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Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Set during five of the most intensely dramatic days ever portrayed, ROMEO AND JULIET was probably written in 1594 or 1595, and first published in a 1597 edition, as transcribed by actors who had performed it....


The Narrative Poems

by William Shakespeare

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant...


King John

by William Shakespeare

I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant...


The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

Generally agreed to be Shakespeare's last play, THE TEMPEST was most likely written in 1610. Twelve years before the action begins, Prospero--Duke of Milan--and his daughter, Miranda, were stranded by Prospero's...


Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

The work of the world's greatest dramatist is edited by outstanding scholars and presented here, along with an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world and theater, a special note on the sources from...


King Lear

by William Shakespeare

Planning to will the largest portion of his kingdom to the daughter who can articulate her filial love most effectively, King Lear is furious when his youngest of three daughters, the unwed Cordelia, simply...


Romeo and Juliet Complete Text with Extras

by William Shakespeare

These violent delights have violent ends

And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,

Which, as they kiss, consume.

When Romeo first lays eyes on the bewitching Juliet, it's love at first sight. But though...


Henry IV, Part 2

by William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen

After defeat at the Battle of Shrewsbury the rebels regroup. But Prince Hal’s reluctance to inherit the crown threatens to destroy the ailing Henry IV’s dream of a lasting dynasty. Shakespeare’s portrait...


Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen

Set in a courtly world of masked revels and dances, this play turns on the archetypal story of a lady falsely accused of unfaithfulness, spurned by her bridegroom, and finally vindicated and reunited with him....


Othello

by William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen

Though this great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor, its story of the doomed marriage of a Venetian senator’s daughter, Desdemona, to a Moorish general,...


Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen

A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters—the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual...


The Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen

One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own, The Winter’s Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jealousy, the redemptive world of nature, and the magical power...


The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

'Pure swashbuckling pleasure' Daily Telegraph

The young D'Artagnan travels to Paris determined to join King Louis XIII's elite guards. Hot-headed and raring to prove himself, D'Artagnan challenges three strangers...


The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by William Shakespeare

This Modern Library edition presents all ten histories--each complete and unabridged--in the Shakespearean canon, along with notes and glossary. Here are:

King John

Richard II

Henry IV, Part I

Henry IV, Part II

Henry...


The Comedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by William Shakespeare

This Modern Library edition presents all fourteen comedies--each complete and unabridged--in the Shakespearean canon, along with notes and glossary. Here are:

The Tempest

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Merry...


The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by William Shakespeare

Contains the complete text of such Shakespeare tragedies as Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and Macbeth.


Richard III

by William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen

An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features:  Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each...


Henry IV, Part Two

by William Shakespeare

The stirring continuation of the themes begun in Henry IV, Part One again pits a rebellion within the State and that master of misrule, Falstaff, against the maturing of Prince Hal. Alternating scenes between...


The Poems

by William Shakespeare

The Poems

Shakespeare's greatest achievement in nondramatic verse was his collection of 154 magnificent sonnets that portray a tumultuous world of love, rivalry, and conflict among a poet, an aristocratic young...


A Midsummer Night's Dream (illustrated by Arthur Rackham)

by William Shakespeare & Arthur Rackham

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare between 1590 and 1596. It is one of his most played pieces. The events of the play take place in and around Athens in ancient Greece and include...