The plays here--Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth--are considered to be the four central works of Shakespearean tragedy and must be included in any list of the world's finest tragic literature. Another volume of the finest, most comprehensive Shakespeare series available.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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An excellent collection with great footnotes,
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This review is from: Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (Signet Classics) (Paperback)
Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth are Shakespeare's greatest works. These fantastic stories, coupled with strong footnotes, make for superb reading material. I would recommend this book to beginning and master Shakespeare readers.
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I ordered this book for my AP English class, and I love that it has all four of my favorite Shakespeares together. I like the typeface, the footnotes, everything. It's small enough to carry around in your purse. I recommend it for the pleasure-reader, student, or teacher. It's a great value, too.
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Obviously, these are four of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies and well repay the time and efffort to become familiar with them. The volume itself is inexpensive, nicely sized, readable, reasonably durable, with more than ample footnotes (at the bottom of the page of text) to help the reader navigate some of the more obscure or difficult passages (though I found instances in which I thought the footnotes didn't do the text justice, and a better and less distracting format, albeit resulting in a larger text and more expensive edition, is to have the notes on the page facing the text). The introductory "essay" admittedly doesn't aim too high--what can you say in just a few pages? The bibliography is nicely organized and not bad as a starting point.
All in all, if you are looking for an edition to teach, or travel with, or read as a starting point, especially if you want something inexpensive that nonetheless gives you all you really need, this is a very nice edition. A reader who is already familiar with the plays and looking for a bit more by way of history, commentary, criticism, etc., would do better to seek out the Norton or Arden editions, or go to a collection like the Riverside Shakespeare, all of which offer a great deal more supplemental material.
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Lady Macbeth, First Witch, King Lear, Lady Macduff, Enter Hamlet, Second Witch, Enter Othello, Poor Tom, Enter King, Enter Gloucester, Thane of Cawdor, Third Witch, Enter Lear, First Murderer, First Senator, Enter Oswald, Enter Polonius, Second Gentleman, Enter Cassio, Enter Kent, Enter Ophelia, Michael Cassio, Third Murderer, Earl of Gloucester, Enter Desdemona New!
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Enter Barnardo and Francisco, two sentinels. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Lady Macbeth, First Witch, King Lear, Lady Macduff, Enter Hamlet, Second Witch, Enter Othello, Poor Tom, Enter King, Enter Gloucester, Thane of Cawdor, Third Witch, Enter Lear, First Murderer, First Senator, Enter Oswald, Enter Polonius, Second Gentleman, Enter Cassio, Enter Kent, Enter Ophelia, Michael Cassio, Third Murderer, Earl of Gloucester, Enter Desdemona New!
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- Antony and Cleopatra (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Collection) by Jan Dean in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Prefaces to Shakespeare by Harley Granville-Barker in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Shakespearean Tragedy by A.C. Bradley in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Romeo And Juliet (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Saddleback Classics) by William Shakespeare in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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