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Frank Kermode, 21 April 1988
William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion
by Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett and William Montgomery.
Oxford, 671 pp., £60, February 1988,0 19 812914 9 Show More
by Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett and William Montgomery.
Oxford, 671 pp., £60, February 1988,
Disowning Knowledge in Six Plays of Shakespeare
by Stanley Cavell.
Cambridge, 226 pp., £25, January 1988,0 521 33032 7 Show More
by Stanley Cavell.
Cambridge, 226 pp., £25, January 1988,
A History of English Literature
by Alastair Fowler.
Blackwell, 395 pp., £17.50, November 1987,0 631 12731 3 Show More
by Alastair Fowler.
Blackwell, 395 pp., £17.50, November 1987,
“... editors need to justify a reading; so anybody who craves the sort of help to be had from, say, the Arden Shakespeare, or the single-play editions of the Oxford, or even from some rival collected editions, will need an even larger desk. And we learn from the Preface, with mixed feelings, that the editors have compiled ‘a glossarial commentary (at present ... ”