📖 The Oxford Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

* * A major new edition of one of Shakespeare's best loved and most frequently performed and studied plays. * * Provides clear and comprehensive annotation for the student. * * Unlike all other available editions of the play, this edition offers the Q1 text, the so-called bad quarto in full as well as the familiar Q2 text. * * illustrated with scenes from film as well as stage versions from different eras. The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers * a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings * on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions, and much else * detailed introduction considers composition, sources, performances, and changing critical attitudes to the play * illustrated with production photographs and related art * full index to introduction and commentary * durable sewn binding for lasting use not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare.