The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.1810  Thursday, 19 July 2001

[1]     From:   Drew Whitehead <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
        Date:   Thursday, 19 Jul 2001 09:56:39 +1000
        Subj:   Re: SHK 12.1784 Re: Arden Editions

[2]     From:   David Kathman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
        Date:   Wednesday, 18 Jul 2001 23:13:52 -0600
        Subj:   Re: SHK 12.1784 Re: Arden Edition


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From:           Drew Whitehead <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date:           Thursday, 19 Jul 2001 09:56:39 +1000
Subject: 12.1784 Re: Arden Editions
Comment:        Re: SHK 12.1784 Re: Arden Editions

As an addition to what has already been said the Arden 3 also places a
greater emphasis on the theatrical history of the plays, although I must
admit to only owning two editions: TNK and H8.  Lois Potters' TNK offers
a wealth of information on the theatrical life of the play, and Gordon
McMullans' H8 is worth getting to read his enlightened approach to the
problems of the play's authorship if for no other reason.

Drew Whitehead

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From:           David Kathman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date:           Wednesday, 18 Jul 2001 23:13:52 -0600
Subject: 12.1784 Re: Arden Editions
Comment:        Re: SHK 12.1784 Re: Arden Editions

Thomas Larque wrote:

>> Can someone familiar with both the Arden and the New Arden series
>> describe the relative merits and demerits of the two, assuming it is
>> possible to so generalize?
>
>Could someone also let us know which volumes have currently been
>published in the Third Series? - which I think is the correct name for
>the volumes most recently published.  I have a more or less complete
>collection of what I think is called the Second Series Ardens, with a
>few Third Series titles which had replaced the Second Series editions of
>some plays before I bought them, but would like to get additional copies
>of the latest Third Series editions where these have become available.

I'm not absolutely positive, but I think Gordon McMullan's Henry VIII,
published earlier this year, is the most recent Arden 3.  According to
the list at the beginning of that volume, here are the Arden 3 volumes
that have been published, with their editors:

Antony and Cleopatra (John Wilders)
Julius Caesar (David Daniell)
King Henry V (T. W. Craik)
King Henry VI Part 1 (Edward Burns)
King Henry VI Part 2 (Ronald Knowles)
King Henry VIII (Gordon McMullan)
King Lear (R. A. Foakes)
Love's Labour's Lost (A. R. Woodhuysen)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Giorgio Melchiori)
Othello (E. A. J. Honigmann)
The Sonnets (Katherine Duncan-Jones)
The Tempest (Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan)
Titus Andronicus (Jonathan Bate)
Troilus and Cressida (David Bevington)
The Two Noble Kinsmen (Lois Potter)

I have all of these and like them.  One of the most notable differences
between Arden 2 and Arden 3 is that Arden 3 has much more on performance
histories.

Dave Kathman
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