Essential Plays / The Sonnets

Organized by genre, this volume includes the genre introductions enthusiastically received in The Norton Shakespeare, Second Edition: Shakespearean Tragedy by Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespearean Comedy by Katharine Eisaman Maus, Shakespearean History by Jean E. Howard, and Shakespearean Romance by Walter Cohen. Like its parent volume, this concise edition gives students the vibrant introductions, readable single-column format, helpful glosses and notes, and extensive reference materials maps, a timeline, annotated bibliographies and film lists, documents that have made The Norton Shakespeare, Second Edition the best-selling classroom edition worldwide."