![]() ![]() ![]() Ten more Shakespeare plays? In six years? Incredulous eyebrows rise. Six years later, editors Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen are back with “William Shakespeare & Others.” This handsome, illustrated supplementary volume, also stamped with the RSC brand, gives us complete, modernized texts of 10 more plays, with introductions, commentaries and an appendix of fascinating interviews with actors and directors. ![]() Macmillan’s RSC Shakespeare edition of “The Complete Works” (2007) included 39 plays. Additions to the posthumous 1623 collection of Shakespeare’s “Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies” began appearing in the 1630s, and the gas cloud has continued slowly expanding over the intervening centuries. Publishers happily feed our death-denying addictions. Despite recurrent intimations of authorial mortality, we don’t want to believe that Seamus Heaney has stopped writing, that Christopher Hitchens has stopped talking. Death is no excuse for writer’s block: Fans demand more. ![]()
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