William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion

by John Jowett, William Montgomery, Gary Taylor, Stanley Wells

Overview

A comprehensive accompaniment and resource for students and educators.

A comprehensive reference work on Shakespearean textual problems, setting forth the editorial principles of the Oxford Edition and providing a concise history of Shakespeare editing. Includes for each play, textual notes, press-variants, discussions of emendations and plausible alternative readings, and much more. Indispensable for serious students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393316674
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	06/17/1997
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	682
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 10.90(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

List Of Illustrations

General Introduction
The Canon And Chronology OfShakespeare's Plays
Summary Of Control-Texts
Attributions To Compositors Of The First Folio
Editorial Procedures
Works Cited
Commendatory Poems and Prefaces (1599-1640)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Taming of the Shrew
The First Part of the Contention (2 Henry VI)
Richard Duke of York (3 Henry VI)
Titus Andronicus
I Henry VI
Richard III
Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Richard II
King John
The Merchant of Venice
I Henry IV
The Merry Wives of Windsor
2 Henry IV
Much Ado About Nothing
Henry V
Julius Caesar
As You Like It
Hamlet
Twelfth Night
Troilus and Cressida
Sonnets and `A Lover's Complaint'
Various Poems
Sir Thomas More
Measure for Measure
Othello
All's Well That Ends Well
Timon of Athens
King Lear
The History of King Lear (Quarto)
The Tragedy of King Lear (Folio)
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Pericles
Coriolanus
The Winter's Tale
Cymbeline
The Tempest
All Is True (Henry VIII)
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Lineation Notes
Index To Notes On Modernization
A Selective Index