The Staunton Shakespeare

The third and final volume of Staunton's influential mid-nineteenth-century edition of Shakespeare's plays, with illustrations by John Gilbert.

William Shakespeare (Author), Howard Staunton (Edited by)

9781108000048, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

828 pages
23.4 x 4.2 x 15.6 cm, 1.14 kg

First published in 1860, this is the third and final volume of Howard Staunton's collection of Shakespeare's plays, with black-and-white illustrations by the prolific artist John Gilbert. Staunton's annotated edition, based on the folio and quarto editions collated with the texts of later editors from Rowe to Dyce, combines common sense with meticulous research, making it a definitive resource in its day. Each play is accompanied by an introduction giving details of its original production and publication and the sources of its plot, critical commentary, and footnotes explaining terms and expressions. This volume contains The Tempest, King Lear, Coriolanus, Winter's Tale, Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus and Othello. The volume concludes with the Sonnets and Poems and a glossarial index.

1. The Tempest
2. King Lear
3. Coriolanus
4. Winter's Tale
5. Troilus and Cressida
6. Hamlet
7. Julius Caesar
8. Macbeth
9. Antony and Cleopatra
10. Titus Andronicus
11. Othello
12. Poems
Glossarial Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]