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Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Shakespeare
  

Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Shakespeare (Paperback)

by S Greenblatt (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Paperback: 3440 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.; International student edition edition (2 May 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0393970868
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393970869
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 14.8 x 7.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 121,538 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Comprising the complete works of William Shakespeare, based on the Oxford edition, this book has been edited and annotated to provide a single-column text. Each play has an introduction aimed at encouraging a fresh approach to the work. In the general introduction, the editor draws a picture of everyday life in Elizabethan England: the culture, the people, commerce, politics and religion. He describes Shakespeare's family life and his professional career as a working man of the theatre. He also discusses the printing and publishing of the plays, and recent developments in textual scholarship. Lastly, he considers questions affecting Shakespeare criticism. An essay by Andrew Gurr (University of Reading), on the staging of Shakespeare's plays explains, for example, how the plays were performed at the "Globe" theatre. An accompanying CD-ROM, "The Norton Shakespeare Workshop" is also available. This is the "International Student" edition.

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely useful for students, 23 Nov 2000
By adeleclapp@hotmail.com (Reading, England) - See all my reviews
The Norton Shakespeare contains many useful notes throughout the book. This includes a summary before each play which gives an overview of the play with contextualisation whilst pinpointing the major issues. Each play also many editorial suggestions for help with the language of Shakespeare. At the start of the book is a very useful chronolgy of the English monarchs. There is also an introduction which gives much useful and interesting information which is helpful for anyone writing an essay on Shakespeare or gives much background information for anyone with an interest in this subject who doesn't know much about the period in which Shakespeare was writing. Overall it is a very helpful book with much extra information and a must for all students of Shakespeare.
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The Oxford Shakespeare, only with American footnotes, 7 Jun 2001
This is a really useful edition of Shakespeare, especially for American graduate students. It's actually the Oxford text, prepared by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor and a whole team of smart textual scholars in the 1980s, but with additional material -- notes, critical introductions and such -- by a clique of prominent American professors. Someone comfortable with Shakespeare's language should just buy the Oxford (which comes without footnotes, but with a glossary and a terrific general introduction), but in this guise as the Norton it is better suited to student use. Why Oxford didn't publish their own edition in a footnoted format for the undergraduate market remains profoundly baffling... But this Norton reincarnation is still the best footnoted single-volume Shakespeare on the market. One word of caution, though: not everyone will like the main introduction and the introductions to individual plays, which tend to depict Shakespeare as deeply complicit with all the things Americans are up to themselves but habitually displace onto the English -- imperialism, bigotry, sexism, etc etc. Shakespeare wasn't half as conservative as this lot make out -- but that's eminently clear from the plays, which are well-presented here in fully thought-out texts, and are more than capable of upstaging the critical apparatus for themselves.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Ugly cover, 29 Mar 2009
By D. Bence (Budapest, Hungary) - See all my reviews
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I have no problems with the interior of this book, it is everything the other reviewers have said. What I have a problem with is its ugly cover: I mean, why do they have to write in mile high red letters on all sides that it is not to be sold in America?
Could they just go ahead and not sell it in America (which they actually do through Amazon) instead of issuing a very ugly cover for the "international student"?

Anyways, as this book is hopefully gonna be an integral part of your home library -- at least with its enormity -- you might want to invest a couple of extra pounds and buy an edition with a normal cover.
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