The Necessary Shakespeare

By William Shakespeare, David Bevington

"Extracted from the best-selling text The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Fourth Edition, The Necessary Shakespeare offers comprehensive, scholarly apparatus. It provides extensive introductions to...

The Oxford Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part I

By William Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Biography

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Shakespeare and biography

By David M. Bevington

Shakespeare and biography is not a new biography of Shakespeare, but a study of what biographers have said about Shakespeare--from the first formal biography in the early 18th century by Nicholas R...

Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages

By David M. Bevington

What is it about Hamlet that has made it such a compelling and vital work? This book is an account of Shakespeare's great play from its sources in Scandinavian epic lore to the way it was performed...

The Complete Works of Shakespeare

By William Shakespeare

The Necessary Shakespeare

By William Shakespeare

This remarkable volume comprises not only twenty-one of Shakespeare's plays but also all of the sonnets, accompanied by a comprehensive General Introduction that addresses questions of context, lan...

As You Like It

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This wisely funny comedy, which contains some of Shakespeare’s loveliest poetry, contrasts a court’s world of envy and rivalry with a forest’s world of compassion and harmony. In the Forest of Arde...

English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology

By Lars Engle, Katharine Eisaman Maus, David Bevington, Eric Rasmussen

Medieval Drama

By David Bevington