Summary:

If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns
the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause
Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the
Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts.
The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces
us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered
over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer
the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the
reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the
reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of
four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the
original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a
Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio
editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the
Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized
in general Shakespeare studies or performances.

Book Details:

Physical Description: 176 pages
Edition Info: Paperback; 1965-02-01

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