_The Arden Shakespeare._
The Greater Plays in their literary aspect. One play in each
volume, with Introduction, Notes, Essay on Metre, and Glossary.
Based on the Globe text. From 144 to 224 pages. Cloth. Price, 25
cents a volume.
This edition presents the greater plays in their literary aspect, and
not merely as material for the study of philology or grammar. Verbal and
textual criticism has been included only so far as may serve to help the
student in his appreciation of the poetry.
Questions of date and literary history have been fully dealt with in
the Introductions, but the larger space has been devoted to the
interpretative rather than to the matter-of-fact order of scholarship.
Aesthetic judgments are never final, but the editors have attempted to
suggest points of view from which the analysis of dramatic motive and
dramatic character may be profitably undertaken.
In the Notes likewise, though it is hoped that unfamiliar expressions
and allusions have been adequately explained, it has been thought more
important to consider the dramatic value of each scene, and the part
that it plays in relation to the whole.
Each volume has a Glossary, an Essay upon Metre, and an Index.
Appendices are added upon points of interest that could not be treated
in the Introduction or the Notes. The text is based on that of the Globe
edition. The following plays are ready:--
HAMLET.--Edited by Edmund K. Chambers, B.A.
MACBETH.--Edited by Edmund K. Chambers, B.A., Oxford.
JULIUS CAESAR.--Edited by Arthur D. Innes, M.A., Oxford.
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE.--Edited by H. L. Withers, B.A., Oxford.
TWELFTH NIGHT.--Edited by Arthur D. Innes, M.A., Oxford.
AS YOU LIKE IT.--Edited by J. C. Smith, M.A., Edinburgh.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.--Edited by Edmund K. Chambers, B.A.
CYMBELINE.--Edited by A. J. Wyatt, M.A., Cambridge.
THE TEMPEST.--Edited by F. S. Boas, M.A., Oxford.
KING JOHN.--Edited by G. C. Moore Smith, M.A., Cambridge.
RICHARD II.--Edited by C. H. Herford, L.H.D., Cambridge.
RICHARD III.--Edited by George Macdonald, M.A., Oxford.
HENRY V.--Edited by G. C. Moore Smith, M.A., Cambridge.
HENRY VIII.--Edited by D. Nichol Smith, M.A., Edinburgh.
CORIOLANUS.--Edited by Edmund K. Chambers, B.A., Oxford.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.--Edited by J. C. Smith, M.A., Oxford.
KING LEAR.--Edited by D. Nichol Smith, M.A., Edinburgh.
_Introduction to Shakespeare._
By HIRAM CORSON, LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric and English
Literature in Cornell University. Cloth. 400 pages. Introduction
price, $1.00.
This work indicates some lines of Shakespearean thought which serve
to introduce to the study of the plays as plays. The introductory
chapter is followed by chapters on: The Shakespeare-Bacon
controversy,--The Authenticity of the First Folio,--The Chronology
of the Plays,--Shakespeare's Verse,--The Latin and Anglo-Saxon
Elements of Shakespeare's English. The larger portion of the book is
devoted to commentaries and critical chapters upon Romeo and Juliet,
King John, Much Ado about Nothing, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Anthony and
Cleopatra. These aim to present the points of view demanded for a
proper appreciation of Shakespeare's general attitude toward things,
and his resultant dramatic art, rather than the textual study of the
plays.
_Introduction to Browning._
By HIRAM CORSON, LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric and English
Literature in Cornell University. Cloth. 348 pages. Introduction
price, $1.00.
This volume affords aid and guidance to the study of Robert Browning's
poetry, which, being the most complexly subjective of all English
poetry, is, for that reason alone, the most difficult. The exposition
presented in the Introduction, of the constitution and skillful
management of the dramatic monologue and the Arguments given to the
several poems included in this volume, will, it is hoped, reduce, if not
altogether remove, the difficulties of this kind. In the same section of
the Introduction certain peculiarities of the poet's diction are
presented and illustrated.