Not completed. But read eight plays from this tome throughout the last six months.

Oh, how I love Shakespeare! I won't go into a detailed review of the specific plays because I can do that with the editions of individual plays. But I used this text for my "Shakespeare: The Early Plays" course in college and read about half of the plays. It was a heavy book to lug to class because it has EVERYTHING Shakespeare ever wrote in it. But it was worth it to have all that material in one place. The plays are there in their entirety, the page layout is easy to read, and there are plenty of annotations to add to your understanding of the plays as you read them. I would recommend this edition to anyone who's really serious about studying Shakespeare and wants to get as much out of the experience as possible.

I haven't read this Norton (or any Norton, I believe) in totallity, who has? But the background information is GOLD and all the works compiled together is wonderfully overwhelming for any nerd! The works I have read, I have thoroughly enjoyed. I haven't met a Shakespearean play that I didn't enjoy on some level.

bunch o crap.

Essential for any library.

Joining the other Shakespeare geeks and working my way through the Bard's work. I'll review the individual plays separately but this is the edition I'm actually reading.

2/28/2010 - Macbeth 5 stars

I just don't like how the tissue paper thin pages bunch up easily.

Shakespeare!! As you might expect from an educational-type edition, this is annotated with background info and disambiguations. I used it in an undergraduate class, I'm not sure how it would hold up to a graduate level course.

Shakespeare YASSS. This is all I have to say. Good job Stephen.

He basically invented the language as we speak it, and here's how.

(Have yet to read King John, Henry VIII, the Henry VI plays, Timon, or MWoW.)

I read a selection of about 12 plays and the sonnets for my Shakespeare course - i really enjoyed the plays - the comedies were great but I loved some of the tragedies, especially Othello (IAGO IS JUST THE BEST) & JC, Antony & Cleo.
Then there's good old Titus, which I absolutely hate & crap like R&J

Anyway, maybe I'll revisit some of the plays I haven't read next year :)