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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

The Norton Shakespeare 2e

Endorsements

"The Norton is the best single-volume edition of Shakespeare's plays."
—Garrett Sullivan, Pennsylvania State University

"I'm a great fan of The Norton Shakespeare. The introductions are chock-full of ideas for students and teachers both to work with."
—Coppélia Kahn, Brown University

"The apparatus is exactly calibrated to the needs of undergraduates… I particularly like the quick glosses in the margins and the fuller notes at the page bottom."
—Elizabeth Hanson, Queen's University

"As a one-stop Shakespeare textbook it is the best, and the particular strength of the Norton is its ability to offer undergraduate-suitable commentary while retaining the scholarship of the Oxford text."
—Andrew Stott, SUNY-Buffalo

"The formatting of the texts in the Norton is probably the most readable there is."
—William N. West , Northwestern University

"The editors have achieved what may have seemed an impossible goal: a thoroughly annotated edition of Shakespeare, including authoritative and thoughtful introductions without the cumbersome obstruction of double columns."
—Ned Lukacher, University of Illinois at Chicago

"This is a splendid book. The apparatus meets every challenge, and the commentary makes it fresh and invigorating in a variety of provocative ways."
—James Nohrnberg, University of Virginia

"The combination of the Oxford text with the very useful introductory and contextualizing essays is irresistible."
—Michael Keefer, University of Guelph