The History of King Lear: The Oxford Shakespeare
Author(s): William Shakespeare
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, based on the Quarto text of 1608 - on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions and much else - detailed introduction considers composition, sources, performances and changing critical attitudes to the play - illustrated with production photographs and related art - includes 'The Ballad of King Lear' and related offshoots - 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
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'This is a supremely student-friendly edition that will have far-reaching implications. Teachers throughout the English-speaking world will soon begin adopting Wells's edition for their courses.'' Eric Rasmussen, Shakespeare Survey
Stanley Wells ran the Oxford Shakespeare Department within OUP while the Complete Works was in preparation. He is a former Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon.
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- : Oxford University Press
- : Oxford University Press
- : 350.0
- : 01 July 2008
- : h196mm x w129mm x s17mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : William Shakespeare
- : Paperback
- : 808
- : 822.33
- : 336
- : halftones
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