The Tragedy of Arthur_ A Novel - Arthur Phillips [0]
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The Taming of the Shrew
Edward III
Henry VI, Parts I–III (with Nashe, et al.)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Titus Andronicus (with George Peele)
Richard III
Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
The Sonnets
The Comedy of Errors
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Love’s Labour’s Won (lost)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Richard II
King John
The Merchant of Venice
Henry IV, Parts I–II
Much Ado About Nothing
Henry V
As You Like It
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Sir Thomas More (with Munday, et al.)
Twelfth Night
Troilus and Cressida
Othello
Measure for Measure
All’s Well That Ends Well
Timon of Athens
(with Thomas Middleton)
King Lear
Macbeth (with Thomas Middleton)
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Pericles (with George Wilkins)
Cymbeline
The Winter’s Tale
The Tempest
Cardenio (with John Fletcher—lost)
Henry VIII (with John Fletcher)
The Two Noble Kinsmen
(with John Fletcher)
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Copyright © 2011 by Arthur Phillips
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Phillips, Arthur.
The tragedy of Arthur: a novel / by Arthur Phillips.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-679-60506-5
I. Title.
PS3616.h45t73 2011
813′.6—dc22 2010021192
www.atrandom.com
Jacket design and illustration: Ben Wiseman
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Contents
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
The Tragedy of Arthur
Lines of Succession to the British Throne
List of Parts
Synopsis
Act I
Scene I
Scene II
Scene III
Scene IV
Scene V
Act II
Scene I
Scene II
Scene III
Scene IV
Scene V
Scene VI
Scene VII
Scene VIII
Scene IX
Act III
Scene I
Scene II
Scene III
Act IV
Scene I
Scene II
Scene III
Scene IV
Act V
Scene I
Scene II
Scene III
Scene IV
Scene V
Notes
About the Authors
PREFACE
Random House is proud to present this first modern edition of The Tragedy of Arthur by William Shakespeare.
Until now, Shakespeare’s dramatic canon consisted of thirty-eight or thirty-nine plays, depending on whose scholarship one trusted and whose edition of the Complete Works one owned. Thirty-six plays were included in the so-called First Folio of 1623, published seven years after the playwright’s death. Two more—collaborations, likely delayed for copyright reasons—were added to subsequent seventeenth-century collections. A thirty-ninth play, Edward III, has over the last two decades garnered increasing academic support as having been written, at least in part, by Shakespeare, but it was published only anonymously in his lifetime and is by no means universally acknowledged as a Shakespeare play. A further two works—Cardenio and Love’s Labour’s Won—are referred to in historical documents, but no copies of either have survived. Another dozen or so plays—the so-called Apocrypha—do exist and are debated, but none have acquired anything approaching scholarly consensus as being the work of Shakespeare.
The Tragedy of Arthur was published as a quarto in 1597. Its cover’s claim that the text is “newly