The Riverside Shakespeare
No CoverComplete scholarly edition of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, with essays, textual notes, and critical introductions.
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Complete scholarly edition of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, with essays, textual notes, and critical introductions.
will contain mild spoilers
Bawdy innuendo, seduction, and rape themes across plays and poems
Murders, battles, mutilation, and cannibalism; Titus especially extreme
Recurring bawdy jokes and coarse Elizabethan language
Frequent tavern scenes, drunkenness, and social drinking
No explicit LGBTQ+ identities or relationships in the text
Christian allusions, clergy, and moral-religious themes recur
Witches in Macbeth, fairies in Midsummer, Prospero’s magic
Ghosts, witchcraft, and demonic imagery in several tragedies
Power, succession, and statecraft central to histories and tragedies
Multiple on-page suicides, including Romeo, Juliet, Othello, Cleopatra
Rape, mutilation, domestic cruelty, and severe on-stage suffering
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