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| Norton Shakespeare | 
 enlarge | Author: S Greenblatt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Category: Book
List Price: £29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 50013
Media: Paperback
Edition: International student ed
Pages: 3419
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 2.9
ISBN: 0393111350
EAN: 9780393111354
ASIN: 0393111350
Publication Date: March 28, 2008
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 The Oxford Shakespeare, only with American footnotes June 7, 2001
26 out of 28 found this review helpful
This is a really useful edition of Shakespeare, especially for American graduate students. It's actually the Oxford text, prepared by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor and a whole team of smart textual scholars in the 1980s, but with additional material -- notes, critical introductions and such -- by a clique of prominent American professors. Someone comfortable with Shakespeare's language should just buy the Oxford (which comes without footnotes, but with a glossary and a terrific general introduction), but in this guise as the Norton it is better suited to student use. Why Oxford didn't publish their own edition in a footnoted format for the undergraduate market remains profoundly baffling... But this Norton reincarnation is still the best footnoted single-volume Shakespeare on the market. One word of caution, though: not everyone will like the main introduction and the introductions to individual plays, which tend to depict Shakespeare as deeply complicit with all the things Americans are up to themselves but habitually displace onto the English -- imperialism, bigotry, sexism, etc etc. Shakespeare wasn't half as conservative as this lot make out -- but that's eminently clear from the plays, which are well-presented here in fully thought-out texts, and are more than capable of upstaging the critical apparatus for themselves.
 Extremely useful for students November 23, 2000
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
The Norton Shakespeare contains many useful notes throughout the book. This includes a summary before each play which gives an overview of the play with contextualisation whilst pinpointing the major issues. Each play also many editorial suggestions for help with the language of Shakespeare. At the start of the book is a very useful chronolgy of the English monarchs. There is also an introduction which gives much useful and interesting information which is helpful for anyone writing an essay on Shakespeare or gives much background information for anyone with an interest in this subject who doesn't know much about the period in which Shakespeare was writing. Overall it is a very helpful book with much extra information and a must for all students of Shakespeare.
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