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Love´s Labour´s Lost: The Oxford Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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Description for Love´s Labour´s Lost: The Oxford Shakespeare
Paperback. Editor(s): Hibbard, G. R. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 290.
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 by critics. 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 ... Read more
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 by critics. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
284g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199536818
SKU
V9780199536818
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About William Shakespeare
The late George Hibbard was Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Reviews for Love´s Labour´s Lost: The Oxford Shakespeare
`Hibbard lucidly expounds the intricately patterned structure of his play ... and he dispatches the largely distracting question of its 'topicality' with heartening promptness.' English Studies, Volume 72, Number 6, December 1991 `This Oxford text of Love's Labour's Lost is lucidly informative, scrupulous but concise,. and in general a model of restrained and level-headed editing.' Cedric Watts, University of Sussex, ... Read more