William Shakespeare, The Complete Works
By: general editors, Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor ; editors, Stanley Wells ... [et al.] ; with introductions by Stanley Wells.
Contributors: Wells, Stanley W.,  1930-; Taylor, Gary.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Oxford [Oxfordshire]; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1432
ISBN-13: 9780198129264
Copyright date: 1986
Other titles: Works
Work titles: Works. 
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.
Notes: Series statement from jacket.
Table of contents: title: Two Gentlemen of Verona; title: Taming of the Shrew; title: King Henry VI. Part 2; title: King Henry VI. Part 3; title: Titus Andronicus; title: Henry VI. Part 1; title: King Richard III; title: Venus and Adonis; title: Rape of Lucrece; title: Comedy of Errors; title: Love's Labour's Lost; title: Love's Labour's Won; title: Midsummer Night's Dream; title: Romeo and Juliet; title: King Richard II; title: King John; title: Merchant of Venice; title: King Henry IV. Part 1; title: Merry Wives of Windsor; title: King Henry IV. Part 2; title: Much Ado About Nothing; title: King Henry V; title: Julius Caesar; title: As You Like It; title: Hamlet; title: Twelfth Night; title: Troilus and Cressida; title: Sonnets; title: Lover's Complaint; title: Poems; title: Sir Thomas More; title: Measure for Measure; title: Othello; title: All's Well That Ends Well; title: Timon of Athens; title: King Lear; title: Macbeth; title: Antony and Cleopatra; title: Pericles; title: Coriolanus; title: Winter's Tale; title: Cymbeline; title: Tempest; title: Cardenio; title: King Henry VIII; title: Two Noble Kinsmen