Tragedie of Cymbeline

Everything old is new again. Rarely has there been as much excitement surrounding Shakespeare as the attention focused last year on the official opening of the London Globe Theatre by Queen Elizabeth II.

If there has ever been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be in the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts.

The Folio is the so...