William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion

by John Jowett, William Montgomery, Gary Taylor

A comprehensive accompaniment and resource for students and educators. A comprehensive reference work on Shakespearean textual problems, setting forth the editorial principles of the Oxford Edition and providing a concise history of Shakespeare editing. Includes for each play, textual notes, press-variants, discussions of emendations and plausible alternative readings, and much more. Indispensable for serious students.

Genres: Shakespeare

682 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Sammy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not something to read by the fire, but this was indispensable when it first appeared in the 1980s, and remains so. For every play there is a thorough listing of textual variants, editors' amendments, and so on. A towering piece of scholarly research that forms a key part of the backbone of Shakespearean textual analysis to this day.