"One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's Hamlet is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. Now the most extensively annotated version of Hamlet to date makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers, and the general reader in mind." "Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary and...

Background information about Shakespeare, Elizabethan theater, and the text accompany his play about unrequited love and mistaken identity.

Othello, a general in the Venetian army, has married the lovely Desdemona, and Roderigo is unhappy. He was hoping to woo Desdemona for himself. The villain Iago helps Roderigo extract revenge in one of William Shakespeare's most famous tragedies.

A comedy of Petruchio's determination to subdue the irascible Katherine and to make her his wife.

Newly revised, here is Shakepeare's dramatic play about two stars-crossed lovers, "Romeo & Juliet". It features a new Introduction by Sylvan Barnet, former Chairman of the English Department at Tufts University, an updated bibliography, suggested references, and stage and film history.

Biographical information and critical essays accompany Shakespeare's play about a prince's wavering determination to avenge his father's murder.