For some buyers this will not be a necessity, for others like me, it may be important, but either way, enjoy your new Complete Shakespeare! I liked that the book is brand new, but only gave 4 stars because I was not aware that this is such a THICK book and weighs 6 pounds. The three interconnected print publications and the online edition have been created by an international, intergenerational team of scholars under the leadership of Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan. My role began with the initial markup of the basic 'skeleton' of the play, dividing the transcript in to acts, then in to scenes, and then in to individual speeches and stage directions.

–Gary Taylor, General Editor, "Great literature, great theatre, inspires great conversations.

The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition is part of the landmark New Oxford Shakespeare --an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's … "Shakespeare and Who?" We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. It should be made clear(er) that the Kindle version does not load on the Kindle device. In the Complete Alternative Versions volumes, the Folio edition of King Lear will take its place alongside the first quarto (1603) and Folio versions of Hamlet, the first quarto of Othello (1622), and the 1590s versions of the plays that are better known by the titles given them by the 1623 Folio: Henry VI Part Two and Henry VI Part Three. The New Oxford Shakespeare is Oxford University Press's first new complete works edition since the groundbreaking 1986-87 edition edited by Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett, and William Montgomery.

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The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, 2nd Edition, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Wordsworth Special Editions), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Leather-bound Classics), The Norton Shakespeare (Third Edition) (Vol. De Montfort University currently employs two paid interns (we call them Frontrunners), Jessica Samuel and Carys Hudson, to provide further support the project, which includes the preparation in digital form of key reference materials, such as tables of plays' authors, titles, dates, genres, lengths, casting requirements, and use of properties, and the creation in XML of raw transcriptions of early plays that will be used as the base texts in the final published volumes.

In all, 17 plays for which the Complete Works chose one early version will be represented in the Complete Alternative Versions by a different early version so that readers can see just how varied, one from another, the early versions of Shakespeare's works really are. My fourth read-through-Shakespeare is proving to be the easiest physically.

The 'alternative' versions of Shakespeare's works have never before taken their proper place in his canon by being edited within a scholarly Complete Works edition from a major academic publisher. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books.

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I'll see once school starts in August. The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works. De Montfort University paid for Keegan Cooper to be hired to assist in the final proof-reading of the Complete Works volumes, and most significantly of all it has given its Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Gabriel Egan, time away from other duties to work as a General Editor on the New Oxford Shakespeare. Superb edition. De Montfort University has been closely involved in the creation of the New Oxford Shakespeare, providing funding to match that offered by the Leverhulme Trust to enable a specialist in authorship attribution, Dr Brett Greatley-Hirsch, to work on the texts of the plays. "The New Oxford Shakespeare addresses 'the great variety of readers'–students, scholars, actors, writers, artists–in multiple formats, at multiple levels. Learn more about these useful resources on our COVID-19 page. It presents in full the evidence behind the choices made in The Complete Works about which works Shakespeare wrote, in whole or part.

Home | Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new … Our distribution centres are open and orders can be placed online. Having bought the kindle edition of this book, I discovered that it is not compatible with my Kindle Oasis, nor with my old Kindle for that matter. I am just a retiree that developed an intense fascination for the works of William Shakespeare just before I retired and am now consumed with learning as much as I can. Events | Javascript is not enabled in your browser. The project's scope, depth, and vision provide the perfect platform for the future of Shakespeare studies. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free.

That is, the 'alternative' versions complete the new picture of Shakespeare's professional career and achievement that is presented by the New Oxford Shakespeare. For instance, such work has uncovered the extent of Christopher Marlowe's hand in Shakespeare's first tetralogy: he co-authored all three of the Henry VI history plays. Please try again. The web link that is provided goes nowhere (such is the ephemeral nature of URL's). This companion volume to The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works concentrates on the issues of canon and chronology--currently the most active and controversial debates in the field of Shakespeare editing. Four volumes have been published so far: Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.

The criticism that the plays are not introduced by explanatory essays falls on my deaf ears. Dr Brown is doing this by applying his expertise on Shakespearian theatre history and texts to the creation of digital resources that enable the editors to answer questions such as "what are the relative sizes the canons of all the authors active in the 1590s?" Together, they provide the perfect resource for the future of Shakespeare studies.

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But the specific, comprehensive data needs to be made available to interested scholars, so that they can check or attempt to duplicate the results. In one attractive volume, the Modern Critical Edition gives today's students and playgoers the very best resources they need to understand and enjoy all Shakespeare's …