The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
Contributors: Richard Proudfoot (Editor); Ann Thompson (Editor); David Scott Kastan (Editor)
Edition: Revised edition
Series: The Arden Shakespeare
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1347
ISBN-13: 9781903436615
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Shakespeare plays, texts; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Shakespeare; Literary Collections; Plays / Drama; English; Literature: Classics; Literary Criticism / Shakespeare; Ancient, Classical & Medieval
Description: The Complete Arden Shakespeare , published for the first time in hardback in 1998, is now available in an updated paperback edition. The Complete Arden Shakespeare contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden Shakespeare series. The paperback edition includes eight newly revised playtexts as published in the Arden Third Series since 1998.A general introduction by the three General Editors of the ongoing Arden Shakespeare series gives the reader an overall view of how and why Shakespeare has become such an influential cultural icon, and how perceptions of his work have changed in the intervening four centuries. The introduction summarises the known facts about the dramatist's life, his reading and use of sources, and the nature of theatrical performance during his lifetime.Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within Shakespeare's oeuvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers.
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Table of contents: title: Why Shakespeare? --; title: Shakespeare: the life --; title: Shakespeare and the theatre --; title: Shakespeare in print --; title: Shakespeare's reading and reading Shakespeare --; title: Afterlife --; title: Shakespeare's Sonnets --; title: A Lover's Complaint / Edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones --; title: Venus and Adonis --; title: Lucrece --; title: The Passionate Pilgrim --; title: 'The Phoenix and Turtle' / Edited by F.T. Prince --; title: All's Well That Ends Well / Edited by G.K. Hunter --; title: Antony and Cleopatra / Edited by John Wilders --; title: As You Like It / Edited by Agnes Latham --; title: The Comedy of Errors / Edited by R.A. Foakes --; title: Coriolanus / Edited by Philip Brockbank --; title: Cymbeline / Edited by J.M. Nosworthy --; title: Hamlet / Edited by Harold Jenkins --; title: Julius Caesar / Edited by David Daniell --; title: King Henry IV / Edited by A.R. Humphreys --; title: King Henry IV, Part 2 / Edited by A.R. Humphreys --; title: King Henry V / Edited by T.W. Craik --; title: King Henry VI / Edited by Edward Burns --; title: King Henry VI, Part 2 / Edited by Ronald Knowles --; title: King Henry VI, Part 3 / Edited by A.S. Cairncross --; title: King Henry VIII / Edited by Gordon McMullan --; title: King John / Edited by E.A.J. Honigmann --; title: King Lear / Edited by R.A. Foakes --; title: King Richard II / Edited by Peter Ure --; title: King Richard III / Edited by Antony Hammond --; title: Love's Labour's Lost / Edited by H.R. Woudhuysen --; title: Macbeth / Edited by Kenneth Muir --; title: Measure for Measure / Edited by J.W. Lever --; title: The Merchant of Venice / Edited by John Russell Brown --; title: The Merry Wives of Windsor / Edited by Giorgio Melchiori --; title: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Edited by Harold F. Brooks --; title: Much Ado About Nothing / Edited by A.R. Humphreys --; title: Othello / Edited by E.A.J. Honigmann --; title: Pericles / Edited by F.D. Hoeniger --; title: Romeo and Juliet / Edited by Brian Gibbons --; title: The Taming of the Shrew / Edited by Brian Morris --; title: The Tempest / Edited by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Edited by Alden T. Vaughan --; title: Timon of Athens / Edited by H.J. Oliver --; title: Titus Andronicus / Edited by Jonathan Bate --; title: Troilus and Cressida / Edited by David Bevington --; title: Twelfth Night / Edited by J. M. Lothian and Edited by T.W. Craik --; title: The Two Gentlemen of Verona / Edited by Clifford Leech --; title: The Two Noble Kinsmen / Edited by Lois Potter --; title: The Winter's Tale / Edited by J.H.P. Pafford --; title: 1. Title-page, with a portrait of Shakespeare engraved by Droeshout, from the First Folio printed by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623 (British Library/courtesy Bridgeman Art Library) --; title: 2. Shakespeare as twentieth-century cultural icon, selling lager (courtesy Carling Black Label) --; title: 3. Portrait of Richard Burbage, leading actor of the Chamberlain's Men (Dulwich Picture Gallery/courtesy Bridgeman Art Library) --; title: 4. The Globe Theatre, as recreated in the 1990s on London's Bankside (courtesy Globe Theatre) --; title: 5. Detail from Wenzel Hollar's engraving A Long Bird's-Eye View of London, 1647, showing the rebuilt Globe (Guildhall Library, Corporation of London/courtesy Bridgeman Art Library) --; title: 6. The principal actors in the King's Men, as listed in the First Folio of 1623 (courtesy British Library) --; title: 7. The earliest illustration of a work by Shakespeare; a scene from Titus Andronicus, attributed to Henry Peacham, c.1595, 1605 or 1615 (courtesy the Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Warminster, Wilts) --; title: 8. Title-page of the First Quarto of Love's Labour's Lost, 1598 (courtesy British Library) --; title: 9. Title-page of the First Quarto of King Lear, 1608 (courtesy British Library) --; title: 10. The catalogue of 35 of Shakespeare's plays as listed in the First Folio, 1623 (courtesy British Library) --; title: 11. The second epistle 'To the great variety of readers', prefacing the First Folio, 1623, and signed by John Heminges and Henry Condell (courtesy British Library) --; title: 12. The three witches in the television cartoon version of Macbeth (1993) (courtesy S4C International) --; title: 13. David Garrick in four of his most famous Shakespearean roles, from a contemporary engraving (courtesy Bridgeman Art Library) --; title: 14. Ellen Terry as Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor (courtesy Hulton Deutsch Collection) --; title: 15. A modern production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company, 1994) (courtesy Donald Cooper, Photostage) --; title: 16. Sir Henry Beerbohm Tree in the surviving silent film fragment of King John, 1899 (courtesy Hulton Picture Library) --; title: 17. Laurence Olivier as the King in the 1944 film of Henry V (courtesy The Kobal Collection) --; title: 18. Akira Kurosawa's Japanese film version of Macbeth, Throne of Blood, 1957 (courtesy The Kobal Collection) --; title: 19. Genealogical table showing the houses of York and Lancaster.