The Oxford Shakespeare The Complete Works (Compact Edition)
Author(s): William Shakespeare
This volume reconsiders every detail of the text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon and chronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuation are modernized.
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"The most ambitious edition of the works ever attempted."--Times Higher Education Supplement
Alphabetical List of Contents; List of Illustrations; General Introduction; Contemporary Allusions to Shakespeare; Commendatory Poems and Prefaces; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Taming of the Shrew; The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI); The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth (3 Henry VI); The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus; The First Part of Henry the Sixth; The Tragedy of King Richard the Third; Venus and Adonis; The Rape of Lucrece; The Comedy of Errors; Love's Labour's Lost; Love's Labour's Won: A Brief Account; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet; The Tragedy of King Richard the Second; The Life and Death of King John; The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew of Venice; The History of Henry the Fourth (1 Henry IV); The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Second Part of Henry the Fourth; Much Ado About Nothing; The Life of Henry the Fifth; The Tragedy of Julius Caesar; As You Like It; The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; Twelfth Night, or What You Will; Troilus and Cressida; Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint'; Various Poems; Sir Thomas More: Passages Attributed to Shakespeare; Measure for Measure; The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice; All's Well That Ends Well; The Life of Timon of Athens; The History of King Lear: The Quarto Text; The Tragedy of King Lear: The Folio Text; The Tragedy of Macbeth; The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra; Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Reconstructed Text; The Tragedy of Coriolanus; The Winter's Tale; Cymbeline, King of Britain; The Tempest; Cardenio: A Brief Account; All Is True (Henry VIII); The Two Noble Kinsmen; Select Glossary; Index of First Lines of the Sonnets
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- : oup
- : oup
- : 1.968
- : 10 September 1998
- : 234mm X 175mm X 57mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
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- : William Shakespeare
- : Hardback
- : 2 Revised ed of compact ed
- : 822.33
- : 325
- : frontispiece, 19 halftones