This entirely new Complete Works, edited afresh from the original documents, provides scholars with all the materials they need for text-based research. The edition preserves the spelling, punctuation, ambiguities, and inconsistencies of the early documents, and introductions and on-page notes address the book history and documentary origins. In the CRE, however, the editorial team was free to put its theories more fully into practice and present Shakespeare's texts in all their complexity...the CRE makes clear the benefit of periodically gathering together the research that drives editorial practice as a worthwhile opportunity to cast fresh eyes on the narratives within Shakespeare's texts.