I am familiar with the Folger Library General Reader’s Shakespeare, published in the 1960s. Why has the Folger chosen to re-edit Shakespeare’s plays and poems now?
In recent years, ways of dealing with Shakespeare’s texts and with the interpretation of his plays have been undergoing significant change. The New Folger editions, while retaining many of the features that have always made the Folger Shakespeare so attractive to the general reader, at the same time reflects these current ways of thinking about Shakespeare.
