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The Arden Shakespeare is a long-running series of scholarly editions of the works of William Shakespeare. It presents fully edited modern-spelling editions of the plays and poems, with lengthy introductions and full commentaries. There have been three distinct series of the Arden Shakespeare over the past century, and the third series has not yet been completed.
The first series was published by Methuen. Its first publication was Edward Dowden's edition of Hamlet, published in 1899, and over the next 25 years, the entire canon of Shakespeare was edited and published.
The second series began in the 1950s, with a new group of editors freshly re-editing the plays, and was completed in the 1980s. It was published by Methuen in both hardback and paperback. The paperbacks featured cover art by the Brotherhood of Ruralists.
The third series began in the 1990s. The first editions were initially published by Routledge, then by Thomson, and then by Cengage Learning. In December 2008, the series returned to Methuen, becoming part of Methuen Drama, a subsidiary of A & C Black.[1] The general editors are Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan and Henry Woudhuysen. The series is not yet complete, having published about half of the Shakespeare canon. In 2010 an edition of Double Falsehood was published, which was somewhat controversial as this play is generally regarded as non-canonical.[2]
Arden has also published a Complete Works of Shakespeare, which reprints editions from the second and third series.
[edit] References
- ^ About Us, The Arden Shakespeare, A&C Black web site. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
- ^ http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts-and-culture/night-and-day/6662493/theatre-fake-shakespeare.thtml
