Shakespeare at Stratford. Series edited by Robert Smallwood, Susan Brock, and Russell Jackson. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2002; King Richard III . By Gillian Day. xiii + 259 pp. $24.99;

Scholars preparing production histories of individual Shakespeare plays have long been faced with the challenges of structuring their studies. The scholar can choose to write a straightforward one-actor-or-production-after-another monograph (Rosenberg on Othello , Ripley on Julius Caesar and Coriolanus , Bartholomeuz on Macbeth and The Winter ' s Tale , etc.), a transhistorical encyclopedic scene-by-scene and line-by-line collation (Rosenberg on King Lear, Macbeth , and Hamlet ), a transhistorical interlineated text (Bratton and Hankey's Shakespeare in Production editions, under a variety of different series titles and publishers), or an exemplary-production snapshot album (Mulryne and Bulman's Shakespeare in Performance series).