Probably the best edition of the Complete Shakespeare
06-26-07, 11:18 AM
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Probably the best edition of the Complete Shakespeare
06-27-07, 09:48 PM
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Nice, but I can't justify owning another Complete Shakespeare (already have a leather bound display copy, a ratty old paperback for making notes in, plus Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare).
06-28-07, 08:44 AM
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Read The Case for the Folio on the linked site. It's quite illuminating and the text an annotations presented in this volume appear to be definitive. Mine's on the way.
06-30-07, 07:53 PM
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I read the Case for the Folio. The author lost me when he referred to another edition as "polluted" by text from a quatro edition. He finishes by making the case that his edition is as at least as important as Alexander Pope's or The Globe Shakespeare. I don't think so. It's just a different set of editorial choices. Despite slanging all previous editions of Shakespeare, he even admits that he sometimes substituted text from the quatros.
07-10-07, 03:04 PM
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Mine arrived a few days ago. Really heavy, first of all. Great font and lots of notes. The paper is very very thin though, that's the only downside, otherwise a great volume.
