GCSE Shakespeare Texts

Browse our extensive range of GCSE Shakespeare books and plays. We offer the ever-popular Oxford School Shakespeare plays with a 30% discount, along with AQA Study Guides from Scholastic at an amazing 50% off. Plus, we’re excited to introduce the 2023 Annotation-Friendly Editions—perfect for students to engage with the text more deeply.

Shakespeare books remain a core part of the curriculum, and we pride ourselves on offering the best prices, complete with free plastic jackets already fitted for added protection and durability.

AQA Study Guide: GCSE 9-1 Romeo & Juliet

AQA Study Guide: GCSE 9-1 Romeo & Juliet

New combined revision and practice books for Romeo and Juliet to get you top marks in your GCSE English Literature essays. Introducing our brand new series of study guides written specifically for the AQA closed book GCSE English Literature exam. ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 94
  • MBE Code : 302
Original price was: £6.99.Current price is: £4.89. 30% off
AQA Study Guide: GCSE 9-1 Macbeth

AQA Study Guide: GCSE 9-1 Macbeth

New combined revision and practice books for Macbeth to get you top marks in your GCSE English Literature essays. Introducing our brand new series of study guides written specifically for the AQA closed book GCSE English Literature exam. Created ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 96
  • MBE Code : 307
Original price was: £6.99.Current price is: £4.89. 30% off
Hamlet

Hamlet: Oxford School Shakespeare

This classic story created by the great William Shakespeare is based on Prince Hamlet, who is summoned home to Denmark in regards to his Father’s death. With himself being in a state of mourning and despair, he is further disturbed and heartbroken ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 208
  • MBE Code : 204
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.19. 35% off
Julius Ceasar

Julius Caesar: Oxford School Shakespeare

The most famous of Shakespeare’s Roman tragedies, which uncovers a man who discovers that the consequences of a single act of violence cannot be either envisaged or controlled. The Oxford School Shakespeare of Julius Cesar is an acclaimed ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 160
  • MBE Code : 218
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.19. 35% off
King Lear

King Lear: Oxford School Shakespeare

Acclaimed to be one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies, this story is opened in ancient Britain, where the elderly man, King Lear, has decided to give up his power and divide his realm amongst his three daughters Cordelia, Regan, and Goneril....
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 224
  • MBE Code : 239
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.19. 35% off
King Richard III

King Richard III

An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. The Rex Gibson active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 268
  • MBE Code : 637
Original price was: £8.95.Current price is: £8.06. 10% off
Macbeth

Macbeth

An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 188
  • MBE Code : 638
Original price was: £8.95.Current price is: £8.06. 10% off
Macbeth

Macbeth

This Scholastic Classics edition of Shakespeare's well-known tragedy is perfect for students and Shakespeare enthusiasts alike. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. When three sinister ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 134
  • MBE Code : 297
Original price was: £6.99.Current price is: £3.50. 50% off
Macbeth - Annotation Edition

Macbeth – Annotation Edition

Scholastic Annotation-friendly editions come with extra wide margins and double spaced lines, they are perfect for your annotations. They include: Large spaces between lines and large outer margins, perfect for highlighting and note-taking....
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 208
  • MBE Code : 509
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.19. 35% off
Dyslexia Macbeth

Macbeth: Dyslexia Friendly

NEW FOR 2025 – Barrington Stoke’s long-awaited first dyslexia-friendly plays The complete and unabridged dyslexia-friendly edition of Macbeth, Shakespeare’s dark tragedy that blends the supernatural with prophecy, ambition and murder.
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 190
  • MBE Code : 749
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £5.99. 33.33% off
Macbeth Annotated

Macbeth: Full Play With Annotations & Key Quotations

Take the hard work out of annotating your set texts. Use these books as references for understanding, revising, and modelling effective annotation techniques. This A4-sized, full-colour, ready-annotated edition of Shakespeare's well-known tragedy ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 144
  • MBE Code : 796
Original price was: £6.99.Current price is: £5.59. 20% off
Macbeth

Macbeth: Oxford School Shakespeare

Our Oxford Shakespeare Macbeth book includes explanatory illustrations, annotations or on-page notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes. It was made incredibly accessible to students offering rigorous scholarly credentials ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 127
  • MBE Code : 103
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.19. 35% off
Midsummer Nights Dream

Midsummer Nights Dream: Oxford School Shakespeare

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. A Midsummer Night's ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 128
  • MBE Code : 116
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.19. 35% off
Much Ado About Nothing: Oxford School Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing: Oxford School Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing is a popular text for study by secondary school students, across the globe. Included in the Oxford School Shakespeare collection, which is an acclaimed edition which has been specifically designed for students. With the ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 160
  • MBE Code : 121
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.19. 35% off
Othello

Othello: Oxford School Shakespeare

As the scene begins at night, in the city of Venice. The character of Iago, who is an ensign in the Venetian Army is bitter about being passed over for lieutenant in favour of Cassio. Leading to twisted lies, betrayal and in the end, deathly ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 208
  • MBE Code : 150
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.19. 35% off
Romeo Annotation

Romeo & Juliet – Annotation Edition

This annotation edition of Shakespeare's well-known tragi-comedy is perfect for students and Shakespeare enthusiasts alike. Scholastic Annotation Editions come with extra-wide margins and double-spaced lines, they are perfect for your annotations....
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 254
  • MBE Code : 532
Original price was: £6.99.Current price is: £4.54. 35% off
Romeo & Juliet Dyslexia front

Romeo & Juliet: Dyslexia Friendly

NEW FOR 2025 – Barrington Stoke’s long-awaited first dyslexia-friendly plays The complete and unabridged dyslexia-friendly edition of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s renowned tragedy of “two star-crossed lovers” who meet amidst an ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 232
  • MBE Code : 750
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £5.99. 33.33% off
Romeo And Juliet

Romeo & Juliet

This Scholastic Classics edition of Romeo And Juliet is the well-known comedy/tragedy created by Shakespeare. Perfect for every student's progression through their education in English and enjoyed even more by every Shakespeare enthusiast alike. ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 160
  • MBE Code : 298
Original price was: £6.99.Current price is: £3.50. 50% off
Romeo & Juliet

Romeo And Juliet: Oxford School Shakespeare

The romantic tragedy that steals a tear from readers and audiences alike in the 21st century as it did in Elizabethan England. Our discount prices cannot be beaten and the Oxford School Shakespeare titles have been designed for the perfect learning ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 142
  • MBE Code : 105
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.19. 35% off
The Merchant Of Venice

The Merchant Of Venice: Oxford School Shakespeare

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. The Merchant of ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 160
  • MBE Code : 136
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.19. 35% off
The Taming Of The Shrew

The Taming Of The Shrew: Oxford School Shakespeare

Bringing in a comedy and entertainment value within his work, the story of The Taming Of The Shrew, which includes a mischievous nobleman who tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself. The ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 160
  • MBE Code : 190
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.19. 35% off
The Tempest

The Tempest: Oxford School Shakespeare

The Tempest is a popular text for study by secondary school students, across the globe. Included in the Oxford School Shakespeare collection, which is an acclaimed edition which has been specifically designed for students. With the included: ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 160
  • MBE Code : 142
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.19. 35% off
Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night: Oxford School Shakespeare

Twelfth Night is a comedic addition to the famous creations of Shakespeare himself, including the story-line of a cross-dressing, ship-wrecking surviving and poetry-loving girl who finds herself in a not-so-normal love triangle. The Oxford School ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 144
  • MBE Code : 174
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.19. 35% off