- Paperback: 1324 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press; 2 Revised ed of compact ed edition (April 30 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0198711913
- ISBN-13: 978-0198711919
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 17.2 x 5.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,302,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Best compact edition of complete Shakespeare. Dr. Brian Dillon, Lecturer in English, University of Kent
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The new Oxford edition of Shakespeare's complete works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon and chronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuation are modernized, and there is a brief introduction to each work, as well as an illuminating and informative General Introduction. OUP and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre this year embark on an official partnership to celebrate the plays both in print and performance -- this reissued and rejacketed edition of the complete works underscores the commitment.
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3.4 out of 5 stars (7 customer reviews)
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Usual annoying typos, unusually high price for them, Jun 14 2010
By James M. Rawley - Published on Amazon.com
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At the price of nearly $30, the Kindle Oxford Complete Shakespeare is a bad bargain.Another reviewer says that many of the lines end with line-numbers, and that these numbers are not in the right hand margin, but right after the last word in the lines, which is confusing and annoying. Then the reviewer takes it back and says he was mistaken. He wasn't. He got it right, except that there are line numbers only now and then, here and there, which means you can't even count on finding the line numbers when you need them, but continue to have all the annoyance of having to disregard them at line ends when they DO show up.
It is true also that there are no reverse accent marks (the sign \ over an "-ed" ending) to indicate when "-ed" endings are pronounced to rhyme with "head." Those marks ARE in the Oxford printed text; in the Kindle version, you can't tell the difference between, say, "inform'd" and "informed," since both are printed the second way and the mark Oxford uses to distinguish them is in the book, but not in the Kindle version.
There are also passages where verse is set as prose.
Overall, this edition is better than the complete editions you can get here for a dollar or so, but paying two thousand eight hundred percent more for a couple fewer errors probably won't appeal to many readers.
Some day the major companies will develop enough respect for the Kindle that they'll do serious proofreading of their Kindle versions. In the meantime, I figure the price alone will result in an effective boycott of this edition from Kindle customers. It certainly should.
P. S. I just downloaded the Tom Corbett Space Cadet series for something like three bucks, and I read the first volume. It was pristine: completely typo free. Somebody worked hard proofreading these boys' stories from the fifties; nobody has done half as much work on the Oxford Shakespeare.
37 of 37 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointed with Kindle edition, May 11 2010
By Jason Voegele - Published on Amazon.com
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This ebook contains everything known to have been written by the great bard, and as such is worth having on your Kindle so you'll always have the great works of Shakespeare by your side.That said, however, I am rather disappointed with the formatting of the Kindle edition. It completely lacks diacritical marks (accented characters) and proper justification of text, which makes it difficult if not impossible to glean the proper metrical structure of the lines. For example, if a single line of verse is split across two speakers, then the typical convention is to have the second line pushed out to the right so that its left edge aligns with the previous line's right edge. The editors of this text chose to follow this convention, and even illustrate it in the introduction, but in the actual plays the formatting is lost and it turns out that even in the introduction it was "faked" with an image. Furthermore, line numbers are provided every 5th line, but they are simply tacked on to the end of each 5th line of text instead of being properly right or left justified, and it is extremely distracting to read these line numbers as part of the normal flow of text each fifth line, especially since the lines are formatted in the "ragged right" style.
If you want to have all of Shakespeare's works on your Kindle, this is the best you'll find right now. But due to the above formatting issues I cannot recommend it wholeheartedly.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Very good, but...unfortunate typo, April 30 2011
By Alexander Wells - Published on Amazon.com
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I had to return this after a year when I noticed that one of Hamlet's lines was missing! An obvious typo. His name is printed in all caps, but the line is left out. It's in Act I, Scene 5. The scene with the GHOST. HAMLET says "Speak, I am bound to hear." Except in this version Hamlet doesn't say it.I'm guessing the error must have happened in the conversion from print to digital. It's a very nice edition otherwise and I hope to re-acquire it someday after the error has been fixed. I like that it has Thomas Moore, which Shakespeare is believed to have partly written. The rep at Amazon couldn't have been nicer and said he'd pass on the error to the folks at Oxford.
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