Winner of the ninth annual James Russell Lowell Prize given by the Modern Language Association
Awarded the ninth annual James Russell Loweel Prize by the Modern Language Association

Winner of the 1978 Explicator Literary Foundation Award

This prize-winning work provides a facsimile of the 1609 Quarto printed in parallel with a conservatively edited, modernized text, as well as commentary that ranges from brief glosses to substantial critical essays. Stephen Booth’s notes help a modern reader toward the kind of understanding that Renaissance readers brought to the works.