This is a placeholder for détraquée, by hystaracal. Détraquée is a 728,096-words long Dramione fanfiction, posted by hystaracal on a03. First publication in june 2017 and completed in june 2024. It is a character analysis on Hermione Granger.

I started this book january 5th and finished it march 6th, could have ended it sooner but it was so long I needed a break at some point.

I don't know if I have enough words to describe the development of this story, the personal growth, the challenges, the traumas. I don't know how i'll be able to read anything else. The writing was splendid, so many litterature and art references I truly felt I was in Hermione's head.

Great comprehensive collection;the characters and stories are phenomenal classics. Once you get over the language differences by reading a little, it all starts to make sense; if it doesn't there are plenty of footnotes.

I haven't read all of Shakespeare's works, but I've read many of them and am an avid Shakespeare fan. I can't understand why some people aren't fond of Shakespeare - maybe it's the dated language, because the themes, character development and drama are always first-rate. Oh well. :)

Rather than try to review a Shakespearean compilation, I think I'll just confine my remarks to an appreciation of this particular one. It's a special book to me for more reasons than its content alone.

This edition of THE RIVERSIDE SHAKESPEARE comprises a beautiful work of 1,927 pages of plays and poetry interspersed with historical notes, essays, commentary, and annotations. For a work of its size, it's short on pictures. I don't remember noticing their scarcity when I first read the book, but after years of reading in the age of the Internet, I find the absence of pictures glaring, to say the least.

Published in 1974 and replaced by an enlarged version in 1996, this edition of THE RIVERSIDE SHAKESPEARE might well be a collector's item. The copy I'm writing about is the original edition, though not the one I originally bought. I was fortunate enough to find this copy, only one of two new ones, on Amazon last month (March 2021). I scoured the Internet for other copies of but found none on used book sites nor new or used ones at Barnes & Noble or Books-a-Million. I specifically wanted this edition because I was introduced to it decades ago as an adult returning to college at the University of Arizona, a place very dear to my heart.

This is one of those rare books that I've bought twice. By the time I finished the two undergraduate courses required to satisfy my Shakespeare requirement as an English major, my brand-new copy of RIVERSIDE was so scuffed and physically worn and burdened with marginalia that I eventually donated it to some organization or other. But while bringing my goodreads shelves up to date recently, I felt bereft without that volume. Now that I've found it, I'll keep it as the years pass and add it to my list of "some day" re-readings.

Finally found a book not on the Goodreads database! I read the single-volume Arden Edition of The Tempest (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), complete with text, footnotes and 160-page introduction. I loved the thoroughness of the editors but in some places they really laboured over the possible meaning of words, almost ignoring the fact that this was reasonably obvious from their sound and context.

That aside, this was a deeply informative and inspiring guide to Shakespeare's last and most enigmatic play. I see that they have included some of the possible sources and some adaptations of the play as appendices, which gives me a reason to return to this fabulous volume another time.

It's Shakespeare, all of Shakespeare. I cannot fathom how someone could give it less than 5 stars, unless you're taking issue with some minor academic decision like which version from which folio is used. For 99.9999999% of the world's English speaking population, this is the only Shakespeare you will ever need to buy, and you probably won't read it all anyways. I studied literature and had to read, probably most of it, 60% or more. And while some plays are better than others, Shakespeare is a mammoth of literature, the writer everyone else aspires to be. Gotta give him the respect he deserves. 5 f'n stars.

I've had this almost 2000 page book since I was an English major in college some thirty years ago. It has everything Shakespeare wrote, excellent footnotes explaining the meaning of the words and allusions that are obscure now, and wonderfully insightful essays at the beginning of each play.

If I were ever stuck alone on a desert island and had to pick five books to go with me, this would be one of them.

1. The Comedy of Errors: 04/15/24 to 4/28/24
2. Henry VI Part 1: 04/28/24

Every word in the Shakespeare canon has been read. Fuck yeah!

The copy I have used to be my mum's. It's full of annotations that she wrote down while reading Shakespeare at University.

Aside from the small print, it is a good edition to use while reading the Bard.

I sincerely disliked the format of this book. It was incredibly cumbersome. Additionally, the page formatting and location of textual notes interrupted my reading experience -- it was obtrusive and made reading Shakespeare more laborious than it has to be. I did enjoy the completeness of the volume, but feel that there must be a better reading experience for Shakespeare fans elsewhere.

Since junior year of college this has been my indispensable tool for reading and understanding Shakespeare. All the plays, all the poetry, plus helpful archaism-deciphering footnotes.

If there is one part of this volume I haven't valued, it's the articles preceding each play. I can't say they are useless; they just haven't been of any use to me. There may be other complete works of Shakespeare available, but this one has assured I always have a scholarly edition at hand to read and study. Don't rely on cut and past online editions to read these plays. Invest in volumes like this to ensure you get the most out of reading Shakespeare.