The Norton Shakespeare |
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Author:
| Shakespeare, William Greenblatt, Stephen |
Editor:
| Cohen, Walter Howard, Jean Maus, Katharine Eisaman |
ISBN: | 978-0-393-97086-9 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2000 |
Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $88.95 |
Book Description:
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Upon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a newstandard for teaching editions of Shakespeare\'s complete works.Instructors and students worldwide welcomed the fresh scholarship,lively and accessible introductions, helpful marginal glosses andnotes, readable single-column format, all designed in support ofthe goal of the Oxford text: to bring the modern reader closer thanbefore possible to Shakespeare\'s plays as they were first acted.Now, under Stephen Greenblatt\'s...
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Upon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a newstandard for teaching editions of Shakespeare\'s complete works.Instructors and students worldwide welcomed the fresh scholarship,lively and accessible introductions, helpful marginal glosses andnotes, readable single-column format, all designed in support ofthe goal of the Oxford text: to bring the modern reader closer thanbefore possible to Shakespeare\'s plays as they were first acted.Now, under Stephen Greenblatt\'s direction, the editors haveconsidered afresh each introduction and all of the apparatus tomake the Second Edition an even better teaching tool.
Helpful New Features
6 maps, three new, showing places important to Shakespeare\'splays, and three archival, accompanied by Jean E. Howard\'s newintroduction, "Early Modern Map Culture."
Selected Bibliographies for each play are newly annotated andextensively updated.
Reorganized General Bibliography significantly updated with over350 new entries and 7 new sections.
Annotated Film Lists (over 50 films are included) follow the playintroductions.
Texts/Contexts Timeline
Redesigned Genealogies and new Tudor/Stuart genealogy
List of illustrations