Each volume of evans shakespeare is edited by a shakespearean scholar. The pedagogy is designed to help students contextualize renaissance drama, while providing explanatory notes to the play. Key features: visuals, including paintings of shakespearean characters, illustrations of the plays in theatre and photos from film, both four color and black and white, bring drama of the renaissance era to life. To help students place the iconic plays in historical and cultural context, detailed explanatory footnotes to the play, historical sources and modern critical essays are provided. Digital resources include an ebook and the shakespeare resource center. Table of contents: about this series shakespeare's life shakespeare's theatre the introduction performance history text of the play a note on the text textual notes sources and contexts critical essays classic essays modern essays for further reading, viewing and listening