Forfatter fødeår: 1564-1616
This is the first modernized critical edition of Shakespeare's Henry V in the form of its original staging at the Globe in 1599. Andrew Gurr provides a most extensive commentary on the Quarto text of Shakespeare's last English history.
This is a modernised edition of a play which appears to be an alternative version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Stephen Miller suggests that an... Læs mere
This 1998 edition of Much Ado About Nothing focuses wholly on the play in performance. Shifting trends in the production of this popular drama are analysed in relation to the... Læs mere
The theatrical history of A Midsummer Night's Dream, from the 1590s to the 1990s, forms the introduction to the text of the play and detailed, line-by-line commentary on the interpretations of different directors, actors and designers.
This edition of The Tempest is the first dedicated to its stage history. Dymkowski examines four centuries of mainstream, regional, and fringe productions in Britain, nineteenth- and... Læs mere
Richard Madelaine provides the most detailed, extensive and up-to-date history of Antony and Cleopatra on stage and screen, in and beyond Britain. In the process he reveals not only the rich plurality of possible readings of the play, but also changing attitudes to Shakespeare.
The first printed text of Shakespeare's Hamlet is about half the length of the more familiar second quarto and Folio versions. It reorders and combines key plot elements to... Læs mere
In this quarto edition the text is accompanied by a collation of variant readings and substantial textual notes. Peter Davison argues that Shakespeare's company, the... Læs mere
In The Third Part of King Henry VI, Shakespeare extends his essay on monarchical politics by contrasting two kings, the good but ineffective Henry VI with his rival, the... Læs mere
The Wars of the Roses haunted the Elizabethans. Among many accounts, Shakespeare's was the most ambitious, dramatically innovative and radical. The Second Part of King... Læs mere