Philip Brockbank Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

The Arden Shakespeare, founded in the 1890s, has, with a continuing process of revision, established itself as the Standard scholarly edition of Shakespeare's works. Each play appears in a seperate volume with critical notes, apparatus, appendices giving extracts from the relevant sources, and a full introduction. For the general Reader and for students who want something more substantial than school texts or a one-volume Shakespeare, the Arden Edition, edited to the highest standards of modern scholarship, has continued to prove invaluable.

This is believed to be the first book of its kind. Twelve distinguished actors were asked to write about the preparation and performance of a Shakespeare role they had played in a production with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally re-edited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrated introduction, including an in-depth survey of critical and performance approaches to the play; and selected bibliography.

"Coriolanus is perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written. Set in Ancient Rome, it remains a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics. The introduction to this new edition considers Shakespeare's adaptation of his historical material (Plutarch's Lives) in relation to the social and political conditions in London and Stratford at the time of the play's composition, also offering new evidence that it was written in 1608. Professor Parker examines the play's history and particularly its staging at the Blackfriars theatre, where it was probably the first of Shakespeare's plays to be presented and for which it may have been written. A thorough commentary pays special attention to the needs of actors and directors."--Publisher description