Customer Reviews

Complete Shakespeare - By: Spider Monkey, 03 Nov 2007
In some respects I think it'd be rather presumptuous of me to attempt to review Shakespeare. Someone so well known & influential wouldn't benefit from my opinions on their work, plus there are more scholarly & concise reviews out there. But I can comment on these Arden versions. Of all the Shakespeare I've read I've always found the Arden copies to be well laid out & to have excellent commentary & notes on the text. Although this complete works has less notes than many dedicated Shakespeare publications by Arden. But overall they really add to your understanding of Shakespeares outstanding plays & introduce you to the depthin his work. They have superb paper quality & are bound well, withstanding repeated readings & intensive study. For your collection of Shakespeare you can't do much better than Arden publications, some are quite hard to get hold of but it's worth the effort.