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The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear (Oxford World's Classics)
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Product Description
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, based on the Quarto text of 1608 - on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions and much else - detailed introduction considers composition, sources, performances and changing critical attitudes to the play - illustrated with production photographs and related art - includes 'The Ballad of King Lear' and related offshoots - full index to introduction and commentary - durable sewn binding for lasting use 'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.' Times Literary Supplement
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #97427 in Books
- Published on: 2008-04-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
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About the Author
Stanley Wells ran the Oxford Shakespeare Department within OUP while the Complete Works was in preparation. He is a former Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Customer Reviews
Easily the best paperback Lear available
This is the best single-volume edition available of the most moving play ever written. Wells' introduction is wise, tactful, accessible and illuminating; the notes are helpful and unintrusive; and the text is well-presented and sensibly taken from the first, Quarto edition of the play. Certainly the edition to use if you're thinking about staging the play, as the Globe have already realized. A stunning feat of imaginative, empathetic scholarship.
