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Shakespeare, William

Additional Reading > Modern editions
Late 20th-century collections of Shakespeare's works include Irving Ribner and George Lyman Kittredge (eds.), The Complete Works of Shakespeare (1971); Sylvan Barnet (ed.), The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare (1972); Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (eds.), William Shakespeare, The Complete Works (1986, reissued as The Complete Works, 1998); G. Blakemore Evans and J.J. Tobin (eds.), The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd ed. (1997); David Bevington (ed.), The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 4th ed., updated (1997); and Stephen Greenblatt (ed.), The Norton Shakespeare (1997). Three series were in progress at the turn of the 21st century, with plays and poems in individual volumes: Stanley Wells (ed.), The Oxford Shakespeare (1982– ); Philip Brockbank (ed.), The New Cambridge Shakespeare (1984– ); and Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, and David Scott Kastan (eds.), The Arden Shakespeare, 3rd series (1995– ).

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