Sir Thomas More: Third Series (Arden Shakespeare)
"Intriguing...John Jowett, editor of this edition, has provided detailed and accessible notes and commentary which highlight the play's problems and nuances very well."—The Stage "Enthralling publication...Editor John Jowett offers sound reasoning for the imprint’s inclusion of what was for quite some time considered to be Apocrypha. That thanks to modern textual analysis, consensus seems to be moving towards the idea that sole authorship of most texts was anathema to Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights...Jowett offers biographies of varying complexities for them all and its in these passages that we most understand the world within which such a manuscript could be created with various acting groups competing against one another, manuscripts passed about and edited or amended to suite the needs of production. There have been serious attempts recently to rehabilitate the play both at the RSC and the Globe...and this brilliant Arden edition will definitely help."—thehamletweblog