The Oxford Shakespeare offer authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers
Extensive explanatory notes help readers at all levels understand and appreciate the language, characters, and dramatic action.It also focuses on the play's richly poetic language and its success over the centuries as a play for the stage. Wide-ranging introduction describes the play's historical circumstances, both the period that it dramatizes (the start of the 'wars of the roses') and the period in which it was written (late Elizabethan England), and the play's political significance in its own time and our own.The last major play in the Oxford Shakespeare series, Richard II features a freshly edited version of the text based on the early quartos and first Folio of 1623, with thorough accompanying material for readers, students, and performers.Dawson and Paul Yachnin Oxford World's Classics Richard II: The Oxford Shakespeare William ShakespeareĮdited by Anthony B. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
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