Arden Shakespeare

a long-running series of scholarly editions of the works of William Shakespeare

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, but the primary reference of the enterprise's title is named after the Forest of Arden, in which Shakespeare's As You Like It is set.^[1]

Contents

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  1 First Series
  


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  2 Second Series
  


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  3 Third Series
  
  
  
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    3.1 Editions
    
  
  
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    3.2 Apocrypha
    
  
  
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    3.3 Revised editions
    
  
  
  
  


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  4 Fourth Series
  


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  5 Arden Early Modern Drama
  


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  6 Complete Works
  


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  7 Critical Literature
  


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  8 Notes
  


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  9 References
  


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  10 External links
  

First Series

The first series was published by Methuen. Its first publication was Edward Dowden's edition of Hamlet, published in 1899.^[2] Over the next 25 years, the entire 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).^[3] 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,^[4] as revised in 1891–93.^[5]

The list of the first series is as follows:^[6]

Editor	Title	Year of publication
Edward Dowden	Hamlet	1899
Edward Dowden	Romeo and Juliet	1900
W. J. Craig	King Lear	1901
Michael Macmillan	Julius Caesar	1902
Morton Luce	The Tempest	1902
Edward Dowden	Cymbeline	1903
H. C. Hart	Othello	1903
Herbert Arthur Evans	Henry V	1904
W. Osbourne Brigstoke	All's Well That Ends Well	1904
H. C. Hart	Love's Labour's Lost	1904
H. C. Hart	The Merry Wives of Windsor	1904
H. Bellyse Balldon	Titus Andronicus	1904
Henry Cuningham	A Midsummer Night's Dream	1905
H. C. Hart	Measure for Measure	1905
K. Deighton	Timon of Athens	1905
R. Warwick Bond	The Taming of the Shrew	1905
Charles Knox Pooler	The Merchant of Venice	1905
R. Warwick Bond	Two Gentlemen of Verona	1906
Morton Luce	Twelfth Night	1906
K. Deighton	Troilus and Cressida	1906
R. H. Case	Antony and Cleopatra	1906
K. Deighton	Pericles	1907
Ivor B. John	King John	1907
Henry Cuningham	The Comedy of Errors	1907
A. Hamilton Thompson	Richard III	1907
H. C. Hart	1 Henry VI	1909
H. C. Hart	2 Henry VI	1909
H. C. Hart	3 Henry VI	1910
Charles Knox Pooler	Poems	1911
Henry Cuningham	Macbeth	1912
Ivor B. John	Richard II	1912
F. W. Moorman	The Winter's Tale	1912
J. W. Holme	As You Like It	1914
R. P. Cowl, A. E. Morgan	1 Henry IV	1914
Charles Knox Pooler	Henry VIII	1915
Charles Knox Pooler	Sonnets	1918
W. J. Craig	Coriolanus	1922
R. P. Cowl	2 Henry IV	1923
Grace R. Trenery	Much Ado About Nothing	1924

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 (1958–82) and Brian Morris (1975–82).^[7] 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.^[8]

Editions in the second series

Editor	Title	Year	Notes
Kenneth Muir	Macbeth	1951
Richard David	Love's Labour's Lost	1951
Kenneth Muir	King Lear	1952
J.C. Maxwell	Titus Andronicus	1953
Frank Kermode	The Tempest	1954	Reprinted with revisions in 1957.
M. R. Ridley	Antony and Cleopatra	1954	The introduction by Case from the First Series was reprinted.
J.H. Walter	Henry V	1954
E. A. J. Honigmann	King John	1954
John Russell Brown	The Merchant of Venice	1955
T. S. Dorsch	Julius Caesar	1955
J. M. Nosworthy	Cymbeline	1955
Peter Ure	Richard II	1956
Andrew S. Cairncross	2 Henry VI	1957
R. A. Foakes	Henry VIII	1957
H. J. Oliver	Timon of Athens	1959
M.R. Ridley	Othello	1959
G. K. Hunter	All's Well that Ends Well	1959
A. R. Humphreys	1 Henry IV	1960
F. T. Prince	The Poems	1960	Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece
Andrew S. Cairncross	1 Henry VI	1962
R. A. Foakes	Comedy of Errors	1962
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 March 2019.
A. R. Humphreys	2 Henry IV	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
Brian Gibbons	Romeo and Juliet	1980
A. R. Humphreys	Much Ado About Nothing	1981
Anthony Hammond	Richard III	1981
Brian Morris	The Taming of the Shrew	1981
K. J. Palmer	Troilus and Cressida	1982
Harold Jenkins	Hamlet	1982

Third Series

The third series of the Arden Shakespeare began to be edited during the 1980s, with publication starting in the 1990s.

The first editions in this series were published by Routledge, before moving to Thomson. They then moved to Cengage Learning. In December 2008, the series returned to Methuen, becoming part of Methuen Drama, its original publisher. From February 2013, the titles have appeared under the Bloomsbury imprint.^[9]

The editions in the third series are published very much in line with the traditions established by the Arden Shakespeare; however, editions in this series tend to be much thicker than those of the first and second series, with more explanatory notes and much longer introductions. One unusual aspect of this series is its edition of Hamlet, which presents the play in two separate volumes. The first, 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,^[10] while the supplementary second volume, released a year later, contains both the text of the First Quarto (sometimes called the "bad" quarto) of 1603, and of the First Folio of (1623).^[11]

The general editors for this series are Richard Proudfoot; Ann Thompson of King's College London; David Scott Kastan of Yale University; and H. R. Woudhuysen of the University of Oxford.

As of March 2019^[update], the edition of one canonical play remains to be published: Measure for Measure, edited by A. R. Braunmuller.

Editions

What follows is a list of editions published in the third series thus far as of March 2019.

Editions in the third series

Title	Year	Editor	Notes
King Henry V	1995	T. W. Craik
Antony and Cleopatra	1995	John Wilders
Titus Andronicus	1995	Jonathan Bate
Othello	1996	E. A. J. Honigmann
The Two Noble Kinsmen	1996	Lois Potter	The play is attributed to Shakespeare and John Fletcher on the title page.
King Lear	1997	R. A. Foakes	It is interesting—considering the editors' decision to publish the three versions of Hamlet as three separate texts—that Foakes' edition of King Lear is based upon a conflation of the quarto and folio texts of the tragedy, disregarding the practice established by the Oxford Shakespeare of treating them as two separate texts.
Shakespeare's Sonnets	1997	Katherine Duncan-Jones	Contains every poetic work included in the original Shakespeare's Sonnets quarto of 1609—that is, 154 sonnets, plus the narrative poem A Lover's Complaint (a work the authorship of which is often disputed).
Troilus and Cressida	1998	David Bevington
Love's Labour's Lost	1998	H. R. Woudhuysen
Julius Caesar	1998	David Daniell
King Henry VI Part 2	1999	Ronald Knowles
The Merry Wives of Windsor	1999	Giorgio Melchiori
The Tempest	1999	Virginia Mason Vaughan Alden T. Vaughan
King Henry VI Part 1	2000	Edward Burns
King Henry VIII	2000	Gordon McMullan	The play is attributed to Shakespeare and John Fletcher on the title page.
King Henry VI Part 3	2001	John D. Cox Eric Rasmussen
King Richard II	2002	Charles R. Forker
King Henry IV Part 1	2002	David Scott Kastan
The Two Gentlemen of Verona	2004	William C. Carroll
Pericles, Prince of Tyre	2004	Suzanne Gossett	The play is attributed to Shakespeare and George Wilkins on the title page.
Much Ado About Nothing	2005	Claire McEachern
Hamlet	2006	Ann Thompson Neil Taylor	Contains the Q2 (1604) text.
Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623	2007	Ann Thompson Neil Taylor	Contains the Q1 (1603) and FF (1623) text. A supplementary volume to the main edition (above) based on Q2 (1604).
As You Like It	2006	Juliet Dusinberre
Shakespeare's Poems	2007	Katherine Duncan-Jones H. R. Woudhuysen	Contains Shakespeare's two major narrative poems—Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece—as well as his metaphysical poem The Phoenix and the Turtle, plus several shorter works attributed to Shakespeare.
Twelfth Night	2008	Keir Elam
Timon of Athens	2008	Anthony B. Dawson Gretchen E. Minton	The play is attributed to Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton on the title page.
King Richard III	2009	James R. Siemon
The Taming of the Shrew	2010	Barbara Hodgdon
The Winter's Tale	2010	John Pitcher
The Merchant of Venice	2011	John Drakakis
Romeo and Juliet	2012	René Weis
Coriolanus	2013	Peter Holland
Macbeth	2015	Sandra Clark Pamela Mason
King Henry IV Part 2	2016	James C. Bulman
The Comedy of Errors	2016	Kent Cartwright
Cymbeline	2017	Valerie Wayne
A Midsummer Night's Dream	2017	Sukanta Chaudhuri
King John	2018	Jesse M. Lander J. J. M. Tobin
All's Well That Ends Well	2018	Helen Wilcox Suzanne Gossett
Measure for Measure	(14.11.2019)	A. R. Braunmuller

Apocrypha

The third series is also notable for publishing single-volume editions of certain plays which traditionally form part of the so-called Shakespeare Apocrypha, but for which there is considered good evidence of Shakespeare having at least been part author. Three apocryphal plays have so far been published in this manner.

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  Double Falsehood, edited by Brean Hammond (2010)^[a]
  


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  Sir Thomas More, edited by John Jowett (2011)^[b]
  


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  King Edward III, edited by Richard Proudfoot and Nicola Bennett (2017) ^[12]
  

Revised editions

Due to the long period of time over which the series has been published, many of the editions listed above have been (or are planned to be) re-issued in revised editions, The first – Shakespeare's Sonnets – was published in 2010, fifteen years after the series began. Thus far, eight editions have been reissued in revised form.

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  Shakespeare's Sonnets (2010)


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  The Tempest (2011)


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  The Two Noble Kinsmen (2015)


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  Troilus and Cressida (2015)


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  Much Ado About Nothing (2016)


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  Othello (2016)^[c]
  


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  Hamlet (2016)


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  Titus Andronicus (2018) ^[13]
  

Fourth Series

In March 2015, Bloomsbury Academic named Peter Holland of the University of Notre Dame, Zachary Lesser of the University of Pennsylvania, and Tiffany Stern of the Shakespeare Institute as general editors of the Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series.^[14]

Arden Early Modern Drama

In 2009, the Arden Shakespeare launched a companion series, entitled "Arden Early Modern Drama". The series follows the formatting and scholarly style of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series, but shifts the focus onto less well-known English Renaissance playwrights, primarily the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline periods (although the plays Everyman and Mankind hail from the reign of King Henry VII).

The general editors for this series are Suzanne Gossett of Loyola University Chicago; John Jowett of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham; and Gordon McMullan of King's College London.

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  The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, edited by Leah Marcus (2009)


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  Everyman and Mankind, edited by Douglas Bruster and Eric Rasmussen (2009)


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  Philaster by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, edited by Suzanne Gossett (2009)


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  The Renegado by Philip Massinger, edited by Michael Neill (2010)


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  'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford, edited by Sonia Massai (2011)


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  The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary, edited by Ramona Wray (2012)


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  The Island Princess by John Fletcher, edited by Clare McManus (2013)


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  The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd, edited by Clara Calvo and Jesús Tronch (2013)


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  A Jovial Crew by Richard Brome, edited by Tiffany Stern (2014)


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  The Witch of Edmonton by Thomas Dekker, John Ford and William Rowley, edited by Lucy Munro (2016).


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  A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood, edited by Margaret Kidnie (2017).


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  The Dutch Courtesan by John Marston, edited by Karen Britland (2018).


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  The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton, edited by Gretchen Minton (Dec 2018).


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  The White Devil by John Webster, edited by Benedict S. Robinson (Dec 2018).

Complete Works

Arden has also published a 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.

Notes

1. 
   ^ The edition adopts the belief that the play is the only surviving version of Shakespeare and Fletcher's lost tragicomedy Cardenio, revised by Lewis Theobald for eighteenth century audiences.
   


2. 
   ^ This edition identifies Shakespeare as one reviser of a play originally written by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle, the other revisers supposedly being Chettle, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood, and the unidentified "Hand C".
   


3. 
   ^ Owing to the 2011 death of E. A. J. Honigmann, the original editor, the revision of this edition has been undertaken by Ayanna Thompson. This is the only instance in the series (so far) where the revising editor has been different to the original editor.
   

References

1. 
   ^ Juliet Dusinberre, introduction to "As You Like It", Arden Shakespeare, Third Edition
   


2. 
   ^ General Editors' Preference, The Tempest, Arden Shakespeare, 3rd Series, 1999
   


3. 
   ^ Copyright page, "The Tempest", edited by Frank Kermode, Arden 2nd Series, 1954
   


4. 
   ^ General Preface, King Lear, The Arden Shakespeare, copyrighted 1917
   


5. 
   ^ General Editor's Preface by Una Ellis-Fermor, dated 1951, as printed in Macbeth, Arden Shakespeare, 2nd Series
   


6. 
   ^ "The works of Shakespeare: London, Methuen [1899–1930]". Stanford University Library. Retrieved 4 May 2016..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
   


7. 
   ^ Copyright page, "Macbeth", edited by Kenneth Muir, Arden 2nd Series, printed 1994
   


8. 
   ^ GenPref2
   


9. 
   ^ See "Coriolanus", Arden Shakespeare, Third Series (published February 2013)
   


10. 
    ^ Preface, "Hamlet", Arden 3rd Series
    


11. 
    ^ "Hamlet, the Texts of 1603 and 1623", Arden Shakespeare, 3rd Series.
    


12. 
    ^ Bloomsbury Publishing Website, accessed April 6, 2017.
    


13. 
    ^ Bloomsbury Publishing Website, accessed April 29, 2017.
    


14. 
    ^ Deliyannides, Andrew. "Peter Holland Named General Editor of The Arden Shakespeare", University of Notre Dame, 3 March 2015.
    

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