Love's Labour's Lost The Oxford Shakespeare

by Shakespeare, William; Hibbard, George

• ISBN13: 9780199536818
• ISBN10: 0199536813
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Love's Labour's Lost, now recognized as one of the most delightful and stageworthy of Shakespeare's comedies, came into its own both on the stage and in critical esteem only during the 1930s and 1940s--after nearly three hundred years of neglect by the theater and misuse by critics. In thisnew critical edition, Hibbard pays particular attention to this process of rehabilitation. Based on the quarto of 1598, and drawing on recent scholarly analysis, he proposes that the quarto goes back, probably by way of a "lost" quarto, to an authorial manuscript that represents the play in a stateprior to "fair copy." He offers numerous original readings of difficult and disputed passages, and a helpful commentary to the play's scintillating language.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Introduction

The Play

The Date and `Sources'

The Text

Editorial Procedures

Abbreviations and references

Love's Labour's Lost

Two `False Starts'

Alterations to lineation

The music for `The Hit It'

The name of Armado's page

Index

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