King richard II [rare books]

The Arden Shakespeare, founded in the 1890s, has, with a continuing process of revision, established itself as the standard scholarly edition of Shakespeare's works. Each play appears in a separate volume with critical notes, apparatus, appendices giving extracts from the relevant sources, and a full introduction. For the general reader and for students who want something more substantial than school texts or a one- volume Shakespeare, the Arden edition, edited to the highest standards of modern scholarship, has continued to prove invaluable.

The illustration on the cover is by Graham Arnold, a member of the Brotherhood of Ruralists, a group of seven artists who have a passionate concern for English artistic skills and craftsmanship, and who see their work as the celebration of a vital tradition in English art, and its ultimate source, the spirit of the countryside.