The Oxford Shakespeare: Volume I: Histories

Stanley Wells is general editor of all OUP's academic editions (Not School Shakespeare); ed. of Sonnets (pb) and Shakespeare: A Bibliographical Guide, New Edition and An Oxford Anthology of Shakespeare. He is the author of Re-Editing Shakespeare for the Modern Reader and (with Gary Taylor) Modernizing Shakespeare's Spelling. Gary Taylor is, with Stanley Wells, general editor of the Complete Works of Shakespeare; editor of Henry V in the Single-volume Oxford Shakespeare; co-author of Modernizing Shakespeare's Spelling (with Michael Warren), The Division of the Kingdoms: Shakespeare's Two Versions of `King Lear', and (with John Jowett) Shakespeare Reshaped 1606-1623.

there can be little doubt that this edition is closer to the original texts than any previous one ... a monument to Shakespearean sscholarship.