The New Oxford Shakespeare

The New Oxford Shakespeare from Oxford World's Classics


Histories, comedies, tragedies...you'll find Shakespeare's finest in our new editions of his classic plays, poetry, and prose from Oxford World’s Classics. Each new volume uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition and combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes to offer you the ultimate guide to Shakespeare’s work, whether you’re a longtime reader or are new to the Bard.

The New Oxford Shakespeare


Richard II
9780198881964
$16.95
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Richard II

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  • A new edition of one of Shakespeare's most famous history plays, Richard II
  • Presents the play's queer performance history, as well as explaining the historical contexts alluded to by the play and the role it played in political events of the 1590s
  • Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare
  • Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work
  • Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical appartus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems
    William Shakespeare

    Hailey Bachrach, Edited by Anna Pruitt, and Emma Smith
King Henry VIII; or All is True
9780198872023
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King Henry VIII; or All is True

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  • Shakespeare's retelling of one of the most defining periods in English history
  • The play negotiates the ambivalence of truth as dictated by the monarch and the church, and the women who become collateral damage amidst the ambitions of both
  • The introduction offers an engaging account of one of Shakespeare's most lavish and yet least known plays, in the context of near-contemporary dramatizations of the life of Henry VIII, including Rowley's When Ye See Me, Ye Know Me (1605)
  • Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare
  • Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work
  • Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical appartus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems
    William Shakespeare

    Laura Jayne Wright, Edited by Will Sharpe, and Emma Smith
Julius Caesar
9780192872661
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Julius Caesar

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  • A new edition of one of Shakespeare's most famous Roman plays, Julius Ceasar
  • Provides the reader with an engaging historical and theatrical context for the play and extends their thinking to examine the uses of history to question political structures today
  • Examines who is permitted to question those in power and the ability of women to manoeuvre themselves into positions of political power
  • Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare
  • Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work
  • Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical appartus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems
    William Shakespeare

    Brandi K. Adams, Edited by Sarah Neville, and Emma Smith
Cymbeline
9780192882868
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Cymbeline

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  • A new edition of one of Shakespeare's last tragedies centred on an embattled woman's struggle to survive
  • Embraces the play's rich, disorientating multiplicity as a romance, imagined history, experimental drama, and Jacobean exploration of nationhood
  • Explores the play's dramaturgical context and considers its afterlives, from its Restoration adaptation as The Injur'd Princess to Kneehigh's Imogen, discussing how different eras have addressed the human story at the heart of the play
  • Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare
  • Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work
  • Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical appartus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems
    William Shakespeare

    Kim Gilchrist, Edited by Rory Loughnane, and Emma Smith

Titus Andronicus
9780198875055
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Titus Andronicus

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  • A new edition of Shakespeare's bloodiest play, Titus Andronicus
  • Engages with wider debates around Shakespeare's cultural value, which are often missing from critical editions of his plays
  • Dedicates ample space to discussion of the play's more problematic aspects, including racism and sexual violence
  • Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare
  • Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work
  • Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical appartus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems
    William Shakespeare

    Harry R. McCarthy, Edited by Gary Taylor, Terri Bourus, Rory Loughnane, Anna Pruitt, Francis X. Connor, and Emma Smith.
The Comedy of Errors
9780192869036
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The Comedy of Errors

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  • Provides a rich historical and editorial context for the play, showing points of contact between The Comedy of Errors and its literary sources and analogues, both classical and contemporary
  • Reappraises the play as a piece of dramaturgical experimentation, situating it not just alongside direct written sources but within the performance traditions of Shakespeare's time
  • Pays sustained attention to the play's dramaturgical demands on its performers, and to its sympathetic demands upon its spectators, drawing on two productions staged in 2012
  • Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare
  • Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work
  • Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical appartus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems
    William Shakespeare

    Ian Burrows, Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge, Edited by Sarah Neville, Ohio State University, and Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
Macbeth
9780192862426
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Macbeth

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  • A new edition of Shakespeare's most theatrical, most renown tragedy
  • Emma Smith's introduction offers a comprehensive assessment of the play, from its stage setting to performance history, to Macbeth's first soliloquy, and the final act
  • Examines the play's contemporary contexts -- the patronage of James VI and the Gunpowder Plot -- and modern contexts -- gender, psychology, and representation
  • Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare
  • Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work
  • Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical appartus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems
    William Shakespeare

    Edited by John Jowett, University of Birmingham, and Emmma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
The Tempest
9780192865878
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The Tempest

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  • Incorporates a wide range of approaches to shed light on the text's connections to colonialism and colonial resistance
  • Provides a 'deep context' approach that uses objects, manuscripts, and rare books to reconstruct the world of the play in Shakespeare's time and introduces readers to new perspectives on the play
  • Explores he Tempest'sT Jacobean context while examining how subsequent interpretations have explored gender, resistance, and illusion in new ways
  • Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare
  • Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work
  • Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical appartus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems
    William Shakespeare

    Edited by Lauren Working, Lecturer in Early Modern Studies, University of York, Rory Loughnane, University of Kent, and Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford

Shakespeare - A Discussion with Our Oxford World's Classics Editors


To mark the launch of the first batch of our brand-new Oxford World’s Classics editions of the works of Shakespeare, join our fantastic editors for this fascinating discussion on some of Shakespeare’s greatest works, chaired by Series Editor Emma Smith.