The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to be used in the first way$$$ then the often narrow thread of text above a sediment of footnotes$$$ something Dr Leavis so deplored$$$ can pro

The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to be used in the first way$$$ then the often narrow thread of text above a sediment of footnotes$$$ something Dr Leavis so deplored$$$ can prove debilitating. Poems$$$ especially the classics of our language$$$ should be read headlong. Dubieties may be looked up later.