The Taming of the Shrew is my favorite of Shakespeare's plays, everything he wrote is magic! Now, almost two decades after the original volume, Oxford is proud to announce a thoroughly updated second edition, including for the first time the texts of The Reign of Edward III and Sir Thomas More, recognizing these two plays officially as authentic works by Shakespeare. This beautiful collection is the product of years of full-time research by a team of British and American scholars and represents the most thorough examination ever undertaken of the nature and authority of Shakespeare's work. The editors reconsidered every detail of the text in the light of modern scholarship and they thoroughly re-examined the earliest printed versions of the plays, firmly establishing the canon and chronological order of composition. All stage directions have been reconsidered in light of original staging, and many new directions for essential action have been added. This superb volume also features a brief introduction to each work as well as an illuminating General Introduction. Finally, the editors have added a wealth of secondary material, including an essay on language, a list of contemporary allusions to Shakespeare, an index of Shakespearean characters, a glossary, a consolidated bibliography, and an index of first lines of the Sonnets. Compiled by the world's leading authorities, packed with information, and attractively designed, The Oxford Shakespeare is the gold standard ofShakespearean anthologies.

In these delightful tales of turn-of-the-century country life, we follow the adventures of the hapless Major Sinclair Yeates, Resident Magistrate-newly arrived in the West of Ireland and unprepared for the challenges the new locals have in store for him.

Drawing characters based on his memories of real inhabitants of Monterey, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Henri, Mack, and his boys, in a world where only the fittest survive, in a novel that focuses on the acceptance of life as it is--a story at once humorous and poignant.Steinbeck returns to the same characters in Sweet Thursday, another book I enjoyed very much. Steinbeck had a wicked sense of humor, he could be laugh out loud funny while making his point.

 

Wonderfully moody, dark, and full of twists and turns.  The writing is sublime.