The Arden Shakespeare

The Arden Shakespeare is the title of a complete edition of the works of William Shakespeare . The edition includes a one-volume reading version, scholarly individual editions of the works with an introduction, commentary and remarks, and supplementary secondary literature. So far, three editions have appeared. Parallel to the works of Shakespeare, a series of "Arden Early Modern Drama" with works by authors of Shakespeare's time will be published. The title of the edition refers to the Arden Forest, where Shakespeare's As You Like It is set.

First series

The first edition of the series ("The First Series") was published by Methuen Publishing and started with Edward Dowden 's edition of Hamlet in 1899. In the following 25 years, all of Shakespeare's works were published in 37 individual volumes by various editors. The Arden Shakespeare thus historically represented as the first complete series edition with different editors an alternative to the previous complete editions of Shakespeare's works, which were editorially in one hand. The general direction of the "First Series" had in the years 1899-1906 first William James Craig and then from 1909 to 1944 RH Case.

The text of the first Arden edition corresponded to the reference text for the verse, the so-called "Globe-Shakespeare". This is a one-volume complete edition, produced in 1864 by William George Clark and William Aldis Wright on the basis of the text of the nine-volume "Cambridge Shakespeare" by the same authors in the years 1863-1866 and 1891-1893 by WC Clark and John Glover was reissued. The text of the "Globe-Shaklespeare" from 1891 is also the basis of the "Complete Concordance" by John Bartlett from 1894.

Despite the close textual reference to the Old Cambridge Shakespeare, the first Arden series still had a special place in the history of the edition of Shakespeare's works. The editors followed an edition concept that had emerged at the end of the 19th century, and provided each edition with detailed introductions as well as extensive verbal explanations and comments on the understanding of the text and content; They also added a variant apparatus and added realities such as sources or historical references.

Second series

The second edition started in 1946 and was completed around 1980. The managing editors from 1948 until her death in 1958 were Una Ellis-Fermor, then Harold F. Brooks (1952-82), Harold Jenkins (1958-82) and Brian Morris (1975-82). In contrast to the first series, which with "The Globe Shakespeare" was based on a common textual basis, since the second series each individual publisher has created its own edition of the text.

At the beginning of the revision of the first row, the general editing concept remained largely unchanged with regard to the text editing and the design of the commentary section; It was only with the change of the full editor, under the influence of growing criticism of the first newly published volumes, that the basic editorial concept was also reconsidered. In doing so, findings from recent text criticism and more recent research results from editorial studies were increasingly included. However, the individual editors had a great deal of individual leeway for their factual explanations or interpretations and text comments, so that the individual volumes of the second Arden series have a very different quality both in the text versions and in the annotation apparatus.

The pattern of the series edition with various individual editors under one general management, which was shaped by the Arden Edition, has now been adopted by two further series editions: on the one hand from the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition , which, however, does not coincide with the complete edition of the same name, also published by Cambridge University Press by JD Wilson may be confused, and on the other by the Oxford edition of Shakespeare as part of the World's Classics series, the Oxford University Press .

The following dramas in the Arden edition have so far been updated or revised in the second row and not yet in the third row:

• All's Well That Ends Well , ed. by GK Hunter (1959)
• Measure for Measure , ed. by JW Lever (1965)

Third Series

Work began in 1990 on the publication of "The Third Series". The first volumes were published by Routledge , followed by Thomson and Cengage Learning . From December 2008 the series appeared again with Methuen and since February 2013 with Bloomsbury . The chief editors are Richard Proudfoot , Ann Thompson , David Scott Kastan and Henry Woudhuysen .

One of the special features of the "Third Series" is the edition of so-called Shakespeare Apocrypha. Double Falsehood was released in 2010, followed by Sir Thomas More, to which Shakespeare probably contributed a scene. The new edition of Hamlet was done in 2006 by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor in two volumes. The first volume is based on the text of the second quarto (1604 - 05) and the second volume contains the text of the first quarto from 1603 and the folio text from 1623.

The third series of the Arden Edition is not based on a fundamentally new edition concept, but follows today's view of the Shakespeare text and incorporates the insights of the more recent Shakespeare editing.

The following volumes were published by 2018:

• King Henry V , edited by TW Craik (1995)
• Antony and Cleopatra , ed. by John Wilders (1995)
• Titus Andronicus , ed. by Jonathan Bate (1995)
• Othello , ed. by EAJ Honigmann (1996)
• The Two Noble Kinsmen , ed. by Lois Potter (1996, revised new edition February 2015)
• King Lear , ed. by RA Foakes (1997)
• Shakespeare's Sonnets , ed. by Katherine Duncan-Jones (1997)
• Troilus and Cressida , ed. by David Bevington (1998)
• Love's Labor's Lost , ed. by HR Woudhuysen (1998)
• Julius Caesar , ed. by David Daniell (1998)
• 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)
• King Henry VI, Part 1 , ed. by Edward Burns (2000)
• King Henry VIII , ed. by Gordon McMullan (2000)
• King Henry VI, Part 3 , ed. by John D. Cox and Eric Rasmussen (2001)
• King Richard II , ed. by Charles R. Forker (2002)
• 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, revised new edition September 2015)
• 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 HR Woudhuysen (2007)
• Twelfth Night , ed. by Keir Elam (2008)
• Timon of Athens , ed. by Anthony B. Dawson and Gretchen E. Minton (2008)
• 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 , 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 Rob Hastie and Josie Rourke (2013)
• Macbeth , ed. by Sandra Clark and Pamela Mason (2015)
• King Henry IV, Part 2 , ed. by James C. Bulman (2016)
• The Comedy of Errors , ed. by Kent Cartwright (2017)
• Cymbeline , ed. by Valerie Wayne (2017)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream , ed. by Sukanta Chauduri (2017)
• King John , ed. by John Tobin and Jesse Lander (2018)

It was originally planned that the "Third Series" should have been published in full by the 400th year of Shakespeare's death in 2016. The work on two dramas is currently (as of July 2018) not yet finished:

• Measure for Measure , ed. by AR Braunmuller, Robert N. Watson, et al. (planned release date: January 9, 2020)
• All's Well That Ends Well , ed. by Suzanne Gossett, Helen Wilcox, et al. (planned release date: November 29, 2018)

In addition, a work that has so far been counted among the Shakespeare Apocrypha has appeared in the series:

• King Edward III , ed. by Richard Proudfoot and Nicola Bennett (2017)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Complete Works publisher's advertisement
2. ↑ Juliet Dusinberre, introduction to "As You Like It", Arden Shakespeare, Third Edition
3. ↑ General Editors' Preference, The Tempest , Arden Shakespeare, 3rd Series, 1999
4. ^ Copyright page, "The Tempest", edited by Frank Kermode, Arden 2nd Series, 1954. See also Cf. Ina Schabert (Ed.): Shakespeare-Handbuch. Time, man, work, posterity. 5th, revised and supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-520-38605-2 , p. 229.
5. ^ Halliday (1964), p. 189.
6. ↑ General Preface, King Lear , The Arden Shakespeare, copyrighted 1917
7. ↑ General Editor's Preface by Una Ellis-Fermor, dated 1951, as printed in Macbeth , Arden Shakespeare, 2nd Series
8. ^ Dobson Oxford Companion. Article "John Bartlett". P. 39.
9. ↑ Cf. Ina Schabert : Shakespeare Handbook . Kröner, Stuttgart 2009. ISBN 978-3-520-38605-2 , p. 229.
10. ^ Copyright page, "Macbeth", edited by Kenneth Muir, Arden 2nd Series, printed 1994
11. ↑ GenPref2
12. ↑ Cf. Ina Schabert : Shakespeare Handbook . Kröner, Stuttgart 2009. ISBN 978-3-520-38605-2 , p. 229 f.
13. ↑ See "Coriolanus", Arden Shakespeare, Third Series (published February 2013)
14. ↑ Advertisement "Double Falsehood"
15. ↑ Publisher's advertisement "Sir Thomas More"
16. ^ Preface, "Hamlet," Arden 3rd Series
17. ^ "Hamlet, the Texts of 1603 and 1623", Arden Shakespeare, 3rd Series.
18. ↑ Cf. Ina Schabert : Shakespeare Handbook . Kröner, Stuttgart 2009. ISBN 978-3-520-38605-2 , p. 230 f.

Web links

• The Arden Shakespeare