Katharine Eisaman Maus

Stephen Greenblatt

William Shakespeare

Andrew Gurr

Jean E. Howard

Walter Cohen

Upon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a new standard for teaching editions of Shakespeare's complete works.

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The Norton Shakespeare

Jean Elizabeth Howard

With more than 1,300 adoptions since publication, The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition has brought the innovative Oxford text, the most far-reaching revision of the traditional canon in centuries, to the classroom in an engaging and accessible student edition.

Deborah Meades

Presents Shakespeare's complete works accompanied by timelines, genealogies, and selected archival documents.

Landen Angeline

Jean Howard

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. Organized by genre, this volume includes the genre introductions enthusiastically received in The Norton Shakespeare, Second Edition: 'Shakespearean Tragedy' by Stephen Greenblatt, 'Shakespearean Comedy' by Katharine Eisaman Maus, 'Shakespearean History' by Jean E. Howard, and 'Shakespearean Romance' by Walter Cohen. Like its parent volume, this concise edition gives students the vibrant introductions, readable single-column format, helpful glosses and notes, and extensive reference materials-maps, a timeline, annotated bibliographies and film lists, documents-that have made The Norton Shakespeare, Second Edition the best-selling classroom edition worldwide.

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