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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. Macbeth is one of the most popular texts for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes and notes on the main characters.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes and notes on the main characters.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes and notes on the main characters.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes and notes on the main characters.

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. In this edition of Hamlet, illustrations have been extended and updated; the preliminary notes have been expanded; reading lists have been updated, and include websites; and the classroom notes have been brought in line with recent practice.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes and notes on the main characters.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes and notes on the main characters.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes and notes on the main characters.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes and notes on the main characters.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes and notes on the main characters.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes and notes on the main characters.

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. In this edition of Othello, illustrations have been extended and updated; the preliminary notes have been expanded; reading lists have been updated, and include websites; and the classroom notes have been brought in line with recent practice. Othello is a set text for 11-14 year olds in England and remains one... read more

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes and notes on the main characters.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes and notes on the main characters.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes and notes on the main characters.

As Henry's throne is threatened by rebel forces, England is divided. The characters reflect these oppositions, with Hal and Hotspur vying for position, and Falstaff leading Hal away from his father and towards excess. During Shakespeare's lifetime Henry IV, Part I was his most reprinted play, and it remains enormously popular with theatregoers and readers. Falstaff still towers among Shakespeare's comic inventions as he did in the late 1590s. David Bevington's introduction discusses the play in both peformance and criticism from ... read more

Rene Weis reveals Shakepeare's use of multiple sources to be eclectic in the extreme in this radical reconsideration of the play's date and text. He also argues for the first time that Falstaff was called Oldcastle in Part 2 as well as in Part I. The play's striving towards a form of order, peace, and legitimacy is explored in relation to Part I and through rigorous attention to structure and language. A full account of the play's history in performance and on film yields a fascinating reflection of its relationship to national tri... read more

The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers. - a new, modern-spelling text, based on the 1623 First Folio - detailed introduction considers composition, sources, historical events, performances and changing critical attitudes to the play - on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, identify historical figures and events, and much else - appendices include extracts... read more

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes and notes on the main characters.