King Edward III is increasingly thought to have been written in significant part by Shakespeare. This landmark new edition by textual expert and General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, offers a full account of the play's text and the evidence of Shakespeare's hand at work in it. Fully annotated with on-page notes and a lengthy critical introduction which also explores the play's production history and the impact of its historical context.

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition retains Giorgio Melchiori's text of Shakespeare's The Second Part of King Henry IV. Melchiori argues that the play forms an unplanned sequel to the First Part, itself a 'remake' of an old, non-Shakespearean play. In the Second Part, Shakespeare deliberately exploits Falstaff's popular appeal and the resulting rich humour adds a comic dimension to the play, rendering it a unique blend of history, morality play and comedy. Among modern editions, Melchiori's is the one most firmly based on the quarto. This second edition includes a new section by Adam Hansen on recent stage, film and critical interpretations.

Product Description: The best edition of the play in print. Gives a radical re-examination of the manuscript, and relates step by step to the process by which the play acquired its final form. Accounts for every single word and mark found in the manuscript - reproduces rejected or alternative passages at the end of the text...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This election edition contains coverage of the 1996 campaigns, conventions and elections. The text aims to help students to think about how today's issues affect the institutions and processes of government in the US. recent events are covered, such as the Oklahoma City bombing, and GATT.

Product Description: These essays present some significant Italian contributions to Shakespeare studies. Expressly translated and revised for this occasion, they are representative of approaches to Shakespeare and his contemporaries in Italy and they convey a sense of the vitality and extreme variety of critical and scholarly attitudes in this field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume is a reexamination of the genesis and growth of the second cycle of Shakespeare's histories from Richard II to Henry V: the author uncovers the links of these plays to the earlier Edward II and the Merry Wives of Windosr, establishing a dramatic continuum.

Product Description: An edition of a famous and controversial theatrical document from the Elizabethan age. The book indicates that the play, far from being unfinished and chaotic, is stageworthy and well-constructed, the best extant example of biographical history.

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