The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Tight binding, no loose pages. Usual shelf-wear. Faded spine.
Few names in literary history carry the weight and wonder of William Shakespeare, and this definitive Cambridge edition gathers the entirety of his immortal output into a single, authoritative volume. Edited and established by the renowned Shakespearean scholar John Dover Wilson, the collection presents all 37 plays — from the soaring tragedies of Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear to the effervescent comedies of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night — alongside the complete sonnets and narrative poems, grounded in the most rigorous textual scholarship of the 20th century. Wilson's Cambridge Text represents a landmark achievement in editorial history, drawing on decades of meticulous philological research to produce a text that is both scrupulously accurate and eminently readable. Shakespeare's language — by turns tender, savage, ecstatic, and profound — resonates across every page, chronicling the full spectrum of human experience with an insight that has never been surpassed. For the scholar, the student, or the passionate reader, this handsome edition is not merely a book but an indispensable cultural inheritance, as relevant today as it was four centuries ago.
Author: William Shakespeare
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Octopus
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Tight binding, no loose pages. Usual shelf-wear. Faded spine.
Few names in literary history carry the weight and wonder of William Shakespeare, and this definitive Cambridge edition gathers the entirety of his immortal output into a single, authoritative volume. Edited and established by the renowned Shakespearean scholar John Dover Wilson, the collection presents all 37 plays — from the soaring tragedies of Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear to the effervescent comedies of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night — alongside the complete sonnets and narrative poems, grounded in the most rigorous textual scholarship of the 20th century. Wilson's Cambridge Text represents a landmark achievement in editorial history, drawing on decades of meticulous philological research to produce a text that is both scrupulously accurate and eminently readable. Shakespeare's language — by turns tender, savage, ecstatic, and profound — resonates across every page, chronicling the full spectrum of human experience with an insight that has never been surpassed. For the scholar, the student, or the passionate reader, this handsome edition is not merely a book but an indispensable cultural inheritance, as relevant today as it was four centuries ago.