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, collated and edited from all existing printings
* 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
* 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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William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, and was baptised on 26 April 1564. His father was a glove maker and wool merchant and his mother, Mary Arden, was the daughter of a well-to-do local land owner. Shakespeare was probably educated in Stratford's grammar school. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway, and the couple had a daughter t
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