The History Of King Lear: The Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare

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Price : $18.99 NZD
ISBN : 9780199535828
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Imprint : Oxford University Press
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Publication date : 01 July 2008
Dimensions : 196mm X 129mm X 17mm
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Author : William Shakespeare
Series : Oxford World's Classics
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Edition : 808
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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

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