Product Overview
Extracted from the best-selling Complete Works of Shakespeare, 4/e by David Bevington, The Necessary Shakespeare offers the most comprehensive scholarly apparatus, with the most often taught-necessary-of Shakespeare's work, creating a truly concise yet complete anthology. Includes complete texts of the 20 most popular plays, plus the complete sonnets. Attention to history context through photographs, maps, a royal genealogy of English, and other important source material. Four-color inset of art and photographs enhance one's reading of the works. Reader-friendly design in a two-column format with line glosses and annotations on the same page as the primary text. Back matter includes historial maps, the genealogy, a glossary of terms, bibliography of further reading, and textual and source information.
