Definitive Editions of Shakespeare’s Works from the World’s Leading Center for Shakespeare Studies
Home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, the Folger Shakespeare Library is a world-class center for scholarship, learning, culture, and the arts. Along with Simon & Schuster, it also publishes the Folger Editions, the leading Shakespeare texts used in secondary schools in the United States. Each edition features:
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Features of the Folger Shakespeare Library
Explanatory notes on facing pages, along with scene-by-scene plot summaries and a key to famous lines and phrases.
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Full list of characters with explanations of relationships within the play.
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Fully annotated text with descriptions of each term’s definition within the context of the play.
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Unique Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holding of rare books.
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Rich, modern introduction with helpful tips for reading Shakespeare’s language, and an essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play.
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