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The Annotated Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare, A. L. Rowse

ISBN 0681322608 (0-681-32260-8)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Press

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ISBN 9781557834423 (1-55783-442-3, 1557834423)

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As You Like It

by William Shakespeare, Neil Freeman

ISBN 1557834423 (1-55783-442-3)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp

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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its highly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful heroine in disguise, sexual ambiguity, melancholy philosophising and finally a multiplicity of marriages. The ironic medley of pastoral artifice, romantic ardour and quizzical reflection has helped to make As You Like It perennially popular in the theatre. [via]

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ISBN 9780174435860 (0-17-443586-X, 017443586X)

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As You Like It

by Agnes Latham

ISBN 017443586X (0-17-443586-X)
Softcover, Thomson Learning

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In addition to the complete text of "As You Like it", this book includes: activities; a synopsis at the beginning of each act; notes opposite the text; photographs showing various productions of the play; and an introduction which places Shakespeare in context. [via]

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ISBN 9781904271222 (1-904271-22-7, 1904271227)

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As You Like It

by Juliet Dusinberre

ISBN 1904271227 (1-904271-22-7)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare

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With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberre demonstrates that Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeare's heroine reinvents herself for every age. But the play is also deeply rooted in Elizabethan culture, and through it Shakespeare addresses some of the hotly debated issues of the period. Dusinberre's introduction begins with a brief analysis of the play to preface a vast and thorough exploration of characters, cultural context, sources, setting, staging, literary and legendary influences, themes of love, politics, and gender, and more. Images, illustrations, and a casting and doubling chart appear throughout the introduction and within the five appendices.

The Arden Shakespeare has developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full commentary by one or more of the plays foremost contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain allusions and significant background information. Highly informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of Shakespeare available to a reader.

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ISBN 9780764587290 (0-7645-8729-3, 0764587293)

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Cliffscomplete Shakespeare's the Taming of the Shrew

by Diana Sweeney

ISBN 0764587293 (0-7645-8729-3)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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In the CliffsComplete guides, the play's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.

CliffsComplete The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's most beloved, and imitated, works. In this play within a play, Petruchio, the man from Verona, marries Kate (the shrew of the story), so that Kate's younger sister Bianca may be allowed to take on several suitors and choose one to marry.

Discover what happens to Petruchio and Kate and save valuable studying time all at once. Enhance your reading of The Taming of the Shrew with these additional features:

A summary and insightful commentary for each act
Bibliography and historical background on the author, William Shakespeare
A look at the historical context and structure of the play
Discussions on the plays symbols and themes
A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
Review questions, a quiz, discussion topics (essay questions), activity ideas
A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites

Streamline your literature study with all-in-one help from CliffsComplete guides!

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Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

ISBN 9780192819338 (0-19-281933-X, 019281933X)

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Complete Sonnets

by William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow

ISBN 019281933X (0-19-281933-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Over 150 exquisite poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's evanescence, death, and other themes in language unsurpassed in passion, precision, originality, and beauty. This inexpensive Dover edition enables any lover of poetry or fine literature to have this remarkable verse in his or her library. Includes glossary of archaic terms. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

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ISBN 9780451526960 (0-451-52696-1, 0451526961)

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Clemen

ISBN 0451526961 (0-451-52696-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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Newly revised, this comic play by Shakespeare features a new Introduction by Sylvan Barnet, former Chairman of the English Department at Tufts University, an updated bibliography, suggested references, and stage and film history. [via]

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ISBN 9780300024951 (0-300-02495-9, 0300024959)

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

by William Shakespeare, Stephen Booth

ISBN 0300024959 (0-300-02495-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr

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The bard's sonnets read by a leading actor of stage and screen Simon Callow.

Savor the most celebrated love poems in the English language. Written almost 400 years ago, the sonnets of William Shakespeare are passionate and exalted, rich in imagery and alliteration, and full of mystery and intrigue.

This selection presents all 154 sonnets composed from 1593-1601. In words and rhyme, he reveals his infatuation with the "Dark Lady," his relationship with a rival poet, and his private thoughts on love, death, beauty, and truth: timeless themes that span the centuries to touch our hearts today. [via]

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ISBN 9780174434740 (0-17-443474-X, 017443474X)

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

by Katherine Duncan-Jones

ISBN 017443474X (0-17-443474-X)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning

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This Arden edition of Shakespeare's sonnets is closely based on the 1609 Quarto. As Katherine Duncan-Jones demonstrates, this text was authorized by Shakespeare himself, and may be based on an authorial manuscript. The whole carefully-ordered sequence, including "A Lover's Complaint", is read in the context of Shakespeare's career and of the poems' historical setting within early Jacobean culture. A clear-eyed analysis of homoerotic elements in the sonnets puts an end to the century of homophobic readings initiated by Sir Sidney Lee in 1897. Succinct and accessible notes guide the reader through complex vocabulary and syntax, as well as the poems' literary and cultural background. For ease of reference, these are printed on the same page-opening as the text. [via]

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ISBN 9780435150372 (0-435-15037-5, 0435150375)

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

by Martin Seymour-Smith

ISBN 0435150375 (0-435-15037-5)
Softcover, Heinemann

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This series presents complete poems and generous excerpts from longer works. Each book includes a biographical and critical introduction, a commentary and notes on the poems. [via]

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ISBN 9780300085068 (0-300-08506-0, 0300085060)

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

by Stephen Booth

ISBN 0300085060 (0-300-08506-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr

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This prize-winning work provides a facsimile of the 1609 Quarto printed in parallel with a conservatively edited, modernized text, as well as commentary that ranges from brief glosses to substantial critical essays. Stephen Booth's notes help a modern reader toward the kind of understanding that Renaissance readers brought to the works. [via]

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Shakespeare's Sonnets - the Problems Solved: A Modern Edition with Prose Versions, Introduction and Notes

by William Shakespeare, A. L. Rowse

ISBN 0333147332 (0-333-14733-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan

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Hardcover, Macmillan

ISBN 9780192820266 (0-19-282026-5, 0192820265)

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Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

by Stanley Wells

ISBN 0192820265 (0-19-282026-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The most famous collection of love poems in the English language, Shakespeare's Sonnets have spoken to generations of readers who have turned to them again and again when searching for supreme examples of expressions of love. Covering the whole range of emotions from joy to anguish, these sonnets reveal the beauty, power, inventiveness, and originality of Shakespeare's verse.
The collection depicts in beautiful, poignant, and intriguing language the poet's celebration of his passionate friendship with a young man, his grief over a friend's seduction by his own mistress, his chagrin at the friend's relationship with a rival poet, and, in the final group of poems, his own humiliating infatuation with "a woman colored ill"--the Dark Lady who has tempted his "better angel" from him.
Lyrically beautiful and psychologically fascinating, the sonnets both appeal as individual poems, and as an intricately related sequence. This volume presents all the sonnets 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. It also includes little-known alternative versions of four of the sonnets. [via]

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ISBN 9780198129462 (0-19-812946-7, 0198129467)

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Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

by William Shakespeare, Stanley Wells

ISBN 0198129467 (0-19-812946-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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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.

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Stanley Wells is General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare and Senior Research Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. [via]

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ISBN 9781594480904 (1-59448-090-7, 1594480907)

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Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrew

by Harold Bloom

ISBN 1594480907 (1-59448-090-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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Shakespeare, who clearly preferred his women characters to his men (always excepting Falstaff and Hamlet), enlarges the human from the start, by subtly suggesting that women have the truer sense of reality. [via]

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Shakespeare's the Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0671006541 (0-671-00654-1)
Softcover, Monarch Notes

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ISBN 9780140714234 (0-14-071423-5, 0140714235)

The Sonnets

by William Shakespeare, Douglas Bush, Alfred Harbage

ISBN 0140714235 (0-14-071423-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart)

The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged.

Each volume features:
* Authoritative, reliable texts
* High quality introductions and notes
* New, more readable trade trim size
* An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts

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ISBN 9780140707328 (0-14-070732-8, 0140707328)

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The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

by William Shakespeare, John Kerrigan

ISBN 0140707328 (0-14-070732-8)
Softcover, Penguin Books

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When a volume of poetry entitled Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted appeared in 1609, Shakespeare was forty-five and most of his greatest plays had seen several performances. Some of the sonnets, speaking of the begetting of children, mortality and memory, art, desire and jealousy, are addressed to a beloved youth; others are addressed to a treacherous mistress, a "dark lady." Appended to the sonnets is "A Lover's Complaint, " a beautiful poem in rhyme-royal in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.

While Shakespeare's biographers continue their investigations, readers may find the "secret" of the sonnets in the poetry itself. In this spirit John Kerrigan provides an illuminating Introduction to the volume as a whole, together with 258 pages of commentaries on the poems, a textual history, and suggestions for further reading. [via]

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ISBN 9781411401006 (1-4114-0100-X, 141140100X)

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SparkNotes The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare, Sparknotes, John Crowther

ISBN 141140100X (1-4114-0100-X)
Softcover, Spark Pub Group

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No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of The Taming of the Shrew on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.

Each No Fear Shakespeare contains

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The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare, Neil Freeman

ISBN 1557833818 (1-55783-381-8)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp

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The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies. The central relationship, in which Petruchio boisterously 'tames' a rebellious Kate, has often appeared problematic. In the theatre, it has been treated in a diversity of ways, so that Kate's apparent capitulation varies between the ironic and the sincere. Feminists have been divided in their responses. [via]

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ISBN 9781903436103 (1-903436-10-9, 1903436109)

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The Taming of the Shrew

by Morris, Brian Morris

ISBN 1903436109 (1-903436-10-9)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare

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One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority. --Jerry Brotton [via]

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The Taming of the Shrew

by Ann Thompson

ISBN 052129388X (0-521-29388-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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ISBN 9780822000815 (0-8220-0081-4, 0822000814)

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The Taming of the Shrew

by Cliff's Notes Editors

ISBN 0822000814 (0-8220-0081-4)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority. --Jerry Brotton [via]

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ISBN 9780312108366 (0-312-10836-2, 0312108362)

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The Taming of the Shrew: Texts and Contexts

by William Shakespeare, Frances E. Dolan

ISBN 0312108362 (0-312-10836-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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This teaching edition of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew responds to the needs of instructors using a variety of approaches to Shakespeare, including feminist, historical, and cultural studies approaches. The play is accompanied by four sets of primary documents and illustrations thematically arranged to offer a richly textured understanding of early modern culture and Shakespeare's work within that culture. The texts include facsimiles of period documents, excerpts of conduct literature on marriage and on wife and servant beating, sermons, popular ballads, literary works offering alternative endings to Shakespeare's play, and documents on women's legal status. The primary documents contextualize the play's treatment of assertive women, marital conflict, and domestic disorder and violence.

Editorial features designed to help students read the play in light of the historical documents include an intelligent and engaging general introduction, and introduction to each thematic group of documents, thorough headnotes and glosses for the primary documents (presented in modern spelling), and an extensive bibliography.

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ISBN 9780460878159 (0-460-87815-8, 0460878158)

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William Shakespeare

by Martin Dodsworth

ISBN 0460878158 (0-460-87815-8)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.

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A few narrative poems and many sonnets that have shaped the language of love from the body of Shakespeare's verse. It is some of the most beautiful poetry ever written. [via]

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