Arden Shakespeare R. Woudhuysen of the University of Oxford. , the edition of one canonical play remains to be published: "Measure for Measure", edited by A. R. Braunmuller. What follows is a list of editions published in the third series thus far as of November 2018. The third series is also notable for publishing single-volume editions of certain plays which traditionally form part of the so-called Shakespeare Apocrypha, but for which there is considered good evidence of Shakespeare having at least been part author. Three apocryphal plays have so far been published in this manner. Due to the long period of time
The Plays of William Shakespeare plays but many people were unwilling to lend him their editions out of a fear that they might be destroyed. David Garrick offered Johnson access to his collection of Shakespeare texts but Johnson declined the offer, believing that Garrick would expect preferential treatment in return. Johnson's strength was to create a set of corresponding notes that allow readers to identify the meaning behind many of Shakespeare's more complicated passages or ones that may have been transcribed incorrectly over time. Included within the notes are occasional attacks upon the rival editors of Shakespeare's works and their editions. In 1766, Steevens published