Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-09-01
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Arden
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Summary

Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden Shakespeare General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within Shakespeare's works, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to twentieth-century readers.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
vi
General Editors' preface vii
Introduction 1(1)
Why Shakespeare?
1(2)
Shakespeare: the life
3(1)
Shakespeare and the theatre
4(2)
Shakespeare in print
6(4)
Shakespeare's reading and reading Shakespeare
10(1)
Afterlife
11(7)
Shakespeare's Sonnets
18(26)
A Lover's Complaint
44(6)
Katherine Duncan-Jones
Venus and Adonis
50(13)
Lucrece
63(20)
The Passionate Pilgrim
83(5)
`The Phoenix and Turtle'
88(1)
F.T. Prince
All's Well That Ends Well
89(32)
G.K. Hunter
Antony and Cleopatra
121(40)
John Wilders
As You Like It
161(30)
Agnes Latham
The Comedy of Errors
191(22)
R.A. Foakes
Coriolanus
213(40)
Philip Brockbank
Cymbeline
253(38)
J.M. Nosworthy
Hamlet
291(42)
Harold Jenkins
Julius Caesar
333(28)
T.S. Dorsch
King Henry IV, Part 1
361(32)
A.R. Humphreys
King Henry IV, Part 2
393(36)
A.R. Humphreys
King Henry V
429(34)
T.W. Craik
King Henry VI, Part 1
463(32)
A.S. Cairncross
King Henry VI, Part 2
495(36)
A.S. Cairncross
King Henry VI, Part 3
531(36)
A.S. Cairncross
King Henry VIII
567(34)
R.A. Foakes
King John
601(30)
E.A.J. Honigmann
King Lear
631(38)
R.A. Foakes
King Richard II
669(30)
Peter Ure
King Richard III
699(42)
Antony Hammond
Love's Labour's Lost
741(30)
Richard David
Macbeth
771(28)
Kenneth Muir
Measure for Measure
799(30)
J.W. Lever
The Merchant of Venice
829(28)
John Russell Brown
The Merry Wives of Windsor
857(30)
H.J. Oliver
A Midsummer Night's Dream
887(24)
Harold F. Brooks
Much Ado About Nothing
911(28)
A.R. Humphreys
Othello
939(38)
E.A.J. Honigmann
Pericles
977(28)
F.D. Hoeniger
Romeo and Juliet
1005(34)
Brian Gibbons
The Taming of the Shrew
1039(30)
Brian Morris
The Tempest
1069(26)
Frank Kermode
Timon of Athens
1095(28)
H.J. Oliver
Titus Andronicus
1123(28)
Jonathan Bate
Troilus and Cressida
1151(38)
Kenneth Palmer
Twelfth Night
1189(28)
J.M. Lothian
T.W. Craik
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
1217(24)
Clifford Leech
The Two Noble Kinsmen
1241(36)
Lois Potter
The Winter's Tale
1277(34)
J.H.P. Pafford
Bibliography 1311(6)
Index of first lines of sonnets 1317(2)
Index of first lines of songs 1319(1)
Glossary 1320

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