The Riverside Shakespeare

After more than a generation and despite its many imitators, The Riverside Shakespeare remains the Shakespeare of choice for scholars and general readers alike. Recently revised to reflect the last quarter century of literary scholarship, it is now available in a deluxe edition - two volumes, bound in full cloth, in a handsome, four-color slipcase. The new, revised version of The Riverside Shakespeare retains all the features that made the first edition so popular - the invaluable notes, the wide-ranging introduction, and the brilliant critical prefaces to the individual works. Additions include the history play Edward IIIand the poem "A Funeral Elegy," both recently claimed for Shakespeare by computer-aided textual analysis. The original appendices have been updated and expanded and are joined by two new essays, "Twentieth-Century Shakespeare Criticism" and "Shakespeare's Plays in Performance: From 1970," the latter accompanied by eight pages of full-color photographs. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal. This gorgeous, boxed, two-volume set includes the bard's full canon of plays supplemented with 50 illustrations as well as 40 pages of color and black-and-white plates, critical prefaces to each work, detailed notes on the texts, and many other goodies. This second edition also includes Edward III and "A Funeral Elegy," which scholars now believe to be written by old Will, as well as new essays on stage history and criticism. The appendixes, chronologies, and bibliographies have also been updated. Simply superb. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. About the Author. G. Blakemore Evans, was an eminent Elizabethan scholar and editor of the Shakespearean canon, foremost the "Riverside Shakespeare." Dr. Evans was also Cabot professor emeritus of English literature at Harvard. He formally retired in 1982 but continued his work on campus. Dr. Evans's magnum opus was "The Riverside Shakespeare," a complete rendition of Shakespeare's writings, which remains an authoritative source for scholars and general readers alike. Edited by him, it was originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1974. A second, updated edition, in which he was joined by Dr. Tobin as editor, appeared in 1997 in two volumes. It includes all the notes and critical introductions to various works, as well as recent scholarly findings and a few additions to Shakespeare's writings not previously recognized as such. Dr. Evans also contributed six volumes of "Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the 17th Century," published by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia from 1960 to 1980. These are studies of annotated stage texts used in performances of the various plays in the 17th century, compared with texts used in the 18th and 19th centuries. He published his first book in 1951, "The Plays and Poems of William Cartwright," in which he introduced the work of Cartwright (1611-1643), a preacher and author, and a disciple of Ben Jonson. His last, "The Poems of Robert Parry," resurrecting an obscure Elizabethan. Gwynne Blakemore Evans was born in Columbus, Ohio; his father was Marshall B. Evans, chairman of the German department at Ohio State University. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Ohio State in 1934 and received his master's degree at the University of Cincinnati in 1936 and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1940. In World War II he served with the Army Signal Corps Intelligence at Bletchley Park, England, a hub of Allied spy, counterspy and decoding operations. He started at the University of Wisconsin as an instructor and assistant professor, rose to associate professor and professor of English at the University of Illinois, and joined the Harvard faculty as a professor of English literature in 1967. He was named Cabot professor in 1975. He wrote about and edited the works of a number of English writers of the 16th and 17th centuries. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.