The New Oxford Shakespeare: Critical Reference Edition : William Shakespeare : The Complete Works I-II

The Complete Works

William Shakespeare
General Editors: Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan

• A two-volume Complete Works which assembles the primary resources in one place
• Presented with original spelling, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviations, typographical contrasts, ambiguities, and inconsistencies
• Footnotes identify and discuss any editorial corrections in the early documents
• Marginal notes record press variants and key variants in different documents
• Songs are presented with the original musical notation, when this is available
• Cast lists identify the length and type of each role, discuss potential doubling possibilities, and note essential props