David Bevington, Lars Engle, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Et Al.
The most extensive new collection in this field published in more than three decades, English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology surveys the astonishing, and astonishingly varied, dramatic works written and performed in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.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
Georg Büchner, Matthew Wilson Smith, Henry Schmidt
Few writers have transformed literature and theater so dramatically. Based on Henry J. Schmidt’s translations of The Hessian Messenger, Danton’s Death, Lenz, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck.More
Anthony Caputi
This Norton Critical Edition presents some of the most important voices in modern drama and, through the inclusion of supporting materials, places each play in its proper intellectual, artistic, and historical context.More
Anton Chekhov, Laurence Senelick
Anton Chekhov revolutionized Russian theater through his inimitable portrayals of characters faced with complex moral dilemmas.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
J. Ellen Gainor, Stanton Garner, Jr., Martin Puchner
Volume(s): 1 & 2
The most comprehensive and distinctive collection of its kind.More
J. Ellen Gainor, Stanton Garner, Jr., Martin Puchner
Shorter Edition
The only one-volume drama anthology that’s a Norton.More
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Cyrus Hamlin, Walter Arndt
Second Edition
Walter Arndt’s translation of Faust reproduces the sense of the German original and Goethe’s enormously varied metrics and rhyme schemes.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
College Edition
Stephen Greenblatt, esteemed scholar and General Editor of the newly published Eighth Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, brings Shakespeare’s world alive in this acclaimed biography, now available as a college paperback with 12 color plates and access to online commentary and discussion questions.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
John P. Harrington
Second Edition
Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama is the ideal focal point for the study of Irish literature and culture and, because of its many great twentieth-century works, for the study of drama more generally.More
Henrik Ibsen, Brian Johnston
Ibsen ascended to the first ranks of European writers in the late nineteenth century and has remained there ever since.More
Biodun Jeyifo
The first truly continentally representative collection of modern African drama in any language, this Norton Critical Edition includes plays from Egypt, Algeria, the Republic of South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Kenya.More