The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #92402 Message #1765286
Posted By: JohnInKansas
21-Jun-06 - 02:04 AM
Thread Name: BS: Much Ado About ...
Subject: RE: BS: Much Ado About ...
A quick look at the Oxford Shakespeare and the U Sydney indicates that each has one publication, albeit containing all or nearly all the principal Shakespeare works.
A difference at the Google site is that you can click on "all versions" and have a choice of many different publications of a given work.
As an example, clicking to "Merry Wives of Windsor" returns three pages of "choices" with 8 different editions (along with a couple of commentaries) on the first page.
Whether that's significant to a particular user is impossible for someone else to say. It has been my experience that a different "edition" can make quite a lot of difference in "readability," especially for some of the less quoted ones that may be a little less "standardized" by usage.