The general editors of the new series of forty volumes - the renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A.R. Braunmuller of UCLA - have assembled a team of six eminent scholars who have, along with the general editors themselves, prepared new introductions and notes to all of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Redesigned in an easy-to-read- format that preserves the favourite features of the original, including an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, an introduction to the individual play, and a note on the text used.