Which Shakespeare Edition Should You Buy?

Edited by John Wilders

A Roman general chooses Egypt's queen over his empire and pays for it

Edited by Peter Holland

A brilliant soldier who is terrible at politics, in a city that needs him to be both

Edited by Valerie Wayne

A king's daughter, a jealous husband, a wicked stepmother and a lost prince in Roman Britain

Edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor

A prince who cannot stop thinking long enough to act — until it is too late for everyone

Edited by David Daniell

An assassination that was supposed to save Rome tears it apart instead

Edited by R. A. Foakes

A king divides his kingdom between his daughters and discovers which of them loved him

Edited by Sandra Clark and Pamela Mason

A general who gets everything he wants and destroys himself in the process

Edited by E. A. J. Honigmann

A general undone by jealousy he had no reason to feel, manipulated by a man with no apparent motive

Edited by René Weis

A love story that ends in disaster because of a feud neither lover started

Edited by Anthony B. Dawson and Gretchen E. Minton

A wealthy man who gives everything away, then is astonished when his friends vanish with it

Edited by Jonathan Bate

Shakespeare's most violent play. A revenge cycle that escalates until almost no one survives.

Edited by David Bevington

Troy retold, with neither side's heroes coming off well

Edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri

Four lovers, a fairy with a love potion and a troupe of amateur actors in an enchanted wood

Edited by Suzanne Gossett and Helen Wilcox

A physician's daughter heals a dying king and wins the right to marry a count who doesn't want her

Edited by Juliet Dusinberre

A woman in disguise coaches her oblivious lover on how to woo her

Edited by H. R. Woudhuysen

Four lords swear off women for three years of study and last about five minutes

Edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Robert N. Watson

A duke who secretly tests his deputy by faking his own departure. The deputy fails badly.

Edited by Claire McEachern

Two people who loudly hate each other and are obviously in love

Edited by Suzanne Gossett

A prince separated from his wife and daughter by storm, slavery and sixteen years

Edited by Kent Cartwright

Two pairs of identical twins, separated at birth, accidentally reunite in the same city on the same day

Edited by John Drakakis

A bond written in a pound of flesh, and the most famous courtroom scene in English literature

Edited by Giorgio Melchiori

Falstaff tries to seduce two wealthy wives simultaneously; they decide to teach him a lesson

Edited by Barbara Hodgdon

A battle of wills between a headstrong woman and the only man who matches her

Edited by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan

A sorcerer stranded on an island, a shipwrecked court and a creature called Caliban

Edited by William C. Carroll

Two friends, two women and one enormous betrayal. Shakespeare's earliest surviving comedy.

Edited by John Pitcher

A king destroys his own family through baseless jealousy, then spends sixteen years trying to undo it

Edited by Keir Elam

A shipwrecked woman disguises herself as a man and causes total romantic confusion