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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Lavishly illustrated throughout in full color & in b-w: Gloss-laminated plates (as follows): Plates 1-7 (p. 42), Plates 8-15 (p.490), Plates 16-23 (p.938), Plates 24-31 (p.1386), Plates 32-39 (p.1898); 53 additional illustrations in b-w; 2 maps (illustrator). 2nd Edition. META-CANONICAL: SUPERB: HIGHEST STANDARD OF EDITORIAL EXCELLENCE: EXTRAORDINARY: AS-NEW virtually NEW Second Edition hardcover (orig. 1997), Sixth Printing (2000): No jacket as issued, EXCELLENT handsomely-color-illustrated cleanable cover w/ titles ELEGANTLY presented on front panel & spine w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE unmarked smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers MARRED Only w/ small name-address neatly stamped at top-left front, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & crimson-black-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior printed w/ SPLENDID clarity in two-column format throughout on SUPERB unblemished silk-finish archival "Bible" paper * 8.12" x 10.26" x 2.50, "2.66 kg, xxii+2057 (2079) pp. * Lavishly illustrated throughout in full color & in b-w: Gloss-laminated plates (as follows): Plates 1-7 (p. 42), Plates 8-15 (p.490), Plates 16-23 (p.938), Plates 24-31 (p.1386), Plates 32-39 (p.1898); 53 additional illustrations in b-w; 2 maps * CONTENTS: List of Illustrations (xiii), Abbreviations (xvii), General Introduction (1), 20th Century Shakespeare Criticism (27), Shakespeare's Text (55), Glossary of Select Bibliographical Terms (70), Chronology & Sources (77), Opening Pages of First Folio (89); Comedies (111), Histories (623), Tragedies (1065), Romances (1527), Poems (1797); Appendices (1905); Selected Bibliography (2021); Indexes (2036); Selected Glossary (2049) * ABOUT THE BOOK: In the words of the First Folio of 1623, 'The Riverside Shakespeare' is addressed "To the great Variety of Readers. From the most able, to him that can but spell." In the plainer language of our day, this means that the book has been designed w/ the general reader, the student, & the scholar equally in mind. The plan of the volume was ambitious from the start. The central spire of its accomplishment is a completely re-edited text, generally modern in spelling & punctuation, yet sensitively reflecting the rhythms & modulations of the Elizabethan voice. This text, & its appurtenances, including full textual notes & a history of Shakespeare textual scholarship & editing, is the sole work of G. Blakemore Evans of Harvard University, & will, we believe, stand as a model for generations to come. In quite the manner of Dr. Johnson's preface of 1765, the volume is introduced by a classic statement of the known facts of Shakespeare's life & work, together w/ the major critical opinions & salient existing problems. This statement, by Harry Levin of Harvard University, will generously reward repeated reading as the reader's knowledge & appreciation grow; it is compact of thought & learning which will yield up their fullest savor w/ experience & time. Provided by a panel of distinguished editors, introductions & explanatory notes to the plays & poems record existing scholarship & are rich in original insights. An afterpiece by Charles H. Shattuck reviews & assesses the staging & acting of Shakespeare's plays from the restoration to the present, & ends w/ a section on Shakespeare in film. Two appendices by Professor Evans, "Annals, 1552-1616" & "Records, Documents, & Allusions," provide unusually full historical setting & references for the main events of Shakespeare's life & career, & for the main political, literary, & cultural events of Tudor & Jacobean England. And a body of contemporary illustration, provided largely through the researches of Professors Evans & Baker, sheds life on Elizabethan life & thought & is of inestimable value both to the student & the general reader for the understanding & visualization of what he reads, over a range from costume to cosmology, from the life of street & tavern to the panoply of place & state. Simply Extraordinary !!! * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE wraps & custom packages this exceptional volume w/ greatest reverence & care for FREE shipment to all U.S. locations via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a small supplementary charge of $14.00.