The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally reedited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrated introduction, including an in-depth survey of critical and performance approaches to the play; and selected bibliography.
Roma Gill Book order (chronological)






A midsummer night's dream
- 90 pages
- 4 hours of reading
A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soon take an interest in human affairs, dispensing magical love potions and casting mischievous spells. In this dazzling comedy, confusion ends in harmony, as love is transformed, misplaced, and - ultimately - restored.
Oxford School Shakespeare: King Lear
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
An edition of Shakespeare's tragedy, including discussion of its plot, themes, characters, language, production, and author.
Oxford School Shakespeare Series: Richard II
- 168 pages
- 6 hours of reading
New Shakespeare, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary.
Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages.
Oxford School Shakespeare: Hamlet
- 182 pages
- 7 hours of reading
The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps the reader to understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in the series contains the complete text with an extensive range of notes, background information on Shakespeare's England, suggestions for further reading, a brief biograohy of Shakespeare, and a complete list of his plays.
Oxford School Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
The arrival of shipwrecked twins in the land of Illyria creates havoc in this comical story of love in disguise.
Macbeth
- 172 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Encompasses witchcraft, bloody murder, and ghostly apparitions. This work tells the tragedy of a good, brave and honourable man turned into the personification of evil by the workings of unreasonable ambition.

