Jane Armstrong

Jane Armstrongwas born and brought up in North London.ÊShe was commissioning editor for the publishers of the Arden Shakespeare, working on their literature list and founding their list in media and cultural studies. She has worked on the Arden Shakespeare for a number of years, as copy-editor, and later as editorial series manager and commissioning editor for the current Third Series. "The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations"contains approximately 3,000 quotations, both familiar and little-known, drawn from throughout Shakespeare's work, both plays and poems. The result is a rich and diverse collection that testifies both to the linguistic subtlety and the psychological insight displayed by this most protean of writers. The selection ranges from single lines containing a strikingly expressed thought or phrase, to longer extracts that convey the overwhelming beauty of Shakespeare's poetry, or the fluidity and complexity of his thought. The compilationÊis organized by topic, and supplemented by a detailed keyword index and aÊfull glossary of unfamiliar terms. Ê Ê Ê Table of Contents Preface Quotations Life of Shakespeare Glossary Topic Index Keyword Index Index of References to Plays… (más)

What a disappointment! I have always been a great fan of the Arden editions of Shakespeare's plays, impressed by their scholarly introductions and the assiduity of their annotations and textual apparatus. I was, therefore, very enthusiastic when I discovered that they had produced this "Miscellany", and I looked forward to immersing myself in a deep treasure trove of amusing and well-informed articles about different aspects of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Unfortunately I found that I had landed in the wrong map square and fascination was conspicuous by its paucity. For example, the book offered a one-page synopsis of each of the plays but these were sadly deficient..
This book represents an unfortunate blot on the Arden escutcheon!… (más)