“Firing of Arden Editor Causes Tempest in Shakespeare Studies”

The publisher of the Arden Shakespeare has cancelled the contract of a senior scholar charged with producing a new edition of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for the well-regarded series. Patricia Parker, who has a high reputation among Shakespearians, had been working on her edition of MND for more than a decade. Did Arden's publisher, Cengage, terminate her because of missed deadlines? Or was something else–commercialism versus scholarship, or scholar versus scholar–behind the dismissal?