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, set for the first time in modern fonts. 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.