Henry VI Part One
Author(s): William Shakespeare; Norman Sanders (Editor)
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The Oxford ShakespeareGeneral Editor Stanley WellsThe Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers.- a new, modern-spelling text, based on the 1623 First Folio- detailed introduction considers composition, sources, historical events, performances and changing critical attitudes to the play- on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, identify historical figures and events, and much else- appendices include extracts from the chronicle sources and new research on the use of boy actors in Elizabethan performance- illustrated with production photographs and related art- full index to introduction and commentary- durable sewn binding for lasting use'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.' Times Literary Supplement
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- : Penguin Books
- : Penguin Books
- : 0.167829
- : December 1981
- : .61 Inches X 4.5 Inches X 7 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : William Shakespeare; Norman Sanders (Editor)
- : Paperback
- : English
- : very good
- : 256