“I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation.” (Patrick Stewart)
The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged.
Each volume features:
* Authoritative, reliable texts
* High quality introductions and notes
* New, more readable trade trim size
* An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare’s life and the selection of texts
Comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, performed in 1598-99 and printed in a quarto edition from the author’s fair papers in 1600. The play takes an ancient theme–that of a woman falsely accused of unfaithfulness–to brilliant comedic heights. Claudio is deceived by his jealous cousin into believing that his lover, Hero, is unfaithful–a plot unveiled by the bumbling constables Dogberry and Verges. Meanwhile, Beatrice and Benedick have “a kind of merry war” between them, matching wits in clever repartee that anticipates other playfully teasing literary couples. Each is tricked into believing that the other is in love, which allows the true affection between them to grow. Both couples are united at the end, after Hero’s simulated resurrection from the dead. In this play Shakespeare eschewed devices of obvious magic or disguise of sex, which he employed in other comedies; the wit and ambiguity of the dialogue and the exquisite pacing of the action sustain the play, which remains popular in repertory. — The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
John Dover Wilson’s New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare’s plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, performed in 1598-99 and printed in a quarto edition from the author’s fair papers in 1600. The play takes an ancient theme–that of a woman falsely accused of unfaithfulness–to brilliant comedic heights. Claudio is deceived by his jealous cousin into believing that his lover, Hero, is unfaithful–a plot unveiled by the bumbling constables Dogberry and Verges. Meanwhile, Beatrice and Benedick have “a kind of merry war” between them, matching wits in clever repartee that anticipates other playfully teasing literary couples. Each is tricked into believing that the other is in love, which allows the true affection between them to grow. Both couples are united at the end, after Hero’s simulated resurrection from the dead. In this play Shakespeare eschewed devices of obvious magic or disguise of sex, which he employed in other comedies; the wit and ambiguity of the dialogue and the exquisite pacing of the action sustain the play, which remains popular in repertory. — The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Much Ado about Nothing (The Pelican Shakespeare) 
My Name Is Asher Lev
A novel of finely articulated tragic power. . . . Little short of a work of genius. –The New York Times Book Review
Memorable. . . . Profound in its vision of humanity, of religion, and of art.–The Wall Street Journal
Such a feeling of freshness, of something brand-new. . . . Attention-holding and ultimately moving. –The New York Times
Engrossing and illuminating. –Miami Herald
Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy.In this stirring and often visionary novel, Chaim Potok traces Ashers passage between these two identities, the one consecrated to God, the other subject only to the imagination.
Asher Lev grows up in a cloistered Hasidic community in postwar Brooklyn, a world suffused by ritual and revolving around a charismatic Rebbe. But in time his gift threatens to estrange him from that world and the parents he adores. As it follows his struggle, My Name Is Asher Lev becomes a luminous portrait of the artist, by turns heartbreaking and exultant, a modern classic.
My Name Is Asher Lev 
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