Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-28

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780265894736

Excerpt from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Vol. 1: The Tempest; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Merry Wives of Windsor Is twofold: it is to furnish the general reader with all that is necessary for the intelligent study, in the commonly accepted sense of the term, of each one of the plays - with glossaries, that is to say, and with what is requisite in the way of commentary and pro legomena for the elucidation of the text and for the history generally of the drama-its source or sources, the probable date of its composition, the influences affecting it, its relation to the poet's other works. Where the text of the First Folio is deficient and has to be supplemented from the Quartos, the deficiencies are supplied within brackets. This edition thus presents compactly what every serious reader of Shakespeare necessarily requires. But this is quite subordinate to its main design. What it possesses in common with those in vogue has been introduced simply to give it completeness, and in order that the reader may find in succinct epitome all the information practically required for intelligent study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.