- a new, modern -spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings - 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 photograhs,related art, and songs - full index to introduction and commentary - durable sewn binding for lasting use 'not simple a better text but a new conceptions of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth -century sholarship'. Times Literary Suplement.