The Oxford Shakespeare: King Lear

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, based on the Quarto text of 1608 - 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 - includes`The Ballad of King Lear`and related offshoots - full index to introduction and commentary - durable sewn binding for lasting use`not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.`