ISBN10: 0198711905, ISBN13: 9780198711902, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover xlix+1274pp., Pictorial full colour illustrated dustjacket with small closed tear to jacket at rear lower corner covered in removable protective clear plastic, black cloth boards with gilt text to spine and light bump to front top corner at head of spine, decorative illust. endpapers, b/w frontis, introduction by Stanley Wells, glossary, complete works, index of sonnets. 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. Size: Large Thick Octavo
[Melbourne, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 1998]