The Arden Shakespeare complete works / edited by Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson and David Scott Kastan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Contributor:

Proudfoot, G. R.

Thompson, Ann, 1947-

Kastan, David Scott.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. 2011

Language:

English

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

vii, 1373 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Other Title:

Shakespeare complete works

Place of Publication:

London : Methuen Drama, 2011.

Summary:

The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works contains the texts of all Shakespeare's players sonnets and poems, edited by leading international scholars. This updated edition includes the text of Double Falsehood, Shakespeares's "lost" play, published to much critical acclaim in the A Men Shakespeare Third Series in 2010.

The illustrated introduction by the General Editors of the Arden Shakespeare 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 over time. It summarises the known facts about the dramatist's life, his reading and use of sources, and the nature of theatrical performance during his lifetime.

Concise introductions to each play, written specially for this volume, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within the Shakespeare canon and its subsequent performance history. In addition ar extensive glossary explains unfamiliar vocabularly.

This is an ideal edition for any student or enthusiast of Shakespeare.

The Arden Shakespeare is the scholarly, reliable edition of Shakespeare's work

The first Complete Works to include the text of Double Faleshood, Shakespeare's "lost" play

Includes brief contextual introductions to each play and a glossary and bibliography to aid understanding and study Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction 1

Why Shakespeare? 1

Shakespeare: the life 3

Shakespeare and the theatre 4

Shakespeare in print 6

Shakespeare's reading and reading Shakespeare 10

Afterlife 11

Shakespeare's Sonnets 18

A Lover's Complaint / Katherine Duncan-Jones Duncan-Jones, Katherine 44

Venus and Adonis 50

Lucrece 63

The Passionate Pilgrim 'The Phoenix and Turtle' / F.T. Prince Prince, F.T. 88

All's Well That Ends Well / Q.K. Hunter Hunter, Q.K. 121

cAntony and Cleopatra / John Wilders Wilders, John 161

As You Like It / Agnes Latham Latham, Agnes 191

The Comedy of Errors / R.A. Foakes Foakes, R.A. 191

Coriolanus / Philip Brockbank Brockbank, Philip 213

Cymbeline / J.M. Nosworthy Nosworthy, J.M. 253

Hamlet / Harold Jenkins Jenkins, Harold 291

Julius Caesar / David Daniell Daniell, David 333

King Henry IV Part 1 / A.R. Humphreys Humphreys, A.R. 361

King Henry IV Part 2 / A.R. Humphreys Humphreys, A.R. 393

King Henry V Part 3 cT.W. Craik 429

King Henry VI, Part 1 / Edward Burns Burns, Edward 463

King Henry VI, Part 2 / Ronald Knowles Knowles, Ronald 495

King Henry VI, Part 3 / AS. Cairncross Cairncross, AS. 531

King Henry VIII / Gordon McMullan McMullan, Gordon 567

King John / E.A.J. Honigmann Honigmann, E.A.J. 603

King Lear / R.A. Foakes Foakes, R.A. 633

King Richard II / Peter Ure Ure, Peter 701

King Richard III / Antony Hammond Hammond, Antony 743

Love's Labour's Lost / H.R. Woudhuysen Woudhuysen, H.R. 801

Macbeth / Kenneth Muir Muir, Kenneth 831

Measure for Measure / J. W. Lever Lever, J. W. 859

The Merchant of Venice / John Russell Brown Brown, John Russell 889

The Merry Wives of Windsor / Giorgio Melchiori Melchiori, Giorgio 913

A Midsummer Night's Dream / Harold F. Brooks Brooks, Harold F. 941

Much Ado About Nothing / A.R. Humphreys Humphreys, A.R. 979

Othello / E.A.J. Honigmann Honigmann, E.A.J. 979

PericlesF.D. HoenigerRomeo and JulietBrian Gibbons 1007

The Taming of the Shrew / Brian Morris Morris, Brian 1041

The Tempest / Virginia Mason Vaughan Vaughan, Virginia Mason, Alden T. Vaughan Vaughan, Alden T. 1071

Timon of Athens / H.J. Oliver Oliver, H.J. 1097

Titus Andronicus / Jonathan Bate Bate, Jonathan 1125

Troilus and Cressida / David Bevington Bevington, David 1153

Twelfth Night / J.M. Lothian and T.W. Craik Craik, J.M. Lothian and T.W. 1191

The Two Gentlemen of Verona / Clifford Leech Leech, Clifford 1219

The Two Noble Kinsmen / Lois Potter Potter, Lois 1243

The Winter's Tale / JM.PPafford 1279

Double Falsehood / Brean Hammond Hammond, Brean 1313

1 Title-page, with a portrait of Shakespeare engraved by Droeshout, from the First Folio printed by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623 (British Library/ courtesy Bridgeman Art Library) viii

2 Shakespeare as twentieth-century cultural icon, selling lager(courtesy Carling Black Label) 2

3 Portrait of Richard Burbage, leading actor of the Chamberlain's Men (Dulwich Picture Gallery/courtesy Bridgeman Art Library) 4

4 The Globe Theatre, as recreated in the 1990s on London's Bankside (courtesy Globe Theatre) 5

5 Detail from Wenzel Hollar's engraving A Long Bird's-Eye View of London, 1647, showing the rebuilt Globe (Guildhall Library, Corporation of London/courtesy Bridgeman Art Library) 5

6 The principal actors in the King's Men, as listed in the First Folio of 1623 (courtesy British Library) 5

7 The earliest illustration of a work by-Shakespeare; a scene from Titus Andronictts, attributed Co Henry Peacham, c.1595, 1605 or 1615 (courtesy the Marquess of Bath, Longieat House, Warminster, Wilts) 6

8 Title-page of the First Quarto of Love's Labour's Lost, 1598 (courtesy British Library) 7

9 Title-page of the First Quarto of King Lear, 1608 (courtesy British Library) 7

10 The catalogue of 35 of Shakespeare's plays as listed in the First Folio, 1623 (courtesy British Library) 9

11 The second epistle 'To the great variety of readers', prefacing the First Folio, 1623, and signed by John Heminges and Henry Condell (courtesy British Library) 9

12 The three witches in the television cartoon version of Macbeth (1993) (courtesy S4C International) 12

13 David Garrick in four of his most famous Shakespearean roles, from a contemporary engraving (courtesy Bridgeman Art Library) 13

14 Ellen Terry as Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor (courtesy Hulton Deutsch Collection) 14

15 A modern production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company, 1994) (courtesy Donald Cooper, Photostage) 14

16 Sir Henry Beerbohm Tree in the surviving silent film fragment of King John, 1899 (courtesy Hulton Picture Library) 15

17 Laurence Olivier as the King in the 1944 film of Henry K (courtesy The Kobal Collection) 15

18 Akira Kurosawa's Japanese film version of Macbeth, Throne of Blood, 1957 (courtesy The Kobal Collection) 15

19 Genealogical table showing the houses of York and Lancaster 464.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1339-1343) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781408152010

1408152010

OCLC:

778821730