| Reviews |
| - '...highly recommended' - Dieter Mehl, Archiv
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| Description | | - The first full edition of Timon of Athens
to identify the play as a collaboration between Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton.
- Supplies the previously missing context of Middleton and his works in generous detail.
- The Introduction provides the fullest account of the play's performance history available. It explores issues of gender, gift-theory, and ecology in relation to the play.
- The up-to-date commentary is more detailed and thorough than any previously published.
- Appendices include source materials and a chronology of all major stage productions.
| The Oxford Shakespeare
General Editor: Stanley Wells
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers
- A new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings
- On-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, language, and allusions
- Detailed introduction
provides a full account of the play's performance history and explores issues of gender, gift-theory, and ecology
- Appendices include source materials and a chronology of major productions worldwide
- Illustrated with production photographs and related art
- Full index to introduction 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.'
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Readership: Readers and students of Shakespeare, English literature, drama, Elizabethan studies
| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
William Shakespeare and
Thomas Middleton
Edited by John Jowett, Reader in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
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limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations,
and month of publication, was as accurate as
possible at the time the catalogue was compiled.
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