The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers

- a new, modern-spelling text, based on the Quarto text of 1608
- on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions and much else
- detailed introduction considers composition, sources, performances and changing critical attitudes to the play
- illustrated with production photographs and related art
- includes `The Ballad of King Lear` and related offshoots
- full index to introduction and commentary
- durable sewn binding for lasting use

`not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.` Times Literary Supplement