About this title: After more than a generation and despite its many imitators, The Riverside Shakespeare remains the Shakespeare of choice for scholars and general readers alike. Recently revised to reflect the last quarter century of literary scholarship, it is now available in a deluxe edition - two volumes, bound in full cloth, in a handsome, four-color slipcase ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T)
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780395044025ISBN:0395044022
Description: Fair. Size: 18.22; 1973. Houghton Mifflin (T). Hardcover. Cover shows some wear. No store stamps, owner names, or other writings. Small black dot on page edges, and a water mark on the page edges. No dust jacket-printed cover. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780395044025ISBN:0395044022
Description: Good. No Jacket. 4to-Between 9¾"-12" Tall. 1927 page book is in good condition with edgewear, scuffing on cover, discoloration on page sides, yellowing on edges of illustration pages, underlinings, highlighting and notes throughout parts of the book, previous owners' name and stamp inside the front cover. No DJ. This book is a completely re-edited text, generally modern in spelling and punctuation, yet reflecting the rhythms and modulations of the Elizabethan voice, of many of William ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780395044025ISBN:0395044022
Description: Good. No Jacket. 4to-Between 9¾"-12" Tall. 1927 page book is in good condition with edgewear, scuffing on cover, bump on back cover near spine at top, discoloration on cover and page sides, previous owner's name inside the front cover, creased pages in front of book, and underlinings and notes throughout the book. No DJ. This book is a completely re-edited text, generally modern in spelling and punctuation, yet reflecting the rhythms and modulations of the Elizabethan voice, of many of William ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780395044025ISBN:0395044022
Description: Good ++ Oversized pictorial hardcover without dust jacket, 1923 pages including some black-and-white illustrations throughout, plus sections of additional illustrations, some in full colour; cover edge and corner wear, light soiling to edges, faded old waterstaing along top and bottom edge with slight penetration to many page margins (gentle wrinkling of page corners, no effect on text), highlighting and/or ink markings on approximately 32 pages (all in Richard II), interior otherwise clean ... read more
Description: Good. SIX VOLUME SET. Only good, with more than average condition problems for their age (1883). Books have been read but remain straight, clean, and tight. No internal markings. Six Volume set. Comedies, Tragedies, Histories and Poems. Blue cloth, 8-vo size; teg. Some chipping to heads of spines; Volume one of the Tragedies has a small mended tear in the spine. There is noticeable shelfwear, yet still a nice good condition set. 1883. read more
Description: VG Very good condition, 1923 pg, pictorial hardcover with bright gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Pub: 1974, Houghton Mifflin, Boston. Illustrated. This is a very large, heavy book. Binding is tight. Book is clean but has inked notes in margins. Shows student use. Owner's name and dorm on front inside cover. ISBN: 0395044022. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780395044025ISBN:0395044022
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting and margin notes throughout. Some scuffing to cover, mostly to edges. xvi, 1902 p. illus. 27 cm. Includes Illustrations. Bibliography: p. 1894-1900. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1996-12-31
Description: Very Good. Hardcover 2nd edition. Cover has minor wear. Inside clean. Binding good. No highlighting, underlining, writing or odors. NOT ex-library. NO INtl shippping book is too big. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780395044025ISBN:0395044022
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Large text with many illustrations. No marks of any kind--appears unused. Cover has a few uns on edgew--otherwise great shape. xvi, 1902 p. illus. 27 cm. Includes Illustrations. Bibliography: p. 1894-1900. read more
Edition: 1st Edition 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston Geneva Illinois Palo Alto Princeton New Jer
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780395044025ISBN:0395044022
Description: Very Good ++ 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" 1927 pages, contains comedies, histories, tragedies, romances, poems. Appendix A-Shakespeare's Plays in Performance, from 1660 to 1799, appendix B-records, documents and allusions. Includes life records and contemporary references, contemporary notices on plays and poems, early critical comment on the palys and poems, appendix C-annals, selected bibliography, index to characters in the plays, index to first lines of The Passionate Pilgrim, index to first lines of ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T)
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780395044025ISBN:0395044022
Description: Very Good. 0395044022. Very nice copy. Some shelf wear to cover; minor underlining/notes to less than 30 pages of text. Fit for study and reference.; 3 x 10.1 x 8.6 Inches; 1923 pages. read more
All's Well That Ends Well Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Twelfth Night The Winter's Tale
Henry IV, part 1 Henry IV, part 2 Henry V Richard III
Romeo and Juliet Julius Caesar Macbeth Hamlet King Lear Othello Antony and Cleopatra
"Since junior year of college this has been my indispensable tool for reading and understanding Shakespeare. All the plays, all the poetry, plus helpful archaism-deciphering footnotes.
If there is one part of this volume I haven't valued, it's the articles preceding each play. I can't say they are useless; they just haven't been of any use to me. There may be other complete works of Shakespeare available, but this one has assured I always have a scholarly edition at hand to read and study. Don't rely on cut and past online editions to read these plays. Invest in volumes like this to ensure you get the most out of reading Shakespeare."
Richard II 3 1/2 stars My first Shakespeare play. I liked it, but it was hard to read.
1 Henry IV 5 Stars One of my favorite Shakespeare plays. Right mix of poetry and prose, and I love the men in it!
Tragedies:
Antony and Cleopatra 4 stars. Another of my favorites. The relationships that the reader establishes with characters in this play are intense. I also liked that the "biggest affair in all of literature" was not overly pornographic.
King Lear 3 1/2 stars It was interesting, intriguing, etc. But gross and disturbing in too many parts.
Romeo and Juliet 4 stars. Everyone knows this is a great play. I must say that Romeo sickens me, though. Whenever I read his lover lines, I get a distinct curl in my lip.
Comedies:
Midsummer's Night Dream 3 1/2 stars. Cute, fun, light. I felt like I had wasted my time after reading it, though. Perhaps my feelings of disgust was because I had to read it in 4 hours before class.
Measure for Measure 3 stars. Dark, disturbing, and troublesome. I felt very dark after reading this play. The Tempest 5 stars. Fun, intriguing, good morals, magical. I would love to see this one performed. Prospero is my hero!
Poems:
Venus and Adonis 4 stars for writing, 1 star for my preference. Umm...pornographic... Yeah, to paraphrase Kate from NCIS, I am going to hell just for reading this poem.
Some of the Sonnets 4 stars for writing, 3 stars my preference. Although I love many romance novels, I do not care for desperation."
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