General editors’ preface Preface Introduction A brief view of the play Fictions of gender Rosalind and the boy actor Later Rosalinds Celia Orlando Phoebe and Audrey Date The Forest of Arden ‘Well, this is the Forest of Arden’ The hunt Robin Hood and his merry men Staging the Forest of Arden Early foresters The Earl …
Preface Introduction Date Publishing history Context and allusion Reception and criticism Shakespeare’s Sonnets This edition Shakespeare’s Sonnets Sonnets A Lover’s Complaint Appendix: Manuscript texts
List of illustrations General editor’s preface Preface Introduction The play Genesis and early performances Genre Structure Music Language Characters The context Domestic politics Brave new world Africa and Ireland Literary forerunners Classical models The ‘salvage man’ Magic Masque The afterlife Restoration rewritings Eighteenth-century ambivalence Romanticism Perspectives on imperialism Re-enter Miranda Freudian influences The Tempest on …
List of illustrations General editors’ preface Preface Introduction Date Sources Henry V: The Quarto and Folio texts ‘Bad quartos’, ‘foul papers’ and ‘performance-based texts’ The play Critical opinions of the play and its hero Henry V in performance Text King Henry V Appendices The First Quarto (1600) Map of France and the south of England …