King Edward III (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series)

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.. King Edward III is increasingly thought to have been written in significant part by Shakespeare

'Here in the elegant format emblematic of this collected edition is a play entitled King Edward III Giorgio Melchiori's introduction to the New Cambridge Edward III, together with the actual editorial presentation and appendix on the play's sources are models of learned scruple. It is an exhilarating experience.' Contemporary Review . What this superb edition compels us to keep asking is simply this: 'how did Shakespeare become Shakespeare?' Neither the history of literature nor of language provides a richer ground for wonder.' George Steiner, The Observer'Anyone who reads through Edward III with an open mind will, I believe, accept that the Shakespeare canon is permanently enlarged

She now works in publishing, primarily as a freelance copy-editor. Richard Proudfoot served as Senior General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare for 35 years, until his retirement from King's in 1999. In 2001 The Arden Shakespeare published Proudfoot's Shakespeare: Text, Stage and Canon a critical overview of the scholar

More from the Bard Who can dispute Shakespeare. elven a lesser-known work?. Four Stars maybe not his best - but still gret. Shakespeare for Scholars Ronald Sheikh You know you're in trouble when the introduction has footnotes. The time period is the beginning of the Hundred Years War (actually 116 Years). The introduction gives you maps of Crecy and Poitiers (major battle sites) but that is silly because the book will pound you with Shakespeare's historical inaccuracies and compare them to the real record: Edward III's founding of the Order of the Garter to His Bloody Rape of Countess Salisbury (glossed