Love's Labour's Lost: The Oxford Shakespeare

Love's Labour's Lost: The Oxford Shakespeare - Paperback

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Love's Labour's Lost: The Oxford Shakespeare - Paperback

Love's Labour's Lost: The Oxford Shakespeare - Paperback

by William Shakespeare
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Book Overview

by William Shakespeare (Author), George Hibbard (Editor)

Love's Labour's Lost, now recognized as one of the most delightful and stageworthy of Shakespeare's comedies, came into its own both on the stage and in critical esteem only during the 1930s and 1940s--after nearly three hundred years of neglect by the theater and misuse by critics. In this new critical edition, Hibbard pays particular attention to this process of rehabilitation. Based on the quarto of 1598, and drawing on recent scholarly analysis, he proposes that the quarto goes back, probably by way of a "lost" quarto, to an authorial manuscript that represents the play in a state prior to "fair copy." He offers numerous original readings of difficult and disputed passages, and a helpful commentary to the play's scintillating language.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.6 x 5 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: September 01, 2008
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Love's Labour's Lost
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 8.6
Point Value: 4
ISBN9780199536818
Author William Shakespeare
PublisherOxford University Press
GenreDrama
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2008
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England's Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children--an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare's only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare's working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

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