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King Edward III

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Part of The New Cambridge Shakespeare

  • Date Published: April 1998
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521596732

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  • The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. King Edward III is a major addition to the Shakespearean canon, and is published here for the first time in an authoritative edition of Shakespeare's works. Its editor, Giorgio Melchiori, claims that Shakespeare is not the play's sole author but that he wrote a significant part of the text. The extent of his contribution is discussed in detail. Melchiori also explores the play's historical background and genesis both in the context of contemporary theatrical practice and in relation to Shakespeare's own early cycle of history plays. An extensive Appendix on the use of sources explains the stages in which King Edward III was composed.

    • The first time that this play has appeared in a scholarly Shakespeare edition. Neither Oxford nor Arden plan an edition as yet
    • Other 'apocryphal' plays in New Cambridge Shakespeare will include The Two Noble Kinsmen; some others are collaborative, eg Henry VIII
    • Very full appendix on the source material
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    '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. 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. It is an exhilarating experience.' Contemporary Review

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    Product details

    • Date Published: April 1998
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521596732
    • length: 236 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 152 x 17 mm
    • weight: 0.388kg
    • contains: 15 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Note on the text
    List of characters
    The text of The Reign of King Edward III, with commentary
    Textual analysis
    Appendix: the use of sources.

  • Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses

    • Shakespeare, Advanced Studies in Shakespeare
  • Author

    William Shakespeare

    Editor

    Giorgio Melchiori, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

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