What was Shakespeares attitude to Semitism? The Introduction to this edition of The Merchant of Venice opens by addressing this vital issue raised by the play & goes on to study the sources background & date includuing a discussion of Sigmund Freuds essay on The Three Caskets. Professor Halio interprets the plays contradictions inconsistencies & complementarities especially as these relate to the overarching theme of bonds & bondage. A survey of the plays stage history ranges from discussions of its early staging to important twentieth-century productions & performances outside England particularly in Israel. The text based on a fresh examination of the early editions is presented in modernized spelling & punctuation. Unfailingly lucid & helpful this is an ideal edition for students actors & the general reader. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

The Merry Wives of Windsor was almost certainly required at short notice for a court occasion in 1597: Shakespeare threw into it all the creative energy that went into his Henry IV plays. Falstaff is here with Pistol Mistress Quickly & Justice Shallow in a spirited & warm-hearted citizen comedy. Boisterous action is combined with situational irony & rich characterization. In his introduction T. W. Craik discusses the plays probable occasion (the Garter Feast of 1597 at court) its relationship to Shakespeares English history plays & to other sources its textual history (with particular reference to the widely diverging 1623 Folio & 1602 Quarto) & its original quality as drama. He assesses various interpretations of the play topical critical & theatrical. In the commentary he pays particular attention to expounding the literal sense (he proposes some new readings) & evoking the stage business. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

Performed variously as escapist fantasy celebratory fiction & political allegory The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. Significantly it was placed first when published in the First Folio of 1623 & is now generally seen as the playwright's most penetrating statement about his art. Stephen Orgel's wide-ranging introduction examines changing attitudes to The Tempest & reassesses the evidence behind the various readings. He focuses on key characters & their roles & relationships as well as on the dramatic historical & political context finding the play to be both more open & more historically determined than traditional views have allowed. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi- comedy as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace & throughout for the richness & complexity of its poetry. It concludes moreover with the most daring & moving reconciliation scene in all Shakespeare's plays. Though the title may suggest an escapist fantasy recent criticism has seen in the play a profoundly realist psychology & a powerful commentary on the violence implicit in family relationships & deep longlasting friendships. Stephen Orgel's edition considers the play in relation to Renaissance conceptions of both dramatic genre & the family traces the changing critical & theatrical attitudes towards it & places its psychological & dramatic conflicts within the Jacobean cultural & political context. The commentary pays special attention to the play's linguistic complexity & the edition also

Includes:: a complete reprint of Shakespeare's source Pandosto by Robert Greene. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.

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Titus Andronicus was the young Shakespeares audacious sporadically brilliant experiment in sensational tragedy. Its horrors are notorious but its powerful poetry of grief is the work of a true tragic poet. Introducing this edition E.M. Waith provides a fresh view of the play in its historical context as well as an original discussion of the famous Peacham drawing
- the only surviving contemporary Shakespeare illustration. An illustrated account of performances notably Peter Brooks production with Oliver as Titus leads to an assessment of the plays qualities in the light of its critical reception. The eighteenth-century version of the plays probable source is given in one of the appendices. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.
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This is the reissued Oxford Spanish Mini Dictionary
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Following the success of At Home with Spelling 1-2 for the trade these spelling workbooks have been expanded to a series of six fill-in workbooks for schools: books 1-2 for Key Stage 1 books 3-6 for Key Stage 2. The content progresses systematically through all the necessary spelling rules & is cross-referenced to the sequence in the National Literacy Strategy Framework. ...

Following the success of At Home with Spelling 1-2 for the trade these spelling workbooks have been expanded to a series of six fill-in workbooks for schools: books 1-2 for Key Stage 1 books 3-6 for Key Stage 2. The content progresses systematically through all the necessary spelling rules & is cross-referenced to the sequence in the National Literacy Strategy Framework. ...

Following the success of At Home with Spelling 1-2 for the trade these spelling workbooks have been expanded to a series of six fill-in workbooks for schools: books 1-2 for Key Stage 1 books 3-6 for Key Stage 2. The content progresses systematically through all the necessary spelling rules & is cross-referenced to the sequence in the National Literacy Strategy Framework. ...