The Comedy of Errors: The Oxford Shakespeare the Comedy of Errors

by Charles Whitworth (Editor), Charles Whitworth (Editor), William Shakespeare (Author), William Shakespeare (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2002

  $239.57

  This edition of The Comedy of Errors bases itself directly on the 1623 Folio text and provides helpful explanatory notes. The introduction argues that it was written for and performed at the Gray's Inn Christmas revels on 28 December 1594 and was among the first plays composed by Shakespeare.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.39

  The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare 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 - 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.' Times Literary Supplement