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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
44 of 47 people found the following review helpful
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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.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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If you like Shakespeare, you'll never need to but another book. This has everything he ever wrote (and some things that he may not have...) - and when you've given yourself a headache trying to read the small type without your glasses, you can use it as a door-stop.
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Fabulous buy
I bought this for an Open University course, which culminated in a BA. My final year was devoted to studying Shakespeare and this volume was great. Read more
Published 3 months ago by rosejkemp
An excellent companion
The sheer size of this book is a little daunting at first, but it is invaluable as part of study on Shakespeare's Text & Performance OU course. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Libby
The Full Works
This is an absolute doorstep of a book. Not only does it have the complete works of Shakespeare including the sonnets but many other texts too: critical essays, sources etc. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mrs. A. Cleave
The Norton Shakespeare
This is one used at College. Picked it up while invigilating. I'm a Shakespeare fan but often get lost in the language. It's very informative - an excellent book for students. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Chrissie
collection of Shakespeares poems
great book for studying the poems and sonnets of Shakespeare in secondary school, 6th form/college and for university.
Published on 4 Mar 2010 by KJ Mansfield
Ugly cover
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... Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2009 by D. Bence
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