Available for the first time in a single well-designed hardcover volume, the Arden Shakespeare Complete Works contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays plus the Poems and Sonnets, as edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden Shakespeare series. She was commissioning editor for the publishers of the Arden Shakespeare, worked on their bibliography and established their list in media and cultural studies.
PREFACE
Titus Andronicus AARON TO DEMETRIUS AND CHIRON, referring to rape 5 Things won are done; the soul of joy lies in doing. 6 He who commends me to my own content commends me to that which I cannot obtain.
5 ALLIANCE
As one who stands on a promontory and scouts a distant shore where he would tread. His own opinion was his law: in the presence he would speak untruths, and always be duplicitous both in his words and opinion.
Timon of Athens 3.5.59, ALCIBIADES TO TWO SENATORS 6 Come not within the measure of my wrath. They have a king and a class of officers, Where some like magistrates at home correct, Others, like merchants, venture abroad in trade, Others like soldiers, armed with their stabs, Making boots on the velvet buds of summer, What plunder they bring home with merry march the royal tent of their emperor.
9 The singing masons building roofs of gold,
Romeo and Juliet 1.1.120, BENVOLIO TO ROMEO'S PARENTS See also CARE; CONFUSION; FEAR; PREFACE; TOMORROW APPARITIONS. Our gayness and our gilded are all smeared with rainy procession in the painful field.
17 1 Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes,
2 The falcon, soaring on its pride, was intercepted and killed by the mouse owl. The smallest bird will fight, Her young in the nest, against the owl.
23 1 Our bodies are gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners
Winter's Tale the unsophisticated MOPSA to the SHEPHERD'S SON See also EDUCATION; POETRY; READ; WRITE. King John PHILIP THE BASTARD, from Hubert, a citizen of Angers 8 Coward, you brag to the stars.
1 I dare damnation
8 What with war, what with sweat, what with gallows and what with poverty, I am usually shriveled.
27 1 You do as chapmen do,
29 CHANCE
2 A nobleman would treat her like a nobleman, but she sent him away cold as a snowball. 10 You are your mother's glass and she in you Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
Comedy of Errors ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE TO DROMIO OF EPHESUS, from the city of Ephesus. Antony and Cleopatra 2.2.228, AGRIPPA TO ENOBARBUS; 2.6.126 she is described by Enobarbus as Antony's 'Egyptian court'.
35 1 HAMLET The air bites shrewdly, it is very cold
Richard HI 5.3.180, RICHARD after seeing in his dream the ghosts of those he has killed 8 My conscience has a thousand and several languages,. Richard HI RICHARD after dreaming of the ghosts of those he has killed 9 Conscience is but a word used by cowards,.
Who shuns ambition, and loves to live in the sun, searching for the food he eats. King John 2.1.82, DUKE OF AUSTRIA TO PILIP, KING OF FRANCE; 'on occasion' means 'when it is necessary'.
43 1 Foul-spoken coward, that thunderest with thy tongue,
1 What you have accused me of, I have done, and more, much more, time will bring it out. Could trample up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that, but this stroke can be the be-all and end-all.
45 1 This will out
47 1 The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!
As You Like It 5.4.191, JAQUES TO HIS COMPANIONS, as he retires from the general festivities at the end of the play. Men like him never feel comfortable seeing something bigger than themselves, and that's why they're very dangerous.
He's dead and gone, lady, He's dead and gone, On his head a grass-green ruin,.
CASCA Well, he who cuts off twenty years of life cuts off as many years of agony. Julius Caesar MARK ANTONY'S oration on the death of Julius Caesar 5 An empty casket, where the jewel of life.
Measure for measure THE DUKE, disguised as a priest, to the Provost, who recommends that he fake the corpse as evidence. 1 Let us talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs, Let us dust our paper and with rainy eyes write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Troilus and Cressida 5.10.22, TROIL TO TOVARJEM, in a phrase that embodies the tired anti-heroism of the play.
2 Though you loose the winds and let them fight against the churches; though the waves confuse and swallow up navigation; The sheepfold stands empty in the drowned field, and crows are fattened with the murrion flock. The nine-man morris is filled with mud, and the picturesque mazes in the wanton greenery are indistinguishable for lack of tread.
65 1 Let me have surgeons,
So full of fearful dreams, of ugly faces, that, being a faithful Christian man, I would not spend another night like that, even if I bought a world of happy days. 2 Henry IV part of a much longer speech by FALSTAFF on the benefits of alcohol to the system. Antony and Cleopatra CLEOPATRA to the asp that kills her. 3 If you would ever hold me in your heart.
71 ECCENTRICITY
Love's Labour's Lost 1.1.13, KING OF NAVARRE TO HIS FRIENDS 4 These are barren tasks, too hard to keep. He does not eat paper, as it were; he did not drink ink; his mind is not replenished. Taming of the Shrew 1.1.40, TRANIO TO LUCENTIO; 'affect' here means 'enjoy' 10 It's a scholar; then let us eat and drink.
73 ELEGIES
Of one who is not easily jealous, but who is worked up, confused in the extreme; of one whose hand, like the base Indian, threw away a pearl. Richer than all his tribe: of one whose subdued eyes, Though unaccustomed to the melting mood. Julius Cæsar 3.2.143, MARK ANTONY whips up the feeling in the plebeians 5 That deep torture may be called hell.
79 1 Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
8l 1 This gilded serpent
Romeo and Juliet 2.4.50-1, ROMEO TO MERCUTIO 8 The excuse you make in this delay.
83 EXPECTATION
85 Those be rubies, fairy favours,
As You Like It 1.2.219 DUKE FREDERICK TO ORLANDO, when told that Orlando's father was his enemy.
93 FAULTS
All's well that ends well BERTRAM TO THE KING OF FRANCE 10 Tricks he had in him, that gentlemen have. Winter's Tale 4.3.45-9; the SHEPHERD'S SON goes over his shopping list See also DRINK; HOSPITALITY AND PARTIES. As you like it 2.7.165, the state of extreme old age; from JAQUES's 'Seven Ages of Man' speech to DUKE SENIOR AND HIS COMPANIONS in the Forest of Arden.
107 Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,
109 GOOD NEWS see NEWS, good
1 Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead; excessive grief enemy to the living. And these external ways of lamentation are only the shadows of an invisible sorrow that spreads silently into the tormented soul. 1 Chorus tonight, And this will give a kind of ease Next abstinence, next lighter;.
He who observed, a man can prophesy, with a close aim, Of the greatest chance of things yet come to life. 8 That is why feasts are so solemn and so rare, since rarely come in the long year set, like stones of value they are thinly placed, or captain jewels in the carcanet.
1 Rightly to be great is not to stir without great arguments, but to find many quarrels in a straw when honor is at stake. Julius Caesar 3.2.83-4, MARK ANTONY'S SPEECH ON THE DEATH OF JULIUS CAESAR 10 As jewels lose their glory if neglected,.
123 1 Take honour from me, and my life is done
Hamlet HAMLET TO ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN (the more familiar version in the First Folio begins 'What a piece of work..'; more on DEPRESSION) 5 What is a man. Troilus and Cressida 2.1.74-5, THERSITES TO ACHILLES, in the presence of Ajax 2 Here is Agamemnon: an honest fellow enough. 6 Antony's death is not a single downfall; in the name lay A part of the world.
2 As flies are to greedy boys we are to the gods, they kill us for their sport. The wine of life is withdrawn, and the mere dregs are left in this vault to boast. It creeps at this little pace from day to day, Until the last syllable of recorded time;.
159 I can again thy former light restore
All's well that ends well 4.3.57, KING OF FRANCE 6 There is beggar in love that can be counted. 5 Love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not in the brain alone, But, with the movement of all elements, Runs as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices. Comedy of Errors 3.2.39; ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE falls in love with his twin brother's wife's sister.
169 1 Love is blind, and lovers cannot see
171 POLONIUS Very like a whale
Taming of wit 1.2.55, PETRUCHIO TO HORTENSIO AND GRUMIO 3 I come to marry her richly in Padua;. PETRUCHIO TO HORTENSIO AND LUCENTIO'S REMOVAL OF INTELLIGENCE, outlining his conception of a proper marriage; for Catherine's reconciliation, see MEN AND WOMEN. 3 I don't even have the melancholy of the scholar, which is imitation; nor the musician's, which is fantastic; nor the courtier, who is proud; nor of the soldier, who is ambitious; nor of the lawyer, who is political; nor of the lady, who is beautiful; nor lovers, which are all these; but it is a melancholy of mine, composed of many simple things, drawn from many objects, and indeed the varied contemplation of my travels, in which my musings often envelop me with a very humorous sadness.
177 And thy commandment all alone shall live
Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. Lord of the wide world and wild watery seas, Imbued with reason and soul,. 2 He who has a beard is greater than a young man, and he who has no beard is less than a man; and he who is more than youth is not for me; and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.
But mercy is above this sceptered sway, It enthrones in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute of God himself;. Was not corruptly derived, and that clear honor was bought by the merits of the bearer. Merry Wives of Windsor PAGE TO FORD, of the army of the Garter 5 From the crown of his head to the sole of his feet he is full of joy.
