Complete Works of Shakespeare, The, Portable Edition

by Bevington, David

• ISBN13: 9780321366269
• ISBN10: 0321366263
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The discipline's most reader-friendly Shakespeare anthology is now available in a Portable Edition: a boxed set of four portable, paperback volumes organized by genre. This convenient new format features all the content of the hardcover original, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 5e, in four paperbacks packaged in a slipcase. The four separate genre volumes can also be purchased on their own. A balanced editorial approach, a highly respected editor, and proven apparatus combine to make Bevingtonrs"s the most accessible Complete Worksavailable. A prestigious editorial board provides state-of-the-art scholarship and interpretative balance on each play. In-depth historical coverage helps students understand the cultural context behind each play, without dictating their reading of it. Extensive notes and glosses give students the support they need to understand Elizabethan language and idiomatic expressions. For those who want Shakespeare's complete works in a portable format.

Table of Contents

Preface

General Introduction

The Comedies

Life in Shakespeare's England

The Comedie?

The Comedy of Errors

The Merchant of Venic?

Much Ado About Nothin?

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will

Troilus and Cressid?

The Historie?

The First Part of King Henry the Sixth

The Life and Death of King John

The First Part of King Henry the Fourth

The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth

The Life of King Henry the Fifth

The Tragedie

Titus Andronicus

Julius Caesar

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Othello, the Moor of Venice

King Lear

Macbeth

Antony and Cleopatr

Coriolanus

Pericles

The Tempes?

The Two Noble Kinsme?

The Poem?

Venus and Adonis

The Rape of Lucrece

The Phoenix and Turtle

A Lover's Complaint

Canon, Dates, and Early Text

Source

Shakespeare in Performance

The Royal Genealogy of England

Maps

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