This Textual Companion is described by the publisher as 'an indispensable companion to The Complete Oxford Shakespeare', which indeed it is, and it was reasonable to complain, when The Complete Works and The Complete Works: Original Spelling Edition appeared in 1986 and 1987, that they were badly in need of this third to walk beside them. The Companion is a very fine thing, and the publisher is again within his rights to call it 'probably the most comprehensive reference work on Shakespearian textual problems ever assembled in a single volume'.

LRB 21 April 1988 | PDF Download