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“Firing of Arden Editor Causes Tempest in Shakespeare Studies”

August 15, 2008

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?

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