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WORLD'S @ CLASSICS
THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE
'not simply a better text but a new conception
or Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of
twentieth-century scholarship.'
Times Literary Supplement
THE Two NOBLE KINSMEN
Edited by Eugene M. Waith
The Royal Shakespeare Company's choice or The Two
Noble Kinsmen to open the Swan Theatre in 1986
demonstrated that this long-neglected play has at last come
into its own as a stageworthy, humorous, and moving
dramatization of the conflicting claims of love and
friendship. It was first published in 1654 as 'by the
memorable worthies of their time, Mr John Fletcher, and
Mr William Shakespeare, Gent' and was probably first
performed soon aner the wedding of Princess Elizabeth,
daughter of the company's patron James l, to the Elector
Palatine in February 1613.
The exceptionally full Introduction to this edition explains
the relevance to the play of ideals of chivalry and of the
classical ideal of friendship. The edition (which is
illuminatingly illustrated) also offers a discussion ot' the
centuries-long debate about the play's authorship and a
clarification or its stage action.
ISBN 0.19-281498-2
by
Oxford University press
€4.99 RRP
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