num_pages: 1479
description: This beautiful new edition of Shakespeare's complete works--"The Oxford Shakespeare"--is the product of eight years of full-time research by a team of British and American scholars and represents the most thorough examination ever undertaken of the nature and authority of the early documents. The edition abounds in unique features. It is the first volume to provide edited texts of King Lear both as Shakespeare originally wrote it and as it was revised for performance somes years later. Other plays, such as Hamlet, Othello, and Troilus and Cressida, are based on what recent research identifies as Shakespeare's revised text. Major textual alternatives--first versions of revised passages, omitted lines--are printed as additional passages. All stage directions have been reconsidered in light of original staging, and many new directions for essential action have been added. Specially designed brackets idenify conjectural stage direction and speech prefixes. In most respects, the text is identical to that of the "old-spelling" edition, but spelling and punctuation have been freshly modernized. There is a General Introduction along with brief, factual introductions to each work. Elegantly (and Readably) designed, this book will undoubtedly become a treasure for lovers of Shakespeare throughout the English-speaking world.  About the Editors:  Stanley Wells, Head of the Shakespeare Department at OUP-UK, is a Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author of many books and articles on Shakespeare. Gary Taylor, who holds degrees from the Universities of Kansas and Cambridge, is the author of several books and articles on Shakespeare, including To Analyze Delight: A Hedonist Criticism of Shakespeare.Two Gentlemen of VeronaTaming of the ShrewKing Henry VI. Part 2King Henry VI. Part 3Titus AndronicusHenry VI. Part 1King Richard IIIVenus and AdonisRape of LucreceComedy of ErrorsLove's Labour's LostLove's Labour's WonMidsummer Night's DreamRomeo and JulietKing Richard IIKing JohnMerchant of VeniceKing Henry IV. Part 1Merry Wives of WindsorKing Henry IV. Part 2Much Ado About NothingKing Henry VJulius CaesarAs You Like ItHamletTwelfth NightTroilus and CressidaSonnetsLover's ComplaintPoemsSir Thomas MoreMeasure for MeasureOthelloAll's Well That Ends WellTimon of AthensKing LearMacbethAntony and CleopatraPericlesCoriolanusWinter's TaleCymbelineTempestCardenioKing Henry VIIITwo Noble Kinsmen
language: English
title: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
titlecomplete: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
characters: Juliet, Hamlet, Romeo, Miranda
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Plays, Fiction, Reference, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 55168
publisher: Oxford University Press