The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

by Shakespeare, William; Thompson, Ann; Kastan, David Scott; Proudfoot, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781903436394
• ISBN10: 1903436397
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-02
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Summary

The Complete Arden Shakespeare 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 Complete Arden Shakespeare Collector's Edition offers the sound, reliable, classic edition of Shakespeare's work in an exquisitely presented volume that will appeal to book collectors and Shakespeare lovers throughout the world.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vi
General Editors' preface	vii
Introduction	1	(1)
Why Shakespeare?	1	(2)
Shakespeare: the life	3	(1)
Shakespeare and the theatre	4	(2)
Shakespeare in print	6	(4)
Shakespeare's reading and reading Shakespeare	10	(1)
Afterlife	11	(7)
Shakespeare's Sonnets	18	(26)
A Lover's Complaint	44	(6)
Katherine Duncan-Jones
Venus and Adonis	50	(13)
Lucrece	63	(20)
The Passionate Pilgrim	83	(5)
`The Phoenix and Turtle'	88	(1)
F.T. Prince
All's Well That Ends Well	89	(32)
G.K. Hunter
Antony and Cleopatra	121	(40)
John Wilders
As You Like It	161	(30)
Agnes Latham
The Comedy of Errors	191	(22)
R.A. Foakes
Coriolanus	213	(40)
Philip Brockbank
Cymbeline	253	(38)
J.M. Nosworthy
Hamlet	291	(42)
Harold Jenkins
Julius Caesar	333	(28)
T.S. Dorsch
King Henry IV, Part 1	361	(32)
A.R. Humphreys
King Henry IV, Part 2	393	(36)
A.R. Humphreys
King Henry V	429	(34)
T.W. Craik
King Henry VI, Part 1	463	(32)
A.S. Cairncross
King Henry VI, Part 2	495	(36)
A.S. Cairncross
King Henry VI, Part 3	531	(36)
A.S. Cairncross
King Henry VIII	567	(34)
R.A. Foakes
King John	601	(30)
E.A.J. Honigmann
King Lear	631	(38)
R.A. Foakes
King Richard II	669	(30)
Peter Ure
King Richard III	699	(42)
Antony Hammond
Love's Labour's Lost	741	(30)
Richard David
Macbeth	771	(28)
Kenneth Muir
Measure for Measure	799	(30)
J.W. Lever
The Merchant of Venice	829	(28)
John Russell Brown
The Merry Wives of Windsor	857	(30)
H.J. Oliver
A Midsummer Night's Dream	887	(24)
Harold F. Brooks
Much Ado About Nothing	911	(28)
A.R. Humphreys
Othello	939	(38)
E.A.J. Honigmann
Pericles	977	(28)
F.D. Hoeniger
Romeo and Juliet	1005	(34)
Brian Gibbons
The Taming of the Shrew	1039	(30)
Brian Morris
The Tempest	1069	(26)
Frank Kermode
Timon of Athens	1095	(28)
H.J. Oliver
Titus Andronicus	1123	(28)
Jonathan Bate
Troilus and Cressida	1151	(38)
Kenneth Palmer
Twelfth Night	1189	(28)
J.M. Lothian
T.W. Craik
The Two Gentlemen of Verona	1217	(24)
Clifford Leech
The Two Noble Kinsmen	1241	(36)
Lois Potter
The Winter's Tale	1277	(34)
J.H.P. Pafford
Bibliography	1311	(6)
Index of first lines of sonnets	1317	(2)
Index of first lines of songs	1319	(1)
Glossary	1320