The Complete Pelican Shakespeare (William Shakespeare: Pelican Shakespeare Text) - Hardcover

Shakespeare, William; Alfred, Harbage

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0140714499 ISBN 13: 9780140714494

Publisher: Viking, 1984

Synopsis

This major new complete edition of Shakespeare's works combines accessibility with the latest scholarship. Each play and collection of poems is preceded by a substantial introduction that looks at textual and literary-historical issues. The texts themselves have been scrupulously edited and are accompanied by same-page notes and glossaries. Particular attention has been paid to the design of the book to ensure that this first new edition of the twenty-first century is both attractive and approachable.

About this title

Review:

"Here is an elegant and clear text for either study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them, and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel, who understand that these are plays for performance as wellas great texts for contemplation." --Patrick Stewart

About the Author:

Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities at Stanford and General editor of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture

A R Braunmuller is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0140714499
• ISBN 13: 9780140714494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1520
• Editor: Harbage Alfred