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Shakespeare's pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with blockbuster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many...

Shakespeare's potent use of garden imagery has captivated successive generations of readers and inspired the making of gardens across the globe. Laced with quotations and abounding with illustrations drawn from...

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans....

William Shakespeare and his contemporaries helped create not only a new kind of theatre but also a new form of language. In an age of religious and political warfare, they...

The New York Times bestselling author of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell and Assholes Finish First delivers a new collection of thirty 100% true, 100% exclusive stories of...

King Lear. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Romeo and Juliet. Macbeth. Othello, the Moor of Venice. A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Merchant of Venice. Lovers of literature will immediately recognize these...

A witty and compulsive reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium, from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy A book of...

Sail the high seas between worlds with this first book in a sizzling new fantasy romance series from the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok smash-hit Neon Gods....

A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance provides a state-of-the-art engagement with the rapidly developing field of Shakespeare performance studies. Redraws the boundaries of Shakespeare performance studies. Considers performance in a...

This is an illustrated history of the performance and reception of Shakespeare's plays on the German stage from the English Comedians in the late sixteenth century to the First World...

This is a new edition of Andrew Gurr's classic account of the people for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays. Gurr assembles all the evidence from the writings of the time...

Sir John Falstaff is, without doubt, a rogue. True, he is fat, jolly, and in a way lovable, but he is still a rogue. His men rob and plunder the...

In both feminist theory and Shakespearean criticism, questions of sexuality have consistently been conflated with questions of gender. This book refuses this all too common approach by detailing instead the...

This text focuses on the cross-cultural experience, arguing that Shakespeare reinterprets, refashions, and reinscribes stage aliens such as Jews, Moors, Amazons, and gypsies and thus interrogates a Eurocentric perspective and...

Stephen Greenblatt has been at the centre of a major shift in literary interpretation towards a critical method that places cultural creation in history. In this book - a sustained...

An edition of Shakespeare's King John which includes a lengthy introduction, an extensive commentary and suggested further reading.

Containing many paintings, and a collection of his words on love, this title is aimed at lovers of Shakespeare and to also people in love.

"My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole." With these words Tucker Max launched a classic humor bestseller that has sold more than two million copies in the...

An "extraordinarily brilliant" and "pleasurably naughty" (Andre Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the...

From the brilliantly demented minds behind The Eric Andre Show and Bad Trip , an insane illustrated compendium about the art of pranking. Eric Andre is a master of the...

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This new edition of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor focuses at every point on a theatrical understanding of the play. While emphasising the liveliness of the play in stage terms,...

Shakespeare's plays are permeable to the contexts in which they are performed: they take on and speak to local concerns. Ours As We Play It takes a close look at...

Illustrated with over 60 archival photographs, many not previously published.<

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Coriolanus is a...

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Love's Labour's Lost...

Giving in to pleasure may be her undoing...or her greatest triumph. Centuries ago, Sir Thomas Lynne was seduced by the faery queen Tatiana. He does her bidding while Tatiana's magic...

Dream-Hunter Lydia has been charged with the most sacred and dangerous of missions: To descend into the Nether Realm and find the missing god of dreams before he betrays the...

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery In the Duke's absence from Vienna, his strict deputy Angelo revives an ancient...

The highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling book Shake, Shake Puppies also features 61 dogs caught mid-shake-only this time they're even more adorable and laughter inducing. Shake Puppies features two...

" A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene is everything I never knew I wanted: a disgusting, hilarious, and honest book that pays tribute to the female body and all of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES * NAMED...

Trash talk like Deadpool with this hilarious authorized book that contains the best insults from the Deadpool comics, allowing you to create thousands of snarky comebacks worthy of the fast-talking...

A prose retelling of Shakespeare's play in which a jealous general is duped into thinking that his wife has been unfaithful, with tragic consequences.

The plot, brilliant rhetoric and characterization of "Julius Caesar" have made it one of Shakespeare's most popular plays with both readers and theatre-goers. Introducing this reconsidered edition, Arthur Humphreys provides...

A vivacious woman and a high-spirited man both claim that they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each harbours secret feelings for...

Fast and furious, scabrously funny and weirdly moving, this is the final chapter in the Trainspotting story. **A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** Mark Renton from Trainspotting is back - and he's...

Discover the real Judi Dench through a series of intimate conversations about the love of her life - Shakespeare Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig;...

The brand-new book from the legendary Jilly Cooper, featuring the iconic Rupert Campbell-Black. Be prepared for scandal, sex and sabotage - this time on the football field... Jilly Cooper's legendary...

These volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. This finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider audience. Includes "Hamlet," "Macbeth,"...

'O felt her presence behind him like a fire at his back.' Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if...

Going to see a 'Shakespeare' and want a quick run-down on the plot? Studying Shakespeare and want to know who's who? Teaching the 'Henrys' and need a handy guide to...

"In this hilarious, uplifting memoir, Wolfe describes her intense bond with Harlow...as she grapples with the chaos of her 20s, marriage, and eventually new motherhood."- Washington Post "An engaging debut...