsh, BoethiusISBN 0198152280 (0-19-815228-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Consolation of Philosophy'Book summary:Boethius composed the Consolatio Philosophiae in the sixth century AD whilst awaiting death under torture. The circumstances of composition, the heroic demeanor of the author, and the `Menippean' texture have combined to exercise a fascination over students of philosophy and of literature ever since. Professor Walsh has included an introduction and explanatory notes which combined with his new translation make the text accessible to general readers and scholars alike. [via]
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Cultural Awareness for Childrenby Earldene McNeill, Judy Allen, Velma SchmidtISBN 0201287315 (0-201-28731-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Duchess of Bloomsbury Streetby Helene HanffISBN 0233965092 (0-233-96509-2)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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Euripide's Medeaby D. L. PageISBN 0198720920 (0-19-872092-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Euripide's Medea'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Euripides Medeaby Euripides, Alan ElliotISBN 0199120064 (0-19-912006-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Euripides Medea'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsbyby Nicolas TredellISBN 0231115350 (0-231-11535-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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Film Art: An Introductionby Kristin Thompson, David BordwellISBN 0201005662 (0-201-00566-2)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Pub Co
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Greek Tragediesby David Grene, Richmond LattimoreISBN 0226307751 (0-226-30775-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greek Tragedies'Book summary:In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.[via] -
Greek Tragediesby Richmond Lattimore, David GreneISBN 0226307778 (0-226-30777-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greek Tragedies'Book summary:In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.[via]More editions of Greek Tragedies:
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Henry 4, Part 1by Roma GillISBN 019831969X (0-19-831969-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry 4, Part 1'Book summary:Written between 1596 and 1597, Henry IV Part One represents Shakespeare's increasingly mature talent in staging the history of the early Tudor monarchy. Midway in the cycle of Shakespeare's History Plays, which begin with Richard II and ultimately culminate in his last play, Henry VIII, Henry IV Part One tells the story of the troubled reign of Henry IV following his deposition of Richard II. The historical action revolves around the attempt by Henry Percy (known as Hotspur) to overthrow Henry at the Battle of Shrewsbury. However, over half the play deals with the transformation of Henry's profligate son, Prince Hal (the future King Henry V), from tavern joker to national icon.
The whole play is stolen from its kings and princes by Shakespeare's greatest comic creation, the "fat-kidneyed rascal" Sir John Falstaff, king of his own dominions--the taverns and brothels of London's Eastcheap district. The tavern scenes of the play are some of the most evocative accounts of 16th-century popular London life. They revolve around the comical but ultimately sinister relationship between Falstaff and his young apprentice Hal, who learns to "so offend to make offence a skill" as he learns the slippery ropes of realpolitik and kingship. The play is considered by many to be the liveliest and most profound of Shakespeare's History Plays, and remains one of its most popular examples. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Henry IV. Part 1by William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198320582 (0-19-832058-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry IV'Book summary:Written between 1596 and 1597, Henry IV Part One represents Shakespeare's increasingly mature talent in staging the history of the early Tudor monarchy. Midway in the cycle of Shakespeare's History Plays, which begin with Richard II and ultimately culminate in his last play, Henry VIII, Henry IV Part One tells the story of the troubled reign of Henry IV following his deposition of Richard II. The historical action revolves around the attempt by Henry Percy (known as Hotspur) to overthrow Henry at the Battle of Shrewsbury. However, over half the play deals with the transformation of Henry's profligate son, Prince Hal (the future King Henry V), from tavern joker to national icon.
The whole play is stolen from its kings and princes by Shakespeare's greatest comic creation, the "fat-kidneyed rascal" Sir John Falstaff, king of his own dominions--the taverns and brothels of London's Eastcheap district. The tavern scenes of the play are some of the most evocative accounts of 16th-century popular London life. They revolve around the comical but ultimately sinister relationship between Falstaff and his young apprentice Hal, who learns to "so offend to make offence a skill" as he learns the slippery ropes of realpolitik and kingship. The play is considered by many to be the liveliest and most profound of Shakespeare's History Plays, and remains one of its most popular examples. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Henry Vby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198320337 (0-19-832033-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry V'Book summary: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 student's notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes and notes on the main characters. [via]
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Henry Vby Roma GillISBN 0198319800 (0-19-831980-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry V'Book summary:[series copy] This exclusive collection of the Bard's works has been designed specifically for readers new to Shakespeare's rich literary legacy. Each of the plays is presented unabridged and in large print, copiously annotated and preceded by a character summary and commentary. Brief scene synopses clarify confusing plots, while incisive essays describe the historical context and Shakespeare's sources. The explanatory notes are written clearly and simply, illustrated, and positioned right next to the text--no more flipping pages back and forth to squint over microscopic footnotes! Topics for further discussion, critical comments, related essays, and a chronology of Shakespeare's life and work are included among the appendices to each volume. The books boast fine black and white photographs of stagings of the plays at Shakespeare Festivals around the globe. From the wide margins and big print to the extensive explanatory notes--the full text of each play is presented in the clearest and most accessible format available. [via]
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundlingby Henry Fielding, Fredson BowersISBN 0198124724 (0-19-812472-4)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press
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The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition Black/Burgundy, Bonded Leather BasketweaveISBN 0195288556 (0-19-528855-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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International Relationsby Joshua S. GoldsteinISBN 0201593572 (0-201-59357-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Introduction to Old Norseby Eric V. GordonISBN 0198111843 (0-19-811184-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Jane Eyreby Margaret Smith, Charlotte Bronte, Jane JackISBN 0198114907 (0-19-811490-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:"Jane Eyre," Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness and cruelty of Jane Eyre's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. Ever since its publication in 1847, "Jane Eyre" has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. "Jane Eyre" lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect. "At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë." -Virginia Woolf [via]
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Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198319711 (0-19-831971-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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King Richard II: The Life and Death of King Richard the Second the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Editionby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198320043 (0-19-832004-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Richard II: The Life and Death of King Richard the Second the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Edition'Book summary:This is the latest edition in this successful series. It is fully annotated, with the notes facing the text. There are helpful sections at the front, and at the back there is a very wide range of questions for students, as well as the background to Shakespeare's England. This book is intended for interest age: 14-16 [via]
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Lady Windermere's Fan/Salome/a Woman of No Importance/an Ideal Husband/the Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar Wilde, Peter RabyISBN 0198121679 (0-19-812167-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Measure for Measureby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198320108 (0-19-832010-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Measure for Measure'Book summary:The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the greatest playwright in the English language. This exclusive collection of the Bard's best works has been designed specifically for readers new to Shakespeare's rich literary legacy. Each play is presented complete and unabridged, in large print. Every book is well illustrated, and starts with a commentary and character summary. Scene synopses and character summaries clarify confusing plots, while incisive essays explore the historical context and Shakespeare's sources. Each book ends with a complete list of Shakespeare's plays and a brief chronology of the Bard's life. The detailed explanatory notes are written clearly and positioned right next to the text--no more squinting at microscopic footnotes or flipping pages back and forth in search of endnotes!
The new edition of the series features new covers and new illustrations, including both new drawings and photos from recent productions of Shakespeare's plays around the globe. In addition, the notes and the introductory material have been completely revised in line with new research and in order to make them clearer and more accessible. Finally, the entire text has been redesigned and reset to enhance readability. The new edition achieves the feat of unprecedented clarity of presentation without any cuts to the original text or the detailed explanations. [via]More editions of Measure for Measure:
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The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 019832152X (0-19-832152-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:The new editions contain new sections: Classwork and Examinations and Background to Shakespeare's England . There are also short sections on Date and Text, and Source. This book is intended for age 14 - 16. [via]
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- The Merchant of Venice: ISBN 0198319738 (0-19-831973-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Merchant of Venice: ISBN 0198320175 (0-19-832017-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Merchant of Venice: ISBN 0198129254 (0-19-812925-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Merchant of Venice: ISBN 019831924X (0-19-831924-X)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press - The Merchant of Venice: ISBN 019832152X (0-19-832152-X)
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- The Merchant of Venice: ISBN 0198319738 (0-19-831973-8)
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198321503 (0-19-832150-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:Traditionally seen as one of Shakespeare's more romantic and enchanting plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream has more recently been seen as a darker and more sinister play than generations of schoolchildren have ever imagined. The play has usually been seen as a comical tale and confused identities and the fickleness of youthful love, as the young lovers, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena escape parental control and the "sharp Athenian law" of their elders by eloping into the forest outside the city. Unfortunately they stumble into civil war in fairyland, where King Oberon and Queen Titania fight over possession of a beautiful young Indian "changeling" boy. The appearance of the "rude mechanicals", a group of Athenian workers, including the weaver Nick Bottom, compounds the confusion. Chaos, confusion and "shaping fantasies" reign before the final settlement of the play, but underneath all the hilarity many critics have discerned more ambivalent attitudes towards coercive parental control, bestial sexuality and the destructive power of desire. These approaches in no way detract from the exquisite lyricism of many sections of the play, but make it a more complex and effective comedy than has often been appreciated. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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- A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0198319266 (0-19-831926-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0198319754 (0-19-831975-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0198320205 (0-19-832020-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0198320213 (0-19-832021-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0198321503 (0-19-832150-3)
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- A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0198319266 (0-19-831926-6)
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, John Bryant, Haskell SpringerISBN 0205514081 (0-205-51408-1)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:This innovative, scholarly edition of Moby Dick offers unprecedented access to the revisions Herman Melville made to the original 1851 American version of the novel and illuminates all changes which scholars have made to create the classic that readers know today. The fluid text feature illuminates the personal, social, and cultural context of Melvilles writing process, right on the page, while also offering fresh contextual notes, illustrations, and other apparatus to make this the most reader-friendly and therefore most teachable edition available today.
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Much Ado About Nothingby William Shakespeare, Shakespeare WISBN 0198321473 (0-19-832147-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Ado About Nothing'Book summary:This introductory edition of one of the Bard's most popular comedies has been designed specifically for readers new to Shakespeare's rich literary legacy. The play is presented unabridged and in large print, copiously annotated and preceded by a commentary and character summary. A brief scene synopsis clarifies the plot, while incisive essays describe the historical context and Shakespeare's sources. The explanatory notes are written clearly and simply, illustrated, and positioned right next to the text--no more flipping pages back and forth to squint over microscopic footnotes!
Sparkling with witty dialogue, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies. First published in 1600, it is set in Italy and recounts the romantic misadventures of a large cast of characters. Faked deaths, arranged marriages, foiled plots, veiled maidens, shipwrecks, aristocrats, whispered words of love--the usual suspects are all here. But in the end, all is well that ends well. [via] 
Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George OrwellISBN 0198185219 (0-19-818521-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oresteiaby AeschylusISBN 0226007723 (0-226-00772-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Othelloby Roma GillISBN 0198319789 (0-19-831978-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Othelloby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198320515 (0-19-832051-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary: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 students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters. This work also include a wide range of questions and activities for work in class, together with the historical background to Shakespeare's England, a brief biography of Shakespeare, and a complete list of his plays. Roma Gill, the series editor, has taught Shakespeare at all levels. She has acted in and directed Shakespeare's plays, and has lectured on Shakespeare all over the world. [via]
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Oxford Book of German Verse, Twelfth to Twentiethby Ernest L. StahlISBN 0198121326 (0-19-812132-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Companion to English Literatureby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0198614535 (0-19-861453-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Companion to English Literature'Book summary:Sir Paul Harvey's original Oxford Companion to English Literaure, published in 1932, was the book that began Oxford's celebrated Companion series. In its various editions in the half-century since then, it has enjoyed an enormously faithful following and unflagging sales (over 400,000 to date). Now, for the Fifth Edition, the eminent novelist and biographer Margaret Drabble has put together the most substantial and significant revision in the book's distinguished history.
The Classic Guide to English Literary Culture
Here, thoroughly updated, is the standard reference work on English literature, both clasic and contemporary. The virtues established by Harvey are intact: the useful plot summaries, the separate entries on important fictional characters, the countless biographical articles on authors and other important figures in the world of letters, the lightness of touch that makes the book a pleasure to read. As ever, this is an essential book for libraries large and small, for students, for teachers, for everyone interested in English literature.
Revisions Deepen and Widen Book's Appeal
Drabble's revisions not only bring the volume up to date; they both deepen and widen its appeal. Topics once regarded as non-literary--detective stories, science fiction, children's literature, comic strips, for example--are now included, as are numerous foreign language authers who have become well-known in translation. There are also entries on composers who have adapted English texts to musical forms and articles on visual artists whose work has been touched by the English literary consciousness. The book covers all the important movements and critical theories (including the latest developments in Freudian and Marxist criticism and Saussurean linguistics and its successors). What is more, the entries on classic works--Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queen, and many others--now incorporate the findings of the latest scholarship. In still another innovation, the entries now offer the reader a guide to turther study and research by referring to the relevant biographies, memoirs, critical studies, and standard scholarly editions of many of the important works. Also, the book's appendices on censorship, copyright, and the calendar have been updated, and an exhaustive cross-referencing system in the manner of the more recent Companiions has been adopted.
About the Editor:
Margaret Drabble's many books include The Middle Ground, The Realms of Gold, The Ice Age, Thank You All Very Much, and A Writer's Britain.
Standard Features:
Among the many notable features distinguishing The Oxford Companion to English Literature are:
· Alphabetically arranged entries
· Entries on important individual works
· Author entries that include concise biographical information and cite their major works
· Many entries on historians, critics, philosophers, and booksellers
· Coverage of many American authors and of foreign language authors famous in translation
· Entries on non-literary figures famous in a literary context, from Penelope Rich to Ottoline Morrell
· Articles on literary societies, clubs, and coffee houses
· Definitions of literary and artistic movements, from Existentialism to the New Criticism, from Neo-classicism to Structuralism
· Entries on prizes, periodicals, newspapers, and literary agents
· Updated appendices on censorship, copyright, and the calendar
· Extensive system of internal cross references, redesigned in the manner of the more recent Companions [via]More editions of The Oxford Companion to English Literature:
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Oxford Companion to English Literatureby Paul H. HarveyISBN 0198661061 (0-19-866106-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Dictionary Of Saintsby David FarmerISBN 0198609493 (0-19-860949-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Dictionary Of Saints'Book summary:More than 1,300 saints are profiled in this most readable, extensive, and enlightening of references. Curious about the saint you're named after? Attending a feast day for a saint you never heard of? Want an obscure saint to include in your historical novel? Or merely desirous of the kind of feet-up-by-the-fire perusal that only a well-written reference text can provide? David Farmer's compilation of saints includes all English saints; all saints of whom there is or was a notable cult; important saints from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the rest of Europe; and recently canonized saints. Arranged alphabetically, the dictionary starts with Abbo of Fleury, ends with Zosimus of Syracuse, and includes Pelagia of Antioch, Crispina of Tagora, Cunegund the empress, and a wide assortment of other martyrs, popes, spiritual seers, and those, such as Crispin of Viterbo, who were canonized simply for their humble lives and Christian faith. There's also a wonderful appendix of the principal patronages of saints--telling, for example, who's the patron saint of healthy dogs (Hubert) and mad dogs (Sithney), plus an index of the main iconographical emblems of saints, another of places, and a calendar of feast days. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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The Palm at the End of the Mindby Wallace StevensISBN 0208020586 (0-208-02058-6)
Hardcover, Shoe String Pr Inc
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Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French/English English/Frenchby Marianne Chalmers, Martine PierquinISBN 0198607040 (0-19-860704-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French/English English/French'Book summary:Affordable, compact, thoroughly up-to-date and packed with extra features, this intermediate-level French dictionary offers a complete guide to contemporary French and English as well as extensive help with grammar. This edition includes a brand new 32-page grammar supplement that focuses on the key points of French grammar. This supplement, along with a guide to grammatical terms, will provide invaluable support to anyone learning to speak, read, and write French. All of this grammar help is combined with a dictionary offering wide-ranging vocabulary--over 90,000 words and phrases, and over 120,000 translations. Verb tables, an A-Z guide to French life and culture, as well as example letters, emails, postcards, and resumes add further communication help. [via]
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The Poetic Eddaby Ursula DronkeISBN 0198114974 (0-19-811497-4)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 022461181X (0-224-61181-X)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Princeby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0226500446 (0-226-50044-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the first scientific treatment of politics as it is practiced rather than as it ought to be practiced. Harvey C. Mansfield's brilliant translation of this classic work, along with the new materials added for this edition, make it the definitive version of The Prince, indispensable to scholars, students, and those interested in the dark art of politics.[via]
This revised edition of Mansfield's acclaimed translation features an updated bibliography, a substantial glossary, an analytic introduction, a chronology of Machiavelli's life, and a map of Italy in Machiavelli's time.
"Of the other available [translations], that of Harvey C. Mansfield makes the necessary compromises between exactness and readability, as well as providing an excellent introduction and notes."Clifford Orwin, The Wall Street Journal
"Mansfield's work . . . is worth acquiring as the best combination of accuracy and readability."Choice
"There is good reason to assert that Machiavelli has met his match in Mansfield. . . . [He] is ready to read Machiavelli as he demands to be readplainly and boldly, but also cautiously."John Gueguen, The Sixteenth Century JournalMore editions of The Prince:
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Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaintby William Shakespeare, Stanley WellsISBN 0198129467 (0-19-812946-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint'Book summary:Shakespeare's sonnets are the most famous collection of love poems in the English language. Here Shakespeare celebrated his passionate friendship with a young man, deplored his friend's seduction by Shakespeare's own mistress, expressed his chagrin at the friend's relationship with a rival poet, and in the final group of poems explored his own humiliated infatuation with "a woman colored ill"--the Dark Lady who has tempted his "better angel" from him.
Lyrically beautiful and psychologically fascinating, the sonnets exert a double appeal: as individual poems, and as a complexly interrelated sequence. All 154 poems are presented here in a freshly edited text, along with Shakespeare's wry, touching portrait of a forsaken maiden in A Lover's Complaint, a poem first printed with the sonnets in 1609. This volume also includes little-known alternative versions of four of the sonnets.
The text of this edition is that prepared for the forthcoming Complete Oxford Shakespeare.
About the Editor:
Stanley Wells is General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare and Senior Research Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. [via]More editions of Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint:
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Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby Sophocles, David Greene, Richard LattimoreISBN 0226307921 (0-226-30792-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone'Book summary:"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."Robert Brustein, The New Republic[via]
"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation
"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."Times Education Supplement
"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian
"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."Commonweal
"Grene is one of the great translators."Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times
"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone:
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198320353 (0-19-832035-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series that helps students to understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. As well as the complete and unabridged text, each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters. Also included is a wide range of questions and activities for work in class, together with the historical background to Shakespeare's England, a brief biography of Shakespeare, and a complete list of his plays. For this new edition, the notes have been revised so as to make them clearer and more accessible. In addition, the entire text of the book has been redesigned and reset to make it easier to read. Photographs of recent stage production have been included and there is a new, attractive cover design. [via]
Teddy Bearby Georges SimenonISBN 0241020638 (0-241-02063-8)
Hardcover, H. Hamilton
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The Tempestby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198321511 (0-19-832151-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tempest'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, for many years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, and life with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation of Shakespeare's departure from the London stage. The Epilogue, spoken by Prospero, claims that "now my charms are all o'erthrown", appeared to reflect Shakespeare's own renunciation of his magical dramatic powers as he retired to Stratford. But The Tempest is far more than this, as recent commentators have pointed out. The dramatic action observes the classical unities of time, place and action, as Prospero uses his "rough magic" to lure his wicked usurping brother, Antonio, and King Alonso of Naples to his island retreat to torment them before engineering his return to Milan.
However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the "poisonous slave" Caliban. The creation of Caliban has particularly fascinated critics, who have noticed in his creation a colonial dimension to the play. In this respect Caliban can be seen as an American Indian or African slave, who articulates a particularly powerful strain of anti-colonial sentiment, telling Prospero that "this island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me". This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Their Eyes Were Watching Godby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0252006860 (0-252-00686-0)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'Book summary:At the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometime-collaborator with Langston Hughes and a fierce rival of Richard Wright. Her stories appeared in major magazines, she consulted on Hollywood screenplays, and she penned four novels, an autobiography, countless essays, and two books on black mythology. Yet by the late 1950s, Hurston was living in obscurity, working as a maid in a Florida hotel. She died in 1960 in a Welfare home, was buried in an unmarked grave, and quickly faded from literary consciousness until 1975 when Alice Walker almost single-handedly revived interest in her work.
Of Hurston's fiction, Their Eyes Were Watching God is arguably the best-known and perhaps the most controversial. The novel follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida. Hurston sets up her characters and her locale in the first chapter, which, along with the last, acts as a framing device for the story of Janie's life. Unlike Wright and Ralph Ellison, Hurston does not write explicitly about black people in the context of a white world--a fact that earned her scathing criticism from the social realists--but she doesn't ignore the impact of black-white relations either:
It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.
One person the citizens of Eaton are inclined to judge is Janie Crawford, who has married three men and been tried for the murder of one of them. Janie feels no compulsion to justify herself to the town, but she does explain herself to her friend, Phoeby, with the implicit understanding that Phoeby can "tell 'em what Ah say if you wants to. Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."Hurston's use of dialect enraged other African American writers such as Wright, who accused her of pandering to white readers by giving them the black stereotypes they expected. Decades later, however, outrage has been replaced by admiration for her depictions of black life, and especially the lives of black women. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston breathes humanity into both her men and women, and allows them to speak in their own voices. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare, Michael NeillISBN 0198129092 (0-19-812909-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra'Book summary:The latest entry in the Oxford Shakespeare presents a newly edited text of the most formally ambitious and poetically brilliant of Shakespeare's tragedies. Always alert to the play's theatricality and boldly experimental design, the extensive introduction offers a fresh critical account of the play, exploring its paradoxical treatment of gender and identity. [via]
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198320272 (0-19-832027-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'Book summary:The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the greatest playwright in the English language. This exclusive collection of the Bard's best works has been designed specifically for readers new to Shakespeare's rich literary legacy. Each play is presented complete and unabridged, in large print. Every book is well illustrated, and starts with a commentary and character summary. Scene synopses and character summaries clarify confusing plots, while incisive essays explore the historical context and Shakespeare's sources. Each book ends with a complete list of Shakespeare's plays and a brief chronology of the Bard's life. The detailed explanatory notes are written clearly and positioned right next to the text--no more squinting at microscopic footnotes or flipping pages back and forth in search of endnotes!
The new edition of the series features new covers and new illustrations, including both new drawings and photos from recent productions of Shakespeare's plays around the globe. In addition, the notes and the introductory material have been completely revised in line with new research and in order to make them clearer and more accessible. Finally, the entire text has been redesigned and reset to enhance readability. The new edition achieves the feat of unprecedented clarity of presentation without any cuts to the original text or the detailed explanations. [via]More editions of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar:
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The Tragedy of King Richard IIIby William Shakespeare, John JowettISBN 0198182457 (0-19-818245-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of King Richard III'Book summary: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 performance work: a perspective that informs every aspect of the editing. challenging traditional practice, the text is based on the 1597 Quarto which, it is argued, brings us closest to the play as it would have been staged in Shakespeare's theatre. The introduction, which is illustrated, explores the long performance history from Shakespeare's time to the present. Its critical engagement with the play responds to recent historicist and gender-based approaches. The commentary gives detailed explication of matters of language, staging, text, and historical and cultural contexts, providing coverage that is both carefully balanced and alert to nuance of meaning.
Documentation of the extensive textual variants is organized for maximum clarity: the readings of the Folio and the Quarto are presented in separate banks, and more specialist information is given at the back of the book. Appendices also include selected passages from the main source and a special index of actors and other theatrical personnel. [via]More editions of The Tragedy of King Richard III:
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The Winter's Taleby William Shakespeare, Voya, Roma GillISBN 0198319894 (0-19-831989-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Winter's Tale'Book summary:Completely re-edited, the New Folger Library editions of Shakespeare's plays put readers in touch with current ways of thinking about Shakespeare. Each freshly edited text is based directly on what the editors consider the best early printed version of the play. Each volume contains full explanatory notes on pages facing the text of the play, as well as a helpful introduction to Shakespeare's language. The accounts of William Shakespeare's life, his theater, and the publication of his plays present the latest scholarship, and the annotated reading lists suggest sources of further information. The illustrations of objects, clothing, and mythological figures mentioned in the plays are drawn from the Library's vast holdings of rare books. At the conclusion of each play there is a full essay by an outstanding scholar who assesses the play in light of today's interests and concerns. [via]
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