William Shakespeare and Others
Subtitle
Collaborative Plays
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this is the first edition for over a hundred years of the fascinatingly varied body of plays that has become known as "The Shakespeare Apocrypha." As a companion to their award-winning "The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works," renowned scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, supported by a dynamic team of co-editors, now provide a fascinating insight into ten plays in which Shakespeare may have had a hand. A magisterial essay by Will Sharpe provides a comprehensive account of the Authorship and Attribution of each play.
Combining outstanding textual scholarship with elegant writing and design, this unique collection allows us to revisit the question of what is Shakespearean. It is an indispensable book for students, teachers, performers, scholars and lovers of Shakespeare everywhere.
Bio
Sir Jonathan Bate is a Foundation Professor of environmental humanities with a joint appointment in the Department of English and the Global Futures Laboratory, School of Sustainability.
Praise for this book
In evaluating candidates, Bate and Rasmussen tread the ground between Victorian inclusiveness and modernist scrupulousness ... helpful tables at the beginning of each play give readers the basis to decide authorship issues for themselves. Summing up: recommended.
CHOICE
We know very little about how the stable of playwrights at the Rose, or at the Globe, collaborated. Did one writer do the plotting, another the dialogue? We'll probably never know a but this book provides a fascinating insight into some of the plays in which it has been claimed Shakespeare himself may have had a hand.
Gregory Doran RSC Artistic Director
