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All the Sonnets of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
$27.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare
How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least thirty years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays, as prologues, as epi ...Show more
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Classified as one of William Shakespeare's 'problem plays' for its unique mix of comedy and tragedy, All's Well that Ends Well is a masterpiece of irony and subtle wit. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Barbara Everett with an introduction by Janette Dillon. 'All's well that ends well; still ...Show more
All's Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare
$12.99 NZD
Category: Shakespeare
A poor physician?s daughter cures the King of France, and in return is promised the hand of any nobleman she wishes. But the man she chooses, the proud young Count of Rosillion, refuses to consummate the forced marriage and flees to Florence. Depicting the triumph of trickery over youthful arrogance, Al ...Show more
Antony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
$12.95 NZD
Category: Shakespeare
A battle-hardened soldier, Antony is one of the three leaders of the Roman world. But he is also a man in the grip of an all-consuming passion for the exotic and tempestuous queen of Egypt. And when their life of pleasure together is threatened by the encroaching politics of Rome, the conflict between l ...Show more
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classics
A tragedy of doomed love between an Egyptian queen and a ruler of Rome, William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra is edited by Emrys Jones with an introduction by René Weis in Penguin Shakespeare. 'Eternity was in our lips and eyes,Bliss in our brows' bent' A battle-hardened soldier, Antony is one of ...Show more
Arden Shakespeare Series: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Arden Shakespeare.Third Series
The core of the ground-breaking, three text edition, this self-contained, free-standing volume gives readers the Second Quarto text (1604-5) and includes in its Introduction, notes and Appendices all the reader might expect to find in any standard Arden edition. As well as a full, illustrated Introducti ...Show more
Arden Shakespeare Series: Othello by William Shakespeare
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Arden Shakespeare.Third Series
In a period of ten years, Shakespeare wrote a series of tragedies that established him, by universal consent, in the front rank of the world's dramatists. Critics have praised either Hamlet or King Lear as the greatest of these; Ernst Honigmann, in the most significant edition of the play for a generati ...Show more
As You Like It: Arden Shakespeare: The Arden Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
$24.99 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: The\Arden Shakespeare Third Ser.
With its cross-dressed heroine, gender games and explorations of sexual ambivalence, its Forest of Arden and melancholy Jacques, "As You Like it" speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberre demonstrates that Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals ...Show more
As You Like It - No Fear Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: No Fear Shakespeare
As You Like It has sometimes seemed a subversive play that exposes the instability of gender roles and traditional values. In other eras it has been prized - or derided - as a reliable celebration of conventional social mores. The play's ability to compass these extremes tells an interesting story about ...Show more
As You Like It (Shakespeare Stories) by William Shakespeare retold by Andrew Matthews
$14.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Shakespeare Stories
Deception is abound in this classic Shakespeare retelling. With Notes on Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre and Nature and Identity in As You Like It.
As You Like it by William Shakespeare
$12.99 NZD
Category: Shakespeare
When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves now a fellow exile and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for h ...Show more
As You Like it (Manga Shakespeare) by Chie Kutsuwada (Illustrator); Richard Appignanesi (Adapted by); William Shakespeare (Based on a book by)
$22.95 NZD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels | Series: Manga Shakespeare Ser.
'As You Like It' is perhaps Shakespeare's sunniest comedy, but there are patches of shade amidst the love-drenched brightness. In this manga version, the Arcadian beauty of the forest of Arden is transposed to modern-day China, where rural and urban worlds collide.