William Shakespeare.  Classic Text: Traditions and Interpretations.


Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.  (Macbeth, act 1, sc. 1, l. 12)

Shakespeare Text

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
A New Variorium Edition of Shakespeare, As You Like It. Edited by Richard Knowles. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1977.
Call Number: PR 2753 .F5 v. 28
Golda Meir Library

The present New Variorum Shakespeare makes a new and more concise survey of the criticism covered by the edition produced by Furness, brings the critical history up to date and publishes editions of the works that Furness never reached. Because of the amount of material accumulating daily on Shakespeare, editorship of a New Variorum play is seldom assigned to a single scholar: teams of scholars undertake the editions these days. A glance at the commentary on Jaques' speech helps to illustrate the problem.

The main editorial office of the Modern Language Association's New Variorum Shakespeare project has its home in the Golda Meir Library.


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