In one attractive volume, the Modern Critical Edition gives today's students and playgoers the very best resources they need to understand and enjoy all Shakespeare's works. The authoritative text is accompanied by extensive explanatory and performance notes, and innovative introductory materials which lead the reader into exploring questions about interpretation, textual variants, literary criticism, and performance, for themselves.
The illustrated general introduction presents an overview of the texts available to editors and describes how they define Shakespeare. An essay on error surveys kinds of error characteristic of these early text technologies.
King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, most likely in l606.
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Shakespeare and Text is built on the research and experience of a leading expert on Shakespeare editing and textual studies. The first edition has proved its value as an indispensable and unique guide to its topic.
This is an exploration of the conversations between two media the book and the stage, as they evolved in both competition and sympathy.
Instructors and students worldwide welcomed the fresh scholarship, lively and accessible introductions, helpful marginal glosses and notes, readable single-column format, all designed in support of the goal of the Oxford text: to bring the ...
Here are the most treasured works in all of literature: William Shakespeare's timeless plays. Each of these handsome, collectible volumes contains the complete, unabridged versions of all of these wonderful dramas, organized by genre.
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.
A completely new modern-spelling edition of all of Shakespeare's plays and poems, edited afresh from the original texts.
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