Author: Shakespeare, William / Braunmuller, A. R. (Ed.) / Orgel, Stephen (Ed.) ISBN10: 0141000589 ISBN13: 9780141000589 Edition/Copyright: (REV)02 Publisher: Penguin Classics Cover: Hardback
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Orgel, Stephen :
Stephen Orgel is the J. E. Reynolds Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. His books include The Authentic
Shakespeare, Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England, and The Illusion of Power. In
addition to his Shakespeare editions, he has edited works of Ben Jonson, Marlowe, and Milton.
Braunmuller, A. R. :
A. R. Braunmuller is professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA, where he teaches courses on English
and European drama from 1500 to the present. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman
and has edited King John and Macbeth.
"Here is an elegant and clear text for either study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them, and
the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel, who understand that
these are plays for performance as wellas great texts for contemplation."
--Patrick Stewart
From the Penguin Putnam Web site, October, 2002
The classic one-volume Shakespeare, now completely revised and updated.
Incorporating the most up-to-date research and debate, the general editors of the Pelican Shakespeare series, A.
R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel, have assembled a team of distinguished scholars who have prepared new intriductions
and notes to all of Shakespeare's poems and plays.
The Complete Pelican Shakespeare features:
Authoritative and meticulously researched texts
Essays on Shakespeare's life, the theatrical world of his time, and the selection of texts
Deluxe packaging including a full-linen case, ribbon marker, Smyth-sewn binding, printed endpapers, acid-free
paper, and illustrations throughout the text
The revised Complete Pelican Shakespeare will be the premier choice for students, teachers, and theatrical
professionals for decades to come.
It has been almost half a century since the first volumes of the Pelican Shakespeare appeared under the general
editorship of Alfred Harbage. The fact that a new edition, rather than simply a revision, has been undertaken reflects
the profound changes textual and critical studies of Shakespeare have undergone in the last twenty years. For the
new Pelican edition, the texts of the plays and non-dramatic poetry have been thoroughly revised in accordance
with recent scholarship, and in some cases have been entirely reedited. New introductions, textual notes, and glosses
have been provided. But the new Shakespeare is also designed as a successor to the original edition; the previous
one has been taken into account, and the advice of the previous editors has been solicited where it was feasible
to do so.
Certain textual features of the new Pelican Shakespeare should be particularly noted. All lines are numbered that
contain a word, phrase, or allusion explained in the glossarial notes at the bottom of the page. In addition, for
convenience, every tenth line is also numbered, in italics when no annotation is indicated. The intrusive and often
inaccurate place headings inserted by early editors are omitted (as is becoming standard practice), but for the
convenience of those who miss them, an indication of locale, if the locale is clear, now appears as the first item
in the annotation of each scene.
In the interest of both elegance and utility, each speech prefix is set in a separate line when the speaker's lines
are in verse, except when those words form the second half (or further parts) of a verse line. Thus the verse form
of the speech is kept visually intact. What is printed as verse and what is printed as prose has, in general, the
authority of the original texts. Departures from the original texts in this regard have only the authority of editorial
tradition and the judgement of the Pelican Shakespeare editors; and, in a few instances, are admittedly arbitrary.
