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general editor

Brian Gibbons

associate general editor

A. R. Braunmuller, University of California, Los Angeles

From the publication of the first volumes in 1984 the General Editor of the New CambridgeShakespeare was Philip Brockbank and the Associate General Editors were Brian Gibbons andRobin Hood. From 1990 to 1994 the General Editor was Brian Gibbons and the AssociateGeneral Editors were A. R. Braunmuller and Robin Hood.

K I N G R I C H A R D I I

To Shakespeare’s contemporaries, Richard II was a balanced dramatisation of the centralpolitical and constitutional issue of the time: how to cope with an unjust ruler. But over thelast century or so, the play has come to be regarded as the poetic fall of a tragic hero. TheIntroduction to this edition provides a full context for both the Shakespearean and the modernviews of King Richard’s fall.

For this updated edition Andrew Gurr has added a new section to the Introduction inwhich he describes the growing interest in re-historicising and re-politicising the play, surveysa number of important professional theatre productions and guides the reader through thescholarly criticism of recent years. The Reading List has also been revised and augmented.

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All’s Well That Ends Well, edited by Russell FraserAntony and Cleopatra, edited by David BevingtonAs You Like It, edited by Michael HattawayThe Comedy of Errors, edited by T. S. DorschCoriolanus, edited by Lee BlissCymbeline, edited by Martin ButlerHamlet, edited by Philip EdwardsJulius Caesar, edited by Marvin SpevackKing Edward III, edited by Giorgio MelchioriThe First Part of King Henry IV, edited by Herbert Weil and Judith WeilThe Second Part of King Henry IV, edited by Giorgio MelchioriKing Henry V, edited by Andrew GurrThe First Part of King Henry VI, edited by Michael HattawayThe Second Part of King Henry VI, edited by Michael HattawayThe Third Part of King Henry VI, edited by Michael HattawayKing Henry VIII, edited by John MargesonKing John, edited by L. A. BeaurlineThe Tragedy of King Lear, edited by Jay L. HalioKing Richard II, edited by Andrew GurrKing Richard III, edited by Janis LullLove’s Labour’s Lost, edited by William C. CarrollMacbeth, edited by A. R. BraunmullerMeasure for Measure, edited by Brian GibbonsThe Merchant of Venice, edited by M. M. MahoodThe Merry Wives of Windsor, edited by David CraneA Midsummer Night’s Dream, edited by R. A. FoakesMuch Ado About Nothing, edited by F. H. MaresOthello, edited by Norman SandersPericles, edited by Doreen DelVecchio and Antony HammondThe Poems, edited by John RoeRomeo and Juliet, edited by G. Blakemore EvansThe Sonnets, edited by G. Blakemore EvansThe Taming of the Shrew, edited by Ann ThompsonThe Tempest, edited by David LindleyTimon of Athens, edited by Karl KleinTitus Andronicus, edited by Alan HughesTroilus and Cressida, edited by Anthony B. DawsonTwelfth Night, edited by Elizabeth Story DonnoThe Two Gentlemen of Verona, edited by Kurt SchlueterThe Two Noble Kinsmen, edited by Robert Kean Turner and Patricia TatspaughThe Winter’s Tale, edited by Susan Snyder and Deborah T. Curren-Aquino

the early quartos

The First Quarto of Hamlet, edited by Kathleen O. IraceThe First Quarto of King Henry V, edited by Andrew GurrThe First Quarto of King Lear, edited by Jay L. HalioThe First Quarto of King Richard III, edited by Peter DavisonThe First Quarto of Othello, edited by Scott McMillinThe First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet, edited by Lukas ErneThe Taming of a Shrew: The 1594 Quarto, edited by Stephen Roy Miller






K I N G R I C H A R D I IUpdated edition

Edited byA N D R E W G U R RProfessor of English Emeritus,University of Reading






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