- Paperback: 325 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press; 2 Revised ed of compact ed edition (10 Sep 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198711913
- ISBN-13: 978-0198711919
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 17.2 x 5.7 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 568,994 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The new Oxford edition of Shakespeare's complete works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon and chronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuation are modernized, and there is a brief introduction to each work, as well as an illuminating and informative General Introduction. OUP and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre this year embark on an official partnership to celebrate the plays both in print and performance - this reissued and rejacketed edition of the complete works underscores the commitment.
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Alphabetical List of Contents List of Illustrations General Introduction Contemporary Allusions to Shakespeare Commendatory Poems and Prefaces Chapter 1 - The Two Gentlemen of Verona Chapter 2 - The Taming of the Shrew Chapter 3 - The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI) Chapter 4 - The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth (3 Henry VI) Chapter 5 - The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus Chapter 6 - The First Part of Henry the Sixth Chapter 7 - The Tragedy of King Richard the Third Chapter 8 - Venus and Adonis Chapter 9 - The Rape of Lucrece Chapter 10 - The Comedy of Errors Chapter 11 - Love's Labour's Lost Chapter 12 - Love's Labour's Won: A Brief Account Chapter 13 - A Midsummer Night's Dream Chapter 14 - The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Chapter 15 - The Tragedy of King Richard the Second Chapter 16 - The Life and Death of King John Chapter 17 - The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew of Venice Chapter 18 - The History of Henry the Fourth (1 Henry IV) Chapter 19 - The Merry Wives of Windsor Chapter 20 - The Second Part of Henry the Fourth Chapter 21 - Much Ado About Nothing Chapter 22 - The Life of Henry the Fifth Chapter 23 - The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Chapter 24 - As You Like It Chapter 25 - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Chapter 26 - Twelfth Night, or What You Will Chapter 27 - Troilus and Cressida Chapter 28 - Sonnets and `A Lover's Complaint' Chapter 29 - Various Poems Chapter 30 - Sir Thomas More: Passages Attributed to Shakespeare Chapter 31 - Measure for Measure Chapter 32 - The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice Chapter 33 - All's Well That Ends Well Chapter 34 - The Life of Timon of Athens Chapter 35 - The History of King Lear: The Quarto Text Chapter 36 - The Tragedy of King Lear: The Folio Text Chapter 37 - The Tragedy of Macbeth Chapter 38 - The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra Chapter 39 - Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Reconstructed Text Chapter 40 - The Tragedy of Coriolanus Chapter 41 - The Winter's Tale Chapter 42 - Cymbeline, King of Britain Chapter 43 - The Tempest Chapter 44 - CardenioR: A Brief Account Chapter 45 - All Is True (Henry VIII) Chapter 46 - The Two Noble Kinsmen Select Glossary Index of First Lines of the Sonnets
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71 of 71 people found the following review helpful
Usual annoying typos, unusually high price for them
15 Jun 2010
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
At the price of nearly $30, the Kindle Oxford Complete Shakespeare is a bad bargain.
Another reviewer says that many of the lines end with line-numbers, and that these numbers are not in the right hand margin, but right after the last word in the lines, which is confusing and annoying. Then the reviewer takes it back and says he was mistaken. He wasn't. He got it right, except that there are line numbers only now and then, here and there, which means you can't even count on finding the line numbers when you need them, but continue to have all the annoyance of having to disregard them at line ends when they DO show up.
It is true also that there are no reverse accent marks (the sign \ over an "-ed" ending) to indicate when "-ed" endings are pronounced to rhyme with "head." Those marks ARE in the Oxford printed text; in the Kindle version, you can't tell the difference between, say, "inform'd" and "informed," since both are printed the second way and the mark Oxford uses to distinguish them is in the book, but not in the Kindle version.
There are also passages where verse is set as prose.
Overall, this edition is better than the complete editions you can get here for a dollar or so, but paying two thousand eight hundred percent more for a couple fewer errors probably won't appeal to many readers.
Some day the major companies will develop enough respect for the Kindle that they'll do serious proofreading of their Kindle versions. In the meantime, I figure the price alone will result in an effective boycott of this edition from Kindle customers. It certainly should.
P. S. I just downloaded the Tom Corbett Space Cadet series for something like three bucks, and I read the first volume. It was pristine: completely typo free. Somebody worked hard proofreading these boys' stories from the fifties; nobody has done half as much work on the Oxford Shakespeare.
Another reviewer says that many of the lines end with line-numbers, and that these numbers are not in the right hand margin, but right after the last word in the lines, which is confusing and annoying. Then the reviewer takes it back and says he was mistaken. He wasn't. He got it right, except that there are line numbers only now and then, here and there, which means you can't even count on finding the line numbers when you need them, but continue to have all the annoyance of having to disregard them at line ends when they DO show up.
It is true also that there are no reverse accent marks (the sign \ over an "-ed" ending) to indicate when "-ed" endings are pronounced to rhyme with "head." Those marks ARE in the Oxford printed text; in the Kindle version, you can't tell the difference between, say, "inform'd" and "informed," since both are printed the second way and the mark Oxford uses to distinguish them is in the book, but not in the Kindle version.
There are also passages where verse is set as prose.
Overall, this edition is better than the complete editions you can get here for a dollar or so, but paying two thousand eight hundred percent more for a couple fewer errors probably won't appeal to many readers.
Some day the major companies will develop enough respect for the Kindle that they'll do serious proofreading of their Kindle versions. In the meantime, I figure the price alone will result in an effective boycott of this edition from Kindle customers. It certainly should.
P. S. I just downloaded the Tom Corbett Space Cadet series for something like three bucks, and I read the first volume. It was pristine: completely typo free. Somebody worked hard proofreading these boys' stories from the fifties; nobody has done half as much work on the Oxford Shakespeare.
37 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Disappointed with Kindle edition
11 May 2010
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This ebook contains everything known to have been written by the great bard, and as such is worth having on your Kindle so you'll always have the great works of Shakespeare by your side.
That said, however, I am rather disappointed with the formatting of the Kindle edition. It completely lacks diacritical marks (accented characters) and proper justification of text, which makes it difficult if not impossible to glean the proper metrical structure of the lines. For example, if a single line of verse is split across two speakers, then the typical convention is to have the second line pushed out to the right so that its left edge aligns with the previous line's right edge. The editors of this text chose to follow this convention, and even illustrate it in the introduction, but in the actual plays the formatting is lost and it turns out that even in the introduction it was "faked" with an image. Furthermore, line numbers are provided every 5th line, but they are simply tacked on to the end of each 5th line of text instead of being properly right or left justified, and it is extremely distracting to read these line numbers as part of the normal flow of text each fifth line, especially since the lines are formatted in the "ragged right" style.
If you want to have all of Shakespeare's works on your Kindle, this is the best you'll find right now. But due to the above formatting issues I cannot recommend it wholeheartedly.
That said, however, I am rather disappointed with the formatting of the Kindle edition. It completely lacks diacritical marks (accented characters) and proper justification of text, which makes it difficult if not impossible to glean the proper metrical structure of the lines. For example, if a single line of verse is split across two speakers, then the typical convention is to have the second line pushed out to the right so that its left edge aligns with the previous line's right edge. The editors of this text chose to follow this convention, and even illustrate it in the introduction, but in the actual plays the formatting is lost and it turns out that even in the introduction it was "faked" with an image. Furthermore, line numbers are provided every 5th line, but they are simply tacked on to the end of each 5th line of text instead of being properly right or left justified, and it is extremely distracting to read these line numbers as part of the normal flow of text each fifth line, especially since the lines are formatted in the "ragged right" style.
If you want to have all of Shakespeare's works on your Kindle, this is the best you'll find right now. But due to the above formatting issues I cannot recommend it wholeheartedly.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Very good, but...unfortunate typo
30 April 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I had to return this after a year when I noticed that one of Hamlet's lines was missing! An obvious typo. His name is printed in all caps, but the line is left out. It's in Act I, Scene 5. The scene with the GHOST. HAMLET says "Speak, I am bound to hear." Except in this version Hamlet doesn't say it.
I'm guessing the error must have happened in the conversion from print to digital. It's a very nice edition otherwise and I hope to re-acquire it someday after the error has been fixed. I like that it has Thomas Moore, which Shakespeare is believed to have partly written. The rep at Amazon couldn't have been nicer and said he'd pass on the error to the folks at Oxford.
I'm guessing the error must have happened in the conversion from print to digital. It's a very nice edition otherwise and I hope to re-acquire it someday after the error has been fixed. I like that it has Thomas Moore, which Shakespeare is believed to have partly written. The rep at Amazon couldn't have been nicer and said he'd pass on the error to the folks at Oxford.
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