Hailed by The Washington Post as "a definitive synthesis of the best editions" and by The Times of London as "a monument to Shakespearean scholarship," The Oxford Shakespeare is the ultimate anthology of the Bard's work: the most authoritative edition of the plays and poems ever published.
"The most interesting edition of Shakespeare since the First Folio." - John Carey, Sunday Times
The new Oxford edition of Shakespeare's complete works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship.
The nature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon and chronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuation are modernized, and there is a brief introduction to each work, as well as an illuminating and informative General Introduction.
"there can be little doubt that this edition is closer to the original texts than any previous one ... a monument to Shakespearian scholarship.' - Peter Ackroyd, The Times
The editors of this new edition have done a superb job.' - John Bayley, Guardian
"After eight years' work by the world's finest Shakespeare scholars, here are the plays as they were acted by Shakespeare's company." - John Carey, Sunday Times
"The editors of the new Oxford text must be commended for aiming at a radical and authentic text. In every respect they have turned to, and edited from, the original sources ... its claim to break new ground is justified. It most certainly will leave no reader, academic or ocherwise, indifferent.' - Times Higher Educational Supplement
