Upon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a new standard for teaching editions of Shakespeare's complete works.
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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...
Upon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a new standard for teaching editions of Shakespeare's complete works.
Blits, Jan H., 'Manliness and Friendship in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar' Interpretation 9 (1981), 155–67. ... Bristol, Michael D., 'The Two Noble Kinsmen: Shakespeare and the Problem of Authority', in Charles H. Frey, ed., Shakespeare, ...
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In every case, Greenblatt brings a flash of illumination to the work, enabling us to experience these great plays again as if for the first time, and with greater understanding and appreciation of their extraordinary depth and humanity ...
Works break through the boundaries of their own time, they live in centuries, that is, in great time and frequently (with great works, always) their lives there are more intense and fuller than are their lives within their own time.33 ...
The Merry Devill of Edmonton, for its part, had been registered in 1607 and had been published four times between 1608 and 1653. That left The History of Cardenio, which was probably the play performed forty years earlier in London, ...
This Third Edition introduces a meticulouslyedited new text created by an expert international team of textual editors, a new introduction to the theater of Shakespeare's time, new performance notes, and hundreds of fine-tuned glosses that ...
Richard Wilson, “Unseasonable Laughter: The Context of Cardenio,” in Shakespeare's Late Plays: New Readings, ed. ... Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford: Clarendon, 2005); The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition, 2nd ed., ...