The true biography of Shakespeare is in the plays. The great English tragedies were all written in the first decade of the seventeenth century. They are often in language that…

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.

Title: The Spirit of the Plays of Shakspeare exhibited in a Series of Outline Plates, illustrative of the story of each play … With quotations and descriptions. L.P.Publisher: British Library…

Henry Irving, the influential and controversial Victorian actor, was closely involved in the publication of this distinctive Shakespeare edition, which conveys an unparalleled sense of the plays in performance. Gordon…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

Frank J. Morlock has produced a play based on that great comic character, Falstaff, with scenes taken from William Shakespeare’s Henry IV cycle and The Merry Wives of Windsor, William…

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic prose and verse read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally…