The Boynton/Cook editions of four of Shakespeare's most popular
plays have been reissued with attractive new cover designs and
printed on more opaque, easy-to-read paper. This series is
specifically designed for high school classes.
Students will be able to see each play as a whole. In their
introduction to each of the plays, editors Mack and Boynton suggest
ways of approaching the text that allow the reader a broad range of
imaginative involvement. Their observations are intended to help
students read and experience the play, not to discourage them with
critical jargon or peripheral historical information.
Students will be reading the best text both in terms of visual
excellence and quality of scholarship. They'll immediately
appreciate the large page format and highly readable typography.
Each volume is consistent with the most authoritative early edition
of each play. The glosses are full and clear but don't belabor the
obvious or clutter the text.
Background information includes the editors' detailed analysis of
the Elizabethan theatre and its relation to Shakespeare's
dramaturgy, C. W. Hodges's drawing re-creating the original Globe
Playhouse, a brief account of Shakespeare's life and a
chronological listing of his works, and a bibliography, lists of
videotapes (VHS), records, and tapes of the complete plays.
Students will experience added critical and imaginative dimensions.
An essay following each play suggests ways of approaching it as a
live dramatic experience in the theatre of the mind. The concern is
not how the play might be produced in a theatre, but rather how
parts of it may be realized in the imagination through close
attention to what the language is saying and suggesting.
Students can get a deeper understanding of each scene through
helpful, detailed questions included at the back of each volume.
These questions encourage group discussion or written response.
Also included are topics for longer papers.
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