King John and King Henry VIII (New Kittredge Shakespeare) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William; Lake, James H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585107565 ISBN 13: 9781585107568

Publisher: Focus, 2015

Synopsis

The New Kittredge Shakespeare King John and Henry VIII offers the text of both plays, and glosses, as prepared by William Kittredge for his Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Performance notes by the New Kitteredge Shakespeare editors help readers imagine how key scenes have been, and might yet be, performed on stage and screen. New Introductions, Timelines, Topics for Discussion and Further Study, as well as Bibliographies and Filmographies, combine to help make this the edition of choice for performance-minded students of these fascinating historical dramas.

About this title

From the Publisher:

An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-date annotated bibliographies, and convenient listing of key passages.

About the Author:

James H. Lake is Professor of English, Louisiana State University, Shreveport.

Courtney Lehmann is the Tully Knoles Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English, University of the Pacific.

Jane Wells is Assistant Professor of English at Muskingum University. She edited The Second Part of Henry the Fourth for the New Kittredge Shakespeare series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Focus
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1585107565
• ISBN 13: 9781585107568
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Lehmann Courtney, Wells Jane W.