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Shakespeare, William : WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE COMPLETE WORKS

Oxford University Press, USA, 1986

ISBN 9780198129264

A crisp clean hardcover, this book is 9.4 pounds, please enquire for extra shipping costs: This beautiful new edition of Shakespeare's complete works- -"The Oxford Sha kespeare"--is the product of eight years of full-time research by a team of British and American scholars and represents the most thorough examination ever undertaken of the nature and authority of the early documents. The edition abounds in unique features. It is the first volume to provide e dited texts of King Lear both as Shakespeare originally wrote it and as it was revised for performance somes years later. Other plays, such as Hamlet, Othello, and Troilus and Cressida, are based on what recent research ident ifies as Shakespeare's revised text. Major textual alternatives--first vers ions of revised passages, omitted lines--are printed as additional passages . All stage directions have been reconsidered in light of original staging, and many new directions for essential action have been added. Specially de signed brackets idenify conjectural stage direction and speech prefixes. In most respects, the text is identical to that of the "old-spelling" edition , but spelling and punctuation have been freshly modernized. There is a Gen eral Introduction along with brief, factual introductions to each work. Elegantly (and Readably) designed, this book will undoubtedly become a treasure for lovers of Shakespeare throughout the English-speaking world., Very Good+/Very Good+

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