Description
The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern readers – a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings – on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, language and allusions – detailed introduction considers composition, sources, performances, and changing critical attitudes to the play – textual introduction reconsiders the complex relationship between the two original texts – illustrated with production photographs and related art – 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