Product Description

The introduction reviews the few known facts about this early Shakespeare play and discusses the puzzling problems of its date and authorship. The text has been freshly edited with the aim of presenting the play as revised for the first recorded performance in 1594, with the addition of stage business from the prompt-copy from which the Folio edition derives.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2256706 in Books
• Published on: 1984-07-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 232 pages

Customer Reviews

MORE FUN THAN A BAG OF SNAKES!
Perhaps I'm in need of counselling.Perhaps I'm slightly touched in the noodle. True, it's no Lear, but DAMN, it's a fine piece of writing.

Shakespeare's only so so play
Shakespeare, in his extreme youth, worked in a theater system that could well be compared to the "studio system" of Hollywood film in the Thirties. He made a whole tour of the popular genres when he started out. There was a fad for gore, and Shakespeare seems to have been assigned to do the Elizabethan version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. If Tom Stoppard were assigned to write Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3, it would probably turn out this badly. Shakespeare's too smart, too talented and he keeps trying to find Meaning or at least Poetry in this shlock. Sometimes he seems to get bored and make fun of the whole genre, overdoing it on purpose. It says a lot that once he was his own man he never wrote another one of these again.

The play's reads as well as the movie.
I can still read Shakespeare!! Wasn't sure I could. The writing is translated, hence readable by me. The images are still vivid. I'd recently seen the movie so I had help reading the book, but I could have followed it anyway. It's really an easy read, I'd recommend it for anyone with a stomach for gory violence. It's the worst for that.