I love my Riverside for its essays and annotation, but it is one big Book O'Shakespeare.
Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
'Safe'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - Aug 01, 2007 1:17:52 pm PDT #3557 of 28199
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
sumi - Aug 01, 2007 1:20:35 pm PDT #3558 of 28199
Art Crawl!!!
Dover Thrift - if you're looking for easily portable and not at all spendy.
Bobbi - Aug 01, 2007 2:45:51 pm PDT #3559 of 28199
Dog is my co-pilot.
The Arden, The Everyman, and The Washington Square Press all have decent annotation for individual plays. The Everyman and WSP have annotation on the left page with the text on the right, which I find handy. I do love the Riverside for the complete works.
Fred Pete - Aug 01, 2007 4:46:56 pm PDT #3560 of 28199
Ann, that's a ferret.
What others have said about the Riverside. It has everything, including enough annotations to understand everything (including the off-color jokes), but it isn't something you can slide into a pocket.
DebetEsse - Aug 01, 2007 6:05:01 pm PDT #3561 of 28199
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Cool.
Thanks, guys
Polter-Cow - Aug 01, 2007 7:44:32 pm PDT #3562 of 28199
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just forced myself to finish A Pale View of Hills. How could the author of my default favorite novel (The Remains of the Day) have written such a dull, flat, pointless first novel? That was still critically acclaimed? I now wonder what the hell I saw in TROTD. Surely, my tastes have become more refined since I read that book three times and loved it in high school, right?
Maybe I just don't care about Japan. Lost in Translation didn't do it for me either.
Volans - Aug 02, 2007 8:10:54 am PDT #3563 of 28199
move out and draw fire
I have the paperback copies of the Shakespeare plays I like, with my marginalia and production notes and stuff, in addition to the Riverside.
It's sort of my LOTR approach - the Big Red Book for the shelf, and the cheap paperbacks for carrying, taking notes, and reading.
-t - Aug 02, 2007 9:12:43 am PDT #3564 of 28199
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Woo-hoo! My Vampire People just arrived!
askye - Aug 03, 2007 7:01:20 am PDT #3565 of 28199
Thrive to spite them
There is a poll on baord usage being discussed, please go here for more information - msbelle "Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job" Aug 3, 2007 7:52:20 am PDT
Tod - Aug 04, 2007 11:56:17 am PDT #3566 of 28199
You smelled the smell?
Hey DebetEsse- The best Shakespeare set, if you can find it, is the out of print Everyman edition in three volumes. Look for a used copy. They are portable and readable, very convenient but nicer than paperbacks.