Authors: William Shakespeare, Sylvan Barnet (Editor), Maurice Charney
ISBN-13: 9780451529565, ISBN-10: 0451529561
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: January 2005
Edition: Newly Revised Edition
As part of the Signet Classics Shakespeare Series edited by Sylvan Barnet of Tufts University, this edition includes commentaries on both plays as well as up-to-date production histories.
The three individual plays launch the third edition of the venerable "Arden Shakespeare" series, which will see the entire canon reproduced in superior scholarly editions by the year 2000. The First Folio is a facsimile edition of the original 1623 publication of the bard's works.
List of illustrations | ||
Preface | ||
List of abbreviations and conventions | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Date | 1 | |
Sources | 6 | |
Authorship | 10 | |
Early stage history | 12 | |
The Longleat manuscript | 14 | |
From the Restoration to the nineteenth century | 22 | |
Twentieth-century performance and criticism | 29 | |
Recent stage, film and critical interpretations by Sue Hall-Smith | 45 | |
Note on the text | 61 | |
List of characters | 66 | |
The Play | 67 | |
Textual analysis | 159 | |
Appendix 1 | Titus Andronicus at the Rose | 167 |
Appendix 2 | Performance by a small company | 174 |
Reading list | 176 |