William Shakespeare: The Complete Works,9780198711902

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

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Edition: Pamphlet
ISBN13: 9780198711902
ISBN10: 0198711905
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-09-16
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

The new Oxford edition of Shakespeare's complete works reconsiders everydetail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. Thenature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon andchronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuationare modernized, and there is a brief introduction to each work, as well as anilluminating and informative General Introduction. OUP and Shakespeare's GlobeTheatre this year embark on an official partnership to celebrate the plays bothin print and performance -- this reissued and rejacketed edition of the completeworks underscores the commitment.

Author Biography

Stanley Wells Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Vice-Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, he is also Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham Gary Taylor is Director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama John Jowett is Lecturer in English at the University of Glasgow William Montgomery is a Shakespeare scholar with a D.Phil from the University of Oxford

Table of Contents

Alphabetical List of Contents xi
List of Illustrations
xiii
General Introduction xv
Contemporary Allusions to Shakespeare xl
Commendatory Poems and Prefaces xliii
THE COMPLETE WORKS
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
1(24)
The Taming of the Shrew
25(30)
The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI)
55(36)
The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth (3 Henry VI)
91(34)
The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
125(28)
The First Part of Henry the Sixth
153(30)
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
183(40)
Venus and Adonis
223(14)
The Rape of Lucrece
237(20)
The Comedy of Errors
257(22)
Love's Labour's Lost
279(30)
Love's Labour's Won: A Brief Account
309(2)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
311(24)
The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
335(32)
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
367(30)
The Life and Death of King John
397(28)
The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew of Venice
425(28)
The History of Henry the Fourth (I Henry IV)
453(30)
The Merry Wives of Windsor
483(26)
The Second Part of Henry the Fourth
509(32)
Much Ado About Nothing
541(26)
The Life of Henry the Fifth
567(32)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
599(28)
As You Like It
627(26)
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
653(38)
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
691(24)
Troilus and Cressida
715(34)
Sonnets and `A Lover's Complaint'
749(28)
Various Poems
777(8)
Sir Thomas More: Passages Attributed to Shakespeare
785(4)
Measure for Measure
789(30)
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
819(36)
All's Well That Ends Well
855(28)
The Life of Timon of Athens
883(26)
The History of King Lear: The Quarto Text
909(34)
The Tragedy of King Lear: The Folio Text
943(32)
The Tragedy of Macbeth
975(26)
The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
1001(36)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Reconstructed Text
1037(28)
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
1065(36)
The Winter's Tale
1101(30)
Cymbeline, King of Britain
1131(36)
The Tempest
1167(24)
Cardenio: A Brief Account
1191(2)
All is True (Henry VIII)
1193(32)
The Two Noble Kinsmen
1225(32)
Select Glossary 1257(16)
Index of First Lines of the Sonnets 1273

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