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Kittredge Shakespeare is a series of scholarly edited volumes of individual plays by William Shakespeare. The original series were edited by noted Shakespeare scholar George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard University. The series has been revised and updated twice in more recent years. ==Original Series== George Kittredge born in 1860, was nearly 80 years old when the first volumes of Kittredge Shakespeare were published in 1939. The original series included text and analysis of sixteen of Shakespeare's Plays.〔Preface to the New Kittredge Shakespeare, by Irving Ribner, published in each volume of the Second Series, 1966 to 1069〕 Kittredge, who had taught Harvard undergraduates an introductory course on Shakespeare called English 2, had written very little on the subject, other than an address in 1916 at the Sanders Theater, before publishing his ''Complete Works'' in 1936 (see below) and the individual play series, starting in 1939.〔Prologue, by Arthur Colby Sprague, to ''Sixteen Plays of Shakespeare'', edited by George Lyman Kittredge, (c) 1946〕 The original series included an introduction to each play, text of the play, copious literary notes following the text, textual notes, and a glossary.〔see, e.g. ''The Tragedy of King Lear'', edited by George Lyman Kittredge, published by Gin and Company 1940; ''Twelfth Night'', edited by George Lyman Kittredge, published by Gin and Company 1941; ''The Tragedy of King Richard II'', edited by George Lyman Kittredge, published by Ginn and Company 1941〕 The original series included the following volumes: Released 1939: ''As You Like It, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth'', and ''The Tempest''. Released 1940: ''Henry IV, part 1, King Lear'', and ''Romeo and Juliet'' Released 1941: ''Antony and Cleopatra, Othello'', and ''Twelfth Night''. Also released between 1939 and 1941: ''A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing'' Released posthumously: ''Henry V, The Merchant of Venice''〔 Kittredge died in July 1941 at age 81, and was working on the original series of these books until shortly before he passed.〔Clyde Kenneth Hyder, ''George Lyman Kittredge: Teacher and Scholar'' (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1962), page 190〕 In 1945, Arthur Colby Sprague, of Bryn Mawr College, edited volumes for ''Henry V'' and ''The Merchant of Venice'' from Kittredge's explanatory notes.〔Hyder (1962), page 184〕 ''Sixteen Plays of Shakespeare'', with a preface by Arthur Colby Sprague, was released as a single volume in 1946.〔Hylan (1962), page 184〕 This collection includes the full introductions and all of the notes, textural notes and play glossaries found in each individual volume.〔''Sixteen Plays of Shakespeare,, edited by George Lyman Kittredge, published by Ginn and Company, 1946〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kittredge Shakespeare」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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