The Norton Shakespeare: Essential Plays / The Sonnets offers the twenty most-assigned plays and all the sonnets in a compact, portable, and value-priced paperback with a host of
features. Organized by genre, this volume includes the genre introductions enthusiastically received in The Norton Shakespeare, Second Edition: ��hakespearean Tragedy��by Stephen
Greenblatt, ��hakespearean Comedy��by Katharine Eisaman Maus, ��hakespearean History��by Jean E. Howard, and ��hakespearean 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.
