Comedies. Volume 1 / William Shakespeare ; with an introduction by Tony Tanner ; general editor, Sylvan Barnet.
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TextSeries: Everyman's library ; 205 | Everyman's library ; 205.Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.Description: clxxix, 606 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0679443630
- 9780679443636
- Comedies. Vol. one
- Plays. Selections
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Main Library | NonFiction | 822.33 S527 O | Available | 33111003187529 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Shakespeare forged his tremendous art in the crucible of his comic imagination, which throughout his life enveloped and contained his tragic one. His early comedies--with their baroque poetic exuberance, intense theatricality, explosive bursts of humor, and superbly concrete realizations of the dialects of love--capture as in a chrysalis all that he was to become. They provide a complete inventory of the mind of our greatest writer in the middle of his golden youth.
This volume contains The Comedy of Errors , The Taming of the Shrew , The Two Gentlemen of Verona , Love's Labor's Lost , A Midsummer Night's Dream , and it's companion piece, Romeo and Juliet , which Tony Tanner describes in his introduction as "a tragedy by less than one minute." The texts, authoritatively edited by Sylvan Barnet, are supplemented with textual notes, bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeare's oeuvre.
First included in Everyman's library, 1906.
Includes bibliographical references (clvii-clxiii).
Introduction -- Select bibliography -- Chronology -- The comedy of errors -- The taming of the shrew -- The two gentlemen of Verona -- Love's labor's lost -- Romeo and Juliet -- A midsummer night's dream.