Pub Date: August 2, 2011
Dewey: 822.33
Lexile Code: 0570
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.81" H x 8.29" L x 5.62" W ( 0.95 lbs) 368 pages
BISAC Categories:
Drama | Shakespeare | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Series: Folger Shakespeare Library
Description: This Folger edition includes newly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play, full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play, scene-by-scene plot summaries, and much more.
Brief description: William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England's Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children--an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare's only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare's working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.