If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look " none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances.

Author: William Shakespeare
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Applause Books
Published: 03/01/2001
Series: Applause Books
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9781557834430

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.2
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 53857 / All's Well That Ends Well