Arden Early Modern Drama
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***NEWS*** View full details of our new Edexcel A Level day at Shakespeare's Globe in March 2010

Inspection Copies: If you are a lecturer in the UK and you would like an inspection copy, visit our Inspection Copies request page. If you are in the US, email askacademic@bloomsburyusa.com

The Arden Shakespeare has long set the gold standard in annotated, scholarly editions of the plays. Each Arden edition offers a modernized text with comprehensive commentary notes glossing meanings, discussing staging issues and explaining literary allusions, together with a lengthy, illustrated introduction by a leading scholar exploring the play’s critical, theatrical and historical contexts. In addition to our established Arden Shakespeare Third series of play texts we launched new series of plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries in September 2009: Arden Early Modern Drama.  We also publish a range of critical books to enhance the understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare’s work. Whether you are a student, teacher,  theatre professional, keen reader or theatre-goer, if you are serious about Shakespeare then The Arden Shakespeare is for you.

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You might also be interested in the RSC Shakespeare Toolkit - new for 2010

General Editors:

David Scott Kastan, Yale University
Richard Proudfoot, Emeritus Professor, King's College London
Ann Thompson, King's College London
H. R. Woudhuysen, University College London