Author(s): William Shakespeare; Colin Burrow (ed.)

Classics | Shakespeare

The Oxford Shakespeare
General Editor, Stanley Wells

The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern readers.

Featuring:

- a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings
- on-page and facing-page commentary and notes explain language and allusions
- detailed introductions consider the sonnets' biographical and literary background, how the poems relate to the plays, dating and textual matters, and the mysteries of 'Mr W. H.' and the 'Dark Lady'
- includes poems attributed to Shakespeare in the seventeenth century
- full index to introductions 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.' — Times Literary Supplement

FULLERS REVIEW — TIM

This has become my preferred edition of the Sonnets (and the other poems). Burrow, by gathering together all of the non-dramatic verse, makes the case for reconsidering Shakespeare as not just a dramatist/poet but a poet in the broadest sense.