Overview

This edition in The Oxford Shakespeare is the first full edition to identify the play as a collaboration between Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton. In his Introduction John Jowett explains how the play's loose ends and uneven writing arise from this collaboration. This is a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings containing an on-page commentary and notes explaining meaning, staging, language, and allusions ; a detailed introduction providing a full account of the play's performance history and exploring issues of gender, gift-theory, and ecology ; appendices include source materials and a chronology of major productions worldwide ;  illustrated with production photographs and related art.