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Print Price: $143.00

Format:
Hardback
3180 pp.
171 mm x 246 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199591152

Publication date:
November 2016

Imprint: OUP UK


The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition

The Complete Works

William Shakespeare
General Editors: Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus and Gabriel Egan

Series : New Oxford Shakespeare

The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition is part of the landmark New Oxford Shakespeare--an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited afresh from all the surviving original versions of his work, and drawing on the latest literary, textual, and theatrical scholarship. This single illustrated volume is expertly edited to frame the surviving original versions of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and early musical scores around the latest literary, textual, and theatrical scholarship to date.

Readership : Shakespeare students, lecturers, scholars, and researchers; theatre-goers and lovers of Shakespeare.

General Editors' Preface
Introduction
The Complete Works

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Gary Taylor is Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University.

John Jowett is Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Deputy Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham.

Terri Bourus is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama at Indiana University, Indianapolis.

Gabriel Egan is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at De Montfort University.

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Special Features

  • Accessible and up-to-date edits of the original play texts and poems, presenting all works in modern spelling and punctuation.
  • Introductions to each work develop understanding and stimulate discovery and extensive explanatory notes help students unravel the themes and issues surrounding matters of interpretation, textual variants, literary criticism, and performance.
  • Presents plays and poetry in chronological order so that students can follow the development of Shakespeare's imagination, his engagement with a rapidly evolving culture and theater, and his relationship to his literary contemporaries.
  • On-page notes explain obscure words, historical references, and fluctuations in meaning.
  • Performance Notes underline stage directions and highlight performance history, emphasizing the fact that these are works written to be staged and performed.
  • Emphasis on the formative relationship between the poems and plays, treating both as equally important.