![]() And as a passionate theatre-goer, queuing to see Laurence Olivier as Richard III at the New Theatre, or Edith Evans in James Bridie's Daphne Laureola at Wyndham's, or at Covent Garden to see Sylvia Fisher as the Countess and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf as Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, I might well have been poring over a special favourite, A. Before the paperback explosion these neat, well-bound little books in their cloth bindings offered the only texts available to impecunious students of many standard works - Paradise Lost, Bacon's Essays, Pope's translation of the Iliad - and of then-rare novels by Trollope (The Claverings and The Belton Estate are still on my shelves), and Henry James. In my youth, as an undergraduate in London, I used to search the shelves of Foyle's and other bookshops for out-of-print and second-hand volumes of World's Classics. Professor Stanley Wells, General Editor of The Oxford Shakespeare and co-editor of The Oxford Shakspeare: The Complete Works, reveals how the innovations in these volumes have changed the face of Shakespeare studies, and looks ahead to the final volumes in the Oxford Shakespeare series. ![]() Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public HealthĬommendatory Poems and Prefaces (1599-1640)ģ:The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI)Ĥ:The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth (3 Henry VI)Ħ:The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicusġ4:The Tragedy of King Richard the Secondġ5:The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Julietġ8:The Comical History of The Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew of Veniceġ9:The History of Henry the Fourth (1 Henry IV)Ģ1:The Second Part of Henry the Fourth (2 Henry IV)Ģ6:The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkģ3:The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Veniceģ5:The History of King Lear: The Quarto Textģ9:Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Reconstructed TextĤ2:The Tragedy of King Lear: The Folio Text.The European Society of Cardiology Series. ![]() Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]()
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