The 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, collated and edited from all existing printings

* on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions, and much else

* detailed introduction considers composition, sources, performances, and changing critical attitudes to the play

* 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.