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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. Arden was the maiden name of Shakespeare's mother, [[Mary Shakespeare|Mary]], however the primary reference of the enterprise's title is named after the Forest of [[Arden, Warwickshire|Arden]], in which Shakespeare's ''[[As You Like It]]'' is set.<ref>Juliet Dusinberre, introduction to "As You Like It", Arden Shakespeare, Third Edition</ref> ==First Series== The first series was published by [[Methuen Publishing|Methuen]]. Its first publication was [[Edward Dowden]]'s edition of ''[[Hamlet]]'', published in 1899.<ref>General Editors' Preference, ''[[The Tempest]]'', Arden Shakespeare, 3rd Series, 1999</ref> Over the next 25 years, the entire [[Shakespeare's plays#Canonical plays|canon of Shakespeare]] was edited and published. The original editor of the Arden Shakespeare was [[William James Craig]] (1899-1906), succeeded by R. H. Case (1909-1944).<ref>Copyright page, "The Tempest", edited by Frank Kermode, Arden 2nd Series, 1954</ref> The text of the Arden Shakespeare, First series, was based on the 1864 "Globe" or Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works, edited by [[William George Clark]] and John Glover,<ref>General Preface, ''[[King Lear]]'', The Arden Shakespeare, copyrighted 1917</ref> as revised in 1891-93.<ref name=GenPref2>General Editor's Preface by Una Ellis-Fermor, dated 1951, as printed in ''[[Macbeth]]'', Arden Shakespeare, 2nd Series</ref> ==Second Series== The second series began in 1946, 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. Later issues of the paperbacks featured cover art by the [[Brotherhood of Ruralists]]. The Second Series was edited by Una Ellis-Fermor (1946–58); Harold F. Brooks (1952–82), [[Harold Jenkins (Shakespeare scholar)|Harold Jenkins]] (1958–82) and Brian Morris (1975–82).<ref>Copyright page, "Macbeth", edited by Kenneth Muir, Arden 2nd Series, printed 1994</ref> Unlike the First Series, where each volume was based on the same textual source (The Globe Shakespeare), the individual editors of each volume of the Second Series were responsible for editing the text of the play in that edition.<ref>GenPref2</ref> The complete list of the second series is as follows: {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Editor !! Title !! Year of publication !! Notes |- | [[Kenneth Muir (scholar)|Kenneth Muir]] || ''[[Macbeth]]'' || 1951 || |- | Richard David || ''[[Love's Labour's Lost]]'' || 1951 || |- | Kenneth Muir || ''[[King Lear]]'' || 1952 || |- | Maxwell || ''[[Titus Andronicus]]'' || 1953 || |- | [[Frank Kermode]] || ''[[The Tempest]]'' || 1954 || Reprinted with revisions in 1957. |- | Ridley || ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'' || 1954|| The introduction by Case from the First Series was reprinted. |- | Walter || ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]'' || 1954 || |- | [[E. A. J. Honigmann]] || ''[[King John (play)|King John]]'' || 1954 || Most up-to-date version available as of July 2015. |- | [[John Russell Brown]] || ''[[The Merchant of Venice]] ''|| 1955 || |- | [[T. S. Dorsch]] || ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' || 1955 || |- | [[J. M. Nosworthy]] || ''[[Cymbeline]]'' || 1955 || Most up-to-date version available as of July 2015. |- | [[Peter Ure]] || ''[[Richard II (play)|Richard II ]]'' || 1956 || |- | [[Andrew S. Cairncross]] ||'' [[2 Henry VI]]'' || 1957 || |- | [[R. A. Foakes]] || ''[[Henry VIII]]'' || 1957 || |- | [[H. J. Oliver]] || ''[[Timon of Athens]]'' || 1959 || |- | Ridley || ''[[Othello (play)|Othello]]'' || 1959 || |- | [[G. K. Hunter]] || ''[[All's Well that Ends Well]]'' || 1959 || Most up-to-date version available as of July 2015. |- | [[A. R. Humphreys]] || ''[[1 Henry IV]]'' || 1960 || |- | [[Andrew S. Cairncross]] || ''[[1 Henry VI]]'' || 1962 || |- | R. A. Foakes || ''[[Comedy of Errors]]'' || 1962 || Most up-to-date version available as of July 2015. |- | [[F. D. Hoeniger]] || ''[[Pericles]]'' || 1963 || |- | [[J. H. P. Pafford]] || ''[[The Winter's Tale]]'' || 1963 || |- | [[Andrew S. Cairncross]] || ''[[3 Henry VI]]'' || 1964 || |- | [[J. W. Lever]] || ''[[Measure for Measure]]'' || 1964 || Most up-to-date version available as of July 2015. |- | A. R. Humphreys || ''[[1 Henry VI]]'' || 1966 || |- | [[Clifford Leech]] || ''[[Two Gentlemen of Verona]]'' || 1969 || |- | [[H. J. Oliver]] || ''[[The Merry Wives of Windsor]]'' || 1971 || |- | [[Agnes Latham]] || ''[[As You Like It]]'' || 1975 || |- | J. M. Lothian and Thomas W. Craik || ''[[Twelfth Night]]'' || 1975 || |- | [[Philip Brockbank]] || ''[[Coriolanus]]'' || 1976 || |- | [[Harold F. Brooks]] || ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' || 1979 || Most up-to-date version available as of July 2015. |- | [[Brian Gibbons]] || ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' || 1980 || |- | [[A. R. Humphreys]] || ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' || 1981 || |- | [[Anthony Hammond]] || ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]'' || 1981 || |- | [[Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris|Brian Morris]] || ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' || 1981 || |- | [[A. R. Humphreys]] || ''[[Henry IV, Part 2|King Henry IV, Part 2]]'' || 1981 || Most up-to-date version available as of July 2015. |- | [[K. J. Palmer]] || ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]'' || 1982 || |- | [[Harold Jenkins (scholar)|Harold Jenkins]] || ''[[Hamlet]]'' || 1982 || |} ==Third Series== The third series began in the 1990s. The first editions were initially published by [[Routledge]], then by [[The Thomson Corporation|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]].<ref>[http://www.acblack.com/Department/Article.asp?article%5Fid=478&dept%5Fid=7 About Us], The Arden Shakespeare, A&C Black web site. Retrieved May 12, 2009.</ref> From February 2013, the titles have appeared under the [[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]] imprint.<ref>See "Coriolanus", Arden Shakespeare, Third Series (published February 2013)</ref> The general editors are [[Richard Proudfoot]], [[Anne Thompson (editor)|Ann Thompson]], [[David Scott Kastan]], and [[Henry Woudhuysen]]. In 2010 an edition of ''[[Double Falsehood]]'' was published, which was somewhat controversial since this play is generally regarded as non-[[wikt:canon|canon]]ical.<ref>http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts-and-culture/night-and-day/6662493/theatre-fake-shakespeare.thtml</ref> Subsequently, ''[[Sir Thomas More]]'', a play for which Shakespeare likely contributed only one scene, was published as part of the series. The Third Series edition of ''[[Hamlet]]'', edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, presents the play in two volumes. The first volume, released in 2006, contains an edited text of the Second Quarto (1604–05), with passages found only in the [[First Folio]] included in an appendix,<ref>Preface, "Hamlet", Arden 3rd Series</ref> while the second volume, released a year later, contains the text of the First Quarto (sometimes called the "bad" quarto) of 1603 and the First Folio of 1623<ref>"Hamlet, the Texts of 1603 and 1623", Arden Shakespeare, 3rd Series.</ref> The following is the list of plays published thus far in the Third Series. * ''[[Henry V (play)|King Henry V]]'', ed. by T. W. Craik (1995) * ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'', ed. by John Wilders (1995) * ''[[Titus Andronicus]]'', ed. by Jonathan Bate (1995) * ''[[Othello]]'', ed. by E. A. J. Honigmann (1996) * ''[[The Two Noble Kinsmen]]'', ed. by Lois Potter (1996) * ''[[King Lear]]'', ed. by R. A. Foakes (1997) * ''[[Shakespeare's Sonnets]]'', ed. by Katherine Duncan-Jones (1997) * ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]'', ed. by David Bevington (1998) * ''[[Love's Labour's Lost]]'', ed. by H. R. Woudhuysen (1998) * ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'', ed. by David Daniell (1998) * ''[[Henry VI, Part 2|King Henry VI, Part 2]]'', ed. by Ronald Knowles (1999) * ''[[The Merry Wives of Windsor]]'', ed. by Giorgio Melchiori (1999) * ''[[The Tempest]]'', ed. by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan (1999) * ''[[Henry VI, Part 1|King Henry VI, Part 1]]'', ed. by Edward Burns (2000) * ''[[Henry VIII (play)|King Henry VIII]]'', ed. by Gordon McMullan (2000) * ''[[Henry VI, Part 3|King Henry VI, Part 3]]'', ed. by John D. Cox and Eric Rasmussen (2001) * ''[[Richard II (play)|King Richard II]]'', ed. by Charles R. Forker (2002) * ''[[Henry IV, Part 1|King Henry IV, Part 1]]'', ed. by David Scott Kastan (2002) * ''[[The Two Gentlemen of Verona]]'', ed. by William C. Carroll (2004) * ''[[Pericles]]'', ed. by Suzanne Gossett (2004) * ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'', ed. by Claire McEachern (2005) * ''[[Hamlet|Hamlet: The Text of 1604]]'', ed. by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor (2006) * ''[[As You Like It]]'', ed. by Juliet Dusinberre (2006) * ''Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623'', ed. by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor (2007) * ''Shakespeare's Poems'', ed. by Katherine Duncan-Jones and H. R. Woudhuysen (2007) * ''[[Twelfth Night]]'', ed. by Keir Elam (2008) * ''[[Timon of Athens]]'', ed. by Anthony B. Dawson and Gretchen E. Minton (2008) * ''[[Richard III (play)|King Richard III]]'', ed. by James R. Siemon (2009) * ''[[Double Falsehood]]'', ed. by Brean Hammond (2010) * ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'', ed. by Barbara Hodgdon (2010) * ''Shakespeare's Sonnets'', revised edition, ed. by Katherine Duncan-Jones (2010) * ''[[The Winter's Tale]]'', ed. by John Pitcher (2010) * ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', ed. by John Drakakis (2011) * ''[[Sir Thomas More (play)|Sir Thomas More]]'', ed. by John Jowett (2011) * ''The Tempest'', revised edition, ed. by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan (2011) * ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', ed. by René Weis (2012) * ''[[Coriolanus]]'', ed. by Peter Holland (2013) *''[[Macbeth]]'', ed. by Sandra Clark and Pamela Mason (2015) * ''The Two Noble Kinsmen'', revised edition, ed. by Lois Potter (2015) Seven canonical plays remain unpublished.<ref>Addendum, "Coriolanus", Arden Shakespeare, Third Series (published February 2013)</ref> Current scheduling means that the complete works of Shakespeare will have been reissued in the Third Series in a manner coinciding with the 400th anniversary of his death. * ''[[Cymbeline]]'', ed. by Valerie Wayne (Oct. 8, 2015) <ref>https://twitter.com/Ardenpublisher/status/438588583277236225</ref> * ''Troilus and Cressida'', revised edition, ed. by David Bevington (Oct. 22, 2015) <ref>http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/troilus-and-cressida-9781472584748</ref> * ''Much Ado About Nothing'', revised edition, ed. by Claire McEachern (Jan. 28, 2016) <ref>http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/much-ado-about-nothing-revised-edition-9781472520296</ref> * ''Othello'', revised edition, ed. by Ayanna Thompson and E. A. J. Honigmann (Feb. 25, 2016) <ref>http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/othello-second-edition-9781472571762</ref> * ''Hamlet'', revised edition, ed. by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor (Apr. 21, 2016) <ref>http://www.bookdepository.com/Hamlet-Revised-Edition-Ann-Thompson/9781472518385</ref> * ''[[All's Well That Ends Well]]'', ed. by Helen Wilcox (Apr 21, 2016) <ref>https://twitter.com/Ardenpublisher/statuses/453426545630408704</ref> * ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', ed. by Sukanta Chaudhuri (2016) <ref>https://twitter.com/Ardenpublisher/statuses/453426545630408704</ref> * ''[[The Comedy of Errors]]'', ed. by Kent Cartwright (May 19, 2016) <ref>http://www.bookdepository.com/Comedy-Errors-Ed3-Arden-Shakespeare/9781904271246</ref> * ''[[Henry IV, Part 2|King Henry IV, Part 2]]'', ed. by James C. Bulman (Jun 16, 2016) * ''[[King John (play)|King John]]'', ed. by John Tobin and Jesse Lander (2016) <ref>http://www.bookdepository.com/King-John-Ed3-Arden-Shakespeare/9781904271390</ref> * ''[[Measure for Measure]]'', ed. by A. R. Braunmuller (2016) <ref>https://twitter.com/Ardenpublisher/statuses/465750409370689536</ref> In addition to these, one further play which has heretofore made up part of the [[Shakespeare Apocrypha]] is set to be published in the series: * ''[[Edward III (play)|King Edward III]]'', ed. by Richard Proudfoot (Feb 25, 2016) <ref>http://www.bookdepository.com/King-John-Ed3-Arden-Shakespeare/9781904271390</ref> ==Fourth Series== In March of 2015 Bloomsbury Academic named Peter Holland of the University of Notre Dame, Zachary Lesser of the University of Pennsylvania, and Tiffany Stern of Oxford University as general editors of The Arden Shakespeare, fourth series.<ref>Deliyannides, Andrew. [http://english.nd.edu/news/56304-peter-holland-named-general-editor-of-the-arden-shakespeare/ "Peter Holland Named General Editor of The Arden Shakespeare"], University of Notre Dame, 3 March 2015.</ref> ==Arden Early Modern Drama== In 2009, the Arden Shakespeare launched the Arden Early Modern Drama series. The series follows the formatting and scholarly style of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series, but shifts the focus onto less well-known playwrights from the English Renaissance, primarily the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline periods (although the plays ''[[Everyman (play)|Everyman]]'' and ''[[Mankind (play)|Mankind]]'' hail from the reign of [[Henry VII of England|King Henry VII]]. * ''[[The Duchess of Malfi]]'' by [[John Webster]], ed. by Leah S. Marcus (2009) * ''Everyman'' and ''Mankind'', ed. by Douglas Bruster and Eric Rasmussen (2009) * ''[[Philaster (play)|Philaster]]'' by [[Francis Beaumont]] and [[John Fletcher (playwright)|John Fletcher]], ed. by Suzanne Gossett (2009) * ''[[The Renegado]]'' by [[Philip Massinger]], ed. by Michael Neill (2010) * ''[['Tis Pity She's a Whore]]'' by [[John Ford]], ed. by Sonia Massai (2011) * ''[[The Tragedy of Mariam]]'' by [[Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland|Elizabeth Cary]], ed. by Ramona Wray (2012) * ''[[The Island Princess]]'' by John Fletcher, ed. by Clare McManus (2013) * ''[[The Spanish Tragedy]]'' by [[Thomas Kyd]], ed. by Clara Calvo and Jesús Tronch (2013) * ''[[A Jovial Crew]]'' by [[Richard Brome]], ed. by Tiffany Stern (2014) ==Complete Works== Arden has also published a [[Complete Works of Shakespeare|''Complete Works'' of Shakespeare]], which reprints editions from the second and third series. ==Critical Literature== The Arden Shakespeare has also published a number of series of literary and historical criticism to accompany the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and Arden Early Modern Drama imprints. == References == {{reflist}} == External links == {{Shakespeare|state=collapsed}} [[Category:Shakespearean scholarship]]'