Classic plays / drama
Cambridge University Press Hamlet
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Cambridge University Press Much ADO about Nothing
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Cambridge University Press Macbeth
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Cambridge University Press A Midsummer Nights Dream
Book SynopsisFor this second edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream R. A. Foakes has added a new account of important contemporary theatre productions and recent scholarly criticism on the play. The reading list has also been revised and updated.Trade Review'… a fine example of judicious editorial writing. Foakes guides the reader securely and fluently through the critical and scholarly disputes that have accumulated around the play. He manages to be informative without being patronizing, and detached with out failing to offer opinions.' The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction, with new section on recent stage and critical interpretations; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendix: A further note on sources; Reading list.
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Cambridge University Press Macbeth
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Cambridge University Press Alls Well that Ends Well
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Cambridge University Press Othello
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Hamlet Landmarks of World Literature New
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Cambridge University Press The First Quarto of Othello The New Cambridge Shakespeare The Early Quartos
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Cambridge University Press The Taming of a Shrew
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Cambridge University Press A Midsummer Nights Dream
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Cambridge University Press NCS
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Cambridge University Press Much Ado about Nothing
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Cambridge University Press The First Quarto of Othello The New Cambridge Shakespeare The Early Quartos
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Cambridge University Press The First Quarto of King Henry V
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Cambridge University Press Antony and Cleopatra
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Cambridge University Press Hamlet
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Cambridge University Press The First Quarto of Hamlet
Book SynopsisThe first printed text of Shakespeare's Hamlet is about half the length of the more familiar second quarto and Folio versions. It reorders and combines key plot elements to present its own workable alternatives. This is the only modernised, critical edition of the 1603 quarto in print.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Textual notes; Appendices.
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Cambridge University Press The Taming of the Shrew
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Cambridge University Press Titus Andronicus
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Cambridge University Press The First Part of King Henry IV
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeares Last Plays Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
Book SynopsisWritten by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on traditional topics such as Shakespeare's biography and the transmission of his texts. Individual readings of the plays are given in the context of genre as well as through the cultural and historical perspectives of race, sexuality and gender, and politics and religion. Essays on performance survey the latest digital media as well as stage and film. Throughout the volume, contributors discuss Shakespeare in a global as well as a national context, a dramatist with a long and constantly mutating history of reception and performance.Trade Review'As the introduction to this volume points out, this is the fifth volume to bear its title, and together they form a fascinating chronicle of the ways in which Shakespeare - plays, poems, person - has been addressed over these years … Like the plays themselves, the essays are enriched by cross comparison; and it is to the plays that they repeatedly return us, the most that can be asked of a companion of this order.' Cahiers ÉlisabéthainsTable of ContentsPreface; William Shakespeare: a partial chronology; Shakespeare's works: a conjectural chronology; 1. The traces of Shakespeare's life STEPHEN GREENBLATT; 2. Shakespeare's reading JEFF DOLVEN and SEAN KEILEN; 3. Shakespeare's writing H. R. WOUDHUYSEN; 4. The theatre of Shakespeare's London TIFFANY STERN; 5. Transmission of Shakespeare's texts ANDREW MURPHY; 6. Shakespeare and language JONATHAN HOPE; 7. Shakespeare the poet COLIN BURROW; 8. Shakespeare's comedies STANLEY WELLS; 9. Shakespeare's tragedies MICHAEL NEILL; 10. Shakespeare's English history plays TON HOENSELAARS; 11. Shakespeare's Classical plays HEATHER JAMES; 12. Shakespeare's tragicomedies JANETTE DILLON; 13. Shakespeare, religion and politics CLAIRE MCEACHERN; 14. Shakespeare and race JONATHAN GIL HARRIS; 15. Shakespeare, sex and gender STEPHEN ORGEL; 16. Shakespeare's stage ANTHONY DAWSON; 17. The critical reception of Shakespeare EMMA SMITH; 18. Shakespeare and popular culture PAUL PRESCOTT; 19. Shakespeare and globalization ANSTON BOSMAN; 20. Shakespeare and media history KATHERINE ROWE; 21. Shakespeare: reading on ANDREW DICKSON.
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Cambridge University Press How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Errant Texts
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Cambridge University Press The Tempest
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Cambridge University Press NCSQ
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Cambridge University Press Alls Well that Ends Well
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Cambridge University Press Othello
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Cambridge University Press King Henry V
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Cambridge University Press Antony and Cleopatra
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Cambridge University Press Measure for Measure
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Cambridge University Press Performing Shakespeares Tragedies Today The Actors Perspective
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Cambridge University Press The Poems
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Cambridge University Press Titus Andronicus
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Amateur Performance
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Cambridge University Press Macbeth
Book SynopsisThis second edition of Macbeth offers a thorough reconsideration of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. Edited and introduced by A. R. Braunmuller, this edition features a new introductory section on recent productions of the play, including cinematic versions by Kurosawa and Roman Polanski.Trade Review'This updated edition of Macbeth reveals thorough research, it is conscientiously annotated, and it appears a superb tool for researchers and students involved in Shakespeare scholarship.' Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Macbeth in legend, Macbeth in history; Macbeth in the mind; Macbeth in performance; Macbeth in the mind and in performance; Recent performances and adaptations; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Supplementary notes; Textual analysis; Appendixes: 1. Casting Macbeth; 2. Additional text and music; 3. Relineation of the Folio; Reading list.
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Cambridge University Press The Second Part of King Henry IV
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Cambridge University Press The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
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Cambridge University Press How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 74
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Cambridge University Press The Shakespearean Forest
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Tercentenary
Book SynopsisThe 1916 global commemorations of the three-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's death responded to imperial and national identity crises during the First World War. This study juxtaposes patriotic uses of Shakespeare with decentralising, racially and socially empowering voices, illuminating Shakespeare's legacies in modern politics.Trade Review'Shakespeare's Tercentenary is the first extensively documented and critically enriched survey of the 1916 celebrations on both sides of the Atlantic.This monograph addresses a topic essential to grasp Shakespeare's presence in the early decades of the twentieth-century and it will equally appeal to Shakespeare scholars, historians and students of cultural memory.' Clara Calvo, Professor of English Studies, University of Murcia'This book widens, deepens, and refines Shakespeare commemoration studies. The author's astute analysis of the Tercentenary is based on copious new sources and a sophisticated, theory-informed sense of how it serves many purposes, from global to national to local. Situating fine-grained interpretations in a rich context of fracturing empires, while also attending to voices from the margins of US society, she unpacks the contradictions underlying events celebrating Shakespeare as both 'universal' and English.' Coppélia Kahn, Professor Emerita of English, Brown University'No other scholar has Monika Smialkowska's sheer breadth of understanding of the global impact of the Shakespeare Tercentenary and of the extraordinary variety of uses to which Shakespeare was put in 1916, from patriotic to pacifist, from imperialist to anti-colonial, from racist to racially empowering. This is a fascinating and original study of the place of Shakespeare in global collective memory.' Gordon McMullan, Professor of English, King's College LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. 'Unser Shakespeare'? the tercentenary and Germany; 2. 'Our English Shakespeare'? the tercentenary and Britain; 3. Shakespeare among the Allies; 4. 'Not primarily patriotic'? the tercentenary and American national identity; 5. Voices from the margins: the tercentenary and American racial and ethnic minorities; Conclusion: lest we forget.
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Cambridge University Press Monody in Euripides
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Cambridge University Press Wartime Shakespeare
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Cambridge University Press Julius Caesar
Book SynopsisFor this third edition of Julius Caesar Jeremy Lopez has written a completely new Introduction and has also revised the textual commentary with an eye, and ear, to the contemporary student reader. The list of further readings has been updated to reflect the latest developments in scholarly criticism.Table of ContentsIntroduction Jeremy Lopez; Note on the text; Note on the commentary; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendix: excerpts from Plutarch; Reading list.
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Cambridge University Press Childhood Education and the Stage in Early Modern
Book SynopsisWhat did childhood mean in early modern England? To answer this question, this book examines two key contemporary institutions: the school and the stage. The rise of grammar schools and universities, and of the professional stage featuring boy actors, reflect the culture''s massive investment in children. In this collection, an international group of well-respected scholars examines how the representation of children by major playwrights and poets reflected the period''s educational and cultural values. This book contains chapters that range from Shakespeare and Ben Jonson to the contemporary plays of Tom Stoppard, and that explore childhood in relation to classical humanism, medicine, art, and psychology, revealing how early modern performance and educational practices produced attitudes to childhood that still resonate to this day.Trade Review'Childhood, Education, and the Stage in Early Modern England, edited by Richard Preiss and Deanne Williams, was one of the best collections of essays I read this year, drawing on recent critical interest in children's literature, and in the cultural history of children more broadly, to write new chapters on the theatrical history of the period, to redirect attention to the place of education in early modern society, and in this way to illuminate the complex thematic place that children occupy in the dramatic imagination of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.' SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900'This volume makes a valuable contribution to the field of early modern childhood studies generally, and Renaissance drama more specifically, and paves the way for further work.' Katie Knowles, The Review of English Studies'… a rounded, impressively researched picture of children's varying roles in the realities and imaginaries of the period, shining a welcome light into several unchecked corners of this increasingly crowded field. Taken either separately or as a whole, the contributors pave the way for countless areas of future scholarly endeavour, establishing new directions and initiating conversations which, like the early modern children on whom they centre, are filled to the brim with exciting potential.' Harry R. McCarthy, Early Theatre'The diversity of perspectives gives the volume multiple points of entry, which should appeal to readers from different disciplinary backgrounds. Students interested in the history of childhood in the early modern period, as well as those interested in the history of performing children more directly, will find much to admire here.' Marlis Schweitzer, Childhood in the Past'[This] wonderful edited collection brings together three major discourses - childhood, education, and theater - to demonstrate how these concepts 'grew up together in the early modern period' and to provide a 'new view of the literary and the social meaning of the young in early modern England'.' Edel Lamb, Renaissance Quarterly'The essays in the volume are consistently excellent. Each is learned, meticulous, and original, making the volume as a whole a substantial contribution to scholarship, and individual essays offer valuable interventions in a range of fields including Shakespeare, Milton, and Marvell studies, and the history of the theater. … scholars with many different preoccupations will find it repays their attention.' Elizabeth Hanson, Journal of the History of Childhood and YouthTable of ContentsPart I. Shakespearean Childhoods: 1. Hamlet's boyhood Seth Lerer; 2. The traffic in children: shipwrecked Shakespeare, precarious Pericles Joseph Campana; 3. Incapable and shallow innocents: mourning Shakespeare's children in Richard III and The Winter's Tale Charlotte Scott; Part II. Beyond the Boy Actor: 4. Speaking like a child: staging children's speech in early modern drama Lucy Munro; 5. Shakespeare versus Blackfriars: satiric comedy, domestic tragedy, and the boy actor in Othello Bart Van Es; 6. Cupid's metamorphosis: John Lyly's Love's Metamorphosis and the return of the children's playing companies Bastian Kuhl; Part III. Girls and Boys: 7. The further adventures of Ganymede Stephen Orgel; 8. Chastity, speech, and the girl masquer Deanne Williams; 9. Milton and female perspiration Douglas Trevor; Part IV. Afterlives: 10. 'Too green/yet for lust, but not for love': Andrew Marvell and the invention of children's literature Blaine Greteman; 11. All Macbeth's sons James J. Marino; 12. Modern retrospectives: childhood and education in Tom Stoppard's Shakespearean plays Elizabeth Pentland.
£22.99
Cambridge University Press Travel and Drama in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisThis agenda-setting volume on travel and drama in early modern England provides new insights into Renaissance stage practice, performance history, and theatre''s transnational exchanges. It advances our understanding of theatre history, drama''s generic conventions, and what constitutes plays about travel at a time when the professional theatre was rapidly developing and England was attempting to announce its presence within a global economy. Recent critical studies have shown that the reach of early modern travel was global in scope, and its cultural consequences more important than narratives that are dominated by the Atlantic world suggest. This collection of essays by world-leading scholars redefines the field by expanding the canon of recognized plays concerned with travel. Re-assessing the parameters of the genre, the chapters offer fresh perspectives on how these plays communicated with their audiences and readers.Trade Review'Travel and Drama in Early Modern England manages to be at once unified and multifocal.' Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley, Notes and Queries'… this important volume presents a broad discussion about travel on the early modern stage, fittingly for a subject that evoked such different emotions and was an emblem for so many different things.' Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley, Notes and Queries'Travel and Drama in Early Modern England adds significantly to ongoing conversations on travel and its dramatic afterlives during the age of exploration.' Amrita Sen, Renaissance Quarterly'This fascinating collection offers an insightful analysis of the uses and representations of travel on the early modern stage.' Jennifer Cryar, The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: understanding the early modern journeying play Claire Jowitt and David McInnis; 1. 'For his travailes let the Globe witnesse': venturing on the stage in early modern England Anthony Parr; 2. Seeing and overseeing the stage as map in Early Modern drama Ladan Niayesh; 3. Marlowe's Mediterranean and counter-epic forms of oceanic hybridity Steve Mentz; 4. Making the land known: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 and the literature of perambulation Julie Sanders; 5. Eastward Ho and the traffic of the stage Andrew Gordon; 6. Language and seafaring in Thomas Middleton and John Webster's Anything for a Quiet Life Marianne Montgomery; 7. Rogue cosmopolitans on the Early Modern stage: John Ward, Thomas Stukeley, and the Sherley brothers Daniel Vitkus; 8. Drama at sea: a new look at Shakespeare on the Dragon, 1607–8 Richmond Barbour and Bernhard Klein; 9. Strange bedfellows: the ordinary undersides of 'a true reportory' and The Tempest Emily C. Bartels; 10. Travelling characters in early modern drama David McInnis; 11. 'Constant changelings', theatrical form, and migration: stage travel in the early 1620s Clare McManus; 12. The uses of cultural encounter in Sir William Davenant's Caroline-to-Restoration voyage drama Claire Jowitt.
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