The Oxford Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors

The Oxford Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors

The Oxford Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors

The Oxford Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors

The Oxford Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors

Overview

This Oxford Shakespeare edition offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, based on the 1623 Folio text - on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, language and allusions - detailed introduction considers composition, sources, and critical and theatrical history - includes full text of Plautus' Menaechmi and extracts from Gesta Grayorum and the Geneva Bible - illustrated with production photographs and related art - full index to introduction and commentary .

Authors

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564. His father was a glove-maker and served as alderman in Stratford. After completing school, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children, Susanna, Judith, and Hamnet. By 1594, he had joined the ...
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