Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with discussion questions, role-playing scenarios, and other study activities.

Samuel Beckett, one of the great avant-garde Irish dramatists and writers of the second half of the twentieth century, was born on 13 April 1906. He died in 1989. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. His centenary will be celebrated throughout 2006 with performances of his major plays, but the most popular of them all will be, without doubt, the play with which he first made his name, Waiting for Godot. It opened the gates to the theatre

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The Oxford Shakespeare brings the modern reader closer to Shakespeare's plays as originally performed than has ever before been possible. Based on eight years of full-time research by a team of distinguished British and American scholars, this monumental volume offers many remarkable innovations, including a new chronological order, revised stage directions, two full versions of King Lear--as originally written and as revised later for performance--and...

Vol. 2: Julius Ceasar; Hamlet; All's Well That Ends Well; Measure for Maesure; Troilus and Cressida; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth; Antony & Cleopatra; Coriolanus; Timon of Athens; Pericles; Cymbeline; The Tempest; Th e Winter's Tale; King Henry VIII; Venus & Adonis; The Rape of Lucrece; The Passionate Pilgrim; Sonnets; The Phoenix & the Turtle.

She is only fourteen, he only a few years older. Their families are bitter enemies, sworn to hatred. Yet Romeo and Juliet meet and fall passionately in love. Defying their parents' wishes, they are secretly married, but their brief happiness, is shattered by fate.