Loues labour's loft / William Shakespeare ; a facsimile from the First Folio ; with an introduction by Anthony James West.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Contributor:

West, Anthony James.

Globe Education.

British Library.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Globe folios

Standardized Title:

Love's labour's lost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Courts and courtiers--Drama.

Courts and courtiers.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

10 pages, 30 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 33 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Shakespeare's Globe : British Library, [2007]

Summary:

Love's Labour's Lost, now recognized as one of the most delightful and stageworthy of Shakespeare's comedies, came into its own both on the stage and in critical esteem only during the 1930s and 1940s--after nearly three hundred years of neglect by the theater and misuse by critics. In this new critical edition, Hibbard pays particular attention to this process of rehabilitation. Based on the quarto of 1598, and drawing on recent scholarly analysis, he proposes that the quarto goes back, probably by way of a "lost" quarto, to an authorial manuscript that represents the play in a state prior to "fair copy." He offers numerous original readings of difficult and disputed passages, and a helpful commentary to the play's scintillating language.

Notes:

"This actual-size facsimile reproduction ... is taken from an original copy of the First Folio in the British Library." - introduction.

ISBN:

9780712309561

071230956X

OCLC:

159586766