The Cambridge Shakespeare been considered profane, where needed to preserve metre or meaning. In 2009, Cambridge University Press reissued all nine volumes as part of their "Cambridge Library Collection" which aims to preserve access to "books of enduring scholarly value". The reissued editions are: "The New Shakespeare" was published between 1921 and 1969. The series was edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch and J. Dover Wilson. The earlier volumes of the series contain critical introductions by Quiller-Couch (signed "Q") and written in a "belles lettres" style that, according to R. A. Foakes in "The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare" (2003), have been "largely forgotten". The textual
Charles Lee (author) amongst the group of artists who formed the Newlyn School. His "Cornish Tales" had an introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. After relocating to the London suburbs, he worked as senior editor for J. M. Dent, where, owing to his talent for editing prose, he came to be known as "the man with the green pen." As well as a number of short stories he wrote several plays, journals, and musical scores and a guide book of St Mawgan:- "The Vale of Lanherne", . In collaboration with D.B. Wyndham Lewis he compiled "The Stuffed Owl", an anthology of bad (mainly inappropriate