This widely used abridged edition keeps Shakespeare’s original language while making the play more manageable for students to follow, discuss and perform.

This carefully abridged version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream keeps the lovers, fairies, mechanicals, comic confusion and play within the play, while presenting a streamlined script that is easier for students to read, rehearse and perform.

Originally devised for a Theatre in Education tour, this script has been successfully staged with as few as four actors and adapted for larger school casts. It is equally effective for classroom exploration of scenes and for full productions in a drama studio, school hall or theatre space.

This edition includes:

• A streamlined performance script.
• Short scene introductions to guide understanding.
• Staging advice based on real school productions.
• Classroom drama activities to support literary study.

Ideal for classroom work, Shakespeare study, school productions, drama activities, tutoring and home education. Let younger readers meeting Shakespeare for the first time.

Written by an experienced teacher and director, this edition helps students engage actively with Shakespeare’s language, characters and themes. Through both study and performance.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Abridged for Schools and Performance – Shakespeare & KJ O’Hara – 9781502311412.

Au programme de la quatrième pour la section internationale des collèges Camille Claudel et Simone Veil à Montpellier.

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The bloodiest and brashest of Shakespeare’s play, now in The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series.

This revenge tragedy begins with war and ends in mutilation and cannibalism. Acts of war and sexual violence across borders and within families highlight the importance of empire, Blackness and gender, alongside the familial and literal blood which characterise early modern and contemporary performance. The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series Titus Andronicus provides:- A critical introduction to the textual, cultural and performance history- An edition that is rooted in a Jacobean revival performance of the play- Detailed on-the-page notes explaining language, character and performance- A clear page layout with an easy-to-read font and single-column notes – Images of relevant productions, paintings and textsThe Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series includes a new edition of every Shakespeare play, the poems and sonnets.

Each volume is edited afresh by a leading scholar specialising in cutting-edge research on performance, gender, sexuality and race. These editions cover everything you need to know as a student, teacher, researcher, theatre-maker or performer of Shakespeare’s works today.

Titus Andronicus (Arden Shakespeare) – William Shakespeare – Edited by Curtis Perry and Ayanna Thompson – 9781350078406. Programme Agrégation externe anglais.

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Date de publication : 14/05/2026.

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Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare’s works. The Textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.

Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this a gripping and exuberant drama of revenge, rich in contrasts and conflicts. Its violence alternates with introspection, its melancholy with humour, and its subtlety with spectacle.

The Prince, Hamlet himself, is depicted as a complex, divided, introspective character. His reflections on death, morality and the very status of human beings make him ‘the first modern man’. Countless stage productions and numerous adaptations for the cinema and television have demonstrated the continuing cultural relevance of this vivid, enigmatic, profound and engrossing drama.

Hamlet (Wordsworth Classic) – William Shakespeare – 9781853260094

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Read Shakespeare’s plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means with the No Fear Collection!

Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable. Each No Fear guide contains:The complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that puts the words into everyday languageA complete list of characters, with descriptionsPlenty of helpful commentary

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Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.

The Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series, with Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugral volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare’s works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.

Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare’s tragedies. This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona’s love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives.

In its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation, Othello is arguably the most topical and accessible tragedy from Shakespeare’s major phase as a dramatist. Productions on stage and screen regularly renew its power to engross, impress and trouble the imagination.

OTHELLO – William Shakespeare – 6.90 € – 9781853260186

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An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare’s imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare’s love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre.

Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive ‘Stagecraft’, ‘Write about it’, ‘Language in the play’, ‘Characters’ and ‘Themes’ features. Extended glossaries are aligned with the play text for easy reference. Expanded endnotes include extensive essay-writing guidance for ‘The Tempest’ and Shakespeare.

Includes rich, exciting colour photos of performances of ‘The Tempest’ from around the world.

The Tempest (Cambridge School Shakespeare) – William Shakespeare – 9781107615533

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare’s plays.

It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery. It is one of the very few of Shakespeare’s plays which do not draw on narrative sources, which suggests that it reflects his deepest imaginative concerns to an unusual degree.

In his introduction Peter Holland pays particular attention to dreams and dreamers, and to Shakespeare’s construction of a world of night and shadows. Both here and in his commentary he explores the play’s extensive performance history to illustrate the wide range of interpretations of which it is capable.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare – 9780199535866

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For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Lois Potter has written a completely new introduction, taking account of recent productions and reinterpretations of the play, with particular emphasis on its afterlife in global performance and adaptation. The edition retains the Textual Analysis of the previous editor, Jay L. Halio, shortened and with a new preface by Brian Gibbons.  Professor Halio, accepting that we have two versions of equal authority, the one derived from Shakespeare’s rough drafts, the other from a manuscript used in the playhouses during the seventeenth century, chooses the Folio as the text for this edition.  He explains the differences between the two versions and alerts the reader to the rival claims of the quarto by means of a sampling of parallel passages in the Introduction and by an appendix which contains annotated passages unique to the quarto.

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Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by ‘gentleman callers’.

Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother’s suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura’s romantic illusions are crushed.

The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams – 9780141190266

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