The Annotated Shakespeare, Volume 1Greenwich House, 1984 - 2461 pages "In this authoritative three-volume annotated edition, A. L. Rowse, the noted Elizabethan scholar, sets forth his extraordinary knowledge of William Shakespeare and his time. All Shakespeare's plays and poems are included. His comedies (Volume I), histories, sonnets and other poems (Volume II), and tragedies and romances (Volume III) are photographically reproduced from the highly praised Globe edition of 1904. Dr. Rowse has written a biography of Shakespeare, introductionsto each volume and each play, as well as supervised the annotations and the selection of the 4,200 illustrations. The introductions to the volumes describe the evolution of Shakespeare's art, his approach to comedy and tragedy, his themes and poetic impulse. The introductions to the plays place each in the perspective of the entire range of his work and his milieu. The annotations elucidate not only Shakespeare's language, but the biographical, historical, topical, literary, and symbolic aspects of the plays and poems themselves. The great merit of the annotations is that they help the reader, the actor, the producer, the student to understand and appreciate better the plays of Shakespeare, and to get new meaning and insight from them. The 4,200 illustrations make this also an incomparable visual edition of Shakespeare. They show actual scenes of the plays in photographs as well as in paintings by Delacroix, Gainsborough, Blake, and others, and pictures of historic figures such as Henry VI, Henry IV, and famous Shakespearean performers from the earliest days to the present. In addition, these volumes include set and costume designs, prints, facsimiles of title pages of first editions, and many other pertinent reproductions." -Publisher. |
Contents
SHAKESPEARES COMEDIES Introduction | 20 |
COMEDY OF ERRORS 1592 Introduction | 26 |
O GENTLEMEN OF VERONA 1592 Introduction | 68 |
E TAMING OF THE SHREW 1592 Introduction | 116 |
LOVES LABOURS LOST 1593 Introduction | 172 |
SUMMER NIGHTS DREAM 1594 Introduction | 230 |
HE MERCHANT OF VENICE 1596 Introduction | 278 |
AS YOU LIKE IT 1598 Introduction | 334 |
KING RICHARD II 1595 Introduction | 1032 |
KING JOHN 1596 Introduction | 1092 |
THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY IV 1597 Introduction | 1148 |
THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV 1598 Introduction | 1210 |
KING HENRY V 1599 Introduction | 1278 |
KING HENRY VIII 1613 Introduction | 1344 |
SHAKESPEARES POEMS Introduction | 1412 |
Venus and Adonis 1593 Introduction | 1424 |
CH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 1599 Introduction | 390 |
WIVES OF WINDSOR 15991600 Introduction | 444 |
TWELFTH NIGHT 1601 Introduction | 502 |
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA 1602 Introduction | 558 |
WELL THAT ENDS WELL 1603 Introduction | 630 |
Manufactured in the United States of America | 640 |
MEASURE FOR MEASURE 1604 Introduction | 690 |
THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY VI 1590 Introduction | 756 |
THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY VI 1590 Introduction | 816 |
THE THIRD PART OF KING HENRY VI 1591 Introduction | 884 |
KING RICHARD III 1592 Introduction | 952 |
THE SONNETS 159215945 Introduction | 1492 |
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data | 1530 |
The Phoenix and the Turtle 1601 Introduction | 1536 |
PEARES TRAGEDIES ROMANCES Introduction | 1543 |
OTHELLO 1604 Introduction | 1804 |
Title | 1942 |
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA 1607 Introduction | 2002 |
TIMON OF ATHENS 1608 Introduction | 2152 |
CYMBELINE 1609 Introduction | 2260 |
THE WINTERS TALE 161011 Introduction | 2332 |
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