Literary studies: plays and playwrights Books
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker Critical
Book SynopsisSophie Bush is a writer-researcher specialising in contemporary theatre history and the processes of playmaking. Her doctorate, on the work of Timberlake Wertenbaker, was awarded by the University of Sheffield in 2011. She is a Lecturer in Performance at Sheffield Hallam University, and has previously taught at the Universities of Sheffield, Huddersfield and Manchester Metropolitan. She maintains an involvement with practical theatre-making, as director and devisor.Trade ReviewAccessible and informative, The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker engages in a detailed survey of Wertenbaker's career as a playwright. Bush's approach is rooted in a close, textual analysis of play texts and production contexts, whilst her material is structured by means of a chronological charting of the dramatist's work through to the contemporary moment . . . Three-pronged attention [to Our Country's Good], complemented by Bush's own discussion of this major, widely studied and performed work, augers a wide market for the book from secondary to tertiary levels . . . Overall Bush makes a robust case as to why 'the theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker' deserves our enduring critical interest -- Elaine Aston, Lancaster University, UK * Studies in Theatre and Performance *Detailed and comprehensive. * The Year's Work in English Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction: Timberlake Wertenbaker’s floating identities Chapter One: ‘Good enough to go on’: the beginnings of a playwright Chapter Two: ‘They never went on quests’: the gender of identification Chapter Three: ‘To speak in order to be’: on language and identity Chapter Four: Three professional perspectives on Our Country's Good Creating Our Country’s Good: collaborative writing practice and political ideals at the Royal Court in the 1980s by Sarah Sigal Our Country's Good in Melbourne by Roger Hodgman Our Country's Good in the classroom by Debby Turner Chapter Five: ‘The longing to belong’: on cultural genealogies Chapter Six: ‘Landscapes with figures in them’: on pity and tenderness Conclusions Resources Chronology Bibliography Notes on Contributors Notes and References Index
£26.99
John Murray Press Shakespeares Comedies All That Matters
Book SynopsisWhat's so funny about Shakespeare's comedies?
£8.99
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
£12.99
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
£80.75
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
£34.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen Critical
Book SynopsisGeorge Rodosthenous is Associate Professor in Theatre Directing at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries of the University of Leeds, UK. He is the Artistic Director of the theatre company 'Altitude North' and also works as a freelance director/composer for the theatre.Trade ReviewAs a contribution to the field, the book provides many interesting insights and departure points for further discussion ... it is gratifying to see Disney musicals attract such scholarly attention. * Studies in Musical Theatre *Table of ContentsIntroduction: George Rodosthenous (Leeds) PART A DISNEY MUSICALS: ON FILM 1. Music and the Aura of Reality in Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Elizabeth Randell Upton, (University of California, Los Angeles) 2. Medieval “Beauty” and Romantic “Song” in Animated Technirama: Pageantry, Tableau, and Action in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty – Raymond Knapp (University of California, Los Angeles) 3. Mary Poppins: A Precursor of the Matriarchal Musical – Tim Stephenson (University of Leeds) 4. Musicals in the Mirror: Enchanted, Self-Reflexivity, and Disney's Sudden Boldness – Paul Laird (University of Kansas) PART B DISNEY ADAPTATIONS: ON STAGE AND BEYOND 5. Disney as Broadway Auteur: The Disney Versions of Broadway Musicals for Television in the Late 1990s and Early 2000s – Geoffrey Block (University of Puget Sound) 6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996): Too far “Out There”? Olaf Jubin – (Regent’s University London) 7. The Lion King: A Blockbuster Feline on Broadway and Beyond – Barbara Wallace Grossman (Tufts University) 8. Not Only on Broadway: Disney Junior Across the United States – Stacy E. Wolf (Princeton Atelier, Princeton University)? PART C DISNEY MUSICALS: GENDER AND RACE 9. Dancing toward Masculinity: Newsies and Homosocial Choreography – Aaron C. Thomas (Dartmouth College) 10. ‘We’re All in This Together:’ Being Girls and Boys in High School Musical (2006) - Dominic Symonds (University of Lincoln) 11. ‘I wanna be like you’: Negotiating race, racism and Orientalism in The Jungle Book on stage– Stefanie Jones, Donatella Galella, Catherine Young, and Emily Clark (City University of New York) 12. Ashman’s Aladdin Archive: Queer Orientalism in the Disney Renaissance – Sam Baltimore (Twoson University) 13. “For the first time in forever”: locating Frozen as a feminist Disney musical – Sarah Whitfield (University of Wolverhampton) Bibliography Index
£26.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory
Book SynopsisShakespeare and Posthumanist Theory charts challenges in the field of Shakespeare studies to the assumption that the category human is real, stable, or worthy of privileging in discussions of the playwright's work. Drawing on a variety of methodologies cognitive theory, systems theory, animal studies, ecostudies, the new materialisms the volume investigates the world of Shakespeare's plays and poems in order to represent more thoroughly its variety, its ethics of inclusion, and its resistance to human triumphalism and exceptionalism. Karen Raber, a leading scholar in the field, clearly and cogently guides the reader through complex theoretical terrain, providing fresh, exciting readings of plays including Othello, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida and Henry IV Part 1.Trade ReviewAn excellent orientation to this theory and practice that will interest multiple audiences. In no-nonsense prose, Raber sets out the intellectual genealogy of posthumanism… * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: We Have Never Been Humanist: Genealogies of Posthumanism Chapter 2: Posthuman Cosmography Chapter 3: Bodies and Minds Chapter 4: Neither Fish nor Fowl Chapter 5: TechnoBard Chapter 6: Post-posthumanism? Back to the Future Notes Bibliography Index
£26.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Antony and Cleopatra
Book SynopsisThis new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition series increases our knowledge of how Antony and Cleopatra has been received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume provides, 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, and the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. This 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.
£123.50
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 Moving Memory The Dynamics of the Past in Irish
Book SynopsisThis Special Issue considers the themes and forms of remembrance in Irish culture from the 17th century to the present moment, from oral depositions to video games, with perspectives of academic critics and culture makers. These essays and responses consider the ways that memory moves transculturally and transhistorically, and how it moves us.
£999.99
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
