This year two radically new British editions of Shakespeare have begun to appear in print, one from Oxford University Press and the second from Cambridge University Press. Either can reasonably expect to become the standard classroom text for an entire generation to come. Since the Shakespeare our children grow up on will thus be in some respects a very different author from the one we have known, the occasion demands a look at the older editions which formed our conception of Shakespeare in this century, as well as an evaluation of the new man these fresh versions offer to future readers.
