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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- : Oxford University Press
- : Oxford University Press
- : 01 July 2008
- : 196mm X 129mm X 17mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : William Shakespeare
- : Paperback
- : 808
- : 822.33
- : halftones