The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

Paperback, 1347 pages

English language

Published March 19, 2001 by Arden Shakespeare.

ISBN:
978-1-903436-61-5
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OCLC Number:
494246372

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The Complete Arden Shakespeare , published for the first time in hardback in 1998, is now available in an updated paperback edition. The Complete Arden Shakespeare contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden Shakespeare series. The paperback edition includes eight newly revised playtexts as published in the Arden Third Series since 1998.A general introduction by the three General Editors of the ongoing Arden Shakespeare series 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.Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context …

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Subjects

  • Shakespeare plays, texts
  • Shakespeare studies & criticism
  • Shakespeare
  • Literary Collections
  • Plays / Drama
  • English
  • Literature: Classics
  • Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
  • Ancient, Classical & Medieval