The Norton Shakespeare: The Essential Plays / The Sonnets

Both an enhanced Digital Edition--the first ever edited specifically for undergraduates--and a handsome print volume, The Norton Shakespeare: Essential Plays / The Sonnets offers the twenty-one most-assigned plays and all of the sonnets in a portable and value-priced paperback. The new Third Edition provides a freshly edited text and acclaimed apparatus at an unmatched value. The attractive print/digital bundle gives students a rich reading experience in two ways: a print volume for their dorm shelf and lifetime library, and a digital edition ideal for in-class use. Accessed from a computer or table at no additional charge via the registration code in the print volume, the Digital Edition provides ready access to the texts and apparatus--enriched with multiple versions of the plays and media.

Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/27/2015
Pages: 1920
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780393938630

About the Author
Greenblatt, Stephen: - Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, he is the author of eleven books, including Tyrant, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story that Created Us, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize); Shakespeare's Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World; Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture; and Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. He has edited seven collections of criticism, including Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto, and is a founding coeditor of the journal Representations. His honors include the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize, for both Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England and The Swerve, the Sapegno Prize, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Cohen, Walter: - Walter Cohen (Ph.D. Berkeley) is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Cornell University, where he received the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award. He is the author of Drama of a Nation: Public Theater in Renaissance England and Spain, as well as numerous journal articles on Renaissance literature, literary criticism, the history of the novel, and world literature. He has recently completed a critical study entitled A History of European Literature: The West and the World from Antiquity to the Present.Gossett, Suzanne: - Suzanne Gossett (Ph.D. Princeton) is professor emerita of English at Loyola University Chicago. She is a General Editor of Arden Early Modern Drama and has recently served as president of the Shakespeare Association of America. She has written extensively about early modern drama and textual criticism and has edited, most recently, Eastward Ho! in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, Philaster for Arden Early Modern Drama, A Fair Quarrel in Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works, Pericles in Arden Shakespeare 3, and the collection Thomas Middleton in Context.
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