Published: November 2000

Hardback £75.00, US $99.95
ISBN 1903436397

· Bound in genuine maroon leather
· Protective slipcase in matching cloth
· Gold embossed title
· Marbled endpapers
· Head and tail band
· Ribbon marker

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

· The complete Arden Shakespeare play-texts available in a single exquisite volume
· The sound, reliable, classic edition of Shakespeare's work
· Presented as a leather-bound collector's item
· General introduction by the three General Editors of the Arden Shakespeare
· Brief contextual introductions to each play and to the poems and sonnets
· Extensive glossary

ISBN (Hardback): 0174436157 
Price: £25.00 US $44.95

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.

An extensive glossary explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to twentieth-century readers. 

• The complete Arden Shakespeare play-texts available for the first time in a single volume
• The sound, reliable, classic edition of Shakespeare’s work
• Includes The Two Noble Kinsmen, the Poems and the Sonnets 
• General introduction by the three General Editors of the Arden Shakespeare
• Brief contextual introductions to each play 
• Glossary with about 4000 entries