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 Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:35 am
I was wondering if anyone knew a good collection of Shakespeare's complete works. There are so many publishers who all do it a little differently. What do you suggest?
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:51 am
I would have to say the Riverside Shakespeare, it's widely accepted, and has various notes on the text, I believe, and evenhas some music written in it for plays like Twelfth Night. (it has so many songs in it.)
I've been wanting one for a while now, they're wicked expensive, though.
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:56 am
I own the Pelican Shakespeare first edition. It's nice to have, but really impractical for class, but that goes for all collections. It's just too large.
In the Pelican, the sonnets have any explanation, and it's not No-Fear when in regards to the line 'translations'. It does have pictures of the first few pages of the folio, which I thought was interesting. The info about the plays are well-written, and a lot of collections only have the plays, and nothing about them.
All in all, it's a good collection for my purposes, especially because I only paid five dollars for it used off of amazon.com.
If you have the cash, though, get the multi-book edition. I wasn't going to spend 200 dollars for it, mostly because I didn't have the money (and still don't). One of my friends has it, and it's the best you can buy. I'm still trying to talk her into giving it to me since she doesn't even like Shakespeare...
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 6:40 pm
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:08 pm
Arden is also good. I hope it is at least because one of the general editors for the Pelican ones gave me it.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:43 pm
I have to say that I swear by The Riverside Shakespeare. I've been using my mother's old college copy. It has nice notes and a good glossery.
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:04 pm
Have at least one of the following: comedy, history, and tragedy. You'll have a good collection then. I got Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream today. I printed out a computer version of Romeo and Juliet to read. I had to photocopy The Merchant of Venice for English (my teacher allowed us to photocopy). Next ooks I'm getting are Julius Ceasar and Antony and Cleopatra from the bookstore. I'm starting my own Shakespeare collection of books.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:40 pm
I have to agree with The Riverside. I have it from a Shakespeare course and wouldn't even consider selling it back (even though I have a whole other full collection of his works sweatdrop )
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:17 am
The one I have now is The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare. It has great notes and is easy to carry around with me on trips. I even got it cheap since it was a used copy. biggrin But the person who own it previously only marked two passages that they liked, so it was a awesome deal.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:19 pm
I have 4/6 of the volumes in the Bantam Shakespeare. It's FANTABULOUS! notes of every kind, complete chapter on King Lear from Geoffry of Monmouth's history, parts of "The Spanish Tragedy" and everything else you can think of.
Footnotes in the plays aren't that great, but I'm not really complaining.
The only problem is that it's so VOLUMINOUS! 6 Volumes??? That's a bit overkill. Good thing, though, is that it's readable, with fairly large print.
Folger Shakespeare (not the complete collection, but individual plays) is HORRENDOUS! It's a waste of paper! Who wants to read half the pages and glance at the rest? Talk about killing the trees....
I'm a personal fan of signet, purely on the basis that it's got really cool cover art.
I've also got a book called "The Shakespeare Miscellany" which is a cool book if you're a die-hard, hardcore Shakespeare fanatic. Mostly quotes, but it has a lot of statistics about the plays.
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:49 pm
The Riverside Shakespeare is pretty good. I would recommend getting the Arden copies of individual plays, however. The Arden books do a great job of laying out the different variations of the text (ie folio vs. quarto editions) and what difference they make to the play.
If you seriously plan to study the plays, Arden is a great way to go.
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:00 pm
The Riverside does seem to be the best. The Norton editions of Tragedies, Histories, Comodies, and Romances are great too and much more portable.
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:34 pm
 I have both the Pelican and Norton, and in my opinion the Norton one is probably the best...though sometimes it depends exactly what you want out of it...
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:16 pm
Riverside is very, very good, but I think that Signet did a magnificent job, as well, and I tend to like their footnotes better. You really can't go wrong with either of them.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:12 pm
The Midnight Rose The one I have now is The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare. It has great notes and is easy to carry around with me on trips. I even got it cheap since it was a used copy. biggrin But the person who own it previously only marked two passages that they liked, so it was a awesome deal. I had no idea Signet had a complete collection! That is definitely the best choice--I have almost all the plays singularly in Signet editions. I also have the pretty one from Barnes & Noble, which is nice. I used the Riverside for class and didn't really care for it. It does have a lot of notes, but it doesn't tell you what it has notes for. I found the things I neeeded notes for weren't there and what I understood was. My professor also gave me a pretty nice one--it's a big red copy, but I don't remember exactly which one it is. I stay away from Yale Shakespeare at all costs, but that's just me.
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