
The Merchant of Venice
The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare
William Shakespeare(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 20. July 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
236 pages
978-1-108-00593-7 (ISBN)
Description
John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and as a set, and each contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary printed at the back. The edition, which began with The Tempest and ended with The Sonnets, put into practice the techniques and theories that had evolved under the 'New Bibliography'. Remarkably by today's standards, although it took the best part of half a century to produce, the New Shakespeare involved only a small band of editors besides Dover Wilson himself. As the volumes took shape, many of Dover Wilson's textual methods acquired general acceptance and became an established part of later editorial practice, for example in the Arden and New Cambridge Shakespeares.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
339 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-00593-7 (9781108005937)
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William Shakespeare | Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch | John Dover Wilson
The Merchant of Venice
The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare
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03/1968
Cambridge University Press
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Persons
William Shakespeare (1564 to 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely considered the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.
Content
Introduction; To the reader; Title-page of the Quarto of 1600; The Merchant of Venice; The copy for the text of 1600; Notes; A note on the texts of 1619 and 1623; The stage-history; Glossary.