Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works

Author : Ann Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474296394
Total Pages : 1512 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works written by Ann Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 1512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes all of Shakespeare's 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 III. The anthology is unique in giving all three extant texts of Hamlet from Shakespeare's time: the first and second Quarto texts of 1603 and 1604-5, and the first Folio text of 1623. With a simple alphabetical arrangement the Complete Works are easy to navigate. The lengthy introductions and footnotes of the individual Third Series volumes have been removed to make way for a general introduction, short individual introductions to each text, a glossary and a bibliography instead, to ensure all works are accessible in one single volume. This handsome Complete Works is ideal for readers keen to explore Shakespeare's work and for anyone building their literary library.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408198789
Total Pages : 1382 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arden Shakespeare Complete Works written by William Shakespeare and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of the Arden Shakespeare Complete Works includes the full text of Double Falsehood, which was published in the Arden Third series to critical acclaim in 2010. The play is an eighteenth century rewrite of Shakespeare's "lost" play Cardenio and as such is a fascinating testament to the original. A short introduction outlines its complex textual history and the arguments for including it within the Shakespeare canon. The Complete Works contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden series. A general introduction 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 of the play, its position within Shakespeare's oeuvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Arden Shakespeare
ISBN 13 : 9781903436394
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works written by William Shakespeare and published by Arden Shakespeare. This book was released on 2000-11-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works leatherbound 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 Arden Shakespeare Complete Works leatherbound collector's edition offers a sound, reliable, classic edition of Shakespeare's work in an exquisitely presented volume, with marbled end-papers and a ribbon marker, that will appeal to book collectors and Shakespeare lovers throughout the world.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408153742
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Macbeth written by William Shakespeare and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied tragedies. This major new Arden edition offers students detailed on-page commentary notes highlighting meaning and theatrical ideas and themes, as well as an illustrated, lengthy introduction setting the play in its historical, theatrical and critical context and outlining the recent debates about Middleton's possible co-authorship of some scenes. A comprehensive and informative edition ideal for students and teachers seeking to explore the play in depth, whether in the classroom or on the stage.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474273882
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first publication. A timely up-date in the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare's death which will ensure the Arden edition continues to offer students a comprehensive and current critical account of the play, alongside the most reliable and fully-annotated text available.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408142775
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Midsummer Night's Dream written by William Shakespeare and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text and a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play. The editor brings fresh perspectives on global productions and adaptations of this most-loved of Shakespeare's comedies.

Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complete Works of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1081 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Works of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1081 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeremy Lopez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472581032
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arden Introduction to Reading Shakespeare written by Jeremy Lopez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's plays are works of art made out of words. To read the plays closely, that is, to pay careful attention to the multiple, shifting meanings of and relationships between their words, is to gain a deep and lasting appreciation for the complex artistry of their construction and of their effects. In fourteen chapters, the book takes readers on a guided tour through some of the most productive sites in Shakespeare's plays for analysis, providing an introduction to the practice of reading Shakespeare's plays closely, and some examples of the interpretive work that such close reading can enable. Topics of analysis include verbal patterning, dramatic structure, staging and stage directions, soliloquies and character-construction and poetic meter. This is an ideal teaching text for introductory courses on Shakespeare. Offering a wide range of examples from nearly all of Shakespeare's plays, it will give students the analytical tools they need to develop sustained close readings of their own.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408151820
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cymbeline written by William Shakespeare and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cymbeline, Ancient Britain's female heir to the throne is slandered by a decadent Italian while the Romans invade Britain to retain it as part of their empire. Shakespeare's late romance is full of unpredictable conjunctions that are explored in the comprehensive introduction to this new, fully-illustrated Arden edition. Valerie Wayne takes a transformative look at the play's critical and performance history by examining its attention to gender, calumny and sexuality together with nationhood, colonialism and British identities. The authoritative play text is amply annotated to clarify its language and allusions, and three appendices delineate the play's textual history, its rich use of music and its casting. Offering students and scholars alike a wealth of insight and new research, this edition maintains the rigorous standards of the Arden Shakespeare.