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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of London's Royal Court Theatre

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The "Actors on Shakespeare" series draws on the contemporary relevance of, and enjoyment to be found in, Shakespeare. Each book provides an introduction to a particular play from an individual actor's perspective; here Harriet Walter offers her view of Lady Macbeth and "Macbeth".

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Written in a spare and lyrical language, Midwinter is a play about now, about love, self and a world made from conflict. Midwinter premiered as part of the RSC New Work Festival at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in October 2004.

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Part of the Decades of Modern British Playwriting series, the volume provides a critical survey of the theatre produced in the 1980s together with detailed studies by a team of experts of the work of Howard Barker, Jim Cartwright, Sarah Daniels and Timberlake Wertenbaker.

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The volume contains two of his re-workings of eighteenth-century history, The Art of Success and In the Ruins, his intelligent and original political parable Zenobia and his chilling adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.

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The plays collected here follow the journeys of Pericles, prince of Tyre; the political and romantic betrayals of Cymbeline, a chieftain of ancient times; and a work based on Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale." Revised and repackaged.

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Counterpointing the experiences of a fiercely intelligent Englishwoman flown into France as a secret agent during the Second World War with her life in the following twenty years, the author offers a view of post-war history, as well as making a powerful statement about changing values and the collapse of ideals embodied in a single life.

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Doren deftly guides the reader though the sometime labyrinthine intricacies of Shakespeare's rich and strange language, the better to reveal the mysteries at the heart of his achievement.

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Brings to life Shakespeare's England and the original production of his plays.

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What's so funny about Shakespeare's comedies

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The true biography of Shakespeare is in the plays. The great English tragedies were all written in the first decade of the seventeenth century. They are often in language that is difficult to us, and must have been hard even for contemporaries. How and why did Shakespeare's language develop as it did

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The Elizabethan age was a tumultuous time, when long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was uncertain. This title uncovers the extraordinary stories behind twenty objects from the period to re-create an age at once distant and yet surprisingly familiar.

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A quirky collection of true stories from the weird and wonderful world of Shakespearean theatre, featuringdistinguished actors falling off stages, fluffed lines, performances in the dark, and why you must never, ever say the name of that Scottish play, especially if you are Peter O'Toole.

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A resource for students, scholars and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood or unknown to a modern audience. Plot summaries for all Shakespeare's plays are included as well as notes on specific areas of his language.

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Bringing Shakespeare back to life

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Written by an academic and literary scholar with decades of experience in teaching Shakespeare to students at all levels, Shakespeare: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place.

This Bloomsbury Academic Collection consists of a range of classic titles in Shakespeare studies from our prestigious imprints Continuum, Sheffield Academic Press and The Athlone Press.