E-Book Overview
This is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death) in one volume. A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems relate to the plays, and detailed notes explain the language and allusions. While accessibly written, the edition takes account of the most recent scholarship and criticism.
E-Book Content
’
THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE General Editor · Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers new and authoritative editions of Shakespeare’s plays in which the early printings have been scrupulously re-examined and interpreted. It includes all Shakespeare’s non-dramatic output in the present volume. In the play editions, an introductory essay provides all relevant background information together with an appraisal of critical views and of the play’s effects in performance. The detailed commentaries pay particular attention to language and staging. Reprints of sources, music for songs, genealogical tables, maps, etc. are included where necessary; many of the volumes are illustrated, and all contain an index. C B, the editor of The Complete Sonnets and Poems in the Oxford Shakespeare, is University Senior Lecturer and Fellow and Tutor of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.
Currently available in paperback
All’s Well that Ends Well Anthony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Complete Sonnets and Poems Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry V Henry IV, Part 1 Henry IV, Part 2 Henry VI, Part Three Julius Caesar King Henry VIII King John King Lear
Love’s Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Richard III Romeo and Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The