looking for complete set (individual volumes)

[wate...@financier.com]

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i'm tired of my large, heavy book of complete plays, and looking for a
set of individual volumes

this 38 volume set of Shakespeare's plays at Amazon looks very
interesting ($90 w/ship)

World of Shakespeare: The Complete Plays and Sonnets of William
Shakespeare (38 Volumes)
by Pelican, hardcover

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143104802/ref=wl_it_dp/002-9075872-4963244?ie
=UTF8&coliid=I1JZQ8LD2NLJC4&colid=2TGOJX7OND54J

any thoughts on this set?
i don't care -- with or without footnotes is ok
any other good sets available?

thanks
waterboy

[Ms. Mouse]

On May 24, 4:31 pm, water...@financier.com wrote:
> .
> i'm tired of my large, heavy book of complete plays, and looking for a
> set of individual volumes
>
> this 38 volume set of Shakespeare's plays at Amazon looks very
> interesting ($90 w/ship)
>
> World of Shakespeare: The Complete Plays and Sonnets of William
> Shakespeare (38 Volumes)
> by Pelican, hardcover
>

> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143104802/ref=wl_it_dp/002-9075872-...

> =UTF8&coliid=I1JZQ8LD2NLJC4&colid=2TGOJX7OND54J
>
> any thoughts on this set?
> i don't care -- with or without footnotes is ok
> any other good sets available?
>
> thanks
> waterboy

Hi Waterboy,

I believe it's Penguin so it should be fine. I looked on Abe.com and
second-hand copies start at more than twice the Amazon price.

Regards,
Mouse

[book...@yahoo.com]

How much money are you willing to invest?, is a critical question,
ISTM. If you are building something definitive and valuable, there
are these variorum editions of the individual plays with an editor's
selection of the best critical essays.

Problems are: 1) they are expensive, 2) they are not easy to come
by, 3) they are subject to being dated, and 4) the complete canon is
not yet published or likely to be in the near future. It seems
Furness and others have been working on the different volumes for more
than a century, and only half the plays in the series are completed.

The good news is that 1) some of the important plays are in a variorum
edition, 2) they probably hold their value very well, 3) these
editions are authoritative and probably save a serious student some
steps.

Otherwise, I like using the Internet and putting together my own
collection of site addresses, etc.. Easy to just search for the title
of a play and check the results. You can enlarge print size on a
computer, making it easy to read. bookburn

[severdia]

Or if you have a cell phone with internet access, you can visit:

http://www.playshakespeare.com

And have all the plays there in your pocket! :)

[severdia]

[wate...@financier.com]

> Or if you have a cell phone with internet access, you can visit:
> http://www.playshakespeare.com
> And have all the plays there in your pocket! :)

i'm looking for books i can read lying down in bed (single volumes)

reading on my cell phone doesn't interest me;
reading on my computer screen, doesn't interest me either;
i already spend so much time on the computer

thanks
waterboy

[book...@yahoo.com]

If you have the Riverside edition in one volume, you can see the short
list mentioned in the Introduction of which publishers have individual
volumes out. Seems the pattern is for publishers like Pelican and
Pocketbook did individual volumes, then discontinued when they did
their all-in-one. You can still pick them up used on EBay and Amazon,
if you want to go cheap. bookburn
>

[wate...@financier.com]

> If you have the Riverside edition in one volume, you can see the short
> list mentioned in the Introduction of which publishers have individual
> volumes out. Seems the pattern is for publishers like Pelican and
> Pocketbook did individual volumes, then discontinued when they did
> their all-in-one. You can still pick them up used on EBay and Amazon,
> if you want to go cheap. bookburn

i own the big heavy Oxford complete (Wells & Taylor)
it's a nice book, but not portable enough for me

i'd prefer to buy them all at once;
the amazon Pelican i mentioned above still looks good;
$2.35 per volume, including shipping, for non paperback;

thanks
waterboy