Complete Works of Shakespeare, The, 7th Edition
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A balanced editorial approach, a highly respected editor, and proven apparatus combine to make Bevington the most student-friendly introduction to Shakespeare on the market.
The seventh edition of this comprehensive anthology addresses the two key issues confronted by students approaching Shakespeare today:
(1) a lack of knowledge about the historical period and;
(2) difficulty with the language of Shakespeare's plays.
David Bevington's richly illustrated general introduction offers insight into Shakespeare's England and background on the literary, social, and cultural contexts in which Shakespeare wrote and produced plays. Each play is introduced by a descriptive essay designed to help students appreciate the historical contexts and interpretive issues raised by the play, without dictating students' interpretations. Completely revised and updated notes and glosses support student readers line by line, paraphrasing Elizabethan expressions in clear and accessible contemporary language.
Features
- A richly illustrated General Introduction provides students with the historical and cultural background they need to understand Shakespeare's works in context.
- Introductory essays on each play offer insight into major themes, cultural issues, and critical conflicts, as well as updated performance histories on each work. Recent films and stage performances are discussed for all major works.
- The most complete and accessible apparatus to help today’s students understand and appreciate Shakespeare. Clear and accessible notes and glosses support modern readers line by line. Renaissance expressions and idioms are painstakingly translated into modern English by an editor with many years’ experience teaching Shakespeare to undergraduates.
- The collective wisdom and critical acumen of a prestigious editorial advisory board and one of our most highly respected Shakespeare scholars combine to provide state-of-the-art scholarship and interpretive balance on each and every work in the Shakespeare canon.
New to This Edition
- "Reading Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century," an updated essay that opens the General Introduction poses questions about the relevance and difficulty of Shakespeare for contemporary students and offers practical strategies for readers new to Shakespeare.
- “Shakespeare’s Language,” in the general introduction, has been revised in order to better introduce Shakespeare’s idioms and vocabulary to novice readers.
- “Films and Videos as a Guide to the Study of Shakespeare, updated for the seventh edition, offers an annotated filmography and advice on how to use films and videos to study a play.
- Thoroughly revised and updated notes and glosses provide contemporary readers the support they need to understand Elizabethan language and idioms in accessible and clear modern language, line by line.
- A richly illustrated general introduction provides readers with the historical and cultural background required to understand Shakespeare’s works in context.
- “Shakespeare’s World: A Visual Portfolio” provides16 pages of full color illustrations to help readers visualize Renaissance life and culture and to trace the history of significant performances on stage and screen. Nearly one-third of these color images are new to this edition and are drawn from Shakespeare production from around the globe.
- Woodcuts and other illustrations from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, depicting famous persons, animals, social customs, pastimes, hobbies, costuming conventions, themes, myths, and the like from the world that Shakespeare knew are given throughout the volume.
Table of Contents
Preface.
GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
Reading Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century
Life in Shakespeare's England.
Shakespeare's World: A Visual Portfolio.
The Drama Before Shakespeare.
London Theaters and Dramatic Companies.
Shakespeare's Life and Work.
How to Read Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Language
Shakespeare Criticism.
THE COMEDIES.
The Comedy of Errors.
Love's Labor's Lost.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
The Taming of the Shrew.
A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The Merchant of Venice.
Much Ado About Nothing.
The Merry Wives of Windsor.
As You Like It.
Twelfth Night; or, What You Will.
All's Well That Ends Well.
Measure for Measure.
Troilus and Cressida.
THE HISTORIES.
The First Part of King Henry the Sixth.
The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth.
The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth.
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third.
The Life and Death of King John.
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second.
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth.
The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth.
The Life of King Henry the Fifth.
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth.
THE TRAGEDIES.
Titus Andronicus.
Romeo and Juliet.
Julius Caesar.
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
Othello, the Moor of Venice.
King Lear.
Macbeth.
Timon of Athens.
Antony and Cleopatra.
Coriolanus.
THE ROMANCES.
Pericles.
Cymbeline.
The Winter's Tale.
The Tempest.
The Two Noble Kinsmen.
THE POEMS.
Venus and Adonis.
The Rape of Lucrece.
The Phoenix and Turtle.
A Lover's Complaint.
Sonnets.
Appendix 1: Canon, Dates, and Early Texts.
Appendix 2: Sources.
Appendix 3: Shakespeare in Performance (co-authored with Lois Potter).
The Royal Genealogy of England.
Maps.
Bibliography: Suggestions for Reading and Research.
Textual Notes.
Glossary: Shakespearean Words and Meanings of Frequent Occurrence.
Index.
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Complete Works of Shakespeare, The, 7th Edition
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About the Author(s)
David Bevington is a highly respected editor and Shakespearean scholar. He is Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus. He taught drama at the University of Chicago, focusing on Shakespeare and his contemporaries (Jonson, Marlowe, Webster, Middleton, Dekker, etc.), as well as medieval drama and then the entire sweep of Western drama from Aeschylus and Sophocles down to Caryl Churchill and Tom Stoppard. In addition to courses on Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and medieval drama, he co-taught in Theater and Performance Studies ((variously with Heidi Coleman, Director of University Theater, John Muse, English Department, and Drew Dir, resident dramaturg at Court Theatre) a two-quarter sequence called The History and Theory of Drama from the 5th century B.C. down to the present day. "One of the most learned and devoted of Shakespeareans," so called by Harold Bloom, he specializes in British drama of the Renaissance, and has edited and introduced the complete works of William Shakespeare in both the 29-volume, Bantam Classics paperback editions and the single-volume Longman edition. He also edits the Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama and an important anthology of Medieval English Drama. Bevington's editorial scholarship is so extensive that Richard Strier, an early modern colleague at the University of Chicago, was moved to comment: "Every time I turn around, he has edited a new Renaissance text. Bevington has endless energy for editorial projects." In addition to his work as an editor, he has published studies of Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and the Stuart Court Masque, among others, though it is for his work as an editor that he is primarily known.
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