The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition
Upon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a new standard for teaching editions of Shakespeare's complete works.Instructors and students worldwide welcomed the fresh scholarship, lively and accessible introductions, helpful marginal glosses and notes, readable single-column format,...
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Upon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a new standard for teaching editions of Shakespeare's complete works.Instructors and students worldwide welcomed the fresh scholarship, lively and accessible introductions, helpful marginal glosses and notes, readable single-column format, all designed in support of the goal of the Oxford text: to bring the modern reader closer than before possible to Shakespeare's plays as they were first acted. Now, under Stephen Greenblatt's direction, the editors have considered afresh each introduction and all of the apparatus to make the Second Edition an even better teaching tool.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780393929911 (0393929914)
Publish date: January 19th 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 440
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Reference,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Anthologies,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Poetry,
Textbooks
Basically Wells' & Taylor's Oxford copy text, with paratext written by scholars famous for their work within the ambit of the New Historicism.Given that Taylor was influenced by culturual materialism of the BCCCS, this edition isn't too much of a departure from the Oxford. Still, the New Historicis...
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