August New Release - Shakespeare Signature Series

Featuring remarkable laser-cut paper designs throughout, this new series offers stunning presentations of Shakespeare’s plays, complete with scholarship, commentary, notes and illustrated essays about Shakespeare’s language and performances of the play. It’s a keepsake package worthy of the greatest and most loved playwright in the English language.

The series includes…

· Beautiful illustrations, plus paintings and photographs that add depth to front and back matter.

· Introductions by premier contemporary scholars along with essays on editing the text and the quartos and folios used in the edition.

· Essays on Shakespeare’s England, language and life; on performing Shakespeare and on the lasting influence of the play on music, art, film and dance.

· Illuminating notes that don’t pull the readers away from the text. Longer end-notes after each play provide extra information and more comprehensive analysis.

Paper-cut artist, Kevin Stanton has created gorgeous custom-designed paper-cut illustrations and overlays for each of the titles in the series ensuring that they will appeal to Shakespeare collectors, students and the specialty art market.

RRP:    $ 39.99   

Format:  Hardback

Publisher:  Sterling Publishing