Can anyone recommend a specific edition for a decent collection

>>8402264
folger shakespeare library, hands down

>>8403209
>folger shakespeare library
if this is a joke about the building then I laughed.

If it's an actual edition then I'm confus

Only Arden.

>>8402264
RSC-ML

>>8404463
>>8404448
these posts are literal nonsense.

>>8402264
biggest as in most popular is a bit difficult. Plenty of Shakespeare's plays were huge in their own time, but became much less respected/performed when the Victorians started reviving a lot his work.

For example, Elizabethans thought Titus Andronicus was the tits when it first came out, but later generations disliked all the overt violence for the sake of violence and it is now rarely performed/read,

For that reason, it's tough to find an edition that just focuses on the "biggest" plays. If you just care about biggest as in most popular right now, I'd recommend picking up an edition that has the major hits from each genre (Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night for Comedies, R+J, Hamley, Othello, King Lear for Tragedies, Julius Ceaser, Richard III, King Henry IV and V for Histories) then depending on which genre you most enjoy, get a more dense, annotated edition for that genre and delve into all of the plays, even one's not commonly performed today.

Honestly, I picked up the Avenel Books - Complete Works of Shakespeare from a garage sale for a dollar. It has almost no criticism or annotations (it does have some cool illustrations) but I've used it for the past year and have really enjoy it. You can find Complete Works editions really cheap at any bookshop, they just won't have great "extras" (essays, interpretations, glossaries, etc.)

>>8404585
ty my man, something to consider for sure.

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>>8404585

>Elizabethans thought Titus Andronicus was the tits when it first came out
Imagining Elizabethans exiting the venue and describing the play as "the tits" gave me a hearty laugh anon. Thank you.

>>8404585
>biggest as in most popular is a bit difficult
cmon man be serious

You are better off buying individual editions of the plays you wanna read. I recommend Arden, but if the über academic tone turns you off, then the Oxford or RSC editions are an excellent alternative (usually a more unexpensive one too).

>>8404435
They publish Shakespeare's work. They're good; there's a lot of explanatory notes and tips for reading it, as well as some analyses. Even well-read people -- who aren't academics or experts of some kind -- will not catch *everything* in a Shakespeare work, so the Folger editions are good for this.

(This is meant as a response to OP as well.)

>>8404448
A bit outdated, but v light on the hands and sturdy on the binding

why dont you just donwload on your kindle..?