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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Second Edition
William Shakespeare
Edited by Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett, and William Montgomery
1,424 pages
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frontispiece
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234x156mm
978-0-19-926718-7
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Paperback
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21 April 2005
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- The Oxford Complete Works is a classic: edited by the world's finest Shakespeare scholars, including Stanley Wells, it presents the plays as they were acted by Shakespeare's company.
- The second edition includes Edward III and the full text of Sir Thomas More, thus completing the Canon.
New to this edition - Addition of Edward III and full text of Sir Thomas More
- Essay on Shakespeare's language by David Crystal
- Index of characters with a reference to their first appearance
- Bibliography of foundational works
- Amendment of the contents list to give the approximate date of each play in brackets
The second Oxford edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon and chronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuation are modernized, and there is a brief introduction to each work, as well as an illuminating and informative General Introduction. Included here for the first time is the play The Reign of King Edward the Third as well as the full text of Sir Thomas More. This new edition also features an essay on Shakespeare's language by
David Crystal, and a bibliography of foundational works.Readership: General readers, students (postgraduate, undergraduate, and A level), and scholars of English literature and drama.
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William Shakespeare Edited by Stanley Wells, Stanley Wells is former Director of the Shakespeare Institue, University of Birmingham, Gary Taylor, Gary Taylor is Director of the Hudson Strode Programme in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama, John Jowett, Dr John Jowett is reader of Shakespeare Studies in the English department of the University of Birmingham, and William Montgomery, William Montgomery works for the Guardian Newspaper
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"remains the most distinctive, and in many ways the best, one-volume Shakespeare currently available and will not be easily replaced." - Forum for Modern Languages
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Introduction
Contemporary Allusions to Shakespeare
Commendatory Poems and Prefaces (1599-1640)
1: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
2: The Taming of the Shrew
3: The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI)
4: The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth (3 Henry VI)
5: The First Part of Henry the Sixth
6: The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
7: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
8: Venus and Adonis
9: The Rape of Lucrece
10: The Reign of King Edward the Third
11: The Comedy of Errors
12: Love's Labour's Lost
13: Love's Labour's Won: A Brief Account
14: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
15: The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
16: A Midsummer Night's Dream
17: The Life and Death of King John
18: The Comical History of The Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew of Venice
19: The History of Henry the Fourth (1 Henry IV)
20: The Merry Wives of Windsor
21: The Second Part of Henry the Fourth (2 Henry IV)
22: Much Ado About Nothing
23: The Life of Henry the Fifth
24: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
25: As You Like It
26: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
27: Twelfth Night, or What You Will
28: Troilus and Cressida
29: Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint'
30: Various Poems
31: Sir Thomas More
32: Measure for Measure
33: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
34: The Life of Timon of Athens
35: The History of King Lear: The Quarto Text
36: The Tragedy of Macbeth
37: The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
38: All's Well That Ends Well
39: Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Reconstructed Text
40: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
41: The Winter's Tale
42: The Tragedy of King Lear: The Folio Text
43: Cymbeline, King of Britain
44: The Tempest
45: Cardenio: A Brief Account
46: All Is True (Henry VIII)
47: The Two Noble Kinsmen
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