The Complete Pelican Shakespeare

by Shakespeare, William; Harbage, Alfred

• ISBN13: 9780140714494
• ISBN10: 0140714499
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1974-02-28
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Table of Contents

PREFACE	ix	(2)
THE OPENING PAGES OF THE FOLIO OF 1623	xi
GENERAL INTRODUCTION	1	(52)
THE INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND	1	(9)
Ernest A. Strathmann
SHAKESPEARE'S LIFE	10	(11)
Frank W. Wadsworth
THE CANON	18	(3)
SHAKESPEARE'S THEATRE	21	(9)
Bernard Beckerman
SHAKESPEARE'S TECHNIQUE	30	(10)
Alfred Harbage
THE ORIGINAL TEXTS	40	(13)
Cyrus Hoy
EDITIONS AND CURRENT VARIANT READINGS	44	(9)
THE COMEDIES	53	(382)
FOREWORD	53	(2)
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS	55	(25)
Paul A. Jorgensen
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW	80	(36)
Richard Hosley
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA	116	(30)
Berners A. W. Jackson
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM	146	(29)
Madeleine Doran
LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST	175	(36)
Alfred Harbage
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE	211	(32)
Brents Stirling
AS YOU LIKE IT	243	(31)
Ralph M. Sargent
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING	274	(31)
Josephine Waters Bennett
TWELFTH NIGHT, OR, WHAT YOU WILL	305	(30)
Charles T. Prouty
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR	335	(30)
Fredson Bowers
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL	365	(35)
Jonas A. Barish
MEASURE FOR MEASURE	400	(35)
R. C. Bald
THE HISTORIES	435	(386)
FOREWORD	435	(2)
THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH	437	(36)
David Bevington
THE SECOND AND THIRD PARTS OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH	473	(78)
Robert K. Turner Jr
George Walton Williams
THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD THE THIRD	551	(49)
G. Blakemore Evans
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHN	600	(33)
Irving Ribner
THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD THE SECOND	633	(35)
Matthew W. Black
THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH	668	(35)
M. A. Shaaber
THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH	703	(38)
Allan G. Chester
THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH	741	(39)
Alfred Harbage
THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE EIGHTH	780	(41)
F. David Hoeniger
THE TRAGEDIES	821	(436)
FOREWORD	821	(2)
TITUS ANDRONICUS	823	(32)
Gustav Cross
ROMEO AND JULIET	855	(40)
John E. Hankins
JULIUS CAESAR	895	(35)
S. F. Johnson
HAMLET PRINCE OF DENMARK	930	(47)
Willard Farnham
THE HISTORY OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDA	977	(41)
Virgil K. Whitaker
OTHELLO THE MOOR OF VENICE	1018	(42)
Gerald Eades Bentley
KING LEAR	1060	(47)
Alfred Harbage
MACBETH	1107	(29)
Alfred Harbage
THE LIFE OF TIMON OF ATHENS	1136	(33)
Charlton Hinman
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA	1169	(43)
Maynard Mack
CORIOLANUS	1212	(45)
Harry Levin
THE ROMANCES	1257	(142)
FOREWORD	1257	(2)
PERICLES PRINCE OF TYRE	1259	(31)
James G. McManaway
CYMBELINE	1290	(44)
Robert B. Heilman
THE WINTER'S TALE	1334	(35)
Baldwin Maxwell
THE TEMPEST	1369	(30)
Northrop Frye
THE NON-DRAMATIC POETRY	1399	(81)
FOREWORD	1399	(2)
THE NARRATIVE POEMS	1401	(48)
Richard Wilbur
VENUS AND ADONIS	1406	(13)
THE RAPE OF LUCRECE	1419	(20)
THE PHOENIX AND TURTLE	1439	(1)
POEMS OF DOUBTFUL AUTHENTICITY	1440	(9)
SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS	1449	(31)
Douglas Bush
INDEX OF FIRST LINES TO THE SONNETS	1480