By William Shakespeare, edited by George Lyman Kittredge/revised by Irving Ribner
From back cover: For half a century George Lyman Kittredge enjoyed world-wide fame as a Shakespeare scholar with a gift for imparting to Harvard University students his own abounding enthusiasm for his subject. Persuaded by his English friends and admirers to give his Shakespeare lectures at the University of London, he held large audiences spellbound. Oxford University paid recognition to the breadth and quality of his scholarship with an honorary degree, and Jesus College of Cambridge University made him an Honorary Fellow. Other institutions awarding him honorary degrees were the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Brown, McGill, and Yale.
Because the introductory text and explanatory notes of the Kittredge edition of Shakespeare’s plays represent a major landmark of American scholarship. Professor Irving Ribner has retained the bulk of them in the new revised editions. He has, however, brought them up to date in the light of textual, literary, and historical research of the past thirty years, during which time our knowledge of the dates, sources, and general historical background of Shakespeare’s plays has vastly increased and considerable advances have been made in the establishment of Shakespeare’s text.
Used 1966 Paperback – Good vintage condition – heavily annotated by previous owner, crease in cover
