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Tragedies Volume 1: Contains Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear
A vibrant Shakespeare that brings readers closer than ever before possible to Shakespeare's plays as they were first acted. The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition invites readers to rediscover Shakespearethe working man of the theater, not the universal bard-and to rediscover his plays as scripts to be performed, not works to be immortalized. Combining the fr...more
Hardcover, 540 pages
Published
October 29th 1992
by Everyman
(first published January 1st 1929)
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See my notes under Comedies for my thoughts on the series.
Another great one from college
Read it for my tragedies course senior year; this was the first time I studied Shakespeare in college and the first time I understood why Bill was a big deal. It's a great collection in general, but, c'mon, it's Shakespeare. What'd you expect? (Classic lit; 1020+ pages)
Greenblatt's Norton Shakespeare anthologies are my favorites! Even though you have to get a few books (Unless you get the giant one-volume), his paperback anthologies are very portable and contain great information. Highly recommended.
Obviously I didn't read every tragedy Shakespeare wrote, but I have a good enough feel for this collection. The intros and interesting, the glosses are great, and it's not the huge Riverside hulking mass.
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William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been tr...more
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“Thou - why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thow hast hazel eyes. What eye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel? Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarreling. Thou hast quarreled with a man for coughing in the street because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun. Didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing his new doublet before Easter? With another, for tying his new shoes with old ribbon? And yet thou wilt tutor me from quarreling?”
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