<DIV><DIV><DIV><I><B>The Complete Arden Shakespeare</B></I> contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays and poems, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden Shakespeare series. This edition includes eight newly revised playtexts as published in the Arden Third Series since 1998.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>A general introduction by the three General Editors of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series gives the reader an overall view of how and why Shakespeare has become such an influential cultural icon, and how perceptions of his work have changed in the intervening four centuries. The introduction summarizes the known facts about the dramatist's life, his reading and use of sources, and the nature of theatrical performance during his lifetime.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within Shakespeare's oeuvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary with nearly 400 entries explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV><DIV><B>Table of Contents </B><DIV>List of Illustrations</DIV><DIV>General Editors' Preface</DIV><DIV>Introduction</DIV><DIV>Shakespeare's Sonnets</DIV><DIV>A Lover's Complaint</DIV><DIV>Venus and Adonis</DIV><DIV>Lucrece</DIV><DIV>The Passionate Pilgrim</DIV><DIV>"The Phoenix and Turtle"</DIV><DIV>All's Well That Ends Well</DIV><DIV>Antony and Cleopatra</DIV><DIV>As You Like It</DIV><DIV>The Comedy of Errors</DIV><DIV>Coriolanus</DIV><DIV>Cymbeline</DIV><DIV>Hamlet</DIV><DIV>Julius Caesar</DIV><DIV>King Henry IV, Part 1</DIV><DIV>King Henry IV, Part 2</DIV><DIV>King Henry V</DIV><DIV>King Henry VI, Part 1</DIV><DIV>King Henry VI, Part 2</DIV><DIV>King Henry VI, Part 3</DIV><DIV>King Henry VIII</DIV><DIV>King John</DIV><DIV>King Lear</DIV><DIV>King Richard II</DIV><DIV>King Richard III</DIV><DIV>Love's Labour's Lost</DIV><DIV>Macbeth</DIV><DIV>Measure for Measure</DIV><DIV>The Merchant of Venice</DIV><DIV>The Merry Wives of Windsor</DIV><DIV>A Midsummer Night's Dream</DIV><DIV>Much Ado About Nothing</DIV><DIV>Othello</DIV><DIV>Pericles</DIV><DIV>Romeo and Juliet</DIV><DIV>The Taming of the Shrew</DIV><DIV>The Tempest</DIV><DIV>Timon of Athens</DIV><DIV>Titus Andronicus</DIV><DIV>Troilus and Cressida</DIV><DIV>Twelfth Night</DIV><DIV>The Two Gentlemen of Verona</DIV><DIV>The Two Noble Kinsmen</DIV><DIV>The Winter's Tale</DIV><DIV>Bibliography</DIV><DIV>Index of first lines of sonnets</DIV><DIV>Index of first lines of songs</DIV><DIV>Glossary</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>