The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series, ed. René Weis
The play, and every argument about the play.
To know what this play says you have to know which words are in it, and an editor has to choose them; the Arden shows you how.
You have read the play and you want to know what the people who edit it argue about.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the complete play, with a full commentary alongside it.
Changes: the proportion. René Weis’s introduction and the commentary take up a large share of the book, and they are the reason to buy this one.
Whose story is it?
the play’s and its editor’s. You are reading the text and a scholar’s account of it at the same time.
How much time does it ask?
454 pages in paperback, with the introduction and commentary taking up a large share.
Arden Shakespeare Third Series, edited by René Weis, 2012.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into Verona: The Folger Shakespeare Library edition · No Fear Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet · Oxford School Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet