Abstract
The announcement of a new complete one-volume edition of the works of Shakespeare elicited from this interested party two questions: Do we need still another complete Shakespeare? And what does this editor add which is not contained in complete one-volume editions of the Bard currently in print or in the works? These include W. A. Neilson and C. H. Hill (1942), Peter Alexander (1952), Hardin Craig (1958), Charles J. Sisson (1960), George L. Kittredge (1936, revised by Irving Ribner, 1967 on), G. B. Harrison (1948, 1968) and the completed edition by G. Blakemore Evans, prematurely announced as published in 1969 but yet to appear. Such volumes are not meant to compete with the Variorum, the Shakespeare (edited by W. J. Craig, R. H. Case and others in 37 volumes, 1899-1924) and succeeded by the New Arden (edited by Una Ellis-Fermor, Harold F. Brooks and Harold Jenkins in 20 volumes, 1951-1958) or John Munro's 6 volume edition (1957). It seems essential to me that a student of literature should have at
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