Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. This book contains information on the source from which Shakespeare derived "Othello"--Selections from Giraldi Cinthio's "Hecatommithi". Special introduction by Alvin Kernan, Princeton University.

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of supposition arranged around scant facts. With his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, and, emulating the style of his travelogues, records episodes in his own research. He celebrates Shakespeare...

The comedies: The comedy of errors. The taming of the shrew. Love's labour's lost. The two gentlemen of Verona. A midsummer night's dream. The merchant of Venice. Much ado about nothing. As you like it.

"During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom, where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in."--T.p. verso.

A collection of prose retellings of ten familiar Shakespeare plays, each illustrated by a well-known artist or artists.

A brief biography of the world's most famous playwright, using only historically correct information.

Set in the sixteenth century, "Will Shakespeare" begins with the lesser known story of Shakespeare's humble beginnings and youthful obscurity in Avon. As he struggles to survive as a playwright, Shakespeare faces multiple hardships, including the black plague and various personal tragedies, but defeats all obstacles to achieve unprecedented success in London.

Shakespeare's classic poems are adorned with the work of a distinguished Edwardian illustrator.

A boy bounces his soccer ball through the window of an empty theater at the beginning of this wordless picture book. When he follows the ball, he meets Shakespeare inside. Shakespeare chases the boy out into 17th century London.