Title: What a disappointment :(
Product review: The price for this Gramercy edition of Shakespeare sounded so good that I checked it out further as a possible gift for a young student friend...It is judged "an attractive collection", but by the publisher. If only it had any editorial introduction to help one understand the theatrical setting for which the plays were produced or the poetic traditions in which such masterpieces as The Sonnets or Venus & Adonis were written.If you really care to begin appreciating the sophisticated historical and political insights of Shakespeare's genius or the beauty of his verse you'd much more enjoy one of the Arden or Cambridge copies. For just getting started with any of the Bard's works, the Oxford School copies make him so much more fun.Even the inexpensive Folger , Signet, and Penguin are so much more helpful than this version. But not the Dover "Thrift" editions - they are equally depressing .
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