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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Heh. Well, here it is. I used to own the Norton First Folio Shakespeare. It was an amazing piece of work for Shakespeare reading groups. But I eventually had to sell it (poverty sucks!). So now I have this ( which many people in the SRG I belonged to had), and it is perfectly adequate for the study of the plays. The annotations and illustrations are quite entertaining. Excellent stuff!! Now to find a Shakespeare reading group! I love Rowse. I love his eccentric and opinionated annotations. When I want Shakespeare, I go to my old copy of A.L.Rowse's "The Annotated Shakespeare". I always found Rowse’s edition to be a bit easier and more flavorful than the other annotated versions out there. Once I got deep into Shakespeare, I found that there were lots of ongoing feuds in the footnotes. I couldn’t care less. The main reason I bought this edition was not because it was “eccentric, opinionated, easier and more flavorful”, but because my first “encounter” with it was through Star Trek TNG! (you didn't expect that, did you??) If you're into Shakespeare and Star Treak, read the rest of the review on my blog. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)The Annotated Shakespeare (Complete 1-3) BevatThe Annotated Shakespeare Volume II: The Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems door William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors door William Shakespeare (indirect) The two gentlemen of Verona door William Shakespeare (indirect) The Taming of the Shrew door William Shakespeare (indirect) Liefde's loze les door William Shakespeare (indirect) A Midsummer Night's Dream door William Shakespeare (indirect) De koopman van Venetië door William Shakespeare (indirect) As You Like It door William Shakespeare (indirect) Much Ado About Nothing door William Shakespeare (indirect) De vrolijke vrouwtjes van Windsor door William Shakespeare (indirect) Driekoningen door William Shakespeare (indirect) Troilus and Cressida door William Shakespeare (indirect) All's Well That Ends Well door William Shakespeare (indirect) Measure for Measure door William Shakespeare (indirect) Henry VI, Part 1 door William Shakespeare (indirect) Henry VI, Part 2 door William Shakespeare (indirect) Henry VI, Part 3 door William Shakespeare (indirect) Richard III door William Shakespeare (indirect) Richard II door William Shakespeare (indirect) The Life and Death of King John door William Shakespeare (indirect) Henry IV, Part 1 door William Shakespeare (indirect) Henry IV, Part 2 door William Shakespeare (indirect) Henry V door William Shakespeare (indirect) Henry VIII door William Shakespeare (indirect) A Lover's Complaint door William Shakespeare (indirect) Venus and Adonis door William Shakespeare (indirect) De schennis van Lucretia door William Shakespeare (indirect) De sonnetten door William Shakespeare (indirect) The Phoenix and the Turtle door William Shakespeare (indirect) Titus Andronicus door William Shakespeare (indirect) Romeo and Juliet door William Shakespeare (indirect) Julius Caesar door William Shakespeare (indirect) Hamlet Prince of Denmark door William Shakespeare (indirect) Othello door William Shakespeare (indirect) Koning Lear door William Shakespeare (indirect) Macbeth door William Shakespeare (indirect) Antony and Cleopatra door William Shakespeare (indirect) Coriolanus door William Shakespeare (indirect) Timon of Athens door William Shakespeare (indirect) Pericles, Prince of Tyre door William Shakespeare (indirect) Cymbeline door William Shakespeare (indirect) The Winter's Tale (Without the Potholes) door William Shakespeare (indirect) De storm door William Shakespeare (indirect) Over Hill, Over Dale door William Shakespeare (indirect) Sonnet 001 door William Shakespeare (indirect) Ariel's Song door William Shakespeare (indirect)
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Despite being published in 1978, A.L. Rowse's edition of Shakespeare breezily reprints a 1904 text (itself a copy of 19th century texts) which is itself an unusual decision, in light of the many worthy Shakespeare editions released in those intervening years, from the Arden to the Riverside. The introductions to each play are, as Roberts notes, "drawn almost entirely from [Rowse's] own earlier work" and are of the tossed-off variety, aiming to pontificate on a half-dozen received facts about the play without, it seems, much engagement with contemporary criticism. The margin glosses are surprisingly few and, while yes, Rowse can often be delightfully eccentric, as others note, he is also sometimes just passing the time. When pages pass with only three or four glosses, one feels that this can hardly be the Shakespeare for every household in the land. Sometimes, Rowse even uses "correct" as if he is just telling the reader what word should be there, rather than asserting his opinion in the crowded field of editors from 1709 to the present day.
The only reason this edition merited two stars was because there are many hundreds of pictures, most of them nineteenth-century, meaning at least there is some historical value to this work. Given the grotesque size of the thing, this is hardly worth the purchasing, particularly not with another forty years having passed in the interim.
To quote Roberts once more, "do we laugh or cry?" ( )