<span style="line-height:1.025"><span>This book provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of five adaptations of Shakespeare from the early eighteenth century. Providing a critical introduction and extensive explanatory notes, </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Adaptations of Shakespeare from the Early Eighteenth Century</span><span> firmly situates the texts of </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Coriolanus</span><span>, </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Richard II</span><span>, </span><span style="font-style:italic;">2 Henry VI</span><span>, </span><span style="font-style:italic;">3 Henry VI</span><span>, and </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Henry V</span><span> in the literary, cultural, and political contexts of the period. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>