The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series has sold more than four million copies. Since the series debuted more than thirty years ago, developments in scholarship have revolutionized our understanding of William Shakespeare, his time, and his works. This fully revised edition incorporates the most up-to-date research and debate, in what will be the premier choice for students, professors, and general readers for decades to come.
The general editors of the series--world-renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA-devoted seven years to preparing introductions and notes with a team eminent scholars to the forty volumes of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Now, the new series is complete and available in one lavish and complete edition.
STEPHEN ORGEL is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities at Stanford and general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. He has edited The Tempest and The Winter's Tale, Ben Jonson's masque, Marlowe's poems and translations, and many other classics.
A. R. BRAUNMUELLER is professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA where he teaches courses on English and European drama from 1500 to the present. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Champman and has edited King John and Macbeth.
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