Literary studies: plays and playwrights Books
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC King Henry V
Book SynopsisWith its depiction of the victorious English king, Henry V has divided critical opinion and remains one of the more controversial of Shakespeare''s histories. This new volume in Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition increases our knowledge of how Shakespeare's plays were received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume offers, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. Thus the volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century.Trade ReviewEdited by Joseph Candido, the book covers criticism of the play from 1790 to 1945. Candido's wonderfully informative introduction goes further, offering a brisk survey of the earliest criticism to the present day. * The Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface General Editors’ Preface to the Revised Series Preface Introduction The Critical Tradition Texts Notes Select Bibliography Index
£133.00
Bloomsbury Academic The Robben Island Shakespeare
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewI think this is a really interesting project. The play avoids the obvious and gives a good insight into a range of personal stories, covering detainees from the ANC, the PAC and Black Consciousness (but I think it would be necessary in the introductory essay to give a clear account of the differences and relationships between them, set against the time-line of resistance to apartheid). So it offers a quite varied, significant and 'new' perspective/window on the inmates of Robben Island. And the play does give striking insights into the different groups of prisoners and how they reacted to their situation, as well as into the often ludicrously boneheaded and bureaucratic, and equally often callous and crass, behaviour of the warders and prison system. Professor Ralph Yarrow, University of East Anglia This play deals with an important and engaging topic: the lives and survival strategies of the political prisoners on Robben Island during the apartheid era (with a short reflection on the later betrayal of the ideals that governed those lives). It contains a great deal of fascinating material, based on written accounts of the experiences of prisoners and on interviews conducted by Matthew Hahn with former prisoners. The plays' "hook" is the prisoners' choosing of passages from Shakespeare's Complete Works, surreptitiously passed around the prison. Professor Derek Attridge, University of Warwick
£13.99
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 Derrida Reads Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis book brings to light Derrida's rich and thought-provoking discussions of Shakespearean drama.
£90.25
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 Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance
Book SynopsisThis book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Becketts Thing
Book SynopsisBeckett was deeply engaged with the visual arts and individual painters, including Jack B. Yeats, Bram van Velde, and Avigdor Arikha. In this monograph, David Lloyd explores what Beckett saw in their paintings.Trade Review"This highly original constellation of critical dialogues will galvanise Beckett Studies. David Lloyd both disturbs and enhances emerging debates in and among philosophical, ethical, aesthetic and political discourses, as they respond to pressures arising from neo-liberalization on understandings of human subjectivity and its representability. This book reconfigures how Samuel Beckett's work will be seen and read across a range of fields of enquiry." - Victor Merriman, Edge Hill University
£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 Tragedies of the English Renaissance
Book SynopsisThis book covers the development of tragedy as a dramatic genre from its earliest examples in the 1560's until the closure of the theatres in 1642.
£17.09
Edinburgh University Press Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque
Book SynopsisModernism and the Theatre of the Baroque fashions an independent aesthetic for modernist writers and texts that challenges many high modernist qualities promoted by James Joyce and T. S. Eliot.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press BeckettS Breath
Book SynopsisThis book attends to fifty breath-related artworks (including sculpture, painting, new media, sound art, performance art) and contextualises Beckett's 'Breath' within the intermedial and high-modernist discourse.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press VolponeS Bastards
Book SynopsisThrough studying Volpone's three bastard children, this book discusses how Jonson's comedies are built upon the tension between death, castration and nothingness on one hand, and the comic slippage of identities in the city on the other.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions
Book SynopsisIrish Drama and the Other Revolutions shows how Irish playwrights mediated between the sexual and the socialist revolutions, and traces their impact on left theatre in Europe and America from the 1890s to the 1960s.
£90.25
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.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic
Book SynopsisShakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic' introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic
Book SynopsisShakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Spectacular Science Technology and Superstition
Book SynopsisTo the readers who ask themselves: `What is science?', this volume provides an answer from an early modern perspective, whereby science included such various intellectual pursuits as history, poetry, occultism and philosophy.
£90.25
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 Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English
Book SynopsisThis is the first collection to use adaptation studies in connection with other contemporary theoretical approaches in analysing early modern transformations of Ovid.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English
Book SynopsisThis is the first collection to use adaptation studies in connection with other contemporary theoretical approaches in analysing early modern transformations of Ovid.
£24.69
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 FaceToFace in Shakespearean Drama
Book SynopsisThis book celebrates the theatrical excitement and philosophical meanings of human interaction in Shakespeare.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare in the North
Book SynopsisThis exciting collection of original essays critically assesses the significance of locality in Shakespearean plays.Trade Review"In Charlotte Bront 's Shirley, the ruthless mill owner learns his disastrous industrial strategy from Coriolanus. The excellent contributors to Shakespeare in the North expand this fruitfully antagonistic relationship, placing England's national poet to the north of traditional Shakrespeare centres of culture and replacing Stratford, London, Arden and Windsor with Blackpool, Edinburgh, Northumberland and Tyneside." -Emma Smith, University of Oxford
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Gertrude Steins Transmasculinity
Book SynopsisThis book argues that Gertrude Stein's gender can best be described as 'transmasculine'
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Victorian Actress in the Novel and on the
Book SynopsisThis book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a significant figure for the relationship between women and the public sphere, to define their own place within and among genres and in relation to audiences.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Victorian Actress in the Novel and on the
Book SynopsisThis book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a significant figure for the relationship between women and the public sphere, to define their own place within and among genres and in relation to audiences.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Sensation Drama 1860 1880
Book SynopsisThis pioneering edition provides access to some of the most popular plays of the nineteenth century.
£117.00
Edinburgh University Press Revenge Tragedy and Classical Philosophy on the
Book SynopsisThis book discovers within early modern revenge tragedy the surprising shaping presence of a wide array of classical philosophies not commonly affiliated with the genre.
£26.59
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.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Creative Involution
Book Synopsis''Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett Deleuze' focuses on a philosophical trajectory that not only had a profound impact on critical thought of the 20th and now 21st centuries, but on cosmopolitan, contemporary culture more broadly and on artistic experiment and expression in particular.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Renaissance Personhood
Book SynopsisUnfolding as a series of materially oriented studies ranging from chairs, machines and doors to trees, animals and food, this book retells the story of Renaissance personhood as one of material relations and embodied experience, rather than of emergent notions of individuality and freedom.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press ShakespeareS Body Parts
Book SynopsisThis book provides a sustained, formalist reading of the multiple body parts that litter the dialogue and action of Shakespeare's history plays.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press ShakespeareS Body Parts
Book SynopsisThis book provides a sustained, formalist reading of the multiple body parts that litter the dialogue and action of Shakespeare's history plays.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Is Shylock Jewish
Book SynopsisIs Shylock Jewish' studies Shakespeare's extensive use of stories from the Hebrew Bible in 'The Merchant of Venice', and argues that Shylock and his daughter Jessica draw on recognizably Jewish ways of engaging with those narratives throughout the play.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press VolponeS Bastards
Book SynopsisThrough studying Volpone's three bastard children, this book discusses how Jonson's comedies are built upon the tension between death, castration and nothingness on one hand, and the comic slippage of identities in the city on the other.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama
Book SynopsisThis revised edition examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatise the Renaissance preoccupation with cosmetics.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama
Book SynopsisThis revised edition examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatise the Renaissance preoccupation with cosmetics.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Reading the Road from Shakespeare to Bunyan
Book SynopsisThis book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature
Book SynopsisTraces the ways in which changing ideas about criminal sanction were reflected in and engaged with in early modern English society.Trade Review"A probing study of criminal law, punishment, and the narratives that seek to justify or challenge them. Hudson considers crimes such as perjury and counterfeiting, which raise questions about invention and imagination, and examines them in relation to a wide range of legal, literary, and theological works that pose similar questions." -Simon Stern, University of Toronto
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Russian Futurist Theatre
Book SynopsisRussian Futurist Theatre exploresis the first book to comprehensively uncover the Russian futurist theatre in all its virtuosity and diversity.
£35.15
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
Book SynopsisThe Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism.
£153.00
