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Titus Andronicus The New Oxford Shakespeare
'Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.'In Shakespeare's first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, the Roman general Titus incurs the wrath …
King Henry VIII; or All is True The New Oxford Shakespeare
'Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtuesWe write in water.'Henry VIII or All is True is Shakespeare's retelling of one of the defining periods in English history: the …
The Comedy of Errors The New Oxford Shakespeare
'How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!'The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's most farcical plays, with not one but two sets of twins sliding past each other into mistakes, …
Richard II The New Oxford Shakespeare
'For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground,And tell sad stories of the death of kings'Crowned as a child, Richard II only knows power. The King's court tire of his fickle, greedy …
Cymbeline The New Oxford Shakespeare
'I see a man's life is a tedious one.'Set in Ancient Britain, Cymbeline is a tragedy of deceit, disguise, banishment, and fidelity against the backdrop of a Roman invasion. When …
Julius Caesar The New Oxford Shakespeare
'Cry "havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war'Set against the backdrop of a nation breaking out into civil war, Julius Caesar raises questions of governance, power, tyranny, and …
The Labyrinth
'This travel book is truly a labyrinth--or, more precisely, a piece of the labyrinth that it has been my fate to wander, from the cradle to the grave.' Jens Baggesen's The …
The Fortunate Mistress (Roxana)
'I liv'd indeed like a Queen; or if you will have me confess, that my Condition had still the Reproach of a Whore, I may say, I was sure, the Queen of Whores.' Left destitute by …
The Complete Writings
'Forget the years, forget norms, let yourself be stirred by the boundless.' The Zhuangzi -- an anthology of anonymous writings produced in China between the fourth and second …
Billy Budd, Sailor, and Selected Tales
'Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!' Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy …
The Well of Loneliness
'If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.' The Well of Loneliness is among the most famous banned books in history. A pioneering …
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan is not just one of the greatest philosophical texts in the English language; it is one of the most important works in the history of Western political …