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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Third Series by William Shakespeare; Ann Thompson (Series edited by); David Scott Kastan (Series edited by); H. R. Woudhuysen (Series edited by); Richard Proudfoot (Series edited by); Sukanta Chaudhuri (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Arden Shakespeare Third Ser.
The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden editions guide you to a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream provides a clear an ...Show more
All's Well That Ends Well: Third Series by Suzanne Gossett William Shakespeare
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Arden Shakespeare Third Ser.
All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1604 and 1605, and was originally published in the First Folio in 1623 Though originally the play was classified as a comedy, the play is now considered by some critics to be one of his problem plays, ...Show more
As You Like It: Arden Shakespeare: The Arden Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Category: Classics | Series: The\Arden Shakespeare Third Ser.
With its cross-dressed heroine, gender games and explorations of sexual ambivalence, its Forest of Arden and melancholy Jacques, "As You Like it" speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberre demonstrates that Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals ...Show more
Hamlet (Arden Shakespeare) Revised Edition by W N;Shakespeare A;Taylor Thompson
Category: Film & Tv | Series: The\Arden Shakespeare Third Ser.
After encountering the ghost of his father on the castle parapet, Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, is convinced that his father's death was part of a foul plot to take the throne. It is up to Hamlet to decide whether his father must be avenged, and if so, should it be he who commits the act? Classics ...Show more
King Edward III by William Shakespeare
Category: History | Series: The\Arden Shakespeare Third Ser.
King Edward III is increasingly thought to have been written in significant part by Shakespeare. This landmark new edition by textual expert and General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, offers a full account of the play's text and the evidence of Shakespeare's hand at work in it. Full ...Show more
King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series: Third Series by Bulman edited by James C. Bulman
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Arden Shakespeare Third Ser.
More troubled and troubling than King Henry IV Part 1, the play continues the story of King Henry's decline and Hal's reform. Though Part 2 echoes the structure of the earlier play, it is a darker and more unsettling world, in which even Falstaff's revelry is more tired and cynical, and the once-merry H ...Show more
Pericles by William Shakespeare
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
Suzanne Gossett offers a full and critical performance history, with an introduction showing how the play's performance history has paralled the criticism. It then gives an interpretation of this two-generation romance, with its successive male and female central characters, based on a reading 'through ...Show more
Poems by William Shakespeare
Category: Poetry | Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
In 1593 Shakespeare awoke and found himself famous. Lines from his comic, erotic, tragic poem Venus and Adonis were on everyone's lips.The appearance in 1594 of the darkly reflective and richly descriptive Rape of Lucrece confirmed his fame as 'Sweet Master Shakespeare', Elizabethan England's most brill ...Show more
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Category: Fiction | Series: The Arden Shakespeare. Third Series
The Arden Shakespeare Third Series - Complete Works by William Shakespeare; Ann Thompson (Editor); David Scott Kastan (Editor); H. R. Woudhuysen (Editor); Richard Proudfoot (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Ser.ies
This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes the complete plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this edition are the 'apocryphal' plays, part-written by Shakespeare- Double Falsehood, Sir Thomas More and King Edward ...Show more
Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
Timon of Athens has struck many readers as rough and unpolished, perhaps even unfinished, though to others it has appeared as Shakespeare's most profound tragic allegory. Described by Coleridge as 'the stillborn twin of King Lear', the play has nevertheless proved brilliantly effective in performance ov ...Show more
Titus Andronicus: Revised Edition by Jonathan Bate
Category: Film & Tv | Series: The\Arden Shakespeare Third Ser.
Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful in his lifetime. Subsequent generations have struggled with its bold confrontation of violence but in the 20th and 21st centuries the play has chimed with audiences again, perhaps because of its simultane ...Show more
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