the arden shakespeare

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The Arden ShAkeSpeAre
ShAkeSpeAre in Our Time
2016
The Arden Shakespeare has long set the gold standard in annotated, scholarly editions of
Shakespeare’s plays. We now also offer a broad range of critical studies for students and scholars,
providing fresh insight into the work and world of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The Arden
Shakespeare provides support for students and teachers throughout higher education.
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We are marking Shakespeare's 400th anniversary year with some innovative publishing: On Shakespeare's Sonnets celebrates
Shakespeare the poet, with 30 leading poets writing a new poem in response to a sonnet, while Shakespeare in Our Time
showcases the current and future shape of Shakespeare studies with a wealth of essays from leading international scholars.
The beautifully illustrated Shakespeare and the Stuff of Life illuminates the world in which Shakespeare lived and wrote
while Shakespeare's Creative Legacies explores his work's influence on a variety of creative arts, with personal reflections
from theatre makers, artists and writers giving a unique voice to Shakespeare's enduring impact.
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The Arden Shakespeare Third Series High School/Secondary and Above
General Editors: Richard Proudfoot, Emeritus Professor, King’s College London, UK; Ann Thompson, Emeritus Professor, King’s College London, UK; David Scott
Kastan, Yale University, USA; H.R. Woudhuysen, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK
Associate General Editor: George Walton Williams, Emeritus Professor, Duke University, USA
Each Arden edition includes:
• A full and concise introduction with illustrations, designed to engage and attract the reader
• A modernized, easy-to-read version of the text
• Thorough commentary on every page explaining the speech and action taking place
• Detailed explanations of unusual words and phrases
• Appendices, source notes and extracts giving a fully rounded understanding for students
• An index providing a pathway through the material
King Henry IV Part 2 The Comedy of Errors Hamlet: Othello:
Third Series Third Series Revised Edition Revised Edition
Edited by James C. Bulman Edited by Kent Cartwright
Edited by Ann Thompson Edited by Ayanna Thompson
& Neil Taylor & E.A.J. Honigmann
UK July 2016 / US July 2016 UK December 2016 / US December 2016
512 pages 312 pages
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For a full list of books in the series, see page 4
Undergraduate and Above
Arden Early Modern Drama
Series Editors: Suzanne Gossett, Emeritus Professor,
Loyola University, Chicago, USA; John Jowett,
Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare
Institute, University of Birmingham, UK and Gordon
McMullan, Professor of English at King’s College
London, UK
Arden Early Modern Drama accompanies and complements
the Arden Shakespeare Third Series, offering editions of
non-Shakespearean Renaissance and Restoration drama
from the period 1500-1700. Modelled on the Third Series
in appearance and style, Arden Early Modern Drama The Witch of A Jovial Crew The Spanish Tragedy
editions offer high-quality textual scholarship, together
with an accessible, student-friendly introduction. Edmonton Richard Brome Thomas Kyd Edited by Clara Calvo
Edited by Tiffany Stern and Jesús Tronch
Edited by Lucy Munro
UK January 2014 / US March 2014 2013
UK November 2016 / US November 2016 328 Pages 392 Pages / 15 bw illus
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All's Well That Ends Well * G. K. hunter 9781903436233 £9.99 $18.00
Antony and Cleopatra John Wilders 9781904271017 £8.99 $17.00
As You Like It Juliet Dusinberre 9781904271222 £8.99 $17.00
The Comedy of Errors Kent Cartwright 9781904271246 £9.99 $17.00
Coriolanus Peter Holland 9781904271284 £9.99 $17.00
Cymbeline * J. M. Nosworthy 9781903436028 £9.99 $18.00
Double Falsehood Brean Hammond 9781903436776 £16.99 $19.95
Hamlet: Revised Edition Ann Thompson & Neil Taylor 9781472518385 £8.99 $17.00
Hamlet: The Texts Of 1603 And 1623 Ann Thompson & Neil Taylor 9781904271802 £12.99 $22.00
Julius Caesar David Daniell 9781903436219 £8.99 $17.00
King Henry IV Part 1 David Scott Kastan 9781904271352 £9.99 $18.00
King Henry IV Part 2 James C. Bulman 9781904271376 £9.99 $17.00
King Henry V T.W. Craik 9781904271086 £8.99 $17.00
King Henry VI Part 1 Edward Burns 9781903436431 £12.99 $18.00
King Henry VI Part 2 Ronald Knowles 9781903436639 £9.99 $18.00
King Henry VI Part 3 Eric rasmussen & John D. Cox 9781903436318 £9.99 $18.00
King Henry VIII Gordon McMullan 9781903436257 £11.99 $18.00
King John * E.A.J. Honigmann 9781903436097 £10.99 $18.00
King Lear R.A. Foakes 9781903436592 £8.99 $17.00
King Richard II Charles r. Forker 9781903436332 £8.99 $17.00
King Richard III James R. Siemon 9781903436899 £9.99 $17.00
Love's Labour's Lost H. R. Woudhuysen 9781904271109 £8.99 $17.00
Macbeth Pamela Mason & Sandra Clark 9781904271413 £8.99 $17.00
Measure For Measure * J. W. Lever 9781903436448 £8.99 $17.00
The Merchant Of Venice John Drakakis 9781903436813 £9.99 $17.00
The Merry Wives Of Windsor Giorgio Melchiori 9781904271123 £10.99 $18.00
A Midsummer Night's Dream * Harold Brooks 9781903436608 £8.99 $17.00
Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition Claire McEachern 9781472520296 £9.99 $15.95
Othello: Revised Edition Ayanna Thompson & E.A.J. Honigmann 9781472571762 £8.99 $17.00
Pericles Prof. Suzanne Gossett 9781903436851 £9.99 $18.00
Poems h. r. Woudhuysen & Katherine Duncan-Jones 9781903436875 £9.99 $18.00
Romeo and Juliet Rene Weis 9781903436912 £8.99 $13.95
Shakespeare's Sonnets Katherine Duncan-Jones 9781408017975 £9.99 $17.00
Sir Thomas More John Jowett 9781904271482 £16.99 $26.95
The Taming of the Shrew Barbara Hodgdon 9781903436936 £9.99 $17.00
The Tempest Alden T Vaughan & Virginia Mason Vaughan 9781408133477 £8.99 $15.95
Timon Of Athens Anthony Dawson & Gretchen Minton 9781903436974 £8.99 $17.00
Titus Andronicus Jonathan Bate 9781903436059 £9.99 $17.00
Troilus and Cressida David Bevington 9781472584748 £10.99 $18.95
Twelfth Night Keir Elam 9781903436998 £8.99 $17.00
The Two Gentlemen of Verona William Carroll 9781903436950 £9.99 $18.00
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The Winter's Tale John Pitcher 9781903436356 £9.99 $17.00
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Everyman and Mankind ANON Douglas Bruster 9781904271628 £11.99 $18.95
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The Island Princess John Fletcher Clare McManus 9781904271536 £16.99 $21.95
A Jovial Crew Richard Brome Tiffany Stern 9781904271772 £12.99 $18.00
Philaster Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher Suzanne Gossett 9781904271734 £12.99 $19.95
The Renegado Philip Massinger Michael Neill 9781904271611 £11.99 $18.95
The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd Clara Calvo & Jesus Tronch 9781904271604 £10.99 $16.00
Tis Pity She's A Whore John Ford Sonia Massai 9781904271505 £10.99 $16.00
The Tragedy of Mariam Elizabeth Cary Ramona Wray 9781904271598 £13.99 $21.95
The Witch of Edmonton Thomas Dekker, John Ford Lucy Munro 9781904271529 £12.99 $19.95
& William Rowley
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CElEBrATiNG 400 yEArS oF ShAKESPEArE
Shakespeare and the On Shakespeare's
Stuff of Life Sonnets
Treasures from the Shakespeare A Poets' Celebration
Birthplace Trust Edited by Hannah Crawforth &
Edited by Delia Garratt, Director of Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, both at
Cultural Engagement, Shakespeare's King's College London, UK
Birthplace Trust & Tara Hamling, In the four hundred years since
University of Birmingham, UK Shakespeare's death, the Sonnets have
This unique book brings together, for invited imitation, homage, critique,
the first time, a selection of 50 objects parody and pastiche. These new poems
from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust probe our relationship to the Sonnets'
in Stratford-upon-Avon. Accessible intricate form and ambitious scope,
and lavishly illustrated, the volume their investigation of sexuality, wit,
provides an object-based exploration memory and poetic survival. These
of the role and significance of notable sonnets and longer lyrics explore what
paintings, furniture, ceramics, it means to write 'on Shakespeare's
textiles and metal wares in the Sonnets' in the 21st century. Published
everyday experience of people living in association with the Royal Society of
in Shakespearean England. Published Literature contributing poets include:
to mark the 400th anniversary of Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian
Shakespeare's death in 2016, it brings Clarke, Paul Muldoon, ruth Padel,
Shakespeare's times to life for readers Simon Armitage, roger McGough and Jo
of all ages. Shapcott.
UK February 2016 / US April 2016 UK February 2016 / US April 2016
136 pages • 50 colour illus 112 pages
Flexiback 9781474222266 • £9.99 / $17.95 hB 9781474221580 • £12.99 / $19.95
Shakespeare in Our Time 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Shakespeare's Creative
A Shakespeare Association of America Xianzu's China Legacies
Collection
Edited by Tian Yuan Tan, SOAS, University of Artists, Writers, Performers and Critics
Edited by Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University, London, UK, Paul Edmondson, The Shakespeare Edited by Peter Holbrook, University of
USA & Suzanne Gossett, Loyola University, Birthplace Trust, UK & Shih-pe Wang, National Queensland, Australia
Chicago, USA Taiwan University, Taiwan
We justly celebrate Shakespeare as a creator of
Marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death The year is 1616. William Shakespeare has died, and plays and poems, characters and ideas, words and
this volume offers a unique collection of leading the world of the London theatres is mourning his worlds. But so too, in the four centuries since his
Shakespeare scholars outlining key developments in loss. But 1616 is also to see the death of the famous death in 1616, have thinkers, writers, artists, and
Shakespeare studies over the last two decades. Their Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu. Four hundred years performers recreated him. Readers are invited to
essays are complemented by responses from younger on, and Shakespeare is now an important meeting explore Shakespeare’s afterlife on stage and screen,
scholars looking forward to new fields of study and place for Anglo-Chinese cultural dialogue in the field in poetry, fiction, music, dance, and in cultural life
debate. A "state of the nation" look at Shakespeare of drama and literary studies. SOAS, The Shakespeare and literary criticism. A series of essays combine with
criticism, covering all the key areas of research and Birthplace Trust and National Chung Cheng University personal reflections from prominent contemporary
study including gender, text, performance, the body, of Taiwan have gathered together 11 Shakespeareans practitioners of the arts. Both celebration and
history, religion and biography, this is a must-read, and 11 Chinese literature experts to reflect on reflection, this unique book explores Shakespeare as a
comprehensive introduction to the critical ideas the theatrical climate in England and China in this global cultural figure who continues to inspire artists,
surrounding Shakespeare's work and a stimulating significant year. audiences and readers around the world.
exploration of where we might go next.
UK February 2016 / US February 2016 UK July 2016 / US July 2016
UK February 2016 / US February 2016 352 pages • 10 b/w illus 288 pages • 6 bw illus
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STUDENT GUiDES
Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing
Undergraduate
Series Editor: Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University, USA
This series offers a new type of study aid, which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical writing skills students need to develop in
order to engage fully with Shakespeare’s texts. Each edition includes an introduction, considering when and how the play was written; a detailed examination and
analysis of the individual text; discussion of performance history and critical reception of the work and a ‘Writing Matters’ section in every chapter that clearly
links the analysis of Shakespeare’s language to students’ own writing strategies in coursework and examinations.
“This new series from Arden may be aimed at students, but most seasoned professionals have much to learn from it too. In fresh, readable prose, some of today's leading
Shakespeare scholars point up the connections between the plays' distinctive verbal textures and their larger concerns and theatrical effects, rarely touching even
the most familiar passages without opening up nuanced and illuminating new readings. These handy, punchy books are absolute master-classes in close reading and
interpretation.” – Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Birmingham, UK
new new
Antony and The Merchant Hamlet Romeo and Othello Twelfth Night
Cleopatra of Venice Dympna Callaghan Juliet Laurie Maguire Frances E. Dolan
Virginia Mason Vaughan Douglas M. Lanier UK February 2015 Catherine Belsey UK April 2014 UK April 2014
US April 2015 US June 2014 US June 2014
UK November 2015 UK December 2016 232 Pages UK February 2014 192 Pages 192 Pages
US November 2015 US December 2016 PB 9781408154892 US April 2014 PB 9781408156599 PB 9781408171745
184 pages 192 pages £9.99 / $14.95 192 Pages £9.99 / $14.95 £9.99 / $14.95
PB 9781472504999 PB 9781472571489 HB 9781472520289 PB 9781408171752 HB 9781472518293 HB 9781472518347
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HB 9781408184516 HB 9781472571496 HB 9781472518354
£40.00 / $45.00 £40.00 / $68.00 £30.00 / $45.00
Shakespeare and Theory
Upper Undergraduate and Above
Series Editor: Evelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
This series provides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical developments that have dominated Shakespeare studies since the advent of postmodernism, as well as
those that are emerging at the present moment.
Each volume provides a clear definition of a particular theory; explains its key concepts; surveys its major theorists and critics; situates it in the context of contemporary
political, social, and economic developments; analyses its significance in Shakespeare studies; and offers a wealth of suggested resources for further investigation.
Shakespeare and Ecocritical Theory Shakespeare and New Historicist
Gabriel Egan, Loughborough University, UK Theory
Combining the latest scientific and philosophical understanding
Neema Parvini, University of Surrey, UK
of humankind's place in the world with interpretative methods
derived from other politically inflected literary criticism, Over the past three decades, no critical movement has been
ecocriticism is providing new insights into literary works both more prominent in Shakespeare Studies than new historicism.
ancient and modern. With case-study analyses of the tragedies, And yet, it remains notoriously difficult to pin down, define and
comedies, histories and the late romances, this book is a explain, let alone analyze. Shakespeare and New Historicist
wide-ranging introduction to reading Shakespeare in light of Theory provides a comprehensive scholarly analysis of new
contemporary ecocritical theory. historicism as a development in Shakespeare studies while
asking fundamental questions about its status as literary theory and its continued
usefulness as a method of approaching Shakespeare’s plays.
UK october 2015 / US october 2015 • 208 pages
PB 9781441199300 • £17.99 / $29.95 • hB 9781441145529 • £55.00 / $100.00
UK December 2016 / US December 2016 • 208 pages
PB 9781474240987 • £18.99 / $29.95 • hB 9781474240994 • £55.00 / $94.00
Shakespeare and Economic Theory Shakespeare and
David Hawkes, Arizona State University, USA Psychoanalytic Theory
This book shows how concepts and concerns that were until
Carolyn E. Brown, University of San Francisco, USA
recently considered purely economic affected the entire range
of sixteenth and seventeenth century life. Using the work Although psychoanalytic criticism of Shakespeare is a prominent
of such critics as Jean-Christophe Agnew, Douglas Bruster, field of scholarship, the analytic tools, theories, and critics
hugh Grady and many others, Shakespeare and Economic who apply the theories have not been adequately assessed.
Theory traces economic literary criticism to its cultural and This book fills that gap. it surveys the psychoanalytic theorists
historical roots, and discusses its main practitioners. Providing who have had the most impact on Shakespeare studies, clearly
new readings of Timon of Athens, King Lear, The Winter’s Tale, The Merchant explaining the fundamental concepts of their theories, providing concise definitions
of Venice, Measure for Measure, the Sonnets, Julius Caesar, Macbeth and The of key terminology, describing the inception and evolution of different schools of
Tempest, David hawkes shows how it can reveal previously unappreciated qualities psychoanalysis, and discussing the relationship of psychoanalytic theory (especially
of Shakespeare’s work. in Shakespeare) to other critical theories. It assesses the applicability of the theory
to Shakespeare studies and the significance of the resulting readings.
UK July 2015 / US September 2015
240 Pages • PB 9781472576972 • £17.99 / $29.95 • hB 9781472576989 • £55.00 / $94.00 UK August 2015 / US October 2015
192 Pages • PB 9781472503237 • £17.99 / $29.95 • hB 9781472503244 • £55.00 / $100.00
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STUDENT GUiDES
Undergraduate and Above
Arden Early Modern Drama
Guides
Series Editors: Andrew Hiscock, Bangor University, UK and
Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
These guides offer practical and accessible introductions to
the critical and performative contexts of key Elizabethan
and Jacobean plays. Each guide introduces the text’s critical
and performance history but also provides students with an
invaluable insight into the landscape of current scholarly Edited by Kirk Melnikoff Edited by Ann Thompson Edited by
research through a keynote essay on the state of the art, and & Neil Taylor Andrew James Hartley
newly commissioned essays of fresh research from different UK December 2016
critical perspectives. US December 2016 UK April 2016 UK October 2016
256 pages US April 2016 US October 2016
PB 9781472584038 • £17.99 / $29.95 264 pages 304 pages
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hB 9781472571380 • £55.00 / $94.00 hB 9781474220378 • £60.00 / $104.00
Edited by Robert C. Evans Edited by Julia Lupton Edited by Thomas Rist Edited by Brian Walsh Edited by Paul Frazer &
Adam Hansen
UK July 2015 UK January 2016 UK October 2016 UK October 2016
US September 2015 US January 2016 US October 2016 US October 2016 UK November 2016
256 Pages 296 pages 256 pages 304 pages US November 2016
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hB 9781472587398 • £55.00 / $94.00
Shakespeare Now! Undergraduate and Above
Series Editors: Ewan Fernie, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK and Simon Palfrey, University of Oxford, UK
Shakespeare Now! is a series of short books that engage imaginatively and often provocatively with the possibilities of Shakespeare’s plays. It goes back to the source
- the most living language imaginable - and recaptures the excitement, audacity and surprise of Shakespeare. It will return you to the plays with opened eyes.
Othello's Secret Shakespeare's textbook Tragic Cognition in Teaching Shakespeare
The Cyprus Problem Universality Shakespeare's Othello and Marlowe
R M Christofides, Independent Here's Fine Revolution Beyond the Neural Sublime Learning versus the System
Scholar, UK
Kiernan Ryan, University of London, UK Paul Cefalu, Lafayette College, USA Liam E. Semler, University of
Othello's Secret
uncovers the Through close How can recent Sydney, Australia
relationship between readings of a wide theories of This book explores
the play and the range of plays and cognition inform how to achieve
conflicts that have poems, Kiernan our understanding innovative
torn apart its Ryan's compelling of Shakespeare’s approaches
Cypriot setting, polemic sets out characters? to teaching
providing a new and to reclaim the idea Tragic Cognition and learning
powerfully political of Shakespeare's in Shakespeare’s Shakespeare and
reading. Exploring timeless Othello looks at Marlowe within
the domestic and universality from how such theories formal learning
military anxieties connected by reactionary and can enhance our systems such
Shakespeare, Christofides highlights radical critics alike. Its argument is perception of Iago and Othello, as as school and
the ways in which these issues driven throughout by the belief that well as enriching the play’s complex university.
resonate with current ideological at this moment in history the need to accounts of empathy, intentionality, Suitable for any teacher or academic
and geographical divisions in Cyprus, recognise and activate the revolutionary and tragedy. Paul Cefalu argues that yearning for fresh and authentic
divisions rooted in the 16th century potential of Shakespeare's drama is Shakespearean characters raise timely approaches to their discipline.
struggles to control the island. more urgent than ever. questions about the relationship
Challenging the conventional view of between cognition and consciousness UK December 2013 / US February 2014
Othello as a Venetian play, this book UK April 2015 / US June 2015 and often defy our assumptions about 168 Pages
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of how early modern literature can
purposefully contribute to even the UK May 2015 / US July 2015
most complex geopolitical debates. 136 Pages
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UK June 2016 / US June 2016
176 pages
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rEFErENCE
Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries Postgraduate and Reference
Series Editor: Sandra Clark, Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK
The Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries provide authoritative guides to major subject areas covered by the poetry and plays. The dictionaries provide readers with a
comprehensive guide to the topic under discussion, especially its contemporary meanings, and to its occurrence and significance in Shakespeare’s works. Comprehensive
bibliographies accompany many of the items. Entries range from a few lines in length to mini-essays, providing the opportunity to explore an important literary o rhistorical
concept or idea in depth.
new new new
in PB in PB in PB
Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare's Shakespeare's Shakespeare's Shakespeare's
and National and Visual Insults Books Plants and Demonology
Identity Culture A Pragmatic Dictionary A Dictionary of Gardens A Dictionary
Shakespeare Sources
UK January 2016 A Dictionary UK December 2016
UK November 2016 UK September 2016
US November 2016 US September 2016 US January 2016 UK February 2016 US December 2016
256 Pages 264 Pages 512 Pages US February, 2016 UK May 2016 240 Pages
HB 9781472534347 HB 9781472568052 HB 9780826498335 432 Pages US May 2016 PB 9781474253956
£100.00 / $172.00 £100.00 / $172.00 £100.00 / $172.00 PB 9781472572929 432 Pages £25.99 / $44.95
£29.99 / $44.95 PB 9781474273879
£25.99 / $44.95
Great Shakespeareans MA and Above
Series Editors: Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA and Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge, UK
Gielgud, Olivier, Ashcroft, Poel, Granville Barker, Guthrie,
Dench Wanamaker
Great Shakespeareans Great Shakespeareans
Edited by Russell Jackson, University of Birmingham, Edited by Cary M. Mazer, University of Pennsylvania,
UK USA
In their own distinctive manner, each of the four actors All four figures in this volume have been canonized as
discussed in this volume have had a profound and central to ‘stage-centred’ Shakespearean scholarship
innovative influence on the methods of Shakespearean and stage practice. From William Poel’s reproductions
performance, and thus on the appreciation and of early modern stages in the late nineteenth century
interpretation of his plays. Their careers encompass to Sam Wanamaker’s reconstruction of the Globe on
almost a century of theatrical experience, from John london’s South Bank, they all viewed Shakespeare’s plays
Gielgud’s childhood before the First World War to Judi as being enmeshed in the social and historical dynamics
Dench’s performances in the first decades of the new millennium. The volume of theatremaking and theatregoing. The volume considers how their attempts to
affords invaluable insights into changing approaches to the actor’s craft, the aims recapture early modern performance conditions can be considered progressive.
and methods of the theatre, the institutions presenting productions and, above all,
to Shakespeare’s plays themselves. UK September 2015 / US September 2015 • 264 pages
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UK September 2015 / US September 2015 • 248 pages
PB 9781474253390 • £24.99 / $39.95 • Previously published in hB 9781441185259
Bloomsbury Academic Collections Shakespeare's Shakespeare Meagher, John
hB 9781474247443 • £75.00 / $128.00
Shakespeare Two Tragedies Montchrestien, Antoine de (©C.N. Smith)
This collection, composed of six reissued titles from The Athlone Press, hB 9781474247467 • £75.00 / $128.00
Sheffield Academic Press and Continuum, offers a distinguished selection
of titles that showcase the breadth of Shakespeare Studies. Shakespeare, Catholicism, and Romance Richmond, Velma Bourgeois
hB 9781474247481 • £75.00 / $128.00
The titles in this collection range from Shakespeare’s view on religion,
our understanding of him as an author and director, the work of his Shakespeare In The New Europe Hattaway, Michael, Sokolova, Boika & Roper, Derek
contemporaries and how he is taught in the contemporary curriculum. hB 9781474247566 • £75.00 / $128.00
Strengths of Shakespeare's Shrew Empson, William, edited by Haffenden, John
UK December 2015 / US December 2015 hB 9781474247580 • £75.00 / $128.00
6 volume HB set
9781474247627 • £450.00 / $768.00 Shakespeare For All: The Primary School Gilmour, Maurice (© MG and Contributors)
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ACTiNG AND PErForMANCE
Performing King Lear Anecdotal Shakespeare Early Modern Actors and
Gielgud to russell Beale A New Performance History Shakespeare's Theatre
Jonathan Croall, Theatre Historian Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin College, USA Thinking with the Body
Performing King Lear offers a very different and Shakespeare’s performance history is full of anecdotes
Evelyn Tribble, University of Otago, New Zealand
practical perspective from most studies of the play. It − ribald, frequently funny, sometimes disturbing, and
is centred on the reality of creation and performance, always but loosely allegiant to fact. Such anecdotes What skills did Shakespeare’s actors bring to their
as seen through the eyes of today’s leading actors and are a vital index to the ways that Shakespeare’s craft? How do these skills differ from those of
directors, including Nicholas Hytner, Adrian Noble, plays have generated meaning across varied times contemporary actors? This book examines the ‘toolkit’
David hare, Kenneth Brannagh, Deborah Warner, and in varied places. Particular plays have produced of the early modern player and suggests new readings
Derek Jacobi, Jonathan Miller, Dominic Dromgoole particular anecdotes − stories of a real skull in of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
and Simon Russell Beale. Based on over forty unique Hamlet, superstitions about the name Macbeth, toga through the lens of their expertise. Evelyn Tribble
interviews with those who have staged the play in troubles in Julius Caesar – and express something argues that recapturing a positive account of the
London, Stratford and elsewhere, the book explores embedded in those plays. Anecdotes constitute a vital abilities of the early modern players will result in
how they have dealt with the formidable challenges component of a play’s performance history and a form a more capacious understanding of the nature of
involved in interpreting and staging Shakespeare’s of vernacular criticism by the people most involved in theatricality in the period.
great tragedy. their production: actors.
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Shakespeare in the Theatre Undergraduate
Series Editors: Bridget Escolme, University of London, UK, Farah Karim-Cooper, King's College London, UK, Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA
Each volume in the Shakespeare in the Theatre series examines a director or theatre company who has made a significant contribution to Shakespeare production and
the aesthetic and socio-political contexts of their work. Pointing to the range of people, artistic practices and cultural phenomena that make meaning in the theatre,
the series de-centres Shakespeare from within Shakespeare studies, and provides an unrivalled way of perceiving the performance of his work.
Mark Rylance at the Globe The American Shakespeare Nicholas Hytner
Stephen Purcell, University of Warwick, UK Center Abigail Rokison-Woodall, University of
Birmingham, UK
Since its opening in the late 1990s, the reconstructed Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin College, USA
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre has made an indelible This is the first major study of hytner's renowned
impression on the contemporary British theatre The original Blackfriars closed its doors in the 1640s, work on Shakespeare and his tenure at the National
scene. This book explores the theatre’s first decade ending over half-a-century of performances by Theatre, and features case studies of his major
of productions under the pioneering leadership of men and boys. In 2001, in the Shenandoah Valley of productions and interviews with Hytner himself, as
Mark rylance. Drawing upon interviews with key Virginia, it opened once again. The reconstructed well as with the actors, designers, directors and
practitioners from the Globe and detailed case Blackfriars, home to the American Shakespeare other practitioners with whom he has worked. Abigail
studies of notable productions, this book argues that Center, represents an old playhouse for the new rokison Woodall explores hytner’s own productions
the Rylance era was a groundbreaking and important millennium and therefore symbolically registers of Shakespeare’s plays within their respective socio-
period of recent theatre history. The book gives a the permanent revolution in the performance of cultural contexts, examines his working practices and
unique insight into Rylance's practice and impact, and Shakespeare. Time and again, the industry refreshes evaluates the impact of his artistic directorship on
will be of interest to anyone studying Shakespeare in its practices by rediscovering its own history. This the centrality of Shakespeare within the repertoire of
performance. book assesses how one American company has the National Theatre.
capitalised on history and in so doing has become
a major influence in contemporary Shakespearean
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Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Bloomsbury is a leading publisher of drama and performance books under the Methuen Drama imprint. We publish books for theatre-goers, students, scholars,
practitioners, actors and those wishing to pursue a career in the theatre industry. Our titles reflect an on-going commitment to publishing exciting new playwrights and
the best scholarship in the fields of theatre and performance.
Cracking Shakespeare textbook Mastering the online resources
A hands-on Guide for Actors Shakespeare Audition textbook
and Directors + Video
A Quick Guide to Performance Success
Kelly Hunter, Actor/Director, UK
Donna Soto-Morettini, Freelance, UK
Cracking Shakespeare serves to demystify the process
Success in auditions – drama school or for professional
of speaking Shakespeare’s language, offering hands-
jobs – often relies on a well delivered classical
on techniques for those intimidated by rehearsing,
monologue. Mastering the Shakespeare Audition makes
performing and directing Shakespeare’s plays. including
it easy for actors to analyse and master their chosen
supporting online video, it demonstrates how to
monologue in time for an upcoming audition. Following
embody Shakespeare’s characters in rehearsal and
a unique quick-start plan of reading and exercises,
performance − offering a toolkit that will free actors
actors will be shown how to perform with confidence.
and directors from their fear of Shakespeare. The
Each section provides a set of exercises, detailing the
result of thirty years of acting, teaching and directing
time necessary to read and complete them. At the end
Shakespeare, Kelly hunter’s Cracking Shakespeare
of each section there is also a set of extended exercises
is the ideal textbook for actors and directors looking for new ways to approach
for those with more time to spare. Features online
Shakespeare’s plays in a hands-on, down-to-earth style.
video resources.
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Directing Shakespeare The Hand on the Teaching Shakespeare The Politics
in America Shakespearean Stage with Purpose of Performing
Current Practices Gesture, Touch and the Spectacle A Student-Centred Approach Shakespeare for
Charles Ney, Texas State University, of Dismemberment Ayanna Thompson, The George Young People
USA Farah Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare's Washington University, Washington
in this first substantive study of Globe, London, UK DC & Laura Turchi Standing up to Shakespeare
directing Shakespeare in the USA, This ground-breaking book uncovers What does it mean to teach Jan Wozniak, University of Leeds,
Charles Ney compares and contrasts the way Shakespeare draws upon Shakespeare with purpose? It means UK
directors working at major companies the available literature and visual freeing teachers from the notion that This book examines performance
across the country. The volume representations of the hand in teaching Shakespeare means teaching projects of Shakespeare’s plays for
examines contemporary directors’ his time to inform his work. An everything, or teaching “Western young people in terms of their value
values and beliefs, the methods they analysis of gesture, touch, skill Civilisation” and universal themes. for their young audiences. Using
use and the various tasks they execute and dismemberment in a range of Instead, this invigorating new book interviews with theatre workers and
when preparing for, rehearsing and Shakespeare's works, shows how the equips teachers to enable student- workshops with young people, the
finishing a Shakespeare production. hand was perceived in Shakespeare’s centred discovery of these complex book argues that it is by trusting young
It will be useful to practitioners who time as an indicator of human agency, texts, approaching them as vehicles people’s experience of performances,
want to learn from other directors, emotion, social and personal identity. for collaborative exploration in the rather than promoting a range of
and scholars and students studying This book is about how the hand and its classroom and releasing them from predetermined textual understandings
production practice and performance. activities are described and embedded over-determined interpretations. of the plays, that they might gain most
in Shakespeare's texts and about its Written by a renowned Shakespeare benefit. it argues that by privileging
UK April 2016 / US April 2016 role on the Shakespearean stage: scholar and an expert in teacher the meanings young people make
320 pages • 10 bw illus as part of the actor’s body, in the education, the book blends the of Shakespeare, new and exciting
PhBB 99778811447744223399883474 •• ££1695..9090 // $$2191.29.50 0 language as metaphor and as a morbid most effective approaches from the interpretations of his work might be
stage-prop. humanities and the methodologies from found.
the social sciences, and in so doing,
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256 pages Shakespeare. 336 pages
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