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What's the best edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works? Features I'm looking for: characters' names should be in full while in dialogue ("MACBETH", not "Mac" or "Macb"), the play should be in single-column, the paper should be a little thicker than bible paper, and the notes should be comprehensive and helpful rather than scarce and obvious (e.g. "3. black: dark"). Additional essays and analysis are of no importance to me.

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ANSWER ME FAGGOTS

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Buy Wordsworth or fuck off

Amazon reviews say it's utter shite.

Then go with Oxford. You realize that shakespear wrote in english, yeah? It's not like the versions differ very much.
also
>Caring about reviews in 2000 + (8 x 2)

It's actually not 2016 I fucked that up. I meant
>2000 + (9 x 2) + 1
I'm not the guy you responded to here
Sorry user.

Norton Shakespeare meets all criteria other than paper thickness, at least in the first edition I have.

We had this thread the other day, Pelican Shakespeare is the best book I own period.

I have Bevington and Norton
I prefer Bevington i think

Publish your own edition if you're gonna be that picky.

Uninformative reply. And I'm not being picky at all.

Does it have the features I mention? Sorry I was banned. Do you have a link to the thread?

This is what it looks like. Pages are slightly thinner than other books but not Bible thin. I’ve never torn them and have no problem with them. Any collected works of Shakespeare will have slightly thinner pages because it’s so big.
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Looks very good. Thanks for the pictures. Could you post the first page of Romeo and Juliet?

Amazon's full of reviews that were probably made by evil Jews attempting to persuade you into buying expensive Folio or Oxford editions. If you've got access to any good dictionary, and know the minimum basics of cultural context surrounding Elizabethan England, you really shouldn't need to buy editions that are nearly 10 times more expensive than Wordsworth just for the sake of a few footnotes.

Like so?

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Thanks a lot. The notes seem more helpful from another one I saw online. I think I'll get it.

Nice, yeah they’re very thorough. Hope you enjoy it, I certainly do.

riverside shakespeare

I own that one and the notes aren't really helpful. Sometimes they define shit that doesn't need to be defined (e.g. "Makes: Which makes") while leaving the strange words undefined (e.g. "currish", or "an" meaning "if"), or define words with equally strange words (e.g. "mutiny: strife"). They expand a little bit on a selected glossary at the end but it's not the same reading experience. This was once the go-to Complete Works but in my opinion it has been surpassed by other recent ones. The intros and additional things are good, though, there's even critiques from the period and many illustrations but overall I wish I had bought the Pelican one just for the more helpful annotations and the unabbreviated names (Riverside has abbreviated names, and the dramatic personae is ordered by perceived social importance of the times not by dramatic importance --e.g. some faggot prince before Romeo, the fucking protagonist--, so in that way it's old fashioned and closer to the First Folio or those early editions, if you want that authenticity or whatever then it's good). Still, I got it new for $55 instead of the usual $90+ so I think I'm going to keep it and buy the Pelican later (which is more reader-friendly for a ESLfag like me).

RSC is (unsurprisingly) the one closer to what Shakespeare wrote.

Thanks for the post because riverside was recommended in thread before and I was thinking about buying that edition

You're welcome. Now I think I'm considering to return it and get a better one lol the abbreviated names are annoying.

dont fall for the riverside meme, it's pure boomer nostalgia, the edition is not that good.