The RSC Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's drama of the conflict between one man's ambition and the good of the state.
Eric Rasmussen Book order (chronological)
This author delves into the intricacies of Shakespearean literature with a passion for literary detection. Their work explores the fascinating world of Shakespearean scholarship and textual studies, offering readers a unique lens through which to view seminal works and their origins. As a leading authority on English Renaissance drama, they bring a profound depth of knowledge to their lectures and writings.
The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies.
3.8King Lear
- 176 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world's literature.
4.1The Oxford Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
- 214 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedict, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies. This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction. Paying particular attention to analysis of the play's minor characters, Sheldon P. Zitner discusses Shakespeare's transformation of his source material. He rethinks the attitudes to gender relations that underlie the comedy and determine its view of marriage. Allowing for the play's openness to reinterpretation by successive generations of readers and performers, Zitner provides a socially analytic stage history, advancing new views for the actor as much as for the critic.
4.0
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- 702 pages
- 25 hours of reading
Gathers all of Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, and poems.
4.7