The Comedies
Subtitle: Volume 2
Contributors: Tony Tanner (Introduction)
Series: Comedies, Volume 2/2; Everyman's Signet Shakespeare Series, 7/8; Everyman's Library, 226
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 928
ISBN-13: 9781857152265
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: Shakespeare plays, texts; Plays
First sentence: SCENE I.-A Hall in the DUKE'S Palace.
Description: Volume seven of the eight-volume Everyman Signet Shakespeare completes the Comedies: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, AS YOU LIKE IT, TWELFTH NIGHT, ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL and MEASURE FOR MEASURE. The authoritatively edited text of the plays with its superb footnotes is supplemented with bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Professor Tony Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeare's work.
--front flap
Table of contents: title: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE; title: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR; title: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING; title: AS YOU LIKE IT; title: TWELFTH NIGHT; title: ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL; title: MEASURE FOR MEASURE