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Each edition includes:

• Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play

• Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play

• Scene-by-scene plot summaries

• A key to famous lines and phrases

• An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language

• An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play

• Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books

Essay by Susan Snyder

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu.



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I Henry IV (Norton Critical Editions) I Henry IV (Norton Critical Editions)
The text, with few departures, is that of the First Quarto (1598) edition of the play. Act and scene divisions are not indicated ...
Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to n ...
Frankenstein (Norton Critical Editions) Frankenstein (Norton Critical Editions)
Richard III (Norton Critical Editions) Richard III (Norton Critical Editions)
In The Tragedy of King Richard III, Shakespeare chronicles the rise and fall of one of history’s most repellent, and the ...
Play in five acts by William Shakespeare, produced in 1610-11 and published in the First Folio of 1623. One of Shakespeare s fin ...
The Winter's Tale (Signet Classics) The Winter's Tale (Signet Classics)
English versions of Sophocles’ three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two ...
Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Master Harold and the Boys (Vintage International) Master Harold and the Boys (Vintage International)
This play about a young white boy and two African servants is at once a compelling drama of South African apartheid and a univer ...
Richly African.One of Chinua Achebe's many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart, is his relentlessly un ...
Things Fall Apart: A Novel Things Fall Apart: A Novel
In Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the de ...
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition) Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
Coriolanus (Folger Shakespeare Library) Coriolanus (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Each edition includes:- Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play- Scene-by-scene plot sum ...
Beautifully written, tragic and provacative, an adventure culminizing in terror.William Golding's classic tale about a group of ...
Lord of the Flies (Perigee) Lord of the Flies (Perigee)