This is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death) in one volume. A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems relate to the plays, and detailed notes explain the language and allusions. While accessibly written, the edition takes account of the most recent scholarship and criticism.
Instructors and students worldwide welcomed the fresh scholarship, lively and accessible introductions, helpful marginal glosses and notes, readable single-column format, all designed in support of the goal of the Oxford text: to bring the ...
Blits, Jan H., 'Manliness and Friendship in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar' Interpretation 9 (1981), 155–67. ... Bristol, Michael D., 'The Two Noble Kinsmen: Shakespeare and the Problem of Authority', in Charles H. Frey, ed., Shakespeare, ...
"Authorship Companion: Cutting-edge research in attribution studies; A new perspective on the dating of Shakespeare's plays, and on his dramatic collaborations; Combines the work of senior scholars with exciting new voices; Explores the ...
The Oxford Shakespeare edition presents a radically new text, based on that First Folio, which printed Shakespeare's own revision of an earlier version.
... shall never melt FERDINAND 13 gift ] ROWE ; guest F 17 rite ] ROWE ; right F 13 gift Rowe's emendation of F's ' guest ' . T. H. Howard - Hill notes that ' Crane's preferred spelling was “ guift ” ( Crane , p . III ) . F in l .
That Romeo is merely banished for a killing half-acknowledges that this is no right tragedy, and seems to promise ... 8 Richard Levin, The Multiple Plot in English Renaissance Drama (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1971).
This companion volume to The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works concentrates on the issues of canon and chronology—currently the most active and controversial debates in the field of Shakespeare editing.
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Arranged according to subject matter, this volume, which is based on the text of the Complete Oxford Shakespeare, also contains a play-by-play index and glossary.
This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction.