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The original editor of The Arden Shakespeare was William James Craig (1899–1906), succeeded by R. H. Case (1909–1944). [5] 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, [6] as revised in 1891–93. [7]
This would also support a date of 1603–1604. However, following H. C. Hart's 1928 edition of the play for the first series of the Arden Shakespeare, E. A. J. Honigmann dates the play mid-1601 to mid-1602, believing it to have influenced the bad quarto of Hamlet (in existence by July 1602). For example, he cites the substitution of the name ...
The other main theatre where Shakespeare's original plays were performed was the second Blackfriars Theatre, an indoor theatre built by James Burbage, father of Richard Burbage, and impresario of the Lord Chamberlain's Men. However, neighborhood protests kept Burbage from using the theater for the Lord Chamberlain's Men performances for a ...
Some scholars, such as Peter Alexander and Eric Sams, believe that the oft-attributed source work known as the Ur-Hamlet was actually a first draft of the play, written by Shakespeare himself sometime prior to 1589. [2] Summary Prince Hamlet is visited by his father's ghost and ordered to avenge his father's murder by killing King Claudius, his ...
The Folger Theatre in Washington, DC staged a production directed by Tamilla Wodard that fall as the first play shown in the Theatre after its multi-year, multimillion-dollar renovation. [45] The play was performed at Boston's "Shakespeare on the Common" for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company in July and August, 2024, and was directed by Bryn Boice.
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Arden's House in Faversham, Kent; the scene of his murder. Thomas Arden, or Arderne, was a successful businessman in the early Tudor period.Born in 1508, probably in Norwich, Arden took advantage of the tumult of the Reformation to make his fortune, trading in the former monastic properties dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538.
For example, in his 1953 edition of the play for the Arden Shakespeare 2nd Series, J.C. Maxwell argues for a date of late 1589. [41] Similarly, E.A.J. Honigmann, in his 'early start' theory of 1982, suggests that Shakespeare wrote the play several years before coming to London c. 1590 , and that Titus was actually his first play, written c ...