The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (Easton Press Collector's Edition)

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DOBSON, Michael Stanley WELLS (eds.). The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2002. Quarto. Full burgundy leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design and lettering to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 541 pp. Over 3,000 entries and more than 100 photographs and illustrations throughout. Bookplate present but unadhered. Collector's Edition. Originally published Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. William Shakespeare (1564–1616) has generated, in the four centuries since his death, an industry of scholarship, performance, adaptation, and cultural commentary that shows no sign of contraction. The bibliography of writing about Shakespeare is the largest in any language devoted to a single author. His plays have been performed continuously since he wrote them; they have been translated into every major language; they have been adapted into opera, film, and ballet; they have been argued over by critics, philosophers, psychologists, and politicians; and the question of whether the man from Stratford actually wrote them has occupied a small but indefatigable community of doubters since the nineteenth century. The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare , edited by Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells — two of the most distinguished Shakespeare scholars of their generation — is the single most comprehensive one-volume reference to this entire landscape. Dobson was at the time of publication a Pr

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