Product Description: Shakespeare's Henry VI plays dramatize contemporary as much as Elizabethan issues: the struggle for power, the manoeuvres of politicians, social unrest, civil war. This edition draws on experience of the play in rehearsal and performance to focus on both its theatricality and contemporary relevance in a wide-ranging introduction and detailed commentary...read more

Product Description: This edition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona offers a complete consideration of all aspects of the text. It interprets the play less as a contribution to a Renaissance literary debate between love and friendship (the traditional academic view) than as a dramatization of competing kinds of love--a theatrical counterpart to Shakespeare's Sonnets...read more

Product Description: This is the first new, full-scale edition of Cymbeline in 37 years. One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso theatrical and poetic means to dramatize a story of marriage imperiled by mistrust and painfully rebuilt in the context of international conflict...read more

Product Description: Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in the modern theatre, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities throughout. Peopled with lovers misled either by disguises or their own natures, it combines lyrical melancholy with broad comedy...read more

Product Description: Controversy has surrounded "Pericles" for centuries, due to the fact that critics and editors have argued that much of the play was written between 1607 and 1608 by one of Shakespeare's inferior collaborators, and that it shows in both its style and content...read more

Product Description: This version opened at the Theatre Royal Bath in a production by the Peter Hall Company

Product Description: A startling adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy, it tells the exciting collapse of Henry V’s empire and the chaos of the War of the Roses, from which arises the anarchic figure of the future Richard III.

Product Description: The work of an acclaimed critic and director, this book breaks new ground by describing how the rehearsal process highlights the principal theatrical issues of Shakespeare's late plays: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest...read more

Product Description: Unabridged. Two cassettes, 2.5 hours. Read by Sophie Thompson, Ben Porter, Jack Shepard, Suzanne Bertish, Stephen Mangan, and Ron Cook.