MODERNIZING SHAKESPEARE'S SPELLING [WITH] THREE STUDIES IN THE TEXT OF HENRY V

First edition. Publisher's original navy cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with some rubbing to the spine tips. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lighly rubbed and creased original dustwrapper, which is faded to the spine. Not price-clipped (£9.00 net to the lower front flap, lightly crossed out in pencil).

A concise introduction to the modernization of Shakespearean English, and offering a fresh perspective towards combating the problems posed by this process, by acclaimed Shakespeare scholar Sir Stanley Wells, the General Editor of The Oxford Shakespeare series. Accompanied by an in-depth study of the quarto text of Henry V by Dr Gary Taylor. Wells and Taylor went on to co-author (with John Jowett and William Montgomery) the Oxford Complete Works of William Shakespeare Second Edition.