The Two Noble Kinsmen

by William Shakespeare

Overview

Potter's The Two Noble Kinsmen...shows how, even in the case of a play with a comparatively limited performance history, understanding of performance can inform every aspect of an edition...as usual with the Arden series, it is the amplitude and intelligence of the commentary that is so striking.'Peter Holland, Times Literary Supplement

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798880922116
Publisher:	Start Classics
Publication date:	03/26/2024
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

Barbara A. Mowat is Director of Research emerita at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Consulting Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare’s Romances and of essays on Shakespeare’s plays and their editing.

Paul Werstine is Professor of English at the Graduate School and at King’s University College at Western University. He is a general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare and author of Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare and of many papers and articles on the printing and editing of Shakespeare’s plays.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Table of Contents

Introduction: authorship; Date; Sources; Craftsmanship; Critical reception; Shakespeare's late style; The Two Noble Kinsmen in performance; Note on text; List of characters; The play; Supplementary notes; Textual analysis; Appendix: The Two Noble Kinsmen: a performance chronology; Reading list.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for The Oxford Shakespeare: "Not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship."—Times Literary Supplement

"Easy reading...first-class 20th century footnotes...and lots of relevant scholarship for practical stage usage. Congratulations."—Joseph Papp

"Sets a very high standard in the preciseness and thoroughness of its commentaries."—Times Higher Education Supplement

"Provides the last word in editions currently before the public."—John Barkham Reviews

"Will certainly have to be reckoned with whenever one is choosing an edition to recommend for study."—English

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