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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

By William Shakespeare
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A compact edition presenting the complete works of William Shakespeare, combining expert scholarship with accessible editorial content. Features include a foreword, general introduction, essay on language, contemporary Shakespearean allusions, glossary, bibliography, and an index of first lines of the Sonnets, all arranged in a user-friendly layout.
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Format: Hardback
$9700

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Ideal for scholars, students, and Shakespeare enthusiasts seeking a comprehensive and richly annotated single-volume edition of the Bard's complete works.

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A compact edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. It combines impeccable scholarship with beautifully written editorial material and a user-friendly layout of the text. Also included is a foreword, list of contents, general introduction, essay on language, contemporary allusions to Shakespeare, glossary, consolidated bibliography and index of first lines of Sonnets.

Compiled by the world's leading authorities, a new edition of "the most interesting edition of Shakespeare since the First Folio" (The Sunday Times)

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A compact edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. It combines impeccable scholarship with beautifully written editorial material and a user-friendly layout of the text.

Also included is a foreword, list of contents, general introduction, essay on language, contemporary allusions to Shakespeare, glossary, consolidated bibliography, and index of first lines of Sonnets.

Explore William Shakespeare: The Complete Works for an enriching literary experience.

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The Times Literary Supplement praises it as "the most distinctive, and in many ways the best, one-volume Shakespeare currently available." Around the Globe calls it "the most consistently interesting and provocative edition of Shakespeare ever published." The Independent notes its traditional appearance contrasted with cutting-edge scholarly controversy inside.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780199267170

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 April 2005

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Edition: 2nd Revised edition

Contributors:

  • Edited by William Montgomery
  • Edited by Gary Taylor
  • Edited by John Jowett
  • Edited by Stanley Wells
  • Edited by Gary Taylor
  • Edited by John Jowett
  • Edited by William Montgomery

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 53.0mm

Width: 182.0mm

Height: 243.0mm

Weight: 2188g

Pages: 1424

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About the Author

Stanley Wells is Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare series. He is Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham. Gary Taylor (PhD Cambridge) is Professor in the English Department at the University of Alabama. He has published widely on Shakespeare, editing and the relationship of race and ethnicity to the history of literatures in English. John Jowett is Associate General Editor of the Oxford Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, Co-Editor of the Oxford Complete Works of William Shakespeare and co-author of Shakespeare Reshaped 1606-23 (Clarendon Press). He has recently completed an edition of Richard III. His research interests include bibliography, editing and textual criticism, Renaissance theatre culture and print culture and Shakespeare's contemporary dramatists, especially Middleton. William Montgomery - biography unavailable

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