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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC King Lear
Book SynopsisKevin J. Donovan, professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, USA, has co-edited collections of essays on Milton and scholarly editions of Shakespeare and early Irish drama, as well as various essays on Ben Jonson and other early modern dramatists.Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface General Editor's Preface to the Revised Series Acknowledgements Introduction The Critical Tradition Texts Select Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early
Book SynopsisHow does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more inclusive approach to early modern drama help enable students to discuss a range of issues, including race and gender, in more productive ways?Underpinned by these questions, this collection offers a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on drama in Shakespeare's England, mapping the variety of approaches to the context and work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. By paying attention to repertory, performance in and beyond playhouses, modes of performance, and lost and less-studied plays, the handbook reshapes our critical narratives about early modern drama. Chapters explore early modern drama through a range of cultural contexts and approaches, from material culture and emotion studies to early modern race work and new directions in disability and trans studies, as well as contemporary performance. Running through the collection is a sharedTrade ReviewThe volume offers a very valiant and successful attempt to solve perhaps the biggest problem facing people who write about early modern drama today: now we know so much how do we distil it? There is not a weak essay to be seen. The book will prove an invaluable resource. * Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Acknowledgements Note on the Text 1 Introduction Michelle M. Dowd (University of Alabama, USA) and Tom Rutter (University of Sheffield, UK) 2 Material and Institutional Contexts of Early Modern Drama: an A-Z Edward Gieskes (University of South Carolina, USA) RESEARCH METHODS AND PROBLEMS 3.1 Did Early Modern Drama Actually Happen? Kurt Schreyer (University of Missouri, USA) 3.2 Drama and Society in Shakespeare’s England Jean E. Howard (Columbia University, USA) CURRENT RESEARCH AND ISSUES 4.1 Ancient and Early Modern European Contexts of Early Modern English Drama Ton Hoenselaars (Utrecht University, Netherlands) 4.2 Playing Companies and Repertories Elizabeth E. Tavares (University of Alabama, USA) 4.3 Playhouses and Performance Laurie Johnson (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) 4.4 Drama Beyond the Playhouses Tracey Hill (Bath Spa University, UK) 4.5 Material Culture Chloe Porter (University of Sussex, UK) 4.6 Engendering the Stage: Women and Dramatic Culture Clare McManus (University of Roehampton, UK) and Lucy Munro (King’s College, London, UK) 4.7 Matter, Nature, Cosmos: the Scientific Art of the Early Modern English Stage Jean Feerick (John Carroll University, USA) 4.8 Early Modern Race-work: History, Methodology and Politics Jane Hwang Degenhardt (University of Massachusetts, USA) 4.9 Sexualities, Emotions and Embodiment Holly Dugan (George Washington University, USA) 4.10 Religion and Religious Cultures Benedict S. Robinson (Stony Brook University, USA) NEW DIRECTIONS 5.1 Diversifying Early Modern Drama Part One: Early Modern Disability Studies and Trans Studies Genevieve Love (Colorado College, USA) Part Two: Gaining Perspective: Race, Diversity and Early Modern Studies Farah Karim-Cooper (King's College, London, UK) 5.2 Performing Shakespeare’s Contemporaries Harry McCarthy (Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK) CHRONOLOGY AND RESOURCES 6 Rethinking the Early Years of the London Playhouses: An Essay in Chronology Andy Kesson (University of Roehampton, UK) 7 Resources Catherine Evans (University of Manchester, UK) and Amy Lidster (Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK) 8 Further Reading Michelle M. Dowd (University of Alabama, USA) and Tom Rutter (University of Sheffield, UK) Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Adapting Macbeth
Book SynopsisIn this study, William C. Carroll analyses a wide range of adaptations and appropriations of Macbeth across different media to consider what it is about the play that compels our desire to reshape it. Arguing that many of these adaptations attempt to improve' or correct' the play's perceived political or aesthetic flaws, Carroll traces how Macbeth's popularity and adaptability stems from several of its formal features: its openly political nature; its inclusion of supernatural elements; its parable of the dangers of ambition; its violence; its brevity; and its domestic focus on a husband and wife. The study ranges across elite and popular culture divides: from Sir William Davenant's adaptation for the Restoration stage (16634), an early 18th-century novel, The Secret History of Mackbeth and Verdi''s Macbeth, through to 20th- and 21st-century adaptations for stage and screen, as well as contemporary novelizations, young adult literature and commercial appropTrade ReviewThis impeccably researched, detailed book has much to offer to anyone studying, teaching, directing or taking part in what is probably Shakespeare’s best known play. * Ink Pellet *Offers a rich compendium of examples, providing both a resource for and an invitation to readers and researchers to explore further themselves. * Shakespeare Survey *Carroll’s net is cast wide and there are chapters on the novel, global and racial Macbeths, as well as musical versions. Stage and cinematic adaptations figure throughout. Geographically, the range is impressive—no fewer than thirty different countries are mentioned … [Carroll] has a fluent grasp of this play’s multitudinous reincarnations. This elegant study will surely become a model of condensation and explication of the continuing cultural presence of Shakespeare’s apparently immortal literary artefacts. * Adaptation *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Text Introduction: Macbeth and Mackbeth, the prequel 1 Political Macbeth 2 ‘The gracious Duncan’ and ‘our eldest, Malcolm’ 3 The return of Fleance 4 Noir Macbeth 5 Recuperating Lady Macbeth 6 Novelizing Macbeth 7 Global and racial Macbeth 8 Macbeth, the musical Epilogue: Macbeth 3.0 Notes Works Cited Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shakespeare and Forgetting
Book SynopsisWhat does it signify when a Shakespearean character forgets something or when Hamlet determines to ''wipe away all trivial fond records''? How might forgetting be an act to be performed, or be linked to forgiveness, such as when in The Winter''s Tale Cleomenes encourages Leontes to ''forget your evil. / With them, forgive yourself''? And what do we as readers and audiences forget of Shakespeare''s works and of the performances we watch? This is the first book devoted to a broad consideration of how Shakespeare explores the concept of forgetting and how forgetting functions in performance. A wide-ranging study of how Shakespeare dramatizes forgetting, it offers close readings of Shakespeare''s plays, considering what Shakespeare forgot and what we forget about Shakespeare. The book touches on an equally broad range of forgetting theory from antiquity through to the present day, of forgetting in recent novels and films, and of creative ways of making sense of how our world constTrade ReviewA deep and wide-ranging meditation on Shakespeare and the arts of amnesia by a master scholar at the peak of his game. -- James J. Marino, Cleveland State, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface 1. People Forgetting ‘My memory is tired’ ‘I have forgot his name’ ‘What was I about to say?’ 2. Forgiving and Forgetting / Forgetting Oneself 3. Forgetting Forgetting Forgetting about forgetting Remembering forgetting Not forgetting Remembering and forgetting Early Modern forgetting 4. Forgetting and Genre 5. Forgetting People 6. Forgetting Performance Needing forgetfulness Forgetting in performance Forgetting the plot Resisting performance as loss Not-quite-forgetting performance 7.Shakespeare Forgetting / Forgetting Shakespeare Shakespeare forgetting Forgetting Shakespeare Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Migrating Shakespeare
Book SynopsisMigrating Shakespeare offers the first study of the earliest waves of Shakespeare's migration into Europe. Charting the spread of the reception and production of his plays across the continent, it examines how Shakespeare contributed to national cultures and in some cases nation building. The chapters explore the routes and cultural networks through which Shakespeare entered European consciousness, from first translations to stage adaptations and critical response. The role of strolling players and actors, translators and printers, poets and dramatists, is chronicled alongside the larger political and cultural movements shaping nations. Each individual case discloses the national, literary and theatrical issues Shakespeare encountered, revealing not only how cultures have accommodated and adapted Shakespeare on their own terms but their interpretative contribution to the texts. Taken collectively the volume addresses key questions about Shakespeare's naturalization or reluctanTable of ContentsIntroduction: ‘Migrating Shakespeare’ by Janet Clare and Dominique Goy-Blanquet 1. “Michelangelo of tragedy”: Shakespeare’s tortuous Italian routes by Maria Luisa De Rinaldis (University of Salento, Italy) 2“No stranger here”: Shakespeare in Germany by Wolfgang G. Müller (University of Jena, Germany) 3. Shakespeare at cultural crossroads: Switzerland by Balz Engler (Basel University, Switzerland) 4. Opening the book: the disclosure of Shakespeare in the Netherlands by Detlef Wagenaar (Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands) 5. Jean-François Ducis, global passeur: Shakespeare’s migration in Continental Europe by Michèle Willems (University of Rouen, France) 6. No profit but the name’: the Polish reception of Shakespeare’s plays by Anna Cetera-Wlodarczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland) 7. ‘From migration to naturalisation: Shakespeare in Russia by Marina P. Kizima (Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia) 8. Trade routes, politics and culture: Shakespeare in Sweden by Per Sivefors (Linnaeus University, Sweden) 9. The mirror and the razor: Shakespeare’s arrival in Spain by Keith Gregor (University of Murcia, Spain) 10. Migrating with migrants: Shakespeare and the Armenian diaspora by Jasmine Seymour (Armenian Shakespeare Association) 11. Shakespeare in Greece: from Athens to Constantinople and beyond by Mara Yanni (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) Notes References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and
Book SynopsisThe Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and textual studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on all the major areas of current research, notably the Shakespeare manuscripts; the printed text and paratext in Shakespeare's early playbooks and poetry books; Shakespeare's place in the early modern book trade; Shakespeare's early readers, users, and collectors; the constitution and evolution of the Shakespeare canon from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century; Shakespeare's editors from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century; and the modern editorial reproduction of Shakespeare. The Handbook also devotes separate chapters to new directions and developments in research in the field, specifically in the areas of digital editing and of authorship attribution methodologies. In addition, the Companion contains various sections that provide non-specialists with Trade ReviewAn indispensable resource covering both established and emergent scholarship, this volume is also an immensely practical guide to the field. Commendably too, this handbook demonstrates that profound erudition, scholarly illumination, and pioneering research can be presented as an accessible pedagogical intervention. -- Dympna C. Callaghan, William L. Safire Professor in Modern Letters, Syracuse University, USAIf you have ever wondered exactly why colleagues become so excited about Shakespeare textual studies, Lukas Erne’s Research Handbook will give you the answer. He has assembled an immensely impressive array of textual scholars and all of them write in a way that is both profoundly scholarly and consistently accessible. More than yet another collection of chapters, this really is a reference guide, a how-to handbook that will make its readers as enthusiastic as its authors. -- Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USAAs Lukas Erne notes, this is a perfect moment to reflect on Shakespearean textual studies. He has assembled a genuinely international cast of the very best textual scholars for a collection that is both timely and exemplary. If you seek a precise and engaging snapshot of the current state of play in the field, you’re in the right place. -- Gordon McMullan, Professor of English and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre, King’s College London, UKThe collection … is an ideal reference work for university students as well as early and established scholars. … The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies offers an important historical moment, in this case the current state of Shakespearean textual criticism. The collection will be of immeasurable benefit to readers. * Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations List of Illustrations List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Lukas Erne (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Part 1: Research Methods and Problems 1.1 Shakespeare and ‘Textual Studies’: Evidence, Scale, Periodization and Access Claire M. L. Bourne (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Part 2: Current Research and Issues 2.1 The Shakespeare Manuscripts Cathy L. Shrank (University of Sheffield, UK) and Paul Werstine (King’s University College, UK) 2.2 The Early Printed Texts of Shakespeare John Jowett (University of Birmingham, UK) 2.3 Shakespeare’s Early Modern Books: Printing, Paratext and Text Emma Smith (Hertford College Oxford, UK) 2.4 Shakespeare in the Early Modern Book Trade Marta Straznicky (Queen’s University, Canada) 2.5 Shakespeare’s Early Readers and Users: Annotation, Commonplacing, Collecting Laura Estill (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada) 2.6 The Shakespeare Canon from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham, UK) 2.7 Shakespeare’s Editors from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century Andrew Murphy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 2.8 The Modern Editing of Shakespeare: The Text Margaret Jane Kidnie (University of Western Ontario, Canada) 2.9 The Modern Editing of Shakespeare: The Apparatus Suzanne Gossett (Loyola University Chicago, USA) Part 3: New Directions 3.1 Shakespeare and Authorship Attribution Methodologies Hugh Craig (University of Newcastle, Australia) 3.2 Shakespeare and Digital Editions Sonia Massai (King’s College London, UK) Part 4: Material for Further Research 4.1 Chronology Alan B. Farmer (Ohio State University, USA) 4.2 Resources Emma Depledge (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) 4.3 A-Z of Key Terms and Concepts Eric Rasmussen (University of Nevada, USA) and Ian H. De Jong (Academy of Nevada, USA) 4.4 Annotated Bibliography Jean-Christophe Mayer (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France) Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the
Book SynopsisThe gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of mortals playing gods but also the nature of theatrical spectacle itself. The very impossibility of rendering the gods in all their divine splendor in a truly convincing way lies at the intersection of divine power and the power of the theater. This book pursues these dynamics on the stages of ancient Athens and Rome as well on those of Renaissance England to shed new light on theatrical performance. The authors reveal how gods appear onstage both to astound and to dramatize the very machinations by which theatrical performance operates. Offering an array of case studies featuring both canonical and lesser-studied texts, this volume discusses work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Plautus as well as Beaumont, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. This book uniquely brings together the joint perspectives of two eTrade ReviewThis work shows great erudition, since in addition to the main sources of study, there are numerous allusions to other classical and neoclassical texts. The fact that it features analysis of both tragedy and comedy is a rarity and therefore one of the volume’s strengths. Ultimately, it offers a dialogue between literature, theatre and performance, anthropology and religion in a pragmatic and reinvigorating way. Undoubtedly, it will be a work of reference for researchers of classical reception, drama performance, divinity and the English Renaissance. * The Classical Review *Performing Gods is a lively, wide-ranging, illuminating guide to the many ways in which the stories of gods and humans in classical antiquity influenced writers in the age of Shakespeare. A pleasure to read, this fine study should appeal both to the general reader and to students of Renaissance or classical literature. -- Warren Chernaik, Emeritus Professor of English, University of London, UKPerforming Gods offers a provocative argument, with richly rewarding implications for a wide range of plays … [and] does a valuable service in opening a conversation on this important topic. * The Journal of Hellenic Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Gods Take Stage Chapter One: Approaching Divinity Chapter Two: Under the Actor’s Spell: Audiences in Euripides’ Helen and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus Chapter Three: An Actor Ascends: Status and Identity in Plautus’ Amphitruo and the Court Masque Chapter Four: Authoring Gods in Aeschylus’ Oresteia and Shakespeare’s Hamlet Chapter Five: To Die is Human, To Perform is Divine Afterword: Entertaining Gods in Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Books that Made the European Enlightenment
Book SynopsisIn contrast to traditional Enlightenment studies that focus solely on authors and ideas, Gary Kates' employs a literary lens to offer a wholly original history of the period in Europe from 1699 to 1780. Each chapter is a biography of a book which tells the story of the text from its inception through to the revolutionary era, with wider aspects of the Enlightenment era being revealed through the narrative of the book's publication and reception. Here, Kates joins new approaches to book history with more traditional intellectual history by treating authors, publishers, and readers in a balanced fashion throughout. Using a unique database of 18th-century editions representing 5,000 titles, the book looks at the multifaceted significance of bestsellers from the time. It analyses key works by Voltaire, Adam Smith, Madame de Graffigny, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume and champions the importance of a crucial innovation of the age: the rise of the erudite blockbuster', which for the fTrade ReviewScholars will have much to learn from this book; more importantly, it now represents the best introduction to the Enlightenment, and (quietly) provides an effective refutation of the widespread postmodern belief that the Enlightenment stands for imperialism, patriarchy and cold-blooded, scientific rationalism. And it is already available as a reasonably priced paperback, the modern equivalent of a cheap duodecimo. * The Critic *Revealing the social, cultural and political impact of 12 bestselling titles of the 18th century, this imaginative and engaging study offers a fresh take on the Enlightenment which will be much admired. -- Colin Jones, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, Queen Mary University of London, UKBased on impressive new research, Kates places books, the printing industry, and the public at the center of a vibrant interpretation of this important cultural movement. We see a dynamic Enlightenment emerge over the course of the century in which even books we thought we knew look different through the eyes of those who read and helped shape them into texts which resonate today. -- Dena Goodman, Professor Emerita of History and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan, USATable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. The Enlightenment Reading Public 2. Fénelon’s Adventures of Telemachus (1699) 3. Montesquieu’s Persian Letters (1721) 4. Voltaire’s History of Charles XII (1731) & Montesquieu’s Considerations on the Greatness and Decline of the Romans (1734) 5. Voltaire’s Philosophical Letters (1733-1734) 6. Richardson’s Pamela (1740) 7. Hume’s Essays Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-1742) 8. Graffigny’s Letters from a Peruvian Woman (1747) 9. Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws (1748) 10. Rousseau’s Emile (1762) 11. Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776) 12. Raynal’s Philosophical and Political History of the Two Indies (1770-1780) Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Early Modern Liveness
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean for early modern theatre to be live'? How have audiences over time experienced a sense of liveness'? This collection extends discussions of liveness to works from the 16th and 17th centuries, both in their initial incarnations and contemporary adaptations. Drawing on theatre and performance studies, as well as media theory, this volume uses the concept of liveness to consider how early modern theatre including non-Western and non-traditional performance employs embodiment, materiality, temporality and perception to impress on its audience a sensation of presence. The volume's contributors adopt varying approaches and cover a range of topics from material and textual studies, to early modern rehearsal methods, to digital and VR theatre, to the legacy of Shakespearean performance in global theatrical repertoires. This collection uses both early modern and contemporary performance practices to challenge our understanding of live performance. Productions and adaptions Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Danielle Rosvally (University at Buffalo, USA) and Donovan Sherman (Seton Hall University, USA) Part One: Proximity 1. Liveness in Virtual Early Modern Theatre Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 2. Impressions of Liveness in Shakespeare, at a Distance Stephanie Shirilan (Syracuse University, USA) 3. Medium Specificity, Medium Convergence, and Aliveness in the Chromakey (2018) and Big Telly Zoom (2020) Macbeths Thomas Cartelli (Muhlenberg College, USA) Part Two: Performance 4. Liveness in VR and AR Shakespeare Adaptations Aneta Mancewicz (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 5. Alive in the (Early) Modern Repertory Elizabeth E. Tavares (University of Alabama, USA) 6. Contemporary Turkish Shakespeares: New Breath to Old Lives Murat Ögütcü (independent scholar, Turkey) 7. Death Draws Down our Curtain: Liveness Beyond Life in Early Modern Persianate Islam Kenneth Molloy (Brown University, USA) 8. Signs of Liveness: The Blazing Star in Renaissance Drama Gina M. Di Salvo (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA) 9. The Apparitional Audience: Prophesizing Live Collectives in Modern India and Early Modern England Jonathan Gil Harris (Ashoka University, India) Index
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Jane Austen and Lord Byron
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early
Book SynopsisHow does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more inclusive approach to early modern drama help enable students to discuss a range of issues, including race and gender, in more productive ways?Underpinned by these questions, this collection offers a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on drama in Shakespeare's England, mapping the variety of approaches to the context and work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. By paying attention to repertory, performance in and beyond playhouses, modes of performance, and lost and less-studied plays, the handbook reshapes our critical narratives about early modern drama. Chapters explore early modern drama through a range of cultural contexts and approaches, from material culture and emotion studies to early modern race work and new directions in disability and trans studies, as well as contemporary performance. Running through
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisKeith Hanley is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Lancaster University, UK.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century
Book SynopsisAnne E. Duggan is Professor of French Studies in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Wayne State University, USA.
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Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare the Bodger
Book SynopsisInvestigates Shakespeare's mode of composition and the way contemporary psychology informs dramatic representation through ekphrasisTrade Review"Focusing on the idea of Shakespeare as a bodger" or tailor, Joel Altman performs a "thick description" of The Winter's Tale, revealing how Shakespeare stitches together early modern approaches to character, rhetoric, art forms, mixed dramatic genres and theatrical faith. This masterful book provides striking insights not only into one of Shakespeare's greatest plays but also into his general method of play-making."" -Peter G. Platt, Barnard College, USA
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Edinburgh University Press Milton and the Network of Disability Embodiment and Care
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Thomas Middleton Four Plays
Book SynopsisWilliam C. Carroll is Professor of English at Boston University. He is a General Editor of the New Mermaids Series. Among his publications are editions of Love's Labour's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Macbeth, as well as Fat King, Lean Beggar: Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Women Beware Women, The Changeling, The Roaring Girl and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC King Lear Language and Writing
Book SynopsisJean E. Howard is the George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, USA. Author of Shakespeare's Art of Orchestration, The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England, Engendering a Nation (with Phyllis Rackin, 1994) and Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy (2001), she has edited six collections of essays, including the four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works (2003). General Editor of the Bedford contextual editions of Shakespeare, Howard is Past President of the Shakespeare Association of America. She has received numerous fellowships and awards including Guggenheim, ACLS, NEH, Folger, Huntington, and Newberry Library Fellowships. At Syracuse University she received the Wasserstrom Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and at Columbia University the University Graduate Mentoring Award.Trade ReviewHow I wish I could take a class with Jean Howard! She is the perfect guide to the complexities and demands of King Lear. Throughout, this book is wise and inviting, subtle and engaging, provocative and helpful. This is a perfect book for students – but not only for students: everyone will learn from and be made to think by reading it, however well we suppose ourselves to know this astonishing play. * Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA *Table of ContentsSeries Preface Introduction I. Language in Print II. Language: Forms and Uses III. Language Through Time IV. Writing and Language Skills Suggestions for Further Reading Index
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Prismatic Reflections on Spanish Golden Age
Book SynopsisThis volume, organized in five major sections, honors the myriad scholarly contributions of Matthew D. Stroud to the field of Early Modern Spanish theater. Building upon Stroud's seminal studies, each section of essays simultaneously claims and wrestles with aspects of the rich legacy generated by his explorations. The essays included in this volume consider the moral, ethical, and legal backdrop of uxoricide, explorations of the meaningful intersections of psychoanalytic theory and the comedia, and engage the topics of women, gender, and identity. They also bridge the gap between dramatist and actors and between page and stage as they consider everything from the physical demands on Early Modern actresses to the twenty-first-century performance possibilities of comedias. Moreover, these essays incorporate studies that transcend temporal, spatial, political, and cultural limits, continuing to push at the edges of traditional scholarship characteristic of Stroud's pioneeriTable of ContentsContents: David J. Hildner: Wife-Murder Deflected: How Stage Husbands’ Prudence and Ingenuity Lead to Differing Outcomes – Susan L. Fischer: «Nada me digas»: Silencing and Silence in Comedia Domestic Relationships – Katrina M. Heil: Mencía as Tragic Hero in Calderón’s El médico de su honra – Ezra Engling: We Too Suffer: Calderón’s Honor Husbands – William R. Blue: El médico de su honra: A Crisis of Interpretation – Manuel Delgado: Incest, Natural Law and Social Order in El castigo sin venganza – Gwyn E. Campbell: Duelling (Dis)Honour in Mira de Amescua’s La adúltera virtuosa – Christopher Weimer: Ovid, Gender, and the Potential for Tragedy in Don Gil de las calzas verdes – Barbara F. Weissberger: The Queen’s Dreams: Lope’s Representation of Queen Isabel I in El mejor mozo de España and El niño inocente de La Guardia – Barbara Simerka: Mirror Neurons and Mirror Metaphors: Cognitive Theory and Privanza in La adversa fortuna de don Alvaro de Luna – Robert M. Johnston - The Calderonian Aesthetic Experience: Plot, Character, Politics, and Primal Emotions in El alcalde de Zalamea (What Neuroscience and US Presidential Campaigns Might Tell Us about the Spanish Comedia) Catherine Connor-Swietlicki: Gendered Gazing: Zayas and Caro Go Back to the Future of the «Artful Brain and Body» – Edward H. Friedman: Of Love and Labyrinths: Feminism and the Comedia – Baltasar Fra-Molinero: Woman, Learning, and Fear: Racial Mixing in Diego Ximénez de Enciso’s Juan Latino – Kathleen Regan : Antona García: A Mujer Varonil for the 21st Century – Susan Paun de García: «Más valéis vos, Antona»: Worthy Wives in Lope, Tirso, and Cañizares – Sharon D. Voros: Tried and True: Leonor de la Cueva y Silva’s Tirso Connection – Barbara Mujica: Actresses as Athletes and Acrobats – Amy R. Williamsen: Stages of Passing: Identity and Performance in the Comedia – Peter E. Thompson: The Spanish Golden Age Entremés in English: Translating the Juan Rana Phenomenon – Maryrica Ortiz Lottman: Three Productions of El condenado por desconfiado: The Devil’s Polymorphism in Our Time – Catherine Larson: Adapting the Spanish Classics for 21st-Century Performance in English: Models for Analysis – Henry W. Sullivan: The Contours of Self-Representation: Why Call Himself Tirso de Molina? – Isaac Benabu: Inquisitorial Pressures: Honour as Metaphor on the Boards – Ronald E. Surtz: Staging the Fall in 16th-Century Spain: The Aucto del peccado de Adán – Kerry Wilks: Baltasar Funes y Villalpando’s El golfo de las sirenas: An Homage to Calderón? – Thomas A. O’Connor: The Transformation of a Baroque Zarzuela into an 18th-Century Opera: The Case of Salazar y Torres’s Los juegos olímpicos – Donald R. Larson: Two Visions of Brotherhood: Calderón and Richard Strauss.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hugo Pasternak Brecht Césaire
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAuthor Ruth Morse listed as one of the week's contributors in the Times Literary Supplement.Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface (Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA and Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge, UK) List of Illustrations Introduction: Writing Against Tyranny (Ruth Morse, Université Paris-Diderot, France) 1. Les Hugo (Ruth Morse, Université Paris-Diderot, France) 2.Indirect Dissidence, Shakespeare, and Pasternak (Ann Pasternak Slater, University of Oxford, UK) 3. Brecht as Great Shakespearean: A Lifelong Connection (David Barnett, University of Sussex, UK) 4. Aimé Césaire, Une Tempête: On Poetry, Legacy and Work (Timothy Mathews, University College London, UK) Notes Select Bibliography Index
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John Murray Press Shakespeares Comedies All That Matters
Book SynopsisWhat's so funny about Shakespeare's comedies?
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Dutch Courtesan
Book SynopsisKaren Britland is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.Trade ReviewThe play is well-chosen for the present moment, with its struggling immigrants, social predation, and vibrant street scenes, and Britland does an excellent job of clarifying the puns and jabs often lost on student readers, much of them in polyglot argot. * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *Attentive to the literary influences behind Marston's play ... Particularly illuminating is Britland's attention to Marston's borrowings from Montaigne. * Times Literary Supplement *This is by far the best edition of the play on the market, superbly treated by Karen Britland. * Professor Alison Shell, University College London, UK *Table of ContentsSeries Preface; Introduction; The Dutch Courtesan; Bibliography; Appendices; Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama An
Book SynopsisBrinda Charry is Professor of English at Keene State College, New Hampshire, USA.Table of ContentsPart I 1. Politics and Society 2. Men and Women 3. Travel and Trade 4. Humanism 5. The stage 6. Authors, Books and Readers 7. Genre 8. Language and Style Part II The Alchemist Arden of Faversham Doctor Faustus The Duchess of Malfi Hamlet Henry V The Jew of Malta The Knight of the Burning Pestle The Roaring Girl The Shoemaker’s Holiday The Spanish Tragedy The Tempest The Tragedy of Mariam Volpone Appendices Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Voltaire Goethe Schlegel Coleridge
Book SynopsisRoger Paulin is Schröder Professor Emeritus at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK.Contributors: Michèle Willems (University of Rouen, France), Stephen Fennell (University of Cambridge, UK), Christine Roger (Université de Picardie, France) and Reginald Foakes (UCLA, USA).Table of ContentsSeries Preface Notes on Contributors Note on References to Shakespeare Introduction Voltaire Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich von Schlegel Samuel Taylor Coleridge Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shakespeare in the Theatre Peter Hall
Book SynopsisPeter Hall (19302017) is one of the most influential directors of Shakespeare's plays in the modern age. Under his direction, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre rediscovered Shakespeare as a writer who could comment incisively on the modern world. Productions such as Coriolanus, The Wars of the Roses and Hamlet established his reputation as a director able to bring Shakespeare to the heart of contemporary politics. He later cemented his reputation with epic productions of Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra at the National. With the Peter Hall Company, Hall continued to work intensively on Shakespeare, directing plays in the UK and America.Reviewing Hall's work in its cultural and creative context, this study explores his approach to directing and rehearsal. This is the first book to analyse all of Hall's professional Shakespeare productions in a historical context, from the Suez crisis to the 9/11 attacks and beyond.Trade ReviewAn ambitious and highly readable survey which draws on detailed archival research to provide insights into Hall's artistic approach, documenting casting choices and examining Hall's rehearsal process, staging decisions, and use of design and costuming, as well as the reception of each production. * Theatre Notebook *This fascinating and richly detailed study of the Shakespeare productions of one of the greatest theatre directors of recent times excels at placing them within their social and political context. -- Sir Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Series Preface Introduction: Speaking Shakespeare 1: Nostalgia and Politics at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre 2: Nation, Culture and Authority at the Royal Shakespeare Company 3: Authority in Crisis at the National Theatre 4: Protest and Politics at the National Theatre 5: Death and Sexuality after the National Theatre 6: Playing Shakespeare in America 7: National Stages List of Productions References Index
£71.25
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage
Book SynopsisFarah Karim-Cooper is Head of Higher Education & Research, Globe Education (Shakespeare's Globe) and Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London, UK.Trade ReviewFarah Karim-Cooper’s The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage: Gesture, Touch, and the Spectacle of Dismemberment combines its author’s expert knowledge of early modern performance with new research on the cultural history of gesture to deliver a groundbreaking account of the emotional, psychological, and social work carried out by the hand on stage. * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *This book augments Arden’s reputation for producing monographs which are not only accessible to the reader, but academically rigorous and centred around fascinating subjects ... [It] serves as a vital new contribution, offering a comprehensive survey of the hand in Shakespeare’s day which will be of use to students and scholars interested in conceptions of the early modern body. * Early Theatre *Farah Karim-Cooper crafts a study that is narrow in focus yet wide-ranging in breadth by casting attention upon the early modern hand … Across six chapters, Karim-Cooper reveals the capacious symbolic capacity of the hand in early modern culture and, attendantly, on the stage … even as Karim-Cooper undertakes a historicist approach, she also pulls in dramaturgy, analysis of art, a careful attention to material culture, and a keen eye toward performance practice in order to enhance her fascinating analysis of the early modern hand … Karim-Cooper makes an important, original contribution to early modern body studies whose breadth will appeal to a wide audience of Shakespearean and early modern scholars. * Comparative Drama *Karim-Cooper skillfully locates the expressive hand in an emotional and theatrical context … Karim-Cooper gives well-deserved primacy to an oft-misunderstood and overlooked expression, a topic of interest not only to the scholars who seem to be her target audience, but also to educators, actors, and directors. Her insightful analysis of the hand demonstrates the close correspondence among the scientific, philosophic, and artistic fields … her command of period plays, oratory, and anatomical sources successfully brings interdisciplinary considerations of hand gestures to bear on the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and also on contemporary plays onstage and in film. * Theatre Topics *[An] excellent handbook. Within the joy of the pun rests the richness of Karim-Cooper’s achievement. her encyclopedic consideration of the hand and her specific attention to gesture as narration and to the complexities of touch do the work for those of us who will go on to play with the discoveries she offers ... The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage provides both the material for invention and further study and points us toward the potential of a hands-on approach to contemporary productions of the early modern works with a new understanding of gesture, touch, and the intimacy of palms. * Shakespeare Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: The Idea of the Hand in Shakespeare's World Chapter Two: Manners and Beauty: The Social Hand Chapter Three: 'Lively Action': Gesture in Early Modern Performance Chapter Four: Gesture and Shakespeare's Narrative Art Chapter Five: 'Let Lips do what Hands do': Shakespeare's Sense of Touch Chapter Six: Amputation: The Spectacle of Dismemberment in Shakespeare's Theatres Epilogue -- Fingers Notes Index
£31.99
Bloomsbury Academic The Shoemakers Holiday
Book SynopsisJames Loxley is Professor of Early Modern Literature, Edinburgh University, UK.
£85.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Much Ado About Nothing A Critical Reader
Book SynopsisThis volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this major Shakespearean comedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play's rich stage and screen performance, looking closely at major contemporary performances, including Josie Rourke's film starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate, Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones at the Old Vic, and the RSC's recent rebranding of it as a sequel. Moving through to four new critical essays, the guide opens up fresh perspectives, including contemporary directors' deployment of older actors within the lead roles, the play's relationship to Love's Labour's Lost, its presence on Youtube and the ways in which tales and ruses in the play belong to a wider concern with varieties of crime. The volume finishes with a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further research.Trade ReviewA commendably comprehensive guide to textual and performance scholarship on the play. * Cahiers Elisabethains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies *Table of ContentsSeries Introduction Timeline Introduction: Deborah Cartmell (De Montfort University, UK) and Peter J. Smith (Nottingham Trent University, UK) The Critical Backstory: Alison Findlay (Lancaster University, UK) Performance History: Kathryn Prince (University of Ottawa, Canada) The State of the Art: Elinor Parsons (De Montfort University, UK) New Directions: Vile Tales in Much Ado About Nothing: Duncan Salkeld (University of Chichester, UK) New Directions: Much Ado About Aging: Liz Schafer (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) New Directions: Much Ado or Love’s Labour’s Won? Does it Matter Which?: Lois Potter (University of Delaware, USA) New Directions: YouTube Much Ado: Christy Desmet (University of Georgia, USA) 'How apt it is to learn': Resources for Staging, Studying, and Teaching Much Ado About Nothing: Brett Hirsch (University of Western Australia) and Sarah Neville (Ohio State University, USA) Bibliography Index
£71.25
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare in Hindsight
Book SynopsisThis bold new study uses counterfactual thinking to enable us to feel, rather than to explain, Shakespeare's tragedies.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Worldly Shakespeare
Book SynopsisIn Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered by his own worldliness, the performative idea that runs through his plays, that if 'All the world's a stage: then 'all the men and women in it' are 'merely players'.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Second Death
Book SynopsisSecond Death seeks to revitalise our understanding of the soul as a philosophically profound, theoretically radical, and ultimately-and counterintuitively-theatrically realised concept.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Students Guide to Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis book is a one-stop-shop for the busy undergraduate studying Shakespeare. Offering detailed guidance to the plays most often taught on undergraduate courses, the volume targets the topics tutors choose for essay questions and is organised to help students find the information they need quickly.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I:Tragedies; 1. Romeo and Juliet; 2. Hamlet; 3. Othello; 4. Macbeth; 5. King Lear; 6. Anthony and Cleopatra Part II: Comedies; 7. A Midsummer Night's Dream; 8. The Merchant of Venice; 9. Twelfth Night, or What you will; 10. Measure for Measure. Part III: Histories; The Henriad; 12. The Henry VI trilogy and Richard III; Part IV: Late plays; 13. The Winter's Tale; 14. The Termpest Historical Chronology Glossary
£17.09
Edinburgh University Press Shakespearean Melancholy
Book SynopsisThis richly contextualized study of Shakespeare's comic engagement with sadness contends that the playwright rethinks melancholy through comic theatre and conversely, re-theorizes comedy through melancholy.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Chaste Value
Book SynopsisChaste Value reassesses chastity s significance in early modern drama, arguing that presentations of chastity inform the stage s production of early capitalist subjectivity and social difference.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Is Shylock Jewish
Book SynopsisThis book traces the complexity and richness of Merchant's Jewish aspect, spanning encounters with Jews and the Hebrew Bible in the early modern world as well as modern adaptations of Shakespeare's play on the Yiddish stage.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Shakespearean Inside
Book SynopsisThe Shakespearean Inside is a study of all soliloquies and solo asides (dubbed insides for short) in Shakespeare's complete plays.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press WomenS Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain
Book SynopsisThis innovative volume presents for the first time collective expertise on women's magazines and periodicals of the long eighteenth century.
£157.50
Edinburgh University Press Conceiving Desire
Book SynopsisDrawing from cognitive theories about the metaphorical nature of thought, Gillian Knoll traces the contours of three conceptual metaphors motion, space and creativity that shape desire in plays by John Lyly and William Shakespeare.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare
Book SynopsisDrawing from cognitive theories about the metaphorical nature of thought, Gillian Knoll traces the contours of three conceptual metaphors motion, space and creativity that shape desire in plays by John Lyly and William Shakespeare.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Marquis De Sade and Continental Philosophy
Book SynopsisReads six interpretations of the Marquis de Sade in French post-war philosophy: Klossowski, Blanchot, Bataille, Lacan, Barthes, and Deleuze to show how he sits at a crossroads of surprisingly disparate branches of western culture, from Tom and Jerry to Kant's moral philosophy.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press ShakespeareS Fugitive Politics
Book SynopsisThomas P. Anderson explores how the parameters of contemporary radical politics take shape in 'Coriolanus', 'King John', 'Henry V', 'Titus Andronicus', 'The Winter's Tale' and 'Julius Caesar'.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and
Book SynopsisHave you ever wondered what was really going on in the inner-plays, secret overhearing, and tacit observations of early modern drama? Taking on the shadowy figure of the early modern informer, this book argues that far more than mere artistic experimentation is happening here.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare and Judgment
Book SynopsisShakespeare and Judgment' gathers together an international group of scholars to address for the first time the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama. Contributors approach the topic from a variety of cultural and theoretical perspectives, covering plays from across Shakespeare's career.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The Shakespearean Inside
Book SynopsisThe Shakespearean Inside' is a study of all soliloquies and solo asides (dubbed insides for short) in Shakespeare's complete plays.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press ShakespeareS Moral Compass
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking study fearlessly combines latest research in evolutionary psychology, historical scholarship and philosophy to answer a question that has eluded critics for centuries: what is Shakespeare's moral vision?
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Intelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern
Book SynopsisThis study explores the disturbing intrinsic connections between authors, informers, and authorities found in a wide selection of early modern metadrama.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Intelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern
Book SynopsisIntelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern Theatre offers insight into why the early modern stage abounds with informer and intelligencer figures.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press FaceToFace in Shakespearean Drama
Book SynopsisThis book celebrates the theatrical excitement and philosophical meanings of human interaction in Shakespeare.
£90.25
