The History of King Lear: The Oxford Shakespeare
the oxford shakespeare the history of king lear
$19.75
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2008
Summary
King Lear: A New Scholarly Edition Based on the 1608 Quarto
King Lear, widely considered Shakespeare’s most deeply moving, passionately expressed, and intellectually ambitious play, has almost always been edited from the revised version printed in the First Folio of 1623, with additions from the quarto of 1608. Now for the first time, this new volume presents the full, scholarly edition to be based firmly on the quarto, now recognized as the base text from which all others derive. A…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199535828 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199535825 |
| Author: | William Shakespeare, Stanley Wells |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2008 |
| Weight: | 350g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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`‘This is a supremely student-friendly edition that will have far-reaching implications. Teachers throughout the English-speaking world will soon begin adopting Wells’s edition for their courses.“Eric Rasmussen, Shakespeare Survey
About The Author
William Shakespeare
Stanley Wells ran the Oxford Shakespeare Department within OUP while the Complete Works was in preparation. He is a former Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon.
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