These popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the
scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more
malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the
commentary and notes. Each note, each gloss, each commentary reflects
the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of
the text in performance. Readers will not only discover an enlivened
Shakespeare, they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own
productions of the imagination in the process.