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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. A TREASURE: AUTHORITATIVE: BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED & PRODUCED: NEW First Edition deluxe large-format hardcover (Orig. 1986) First Printing: NEW handsomely-designed unclipped color-illustrated mylar-protected jacket w/ orig. $35.00 prepublication price & prepublication date of "until" January 1, 1987 at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW Oxford-blue library-durable linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles & Oxford-crest gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE elegantly-"WS"-script-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding w/ tightly-gathered sheets & crimson-gold-checked silk bands at spine-caps & blue-silk page-marking ribbon bound-in from top, PRISTINE interior printed in 2-column format w/ ELEGANT-clarity on SUPERB unblemished silk-finish archival paper w/ line-numbering at intervals of five * 8.74" x 11.24" x 3.0", 3.82 kg, xlviii+1432 (1480) pp * CONTENTS: List of Illustrations (xi), General Introduction (xiii), Contemporary Allusions to Shakespeare (xxxviii), Commendatory Poems & Prefaces (xli); The Complete Works (1-1414); Select Glossary (1415), Index of First Lines of the Sonnets (1431) * ABOUT THE BOOK: This BEAUTIFUL edition of Shakespeare's complete works--"The Oxford Shakespeare"--is the product of 8 years of full-time research by a team of British & American scholars & represents the most thorough examination ever undertaken of the nature & authority of the early documents. The edition abounds in unique features. It is the first volume to provide edited texts of King Lear both as Shakespeare originally wrote it & as it was revised for performance some years later. Other plays, such as Hamlet, Othello, & Troilus and Cressida, are based on what recent research identifies as Shakespeare's revised text. Major textual alternatives (first versions of revised passages, omitted lines) are printed as additional passages. All stage directions have been reconsidered in light of original staging, & many new directions for essential action have been added. Specially designed brackets identify conjectural stage direction & speech prefixes. In most respects, the text is identical to that of the "old-spelling" edition, but spelling & punctuation have been freshly modernized. There is a General Introduction along w/ brief, factual introductions to each work. Elegantly (& Readably) designed, this book will undoubtedly become a treasure for lovers of Shakespeare throughout the English-speaking world. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: STANLEY WELLS, Head of the Shakespeare Department at OUP-UK, is a Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author of many books & articles on Shakespeare. GARY TAYLOR, who holds degrees from the Universities of Kansas & Cambridge, is the author of several books & articles on Shakespeare, including "To Analyze Delight: A Hedonist Criticism of Shakespeare". * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this splendid book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the U.S. w/ shipment via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee & shipment to international destinations via Mandatory USPS PRIORITY AIRMAIL at rates available on request.