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- ↑ Juliet Dusinberre, introduction to "As You Like It", Arden Shakespeare, Third Edition
- ↑ General Editors' Preference, The Tempest , Arden Shakespeare, 3rd Series, 1999
- ↑ Copyright page, "The Tempest", edited by Frank Kermode, Arden 2nd Series, 1954
- ↑ General Preface, King Lear , The Arden Shakespeare, copyrighted 1917
- ↑ General Editor's Preface by Una Ellis-Fermor, dated 1951, as printed in Macbeth , Arden Shakespeare, 2nd Series
- ↑ The works of Shakespeare: London, Methuen [1899–1930]. Arden Shakespeare. Stanford University Library. 1899. Retrieved May 4, 2016.
- ↑ Copyright page, "Macbeth", edited by Kenneth Muir, Arden 2nd Series, printed 1994
- ↑ GenPref2
- ↑ See "Coriolanus", Arden Shakespeare, Third Series (published February 2013)
- ↑ Preface, "Hamlet", Arden 3rd Series
- ↑ "Hamlet, the Texts of 1603 and 1623", Arden Shakespeare, 3rd Series.
- ↑ Bloomsbury 11th printing (2017) p. xxi
- ↑ Bloomsbury Publishing Website. Retrieved January 23, 2020.
- ↑ Bloomsbury Publishing Website. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
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- ↑ Deliyannides, Andrew. "Peter Holland Named General Editor of The Arden Shakespeare", University of Notre Dame, March 3, 2015.
