Product Description

The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.This edition of King Richard III provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #286537 in Books
• Published on: 1981-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Customer Reviews

Arden Shakespeare
In some respects I think it'd be rather presumptuous of me to attempt to review Shakespeare. Someone so well known and influential wouldn't benefit from my opinions on their work, plus there are more scholarly and concise reviews out there. But I can comment on these Arden versions. Of all the Shakespeare I've read I've always found the Arden copies to be well laid out and to have excellent commentary and notes on the text. They really add to your understanding of Shakespeares outstanding plays and introduce you to the depth in his work. They have superb paper quality and are bound well, withstanding repeated readings and intensive study. For your collection of Shakespeare you can't do much better than Arden publications, some are quite hard to get hold of but it's worth the effort.

Useful, complete and expert - but a bit bland
Difficult to liven up some of these without seeing the play etc, and just reading the words cold doesn't fill your average teen with joy. Mind you, what does? Anyway, this is a great range for revision, and we've found this one v v useful indeed. Some kid gripping exercises, or some real tabloid style comment would certainly liven things up from the kids point of view - but thats probably just not the done thing!! Imagine what Hello! would have made of the Richard story!!
But overall, well done chaps, keep them coming.