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Edited by: John D. Cox Hope College, Michigan, USA and Eric Rasmussen University of Nevada, Reno, USA. Publishing: October 2001 Hardback/Cloth: Paperback: |
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| In their lively and engaging edition of this sometimes neglected early play, Cox and Rasmussen make a strong claim for it as a remarkable work, revealing a confidence and sureness that very few earlier plays can rival. They show how the young Shakespeare, working closely from his chronicle sources, nevertheless freely shaped his complex material to make it both theatrically effective and poetically innovative. The resulting work creates, in Queen Margaret, one of Shakespeare's strongest female roles and is the source of the popular view of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick as 'kingmaker'. Focusing on the history of the play in terms of both performance and criticism, the editors open it to a wide and challenging variety of interpretative and editorial paradigms. | |||
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Edited by: Charles R. Forker Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, US Publishing: November 2001 Hardback/Cloth: Paperback: |
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| This richly annotated edition takes a fresh look at the first part of Shakespeare's second tetralogy of history plays, showing how it relates to the other plays in the sequence. Forker places the play in its political context, discussing its relation to competing theories of monarchy, looking at how it faced censorship because of possible comparisons between Richard II and Elizabeth I, and how Bolingbroke's rebellion could be compared to the Essex rising of the time. This edition also reconsiders Shakespeare's use of sources, asking why he chose to emphasise one approach over another. Forker also looks at the play's rich afterlife, and the many interpretations that actors and directors have taken. Finally, the edition looks closely at the aesthetic relationship between language, character, structure and political import. | |||
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Edited by John Wilders, Middlebury
College, Vermont
Published: 1995 Hardback/Cloth: Paperback: |
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Edited by David Daniell, Professor Emeritus, University College
London Published: June 1998. Hardback/Cloth: £30.00; US $45.00 ISBN 0174435479 Paperback: |
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| This new edition of Julius Caesar provides a lively and up-to-date edition of one of Shakespeare's most familiar and studied plays. The introduction sets the play in the context of the last years of Elizabeth I's reign, with rebellion stirring and conflicts over the calendar. It also explains the conscious use of classical rhetoric in the language of Caesar himself, contrasting with the "modern" language of Cassius, and discusses Shakespeare's subtle use of his main source, Plutarch. | |||
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Edited by T.W. Craik, University of Durham
Published: 1995 Hardback/Cloth: Paperback: |
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| "Craik’s commentary is
particularly ample and detailed, with careful attention to the play’s
language, textual problems, the interpretation of stage directions, and
Shakespeare’s handling of source materials... he builds up a distinct
though traditionalist reading which, critically sympathetic and
undogmatic, finds the play at once simple and subtle." John Jowett, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Survey, 1997 Distinguished editor T.W. Craik makes an independent and balanced examination of the many textual problems of Henry V, providing many new emendations. "With the exceptionally thorough Arden notes, and the extensive editorial coverage, including recent stage history, this Henry V is the one to have." The Times Higher Educational Supplement |
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Edited by Edward Burns, University of Liverpool
Published: April 2000 Hardback/Cloth:£30.00; US $45.00 ISBN 0174435509 Paperback: |
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| A fresh look at a play usually regarded as the first component of a three-part historical epic, this edition argues that King Henry VI Part 1 is a 'prequel', a free-standing piece that returns for ironic and dramatic effect to a story already familiar to its audience. The play's ingenious use of stage space is closely analysed, as is its manipulation of a series of setpiece combats to give a coherent syntax of action. Discussion of the dramatic structure created by the opposing figures of Talbot and Jeanne la Pucelle, and exploration of the critical controversies surrounding the figure of Jeanne, lead to a reflection on the nature of the history play as genre in the 1590s. | |||
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Edited by Ronald Knowles, University of Reading
Published: February 2000 Hardback/Cloth: Paperback: |
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| This edition celebrates King Henry VI Part 2 as one of the most exciting and dynamic plays of the English renaissance theatre, with its exploration of power politics and social revolution and its focus on the relationship between divine justice and sin. An extensive discussion of performance history traces the play's progress on stage from abridgement and adaptation to full historical epic. A survey of criticism discusses the wide range of responses provoked by the play's handling of its historical theme, and concludes by focusing on the element of burlesque in the attempted social revolution portrayed. | |||
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Edited by: Gordon McMullen, King's College London, UK
Published: December 2000 Hardback/Cloth: Paperback: |
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| King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a new perspective on this ironic, multi-layered, collaborative play, revealing it as a complex meditation on the progress of Reformation which sees English life since Henry VIII's day as a series of bewildering changes in national and personal allegiance and represents 'history' as the product of varied and contradictory testimony. McMullan makes a powerful claim for the rehabilitation of Henry VIII, providing the fullest performance history of any edition to date and reading the work not as a marginal 'late' Shakespeare play but as a play which is paradigmatic of the achievement of Renaissance drama as a whole. | |||
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Edited by R.A. Foakes, University of California at
Los Angeles
Published: 1997 Hardback/Cloth:£30.00; US $45.00 ISBN 0174434618 Paperback: £7.99; US $13.95 ISBN 1903436591 |
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| In this remarkable new edition, R.A. Foakes brings to bear a number of historical perspectives and critically addresses recent explorations of King Lear as a play of redemption, a play of despair and a play that destabilises all commentary. Included is a composite text of Quarto and Folio versions, which allows readers to make their own editorial judgements. | |||
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Edited by Henry Woudhuysen, University College
London
Published: June 1998 Hardback/Cloth: |
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| The Arden third series edition of Love's Labour's Lost offers a new and distinctive interpretation of the play. It gives fuller commentary than any previous edition, and pays close attention to its verbal and theatrical patterning and to Shakespeare's interest in linguistic innovation. The text has been freshly edited from the 1598 Quarto, with reference to the First Folio of 1623, and sets the work in the literary context of the 1590s. | |||
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Edited by Giorgio Melchiori, Professor Emeritus,
Terza, Universita di Roma
Published: December 1999 Hardback/Cloth: Paperback: |
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| The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's only thoroughly English comedy, created an archetypal literary figure in the shape of the devious, irrepressible John Falstaff. This stimulating new edition celebrates the play as a joyous exploration of language, but also places elements of its plot firmly in a continental, specifically Italian, tradition of romantic comedy. It draws out the complexities of Merry Wives as a multi-plot play, and takes a fresh and challenging look at both textual and dating issues. The play's extensive performance history, both dramatic and operatic, is fully explored and discussed. | |||
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Edited by E.A.J. Honigmann, (formerly) University of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Published: 1996 Hardback/Cloth:£30.00; US $45.00 ISBN 0174434650 £7.99; US $13.95 ISBN 1903436451 |
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| "...the edition fully reflects his
sustained scholarly endeavour." Peter Holland, Times Literary Supplement, Nov 1997 This new edition of Othello, the most significant for a generation, sheds new light on the text of the play as we have come to know it, and on our knowledge of its early history. Professor Honigmann examines major critical issues, the play in performance and the relationship between reading it and seeing it. He also explores topics such as its date, sources and the conundrum of ‘double time’. |
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Edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones, Somerville
College, Oxford
Published: 1997 £7.99; US $13.95 ISBN 1903436575 |
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"The new edition...edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones, is the
clearest, most complete and up-to-date there is. She is the first
editor for general readers not to mumble when dealing with the homoerotic
aspect. Under her meticulous direction, the sequence opens out like
a magical garden, its beauties enhanced, its mysterious prospects
illuminated." Duncan Fallowell, The Independent (London), November 1997 "Among the many appealing features of Duncan-Jones’s edition are the sudden emphatic connections she makes with what we know of Shakespeare’s life...Such details help to anchor the lyrics empirically..." Tom Paulin, London Review of Books, Jan 1998 This new Arden edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets is closely based on the 1609 Quarto. As Katherine Duncan-Jones demonstrates, this text was authorized by Shakespeare himself, and may be based on an authorial manuscript. The whole carefully-ordered sequence, including A Lover’s Complaint, is read in the context of Shakespeare’s career and of the poems’ historical setting within early Jacobean culture. A clear-eyed analysis of homoerotic elements in the sonnets puts an end to the century of homophobic readings initiated by Sir Sidney Lee in 1897. Succinct and accessible notes guide the reader through complex vocabulary and syntax, as well as the poems’ literary and cultural background. For ease of reference, these are printed on the same page-opening as the text. |
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Edited by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T.
Vaughan, Clark University, Worcester, MA and Columbia University,
New York
Published: July 1999 Hardback/Cloth: Paperback: |
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| This new edition of an established favourite situates The Tempest at the centre of changing cultural attitudes towards colonialism, power politics and patriarchal hierarchies, and demonstrates how the play both shaped and reflected those changing attitudes. Reflecting the concerns of a post-colonial international community, the edition emphasizes the play's worldwide cultural appropriation, and includes an extensive discussion of the play's after-life as well as an appendix of selected appropriations. The interdisciplinary editorial approach contributes a distinctively blended cultural and historical focus. | |||
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Edited by Jonathan Bate, University of
Liverpool
Published: 1995 Hardback/Cloth:£30.00; US $45.00 ISBN 0415048672 £7.99; US $13.95 ISBN 1903436052 |
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| "A great edition of a great
play" Julie Taymor, Director, TITUS (20th Century Fox)
"Bate makes a really positive virtue of his treatment of the
play in performance...putting a vigorous account of Titus on stage at very
stage-centre in his Introduction. Using this section as a means for
raising fundamental questions as to the play’s style, coherence, and
meaning, Bate achieves a remarkable fusion between performance history and
criticism." |
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Edited by David Bevington, University of Chicago Published: June 1998 Hardback/Cloth: £30.00; US $45.00 ISBN 0174435703 Paperback: |
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| This new volume offers the most comprehensive and critically up-to-date edition of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida available today. The introduction places the play in its late Elizabethan context, examines and assimilates the wide variety of critical responses the play has elicited, and argues its importance in the context of late twentieth-century culture as an experimental and open-ended work. | |||
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Edited by Lois Potter, University of Delaware
Published: 1996 Hardback/Cloth: £7.99; US $13.95 ISBN 0174434626 |
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| "Potter’s The Two Noble
Kinsmen...shows how, even in the case of a play with a comparatively
limited performance history, understanding of performance can inform every
aspect of an edition...But, as usual with the Arden series, it is the
amplitude and intelligence of the commentary that is so striking." Peter Holland, Times Literary Supplement, Nov 1997 The Two Noble Kinsmen appears for the first time here in an Arden edition. Largely ignored for centuries because of doubts about its authorship and its subject matter, once considered distasteful, it is surprisingly relevant to many current interests. Lois Potter supplies new information on sources and contexts, and drawing on extensive experience as a theatre critic, compares a number of recent stagings of the play. |
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