Description
The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells 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
– Extensive introduction gives full attention to the play’s bold treatment of racial themes, gender, and social relations
– Detailed performance history designed to meet the needs of theatre professionals
– On-page commentary and notes explain language, word-play, and staging
– Appendices on music in the play and a full translation of the Italian novella from which the story derives
– 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.’