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Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

William Shakespeare (Author), G. R. Proudfoot (Editor), Ann Thompson (Editor), David Scott Kastan (Editor)
This revised edition of the Arden Shakespeare Complete Works includes the full text of Double Falsehood, which was published in the Arden Third series to critical acclaim in 2010. The play is an eighteenth century rewrite of Shakespeare's'lost'play Cardenio and as such is a fascinating testament to the original. A short introduction outlines its complex textual history and the arguments for including it within the Shakespeare canon. The Complete Works contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden series. A general introduction 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
eBook, English, 2014
Revised edition View all formats and editions
Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2014
1 online resource (1360 pages) : illustrations
9781408198780, 1408198789
928992435
Why Shakespeare?
Shakespeare: the life
Shakespeare and the theatre
Shakespeare in print
Shakespeare's reading and reading Shakespeare
Afterlife
Shakespeare's Sonnets
A Lover's Complaint / Edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones
Venus and Adonis
Lucrece
The Passionate Pilgrim
'The Phoenix and Turtle' / Edited by F.T. Prince
All's Well That Ends Well / Edited by G.K. Hunter
Antony and Cleopatra / Edited by John Wilders
As You Like It / Edited by Agnes Latham
The Comedy of Errors / Edited by R.A. Foakes
Coriolanus / Edited by Philip Brockbank
Cymbeline / Edited by J.M. Nosworthy
Hamlet / Edited by Harold Jenkins
Julius Caesar / Edited by David Daniell
King Henry IV / Edited by A.R. Humphreys
King Henry IV, Part 2 / Edited by A.R. Humphreys
King Henry V / Edited by T.W. Craik
King Henry VI / Edited by Edward Burns
King Henry VI, Part 2 / Edited by Ronald Knowles
King Henry VI, Part 3 / Edited by A.S. Cairncross
King Henry VIII / Edited by Gordon McMullan
King John / Edited by E.A.J. Honigmann
King Lear / Edited by R.A. Foakes
King Richard II / Edited by Peter Ure
King Richard III / Edited by Antony Hammond
Love's Labour's Lost / Edited by H.R. Woudhuysen
Macbeth / Edited by Kenneth Muir
Measure for Measure / Edited by J.W. Lever
The Merchant of Venice / Edited by John Russell Brown
The Merry Wives of Windsor / Edited by Giorgio Melchiori
A Midsummer Night's Dream / Edited by Harold F. Brooks
Much Ado About Nothing / Edited by A.R. Humphreys
Othello / Edited by E.A.J. Honigmann
Pericles / Edited by F.D. Hoeniger
Romeo and Juliet / Edited by Brian Gibbons
The Taming of the Shrew / Edited by Brian Morris
The Tempest / Edited by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Edited by Alden T. Vaughan
Timon of Athens / Edited by H.J. Oliver
Titus Andronicus / Edited by Jonathan Bate
Troilus and Cressida / Edited by David Bevington
Twelfth Night / Edited by J. M. Lothian and Edited by T.W. Craik
The Two Gentlemen of Verona / Edited by Clifford Leech
The Two Noble Kinsmen / Edited by Lois Potter
The Winter's Tale / Edited by J.H.P. Pafford
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)
2. Shakespeare as twentieth-century cultural icon, selling lager (courtesy Carling Black Label)
3. Portrait of Richard Burbage, leading actor of the Chamberlain's Men (Dulwich Picture Gallery/courtesy Bridgeman Art Library)
4. The Globe Theatre, as recreated in the 1990s on London's Bankside (courtesy Globe Theatre)
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)
6. The principal actors in the King's Men, as listed in the First Folio of 1623 (courtesy British Library)
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)
8. Title-page of the First Quarto of Love's Labour's Lost, 1598 (courtesy British Library)
9. Title-page of the First Quarto of King Lear, 1608 (courtesy British Library)
10. The catalogue of 35 of Shakespeare's plays as listed in the First Folio, 1623 (courtesy British Library)
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)
12. The three witches in the television cartoon version of Macbeth (1993) (courtesy S4C International)
13. David Garrick in four of his most famous Shakespearean roles, from a contemporary engraving (courtesy Bridgeman Art Library)
14. Ellen Terry as Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor (courtesy Hulton Deutsch Collection)
15. A modern production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company, 1994) (courtesy Donald Cooper, Photostage)
16. Sir Henry Beerbohm Tree in the surviving silent film fragment of King John, 1899 (courtesy Hulton Picture Library)
17. Laurence Olivier as the King in the 1944 film of Henry V (courtesy The Kobal Collection)
18. Akira Kurosawa's Japanese film version of Macbeth, Throne of Blood, 1957 (courtesy The Kobal Collection)
19. Genealogical table showing the houses of York and Lancaster