The Norton Shakespeare - Softcover

Stephen Greenblatt; Walter Cohen; Jean E. Howard; Katharine Eisam Maus; Gordon Mcmullan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393263126 ISBN 13: 9780393263121

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015

Synopsis

The Norton Shakespeare, Third Edition is both a handsome print volume and a free enhanced digital edition. This makes it possible for students to have a rewarding reading experience on screen and on the page.

Three opening essays - two new - bring Shakespeare's world and works to life.

• Stephen Greenblatt's General Introduction draws students into Early Modern England, including Shakespeare's family background and professional life, and shows how Shakespeare's experiences, imagination and immense rhetorical gifts are everywhere evident in his writing
• The new General Introduction by Gordon McMullan and Suzanne Gossett explores the central question; How authentic is the text I am reading? It looks at how the theatrical play-scripts moved through the burgeoning book trade to become printed texts
• The Theatre of Shakespeare's Time paints a colourful picture of the city and of the playwrights, players, investors, government censors, spectators and playhouses that comprised the flourishing theatre business

The Digital Edition's features include:

• Glosses and footnotes available with a simple tap or click of a word
• All the texts and introductions in the print book, plus additional versions of many texts
• Side by side scrolling view option for the Folio and Quarto texts of King Lear and other comparative scenes, allowing students to easily compare the variations in the texts
• Performance Comments signalled by a clickable marginal icon, which highlight how a director or an actor's interpretative choices in performance affect meaning
• Textual Comments, also signalled by a clickable marginal icon, that focus on textual-editing decision points that can affect meaning
• Links to the Norton Facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare and to quarto facsimile pages
• Click on the text to hear over 8 hours of spoken word recordings that bring the plays to life and enhance understanding of complex passages
• Recordings of all songs in the plays, from the award-winning Shakespeare's Songbook audio companion
• An appendix of documents, maps, genealogies, bibliographies and a timeline
• Customizable highlighting, annotating and comment sharing tools that facilitate active reading

Students can access the Digital Edition online for a year or download it to their computer or tablet for permanent access. No matter how you access the Digital Edition, your notes and highlights will be visible and searchable.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, he is the author of eleven books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize); Shakespeare's Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World; Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture; and Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. He has edited seven collections of criticism, including Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto, and is a founding coeditor of the journal Representations. His honors include the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize, for both Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England and The Swerve, the Sapegno Prize, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Walter Cohen (Ph.D. Berkeley) is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Cornell University, where he received the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award. He is the author of Drama of a Nation: Public Theater in Renaissance England and Spain, as well as numerous journal articles on Renaissance literature, literary criticism, the history of the novel, and world literature. He has recently completed a critical study entitled A History of European Literature: The West and the World from Antiquity to the Present. Jean E. Howard (Ph.D., Yale) is the George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. A past president of the Shakespeare Association of America, she is the author of numerous books on Renaissance drama, including Shakespeare's Art of Orchestration: Stage Technique and Audience Response (1984), The Stage and Social Struggle (1994), Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories, with Phyllis Rackin (1997), Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598-1642 (2007), and Marx and Shakespeare with Crystal Bartolovich (2012). She is at work on a book about the English history play from Shakespeare to Caryl Churchill and another on the invention of Renaissance tragedy. Katharine Eisaman Maus (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins) is James Branch Cabell Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Being and Having in Shakespeare; Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance; and Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind; editor of a volume of Renaissance tragedies; and coeditor of English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, and a collection of criticism on seventeenth-century English poetry. She has been awarded Guggenheim, Leverhulme, NEH, and ACLS fellowships, and the Roland Bainton Prize for Inwardness and Theater. Gordon McMullan (D.Phil. Oxford) is Professor of English at King's College London and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing: Authorship in the Proximity of Death and The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher, and editor of the Arden Shakespeare edition of Henry VIII and the Norton Critical Edition of 1 Henry IV. He is a General Editor of Arden Early Modern Drama. He has edited or co-edited several collections of essays, including Late Style a

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0393263126
• ISBN 13: 9780393263121
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 3536