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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]
The Arden Edition of the Works of William Shakespeare: The Tempest (1954) London: Methuen, OCLC 479707500; Seventeenth Century Songs, now first printed from a Bodleian manuscript (1956), ed. with John P. Cutts. Reading University School of Art, OCLC 185784945; John Donne (1957), London: Longmans, Green & Co., ISBN 0-582-01086-1, OCLC 459757847
Simon Forman's description of a production of Macbeth at the Globe Theatre, 20 April 1610.Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 208, f. 207r. The Book of Plays (full title in original spelling The Bocke of Plaies and Notes therof p formans for Common Pollicie) is a section of a manuscript by the London astrologer Simon Forman that records his descriptions of four plays he attended in 1610-11 ...
This article is a collection of quotations and other comments on English playwright William Shakespeare and his works. Shakespeare enjoyed recognition in his own time, but in the 17th century, some poets and authors began to consider him as the supreme dramatist and poet of all times of the English language. No other dramatist has been ...
Hamlet Q1 (1603), the first published text of Hamlet, is often described as a "bad quarto".. A bad quarto, in Shakespearean scholarship, is a quarto-sized printed edition of one of Shakespeare's plays that is considered to be unauthorised, and is theorised to have been pirated from a theatrical performance without permission by someone in the audience writing it down as it was spoken or ...
Rasmussen is the co-editor of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works of William Shakespeare (2007) and The Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama (2002) as well as editions for the Arden Shakespeare, Oxford's World's Classics, the Revels Plays, the Malone Society, and The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson.
His more recent work has pioneered methods of critical-creative writing, exemplified by his innovative factual-fictional biography Nine Lives of William Shakespeare (Bloomsbury/Arden Shakespeare, 2011), [14] which pairs critical chapters on biographical themes, with short stories on the same topic, written in styles as diverse as those of Dan ...
In his own lifetime, Shakespeare saw only about half of his plays enter print. Some individual plays were published in quarto, a small, cheap format.Then, in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, his fellow actors John Heminges and Henry Condell compiled a folio collection of his complete plays, now known as the First Folio.