William Shakespeare, Gordon McMullan
Third Edition
The text, with few departures, is that of the First Quarto (1598) edition of the play.More
William Shakespeare, Ania Loomba
William Shakespeare’s great Roman tragedy of adultery amid political conflict is now available in a richly documented and illustrated Norton Critical Edition.More
William Shakespeare, Leah S. Marcus
“All the world’s a stage.” Shakespeare’s beloved pastoral comedy is now available in a Norton Critical Edition.More
William Shakespeare, Robert S. Miola
New Edition
Hamlet, Shakespeare’s most famous play, is now available in an all-new, illustrated Norton Critical Edition.More
Kenneth Branagh, William Shakespeare, Russell Jackson, Et Al.
The tie-in book to the latest Shakespearean film by Kenneth Branagh, whose Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing were huge critical and popular successes.More
William Shakespeare, S. P. Cerasano
Shakespeare’s tragedy of one of the most famous assassinations in the world at an epoch-changing time in history.More
William Shakespeare, Grace Ioppolo
This Norton Critical Edition is based on the Folio text of King Lear (carefully corrected prior to its printing in 1623). The editor has interpolated the best-known and most-often discussed passages from Quarto I (including the “mock-trial” scene) as is fully explained in both “A Note on the Text” and the annotations that accompany the play.More
William Shakespeare, Robert S. Miola
The Norton Critical Edition of Macbeth, Shakespeare's terrifying depiction of a man and woman's fall into evil, derives from the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The edition includes an introduction, annotations, and textual notes.More
William Shakespeare, Grace Ioppolo
This Norton Critical Edition looks at the full range of opinion and interpretation of this major play from its origins to the present day, from its “genius” (William Hazlitt) to its being a “hateful work, although Shakespearean throughout” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), and beyond.More
William Shakespeare, Leah S. Marcus
The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most beautiful plays and, conversely, his ugliest. Juxtaposed within the same conceptual frame are heavenly and musical harmonies, romantic love, materialism, and racism.More
Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard, Et Al.
Second Edition / Volume(s): One-Volume Clothbound
Upon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a new standard for teaching editions of Shakespeare's complete works.More
Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard, Et Al.
Second Edition
The Norton Shakespeare: Essential Plays / The Sonnets offers the twenty most-assigned plays and all the sonnets in a compact, portable, and value-priced paperback with a host of features.More
William Shakespeare, Edward Pechter
The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the First Folio, printed in 1623. Additions and emendations adopted from the First Quarto (1622) appear in the Textual Notes that follow the play. Othello is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations.More
William Shakespeare, Thomas Cartelli
In The Tragedy of King Richard III, Shakespeare chronicles the rise and fall of one of history’s most repellent, and the theater’s most mesmerizing, figures.More
Samuel Crowl
A lively, concise introduction to film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays from the silent era to the present, Shakespeare and Film pays particular attention to the most influential directors' cinematic portrayals of the plays, offering insightful close readings of the elements of film—camera work, editing, music, acting, montage, among others—that students can use as models for their own writing and analysis.More