{"product_id":"richard-iii-william-shakespeare-9780393929591","title":"Richard III: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"This Norton Critical Edition of \u003cem\u003eRichard III\u003c\/em\u003e is based on the First Quarto (1597) edition of the play with interpolations from the First Folio (1623). The play is accompanied by a preface, explanatory annotations, A Note on the Text, a list of Textual Variants, and eighteen illustrations of seminal scenes from major dramatic productions and film versions of the play. \u003cp\u003e\"Contexts\" provides readers with the sources and analogues that informed Shakespeare's composition of \u003cem\u003eRichard III\u003c\/em\u003e. These include excerpts from Robert Fabyan's \u003cem\u003eNew Chronicles of England and France\u003c\/em\u003e, Thomas More's \u003cem\u003eThe History of King Richard III\u003c\/em\u003e, Edward Hall's \u003cem\u003eThe Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster and York\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Mirror for Magistrates\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe True Tragedy of Richard III\u003c\/em\u003e. A selection from Colley Cibber's eighteenth-century adaptation records the compromised form in which Richard III held the stage for approximately two hundred years before twentieth-century editors brought it back into recognizable shape. A representative selection of commentary on stage and film reproductions of Richard III is also provided, ranging from reviews of nineteenth-century productions by William Hazlitt and George Bernard Shaw, a survey of stage performances by Scott Colley, and in-depth analyses of twentieth-century film adaptations by Saskia Kossak, Barbara Hodgdon, and Peter S. Donaldson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Criticism\" collects eight major pieces of scholarship, including early accounts of the play's major themes by William Richardson and Edward Dowden, modern critical assessments by Wilbur Sanders, Elihu Pearlman, Linda Charnes, Katherine Maus, and Ian Moulton, and an essay by Harry Berger Jr. especially commissioned for this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Selected Bibliography is also included.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393929590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393929591\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.90d","brand":"William Shakespeare","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44080260317439,"sku":"9780393929591","price":20.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d574dab3-17ef-4e82-97f4-53f975a281ce.jpg?v=1685485820","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/richard-iii-william-shakespeare-9780393929591","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}