The Arden Project
I picked up Troilus and Cressida and King Richard III from Oxfam today - over the £2 mark, but remember I have to buy it if it's less than £2, not can't buy it if it's more. Although I had hoped... But they were £2.49 and £2.99, so reasonably priced.
(I also bought Collected Plays 4 of Pirandello, which I fear completes the set, unless I can find evidence that Calder Publications released a volume 5. This is clearly a moment where we realise that Collected =/= Complete. At a guess I have only half of the plays. And at least one of his works of prose was interesting, which I think was called Shoot!. And it's online. Uh huh.
(Across in the general Oxfam, I picked up two more Skinner novels, of which more anon, both at the ankle displaying £1.99. I see that Jardine gives up on having Skinner in the title, so I must check if they have those two as well. There are two more with his name I don't have - will have to think if I want to read them out of order, as there does appear to be an internal chronology. [Although the also by list doesn't list them in order, so perhaps Trail is a prequel, so it's too late as it were. I don't think so, from a quick look at Amazon, which also reveals I can buy it for a penny and £2.75 postage. I invoke the £2 law, maybe it needs to be cheaper than £2 because I don't want it that badly])
I see I still need to acquire:
which is odd, since I have held all of them in my hand. If so they haven't made it to the shelves.
There's also the Sonnets, helpfully listed on Amazon as by Katherine (Editor) Duncan-Jones (Author). I don't recall ever seeing this - and it isn't cheap secondhand. I need another edition of The Sonnets even less than I need the plays (I have the other poems in an Arden edition), but... I would also need to find a couple of The Two Noble Kinsmen, but that's an Arden 3 and everything else is Arden 2 (clearly it wasn't thought to be sufficiently by Shakespeare between 1950 and 1985 or so).
It also strikes me than I have huge Renaissance gaps - aside from Marlowe - in the shape of Webster, Dekker, Ford, Jonson, and it would be nice to collect the Revels editions (in preference to New Mermaids). Must hunt down a little list. Not that I'll ever read any of them, but the Renaissance was part of my life for a long time, off and on.
(I also bought Collected Plays 4 of Pirandello, which I fear completes the set, unless I can find evidence that Calder Publications released a volume 5. This is clearly a moment where we realise that Collected =/= Complete. At a guess I have only half of the plays. And at least one of his works of prose was interesting, which I think was called Shoot!. And it's online. Uh huh.
(Across in the general Oxfam, I picked up two more Skinner novels, of which more anon, both at the ankle displaying £1.99. I see that Jardine gives up on having Skinner in the title, so I must check if they have those two as well. There are two more with his name I don't have - will have to think if I want to read them out of order, as there does appear to be an internal chronology. [Although the also by list doesn't list them in order, so perhaps Trail is a prequel, so it's too late as it were. I don't think so, from a quick look at Amazon, which also reveals I can buy it for a penny and £2.75 postage. I invoke the £2 law, maybe it needs to be cheaper than £2 because I don't want it that badly])
I see I still need to acquire:
- Cymbeline
- Love's Labours Lost
- Merry Wives of Windsor
- Pericles
which is odd, since I have held all of them in my hand. If so they haven't made it to the shelves.
There's also the Sonnets, helpfully listed on Amazon as by Katherine (Editor) Duncan-Jones (Author). I don't recall ever seeing this - and it isn't cheap secondhand. I need another edition of The Sonnets even less than I need the plays (I have the other poems in an Arden edition), but... I would also need to find a couple of The Two Noble Kinsmen, but that's an Arden 3 and everything else is Arden 2 (clearly it wasn't thought to be sufficiently by Shakespeare between 1950 and 1985 or so).
It also strikes me than I have huge Renaissance gaps - aside from Marlowe - in the shape of Webster, Dekker, Ford, Jonson, and it would be nice to collect the Revels editions (in preference to New Mermaids). Must hunt down a little list. Not that I'll ever read any of them, but the Renaissance was part of my life for a long time, off and on.