The Two Noble Kinsmen: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William; Fletcher, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199537453 ISBN 13: 9780199537457

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2008

Synopsis

Based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale, the central themes of this humourous and moving play are the claims of love and friendship. The introduction to this new edition offers an illuminating account of Shakespeare's collaboration with his younger colleague John Fletcher, and there are full and helpful notes on unfamiliar words, stage business, allusions, and the play's often complex language.

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About this title

Review:

'This is an important scholarly edition and will obviously be indispensable for advanced study of the play.' Ann Thompson, Liverpool University

'The Oxford Shakespeare is an admirably scholarly edition, immaculately presented, offering close attention to possibilities of staging as well as meaning.' Dr D. Sedge, Exeter University

'An excellent edition, with a good introduction.' Roger Prior, Queen's University, Belfast

'Professional edition with introduction which states clearly the case for collaborative composition.R. N. Alexander, Queen Mary Westfield, London

'Stanley Wells' OUP Complete Works of Shakespeare is now eight years old and has spawned a new Oxford Shakespeare which appears now in splendidly affordable volumes in that nonpareil of libraries of good reading The World's Classics.'The Oxford Times

About the Author:

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born to John Shakespeare and mother Mary Arden some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote about 38 plays (the precise number is uncertain), a collection of sonnets and a variety of other poems.

Rebecca Brown is Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. She has taught in schools and universities in England, Denmark and the USA, written articles and reviews for academic publications and contributed to film projects. She has also written performance histories and educational material on Shakespeare.

Stanley Wells is Emeritus Professor of the University of Birmingham and Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199537453
• ISBN 13: 9780199537457
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 233
• Editor: Waith Eugene M.