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The Arden edition of Shakespeare's poetry, introduced by a leading Shakespeare scholar and including detailed annotation of these non-dramatic works

About the Author

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time. Henry Woudhuysen is Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, UK. Katherine Duncan-Jones was Professor of Early Modern English at Somerville College, University of Oxford, UK. Publications include Shakespeare's Sonnets (The Arden Shakespeare, 1997) and the critically acclaimed biography Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life (The Arden Shakespeare, 2010).

Reviews

Duncan-Jones and Woudhuysen are winning advocates for the poems’ verbal attractiveness, formal sophistication, and intellectual dexterity.
*The New Criterion*

Shakespeare scholars will be indebted to the editors not only for fine textual and editorial work but also for a number of astute interpretations.
*Project Muse (2009)*

The most insightful, thorough and authoritive account of Shakespeare's great narrative poems that you can imagine.
*Gregory Doran, Associate Director, Royal Shakespeare Company*

My students find the Arden editions very helpful when approaching Shakespeare, especially the less known texts. This edition of the poems is made wonderully accessible through the intro, appendix and notes.
*Maria Fleischhack, Leipzig University, Germany*