The new Oxford Shakespeare : the complete works / William Shakespeare ; general editors, Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, Gabriel Egan ; associate editors, Francis X. Connor, Rory Loughnane, Anna Pruitt ; assistant editors, Sarah Neville, Will Sharpe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.

Contributor:

Taylor, Gary, 1953- editor.

Jowett, John, editor.

Bourus, Terri, editor.

Egan, Gabriel, editor.

J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

Standardized Title:

Works. 2017

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600.

English drama.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (xcvii, 3769 pages) : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cm

Edition:

Critical reference edition.

First edition.

Other Title:

William Shakespeare : the complete works : critical reference edition

New Oxford Shakespeare critical reference edition

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Collects the same versions of the same works found in the Modern Critical Edition, keyed to the same line-numbering. But the Critical Reference Edition emphasizes book history and the documentary origins of each text. It preserves the spelling, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviations, typographical contrasts, ambiguities, and inconsistencies of the early documents. Introductions focus on early modern manuscript and print culture, setting each text within the material circumstances of its production, transmission, and early reception.The works are arranged in the chronological order of the surviving texts: the first volume covers documents manufactured in Shakespeare's lifetime, and the second covers documents made between 1622 and 1728. The illustrated general introduction presents an overview of the texts available to editors and describes how they define Shakespeare. An essay on error surveys kinds of error characteristic of these early text technologies. It is followed by a general introduction to the music of Shakespeare's plays. Introductions to individual works and an extensive foot-of-the-page textual apparatus record and discuss editorial corrections of scribal and printing errors in the early documents; marginal notes record press variants and key variants in different documents. Original music notation is provided for the songs (where available). Because the plays were written and copied within the framework of theatrical requirements, casting charts identify the length and type of each role, discuss potential doubling possibilities, and note essential props.The New Oxford Shakespeare consists of four interconnected publications: the Modern Critical Edition (with modern spelling), the Critical Reference Edition (with original spelling), a companion volume on Authorship, and an online version integrating all of this material on OUP's scholarly editions platform.-- Publisher.

Contents:

v. 1. Alphabetical list of contents ; Works cited ; Shakespeare, early modern textual cultures, and this edition : an introduction / John Jowett ; Table 1: editions of Shakespeare's works to 1640 / John Jowett ; Shakespeare and the kingdom of error / John Jowett ; Editing early music texts / John Cunningham ; Editorial principles : music / John Cunningham ; Staging requirements : casting charts, doubling lists, and stage properties / Andrew J. Power ; Editorial procedures ; The complete works

v. 2. Works cited ; Comedies, histories, & tragedies (and tragicomedies and poems) : posthumous Shakespeare, 1623-1728 / Gary Taylor ; William Shakespeare's comedies, histories, & tragedies : preliminaries ; The complete works (contd.).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780199591879

0199591873

9780198759553

019875955X

9780198759560

0198759568

OCLC:

985827156

Publisher Number:

99974471996