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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Four Comedies
This book contains the four "best" comedies of Shakespeare, along with an excellent foreword by Joseph Papp. For each play, it contains a very well written introduction (one that is not only on the play, but links each of them together), Shakespeare's original source material (example: "A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morel's...
Published on March 27, 2000
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Read the plays by all means - but get a different edition!
I have seen and used much better editions with much more easily understandable and useful annotations. Look around.
Published on May 26, 2009 by Eliezer ben Avrohom
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Four Comedies,
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This review is from: Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night (Bantam Classics) (Paperback)
This book contains the four "best" comedies of Shakespeare, along with an excellent foreword by Joseph Papp. For each play, it contains a very well written introduction (one that is not only on the play, but links each of them together), Shakespeare's original source material (example: "A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morel's Skin" for "the Taming of the Shrew"), and well commented textual notes. I found this collection particularly useful for an "upper-level" look at these four plays.
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Excellent,
This review is from: Four Comedies (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
A fascinating discussion of four of Shakespeare's "joyous" comedies, each with an introductory essay, extensive footnotes, and comparison of the various source texts (Quarto, Forum).
The one oddity here: why did they include "Taming of the Shrew" instead of the more sophisticated "Much Ado About Nothing", which also focusses on the battle of the sexes?
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Read the plays by all means - but get a different edition!,
By Eliezer ben Avrohom (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Four Comedies (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
I have seen and used much better editions with much more easily understandable and useful annotations. Look around.
1 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Very classic, humorous veiw of shakespeare's funny side.,
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This review is from: Four Comedies (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
Very classic, humourous veiw of shakespeare
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Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night (Bantam Classics) by David Bevington (Paperback - January 1, 1988)
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