2057 pages of polysyllabic fun!

Riverside ShakespeareI am currently rereading The Riverside Shakespeare.

This weighty tome (7.33 pounds) is the complete and heavily illustrated, annotated, commented collection of Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Gorgeous reading.

Shown here is the ~1979 edition. This is my old textbook from the days when I was a literature major. This edition is minus Edward III and “A Funeral Elegy,” which scholars have identified as Shakespeare’s works since its printing.

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