Books in the The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos series

In this quarto edition the text is accompanied by a collation of variant readings and substantial textual notes. Peter Davison argues that Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, used a memorially reconstructed text of Richard III during a touring performance of the play, and that text provided the manuscript for the 1597 quarto.

This edition of Shakespeare's King Lear is based on the first (1608) quarto and represents a significantly different version from that published in the Folio of 1623. Each has numerous unique passages and hundreds of variant readings, creating differences which affect the structure, characterisation and overall impact of the play.

This is the first modernized critical edition of Shakespeare's Henry V in the form of its original staging at the Globe in 1599. Andrew Gurr provides a most extensive commentary on the Quarto text of Shakespeare's last English history.

This 2001 book presents the first modernized and edited version of the 1622 Othello, this edition consists of a detailed introduction, quarto text, select collation and textual notes. An important book for scholars in Shakespeare and Elizabethan-Jacobean drama, with wide ramifications for other Shakespeare textual studies and for students of early theatre history.

The first printed text of Shakespeare's Hamlet is about half the length of the more familiar second quarto and Folio versions. It reorders and combines key plot elements to present its own workable alternatives. This is the only modernised, critical edition of the 1603 quarto in print.

This is a modernised edition of a play which appears to be an alternative version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Stephen Miller suggests that an anonymous person wrote a simpler version of Shakespeare's more complicated play. His edition provides a modernized text and extensive commentary.

Two different versions of Romeo and Juliet were published during Shakespeare's lifetime: the second quarto of 1599, on which modern editions are usually based, and the first quarto of 1597. A comprehensive edition of the 1597 edition, this is of vital interest to all scholars of Shakespeare.

Two different versions of Romeo and Juliet were published during Shakespeare's lifetime: the second quarto of 1599, on which modern editions are usually based, and the first quarto of 1597. A comprehensive edition of the 1597 edition, this is of vital interest to all scholars of Shakespeare.