The Comedy of Errors (Oxford Shakespeare Series)

The Comedy of Errors (Oxford Shakespeare Series)

ISBN-10:
0199536147
ISBN-13:
9780199536146
Pub. Date:
07/15/2008
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-10:
0199536147
ISBN-13:
9780199536146
Pub. Date:
07/15/2008
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
The Comedy of Errors (Oxford Shakespeare Series)

The Comedy of Errors (Oxford Shakespeare Series)

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Overview


A Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare's shortest play yet one of his most popular comedies. Here is a new modern-spelling edition, based on the 1623 Folio text with on-page commentary and notes that explain meaning, staging, language and allusions. A detailed and informative introduction describes the play's first performance at Gray's Inn in December 1594, its multiple sources and its uneven critical and theatrical history. Appendices include the complete text of the play's main source, Plautus' Menaechmi, and extracts from Gesta Grayorum and the Geneva Bible. Illustrated with production photographs and related art, this edition vividly brings to life Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. "Not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship."--Times Literary Supplement

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199536146
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 07/15/2008
Series: Oxford Shakespeare Series
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 193,582
Product dimensions: 4.90(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 15 - 18 Years

About the Author

About The Author
No writer will ever equal William Shakespeare's influence on the English language. Born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, "The Bard" was an actor and playwright who had staged his own shows in London by 1592. Though little is known about his early life, he forsooth proved himself a virtuoso for the ages. Expanding the boundaries of the English language, Shakespeare penned dozens of plays -- from enduring tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Othello, to bawdy comedies like A Midsummer Night's Dream -- plus more than 150 sonnets during his towering career. He shuffled off this mortal coil in 1616, but more than half a millennium later, his works are still read and produced around the world, including at a modern thatched-roof reconstruction of his troupe's Globe Theatre in London.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction
Editorial Procedures
The Comedy of Errors
Appendices
Index

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