This edition of 'The Winter's Tale' provides a newly edited text, an introduction that takes into account current critical thinking, and a commentary on the play's language designed to make it easily accessible to contemporary readers.

The Arden Shakespeare edition of Henry VI Part 1 provides a clear and authoritative text with detailed notes and commentary, and places the play in its historical, cultural and performance contexts.

In their introduction to this play, the editors show how the young Shakespeare, working closely from his chronicle sources, nevertheless freely shaped his complex material to make it both theatrically effective and poetically innovative.