Love's Labour's Lost The Oxford Shakespeare

Name: Love's Labour's Lost The Oxford Shakespeare
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ISBN: 9780199536818

ISBN-10: 0199536813

ISBN-13: 9780199536818

Edition: 2008

Authors: William. Shakespeare, George Hibbard, George Richard Hibbard

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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 three hundred years of neglect by the theatre and undervaluation and misuse bycritics. The Introduction to this new edition pays particular attention to this process of rehabilitation. The text, based on the quarto of 1598 and taking full account of the extensive scholarly study that text has received over recent years, rests on the hypothesis that the quarto goes back,probably by way of `lost' quarto, to an authorial manuscript representing the play in a state prior to `fair copy'. If…

Book details

List price: $10.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 1.97" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English



List of illustrations


Introduction


The Play


The Date and `Sources'


The Text


Editorial Procedures


Abbreviations and references


Love's Labour's Lost



Two `False Starts'



Alterations to lineation



The music for `The Hit It'



The name of Armado's page


Index