Oxford World´s Classics Henry VI, Part 3

The Oxford Shakespeare
General Editor Stanley Wells
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers.

- a new, modern-spelling text, based on the 1623 First Folio
- detailed introduction considers composition, sources, historical events, performances and changing critical attitudes to the play
- on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, identify historical figures and events, and much else
- appendices include extracts from the chronicle sources and new research on the use of boy actors in Elizabethan performance
- illustrated with production photographs and related art
- full index to introduction and commentary
- durable sewn binding for lasting use

'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.' Times Literary Supplement