If there has ever been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns
the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be THE APPLAUSE
FOLIO TEXTS. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio,
it is this edition. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The
Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which
have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance.
Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer
the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the
reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. Prepared and annotated
by Neil Freeman, Head, Graduate Directing Program, University of British
Columbia.