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Synopsis
Although this book doesn't exist, it can't be deleted from Goodreads, because, if it is, the automatic feed from Amazon just puts it back.
Here is how Wordsworth explains what probably happened to cause this error:
"The ISBN is certainly one allocated to us, but does not appear anywhere in our sales records, which go back to 1997.
"The fact that so much of the detail about the title is wrong – wrong author [the original author, as reported from Amazon, the source of this listing, is Lewis Carroll], wrong series – leads me to believe that we probably allocated two ISBN numbers to the same book at the planning stage, this being our Complete Shakespeare currently available under ISBN 9781853268953. What usually happens is some basic information about a title is forwarded to the main databases such as Nielsen, Bowker etc, which are expanded upon in the run up to publication. I would suspect in this case that once the duplication error was noticed, this ISBN was deleted from those sources, but by then it had taken on a life of its own by having already been picked up by retailers such as Amazon etc.
"So if I am correct, then this is a ‘book that never was’."
Thanks to Derek Wright of Wordsworth Editions, Ltd for providing this information.
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From the Back Cover
The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Sixth Edition
David Bevington
Why do we need a new edition of Shakespeare’s plays? Listen to what David Bevington has to say in his preface to this sixth edition:
“No period in history has seen such an extensive study of Shakespeare, and no period has experienced so many revolutions in critical method: feminist, new historical, deconstructive, post-colonial, and more. My attempt has been [constantly] to reeducate myself, to learn more about the complexities of meaning and the innumerable alternative possibilities that present themselves to the student of Shakespeare. Above all, I have tried to learn how to improve accessibility and clarity for today’s reader in the interpretation of this extraordinary body of dramatic literature.
My hope is that the sixth edition offers students and general readers the most accessible and usable Shakespeare anthology on the market.”
Surely one of today’s premier Shakespeare scholars, David Bevington is also an extraordinary teacher whose concern is always how to make these remarkable plays compelling for every reader. Bevington’s work addresses the primary problems most of us have with reading Shakespeare–an unfamiliarity both with the historical period and with the challenging language–by providing a comprehensive General Introduction that offers wide-ranging historical, cultural, and critical context for our reading, as well as clear, accessible, line-by-line glosses for the sometimes bewildering Elizabethan language and idioms. At a time when many of us come to Shakespeare by way of film, Bevington brings us back to the wonder of the words.
Also available: VangoNotes: How to Study Shakespeare offers a new way to hear and experience Shakespeare’s language through downloadable podcasts.
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