The Riverside Shakespeare

by Shakespeare, William; Evans, G. Blakemore; Levin, Harry; Baker, Herschel; Barton, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780395754900
• ISBN10: 0395754909
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-31
• Publisher: Cengage

Summary

The Second Edition of this complete collection of Shakespeare's plays and poems features two essays on recent criticism and productions, fully updated textual notes, a photographic insert of recent productions, and two works recently attributed to Shakespeare. The authors of the essays on recent criticism and productions are Heather DuBrow, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and William Liston, Ball State University, respectively.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xiii	(4)
Abbreviations	xvii
General Introduction	1	(26)
Twentieth-Century Shakespeare Criticism	27	(28)
Shakespeare's Text	55	(15)
Glossary of Selected Bibliographical Terms	70	(7)
Chronology and Sources	77	(12)
Opening Pages of the First Folio	89	(22)
COMEDIES	111	(512)
The Comedy of Errors	111	(27)
The Taming of the Shrew	138	(39)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona	177	(31)
Love's Labor's Lost	208	(43)
A Midsummer Night's Dream	251	(33)
The Merchant of Venice	284	(36)
The Merry Wives of Windsor	320	(41)
Much Ado about Nothing	361	(38)
As You Like It	399	(38)
Twelfth Night, or What You Will	437	(40)
The History of Troilus and Cressida	477	(56)
All's Well That Ends Well	533	(46)
Measure for Measure	579	(44)
HISTORIES	623	(442)
The First Part of Henry the Sixth	623	(45)
The Second Part of Henry the Sixth	668	(43)
The Third Part of Henry the Sixth	711	(37)
The Tragedy of Richard the Third	748	(57)
The Life and Death of King John	805	(37)
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second	842	(42)
The First Part of Henry the Fourth	884	(44)
The Second Part of Henry the Fourth	928	(46)
The Life of Henry the Fifth	974	(48)
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth	1022	(43)
TRAGEDIES	1065	(462)
The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus	1065	(36)
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet	1101	(45)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar	1146	(37)
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	1183	(63)
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice	1246	(51)
The Tragedy of King Lear	1297	(58)
The Tragedy of Macbeth	1355	(36)
The Tragedy of Antomy and Cleopatra	1391	(49)
The Tragedy of Coriolanus	1440	(49)
The Life of Timon of Athens	1489	(38)
ROMANCES	1527	(270)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre	1527	(38)
Cymbeline	1565	(47)
The Winter's Tale	1612	(44)
The Tempest	1656	(33)
The Two Noble Kinsmen	1689	(43)
The Reign of King Edward the Third	1732	(43)
Sir Thomas More: The Additions Ascribed to Shakespeare	1775	(22)
POEMS	1797	(108)
Venus and Adonis	1797	(17)
The Rape of Lucrece	1814	(25)
Sonnets	1839	(36)
A Lover's Complaint	1875	(6)
The Passionate Pilgrim	1881	(8)
The Phoenix and Turtle	1889	(4)
A Funeral Elegy by W. S.	1893	(12)
Appendix A. Shakespeare's Plays in Performance: From 1660 to 1971	1905	(27)
Appendix B. Shakespeare's Plays in Performance: From 1970	1932	(19)
Appendix C. Records, Documents, and Allusions	1951	(28)
Appendix D. Annals, 1552-1616	1979	(42)
Selected Bibliography	2021	(15)
Index to the Characters in the Plays	2036	(9)
Index to First Lines of the Sonnets	2045	(2)
Index to First Lines of The Passionate Pilgrim	2047	(1)
Index to First Lines of Songs and Song Snatches	2047	(2)
Selected Glossary	2049
Genealogical Tables
The Descendants of Edward III	630-631	(1)
The Descendants of Henry II	808