"The most beautiful book in the English language." -- Ezra Pound

This edition of The Taming of the Shrew examines how theatre directors and performers have explored the complexities of Katherina's story and that of Christopher Sly, the poor man whose story frames that of Katherine.

This is the first scholarly edition of Othello to give full attention to the play's bold treatment of racial themes.

Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to the literary, historical, cultural and performative aspects of Shakespeare works.

This work covers the bawdiness in Shakespeare's plays. It includes an extensive glossary and is a comprehensive directory of allusion and double-meanings, many of which have been entirely lost to common usage.

In this magnum opus, Britain's most distinguished scholar of 16th-century and 17th-century literature restores Shakespeare's poetic language to its rightful primacy.

A graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's play about two young lovers in Verona, whose families are enemies.

Date, 1601: A short, ribald parody of Elizabethan England, written as a conversation between Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare, Bacon, and others.

'Nothing Like The Sun' is a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life. Starting with the young Will, the novel is a romp that follows Will's maturation into sex and writing.