The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works (Arden Shakespeare) - Hardcover

Shakespeare, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1903436397 ISBN 13: 9781903436394

Publisher: Arden Shakespeare, 2000

Synopsis

The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works leatherbound collector's edition contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays, including The Two Noble Kinsmen, which has only recently been widely accepted as partly written by Shakespeare, and also the Poems and Sonnets.

The play and verse texts are edited by leading academics, in the light of current scholarship on the different versions of the text available. Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the three Arden Shakespeare 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 twentieth-century readers.

A general introduction, also by the Arden General Editors, 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.

The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works leatherbound collector's edition offers a sound, reliable, classic edition of Shakespeare's work in an exquisitely presented volume, with marbled end-papers and a ribbon marker, that will appeal to book collectors and Shakespeare lovers throughout the world.

About this title

About the Author:

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1903436397
• ISBN 13: 9781903436394
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1360
• Editor: Thompson Ann, Kastan David Scott, Proudfoot Richard