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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
Presents the text of Shakespeare's tragedy in which Othello, a Moorish general, is led by a jealous and evil ensign to believe his wife, Desdemona, has been unfaithful, and includes explanatory notes, background, critical essays, and other reference material.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"One of Shakespeare's famed comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream depicts the adventures and chaos that ensue following the announcement of Hippolyta's marriage to Theseus, Duke of Athens. Amidst a background of bacchanalia, blurred identities, and troubled romances, the interconnected plots of four young Athenian lovers and six amateur actors become further complicated when they are manipulated by mischievous fairies in the surrounding forest. Readers...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
Presents William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and includes excerpts from its sources, eighteen works of criticism by writers ranging from John Dryden to Barbara Fuchs, and seventeen works based on the play by such authors as Percy Shelley and Ted Hughes.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The Norton Critical Edition is again based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The volume includes a revised introduction and new annotations and textual notes.
Eight carefully chosen essays represent four hundred years of critical and theatrical interpretation. Contributors include Simon Forman, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, Harry Levin, Stephen Orgel, Peter Holland, and, presenting the...
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Series
Language
English
Description
These popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Each note, each gloss, each commentary reflects the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of the text in performance. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be empowered...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Often classed as a "problem comedy", this play presents an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery. Frequently oversimplified in the past, recent productions have revealed how it penetrates both social and personal issues. This edition explores its clashing ideologies.
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