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William Shakespeare Complete Works

(Modern Library)

By William Shakespeare

(220)

| Hardcover | 9780679642954

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FROM THE WORLD FAMOUS ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE, MODERNIZED, AND CORRECTED EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST FOLIO IN THREE CENTURIES.

Skillfully assembled by Shakespeare’s fellow actors in 1623, the First Folio was the original Complete Works. It is arguablyContinue

FROM THE WORLD FAMOUS ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE, MODERNIZED, AND CORRECTED EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST FOLIO IN THREE CENTURIES.

Skillfully assembled by Shakespeare’s fellow actors in 1623, the First Folio was the original Complete Works. It is arguably the most important literary work in the English language. But starting with Nicholas Rowe in 1709 and continuing to the present day, Shakespeare editors have mixed Folio and Quarto texts, gradually corrupting the original Complete Works with errors and conflated textual variations.

Now Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, have edited the First Folio as a complete book, resulting in a definitive Complete Works for the twenty-first century.
Combining innovative scholarship with brilliant commentary and textual analysis that emphasizes performance history and values, this landmark edition will be indispensable to students, theater professionals, and general readers alike.

For more information on this Modern Library edition, visit www.therscshakespeare.com

Critics

  • For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen, and a Table of greene fields

    In a glass case in the garret of a house just off Fleet Street, a historic publishing contract has just gone on display. [*] It only takes up one piece of paper, rather smaller than a sheet of A4, and compared to most such agreements today seems rema ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

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  • I was freaking out when I saw this at Barnes and Noble! I hit it at an uber sale and got it!!! such a pretty book!

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    Deidre said on Mar 22, 2011 | Add your feedback

  • What's to say?

    After I saw this at the Barns and Nobles at the Washington central train station I was like...WTF? 30$ the whole and complete works of Shakespeare? I mean EVERY SINGLE THING he's ever written is in here. Amazing cover, layout, this one has got EVERYTHING...just a MASTERPIECE

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    SamWinchester89 said on Feb 25, 2010 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

  • The best edition

    Absolutely the best edition of the S. works, edited by the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company that every year brings the plays to the stage.

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    DentroSiamoTuttiRosa said on Jan 7, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • its a "spring books" yet printed by svoboda, prague in 1966 (9th edition, 1st edition was 1959).

    its a lovely black hardcover with golden relief print.

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    Alice said on May 19, 2008 | Add your feedback

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