Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary.
Table of Contents
Introduction; The princess Elizabeth, daughter of King James I; The Tempest: introduction; A note on punctuation; The Tempest; The copy used for The Tempest; Facsimile from Sir Thomas More; Notes; The stage-history of The Tempest; Glossary.