The Everyman Shakespeare is the most authoritative, up-to-date paperback edition of the plays and poems.
Uniquely among existing editions it provides:
• face-to-face text and notes
• a chronology of Shakespeare's life and times
• a rich selection of critical and theatrical responses to the play over the centuries
• text derived from the earliest printings, often preserving puns and wordplay otherwise lost
• foreword by an actor or theatre director describing the play in performance
• up-to-date commentary on the structure, atmosphere and content of the play and on its sources and influences