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, Dympna Callaghan
This Norton Critical Edition of one of Shakespeare’s earliest and best-loved comedies is based on the First Folio (1623).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
Volume(s): 2
The most comprehensive and distinctive collection of its kind, The Norton Anthology of Drama, Volume 2 offers thirty-five major plays, the most carefully prepared introductions, annotations, and play texts, and a distinctive and convenient format. Less expensive than rival anthologies, The Norton Anthology of Drama is also the best value—a book that students will keep long after the class is over.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
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
Joseph Kelly
Second Edition
Compact, portable, and inexpensive, The Seagull Reader: Plays, Second Edition, offers 8 classic (and contemporary classic) plays, 2 of them--Death of a Salesman and A Raisin in the Sun--new to this edition.More
Molière, Constance Congdon, Virginia Scott
Widely hailed as the founder of the modern French comedy, and known to be a gifted actor, playwright, and patron of fellow actors, Molière was a towering presence in seventeenth-century France—and the scourge of its political and religious Establishment.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
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, 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
Oscar Wilde, Michael Patrick Gillespie
The text of this Norton Critical Edition of The Importance of Being Earnest is the established three-act version. Originally in four acts, Wilde shortened it to three at the urging of George Alexander, the owner of the St. James Theatre and first actor to play Jack Worthing. The play is accompanied by explanatory annotations and by an appendix of excised portions.More
Stephen Greenblatt
"So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration." —Dan Cryer, NewsdayMore
Christopher Marlowe, David Scott Kastan
Renaissance England’s great tragedy of intellectual overreaching is as relevant and unsettling today as it was when first performed at the end of the sixteenth century.More
Anton Chekhov, Laurence Senelick
Anton Chekhov revolutionized Russian theater through his inimitable portrayals of characters faced with complex moral dilemmas.More