If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewisereturns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be theApplause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible versionof the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modernfonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Foliotext forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices whichhave encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship andperformance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorialinterventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity ofinterpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations betweenFolios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries ofShakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the originalcountenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folioavailable in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folioeditions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance ofthe Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practicallyutilized in general Shakespeare
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The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs.
There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts ofpassionate love than V/uthering Heights. This is the story of thesavage, tormented foundling Heatheliff, who falls wildly in lovewith Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and of theviolence and misery that result from their thwarted longing foreach other. A book of great power and strength, it is filled withthe raw beauty of the moors and an uncanny un- derstanding of theterrible truths about men and women. It is an understanding madeeven more extraordinary by the fact that it came from the heart ofa woman who lived most of her brief life in the remote wildness ofthe moors. Emily Bronte died a year after this great novel waspublished.
A passionate young woman, her cowardly lover, and her aging,vengeful husband are the central characters in this stark drama ofthe conflict between passion and convention in the harsh world ofseventeenth-century Boston. Tremendously moving and rich inpsychological insight, this tragic novel of sin and redemptionaddresses our Puritan past. Depicting the struggle between mind andheart, Hawthorne fashioned a masterpiece of American fiction.
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