The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works - Softcover

William Shakespeare

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903436613 ISBN 13: 9781903436615

Publisher: Arden Shakespeare, 2001

Synopsis

The Complete Arden Shakespeare contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays and poems, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden Shakespeare series. This 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 Arden Shakespeare Third 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 summarizes 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 with nearly 400 entries explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers.

 

 

 

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

General Editors' Preface

Introduction

Shakespeare's Sonnets

A Lover's Complaint

Venus and Adonis

Lucrece

The Passionate Pilgrim

"The Phoenix and Turtle"

All's Well That Ends Well

Antony and Cleopatra

As You Like It

The Comedy of Errors

Coriolanus

Cymbeline

Hamlet

Julius Caesar

King Henry IV, Part 1

King Henry IV, Part 2

King Henry V

King Henry VI, Part 1

King Henry VI, Part 2

King Henry VI, Part 3

King Henry VIII

King John

King Lear

King Richard II

King Richard III

Love's Labour's Lost

Macbeth

Measure for Measure

The Merchant of Venice

The Merry Wives of Windsor

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Othello

Pericles

Romeo and Juliet

The Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest

Timon of Athens

Titus Andronicus

Troilus and Cressida

Twelfth Night

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Noble Kinsmen

The Winter's Tale

Bibliography

Index of first lines of sonnets

Index of first lines of songs

Glossary

About this title

About the Author

Richard Proudfoot is Emeritus Professor and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies in the University of London. He is the author of Shakespeare: Text, Stage, and Cannon and numerous essays on Shakespeare. He is a general editor of the Arden Shakespeare.

Ann Thompson is Professor of English Language and Literature and Head of the School of Humanities at King's College London. She has edited Hamlet for Arden and The Taming of the Shrew for Cambridge University Press. Her other publications include Shakespeare's Chaucer, Shakespeare, Meaning and Metaphor (with John O. Thompson), and Women Reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900 (with Sasha Roberts). She has also published widely on editing Shakespeare and Shakespeare's language. She is one of the general editors of the Arden Shakespeare.

David Scott Kastan is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, New York. His publications include Shakespeare and the Book, Shakespeare after Theory, and Shakespeare and the Shapes of Time. In addition, he has edited A Companion to Shakespeare, A New History of Early English Drama (with John Cox), and Staging the Renaissance (with Peter Stallybrass). He is one of the general editors of the Arden Shakespeare.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1903436613
• ISBN 13: 9781903436615
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1360
• Editor: Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan