The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, based on the Quarto text of 1608 - on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions and much else - detailed introduction considers composition, sources, performances and changing critical attitudes to the play - illustrated with production photographs and related art - includes 'The Ballad of King Lear' and related offshoots - full index to introduction and commentary - durable sewn binding for lasting use 'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.' Times Literary Supplement ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Shakespearean characters of comparable importance.'1 Shakespeare drew on
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(Applause Books). This landmark publication is printed in clear, legible type. Each play has its own comprehensive introduction as well as extensive, expert annotations. Highlighted areas show where lines have been altered over time and also shows where verse has been changed to prose in the past (but not here!) The original compositions are marked and folio clues are highlighted.
Special thanks to Norman Welsh who first introduced me to the Folio Text, and to
Tina Packer who (with Kristin Linklater and all the members of Shakespeare & Co
.) allowed me to explore the texts on the rehearsal floor. To Jane Nichols for her ...
An acclaimed author has rewritten twelve of Shakespeare's plays in narrative form, retaining much of the original language, and thus the flavor of the bard's dramas.
Leon Garfield, William Shakespeare. The. Tempest. Far, far away, upon the shore
of a strange island that was forever wrapped in mists that the sun changed into
moving curtains of gold, there sat an ageing man and his young, lovely daughter.
“If tradition may be trusted, Shakespeare often baited at the Crown Inn or Tavern
in Oxford, in his journey to and from London. The landlady was a woman of great
beauty and sprightly wit; and her husband, Mr. John Davenant (afterwards ...
William Shakespeare Mr. Theobald (Lewis). Pedro, and the Count Claudia, alone
; tell them, that you know, Hero loves me ; intend a kind of zeal both to the Prince
and Claudia, as in a love of your Brother'a honour who hath made this match ...
William Shakespeare Walley Chamberlain Oulton. the grand design of the drama
, he stands unrivalled and alone. The several editors of the works of our immortal
bard, have descanted on his genius and writings, considered as a dramatic ...
Contains Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
Contains Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
