How do you spell Shakespeare?
Frank Kermode, 21 May 1987
William Shakespeare. The Complete Works: Original-Spelling Edition
edited by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor.
Oxford, 1456 pp., £75, February 1987,9780198129196 Show More
edited by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor.
Oxford, 1456 pp., £75, February 1987,
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
edited by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor.
Oxford, 1432 pp., £25, October 1986,0 19 812926 2 Show More
edited by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor.
Oxford, 1432 pp., £25, October 1986,
“... When Oxford decided to do Shakespeare they clearly made up their minds that the scale of the operation must be very grand, and a team of scholars has been working hard for eight years to get it done quickly, done right, and done with the greatest possible display and novelty. One has to admire not only the industry of Professor Wells and his associates, but their flair for publicity, as evidenced by the enormous solemn fuss about the poem ‘Shall I die?’, now accorded an honoured place in their canon, and also by the proclaimed scope and originality of their enterprise, which, though not essentially different from other such enterprises, is different in many eye-catching ways, and must have set the Press some unique problems ... ”