John P. Rumrich, Gregory Chaplin
Twenty-nine poets writing from the 1603 ascension of James I, the first Stuart King, and the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, are included in this Norton Critical Edition.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
Joseph Conrad, Paul B. Armstrong
Fourth Edition
The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough’s meticulously re-edited text.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
Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan
This Norton Critical Edition includes thirty-five of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories with explanatory annotations.More
John Locke, Paul E. Sigmund
John Locke’s revolutionary writings created a sea change in political theory and, eventually, in liberal democracy in practice.More
Geoffrey Chaucer, V. A. Kolve, Glending Olson
Second Edition
This Norton Critical Edition includes the most admired of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.More
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
John Milton, Gordon Teskey
This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic.More
Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan Shelston
A revolutionary social and political commentary, North and South solidified Gaskell’s place in the company of Victorian England’s finest novelists.More
Jane Austen, Susan Fraiman
Northanger Abbey, written in Jane Austen’s youth and posthumously published, is arguably her most mysterious, imaginative, and optimistic novel.More
Julian of Norwich, Denise N. Baker
Julian of Norwich is among the most intriguing religious visionaries in Christian history.More
William Shakespeare, Peter Hulme, William H. Sherman
The Tempest presents some of Shakespeare’s most insightful meditations on the cycle of life—ending and beginning, death and regeneration, bondage and freedom. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the First Folio text and is accompanied by explanatory annotations.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, 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