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The Oxford Shakespeare: Henry VI Part Three

by (author) William Shakespeare

edited by Randall Martin

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2008
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780199537112
    Publish Date
    Sep 2008
    List Price
    $12.50

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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, based on the 1623 First Folio - detailed introduction considers composition, sources, historical events, performances and changing critical attitudes to the play - on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, identify historical figures and events, and much else - appendices include extracts from the chronicle sources and new research on the use of boy actors in Elizabethan performance - 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.' Times Literary Supplement

About the authors

William Shakespeare's profile page

Randall Martin is a professor in the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick.

Randall Martin's profile page