Drama & Performance Studies Catalogue 2013

I n c o r p o r at i n g

dramA & Performance Studies 2013

Continuum books are now published under Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 1

01/03/2013 11:02

New for Spring 2013, and developed in partnership by Bloomsbury Publishing and Faber & Faber, Drama Online is the ultimate online resource for plays, critical analysis and performance for educators, libraries, students and researchers.

DISCOVER » Conduct powerful, full text searches » Refine search results by content type, genre, period, authors, settings and themes » Browse works by playwright, practitioner, genre and period via an intuitive user interface

READ » View texts in the Drama Online Reader, a clean, on-screen reading experience » Plays contain their original pagination and lineation preserved from print » Mouse over text to reveal scholarly annotations

STUDY » Sign Up for personalisation tools: Bookmarks and Notes » Favourite items and search results, save extracts and make notes against the text » Assign name tags to bookmarks and notes to differentiate between projects » Citation tools help with essay preparation

PERFORM » View information on cast size and male/female roles » Bar charts represent the number of lines and speeches per character » See which character appears with whom in which scene, using the Play Tools Character Grid » Develop a Part Book of lines per character SUBSCRIPTIONS

FREE TRIALS

Available from Spring 2013.To find out about subscriptions, contact dramaonline@pcgplus.com.

Trials from early 2013. Register for your free trial by contacting dramaonline@pcgplus.com.

RECOMMEND TO YOUR LIBRARY Contact us for a price quote or for more information.

w w w. d r a m a o n l i n e l i b r a r y. c o m

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 2

01/03/2013 11:02

Contents Letter from the Editors Modern Drama Anthologies Contemporary Playwrights Student Editions Student Editions Complete Backlist Bertolt Brecht Classic Playwrights New Mermaids New Mermaids Complete Backlist The Arden Shakespeare Early Modern Drama Studying Early Modern Drama The Arden Shakespeare Third Series Third Series Complete Backlist Arden Early Modern Drama Complete Backlist Studying Shakespeare Reference Ancient Drama Theatre Studies Performance and Technique Stanislavski Acting Auditions Music and Dance Performance Studies Staging and Direction Schools and Young People Index

2 3 9 10 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 19 21 22 23 23 24 29 30 31 33 33 34 37 37 37 38 38 40

Representatives, Agents & Distributors

43

Bloomsbury Head Offices and Distributors UK, Europe and Rest of World Bloomsbury Publishing 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK Tel: +44 (0)207 631 5600 Fax: +44 (0)207 631 5800 academic@bloomsbury.com

UK Trade Orders Macmillan Distribution (MDL) Brunel Road, Houndmills, Basingstoke, RG21 6XT, UK Tel: +44 (0)1256 302692 Fax: +44 (0)1256 812521 / 812558 orders@macmillan.co.uk

US, Canada, Central and South America Bloomsbury Academic 80 Maiden Lane, Suite 704, New York, NY 10038, USA Tel: +1 212-953-5858 Fax: +1 212-953-5944 askacademic@bloomsbury.com

US Trade Orders Bloomsbury USA MPS/BUSA Orders 16365 James Madison Highway, Gordonsville, VA 22942, USA Tel: +1 888-330-8477 Fax: +1 800-672-2054 orders@mpsvirginia.com customerservice@mpsvirginia.com

EBooks

Proposals

EBook availability is indicated under each book entry:

If you have a book proposal, please contact one of the editors listed on page 2 or submit your proposal using forms available at www.bloomsbury.com/academic/forauthors

Individual eBook: available for your e-reader.

Library eBook: available for institution-wide access.

See the website for details of vendors.

EBook prices listed in this catalogue relate to the RRP, including UK VAT on the sterling price. Prices vary according to local tax, and are subject to change by individual vendors beyond the publisher’s control.

Review Copies For copies of books for review in journals, please email askacademic@bloomsbury.com in North and South America and academicreviews@bloomsbury.com in the UK and rest of world.

Inspection / Exam Copies inspection

Books with this symbol are available on inspection / as exam copies and are particularly suitable for course use. You can request these online at www.bloomsbury.com via the Request Inspection / Examination Copy button on the paperback book record. If you would like to request any other paperback books on inspection please contact us at askacademic@bloomsbury.com (North and South America) or inspectioncopies@bloomsbury.com (UK and rest of world).

Standing Orders Many of our series are available on a standing order basis. For further information contact our trade ordering departments (as listed above).

Translation Rights Translation rights for all titles are available unless otherwise indicated.

Pricing and Availability Whilst we endeavour to ensure that prices, publication dates and other details in this catalogue are correct on going to press, they are subject to change without further notice.

Bloomsbury Academic is a division of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Registered in England No. 01984336.

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 1

1

01/03/2013 11:15

L E T T E R F R O M T H E E D I TO R S

W E L C O M E TO B L O O M S B U RY D R A M A & P E R F O R M A N C E S T U D I E S Incorporating Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare Welcome to the new Bloomsbury Drama & Performance Studies catalogue, including Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare. This catalogue also includes some former Continuum series, which have been rebranded as The Arden Shakespeare. In 2008, Bloomsbury invested in building a new academic division and our growth has been very rapid in the last few years. We publish over 1,000 books each year, with a particularly strong presence in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and our backlist comprises some 20,000 titles. The purchase of Continuum in 2011 was a key part of this growth.

We believe we are stronger as a group, which is why we have taken the strategic decision to adopt the Bloomsbury name for all academic titles that we publish. All new Continuum titles will now be published under the Bloomsbury brand whilst retaining the Methuen Drama and Arden Shakespeare imprints, given their rich history of publishing excellence.

Publishing in Print and Digital Bloomsbury is committed to digital publishing and spring 2013 sees the launch of Drama Online. Featuring the pre-eminent drama titles from the Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare and Faber and Faber lists, it forms a collection of the most studied, performed and critically acclaimed plays from the last two and a half thousand years. In addition, expert student guidance in the form of scholarly notes, annotated texts, critical analysis and contextual information alongside performance and practitioner texts and a sophisticated functionality, makes this an essential study tool, meeting the full range of drama teaching needs. Visit www.dramaonlinelibrary.com for more information. We also launch www.actorsandperformers.com in 2013, an online version of the annual Actors’ Yearbook, making this already invaluable resource even more accessible.

Highlights Among this year’s highlights are the play texts of Red Velvet (p.4), The Effect and This House (p.7), which have all received rave reviews on stage. Our Modern British Playwriting series will publish its sixth and final volume in 2013 covering 2000-2009 (p.3).The Plays of Samuel Beckett (p.16) is an illuminating critical companion to the writer’s work. The Arden Shakespeare continues its Third Series with Coriolanus (p.22), as well as publishing contemporaries of Shakespeare such as Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy (p.20), in the Arden Early Modern Drama series.

New Website Finally we are delighted to announce the launch of a new global Bloomsbury website: www.bloomsbury.com.

This site brings together everything under the Bloomsbury Group, including Continuum, The Arden Shakespeare, Methuen Drama, Berg, T&T Clark, Bristol Classical Press, and A&C Black titles. The site features enhanced academic functionality such as online previews, digital inspection copies, textbook companion sites and online resources. Go to www.bloomsbury.com/academic for more information.

We hope you enjoy reading our latest catalogue.

Jenny Ridout, Head of Drama Publishing jenny.ridout@bloomsbury.com Margaret Bartley, Publisher, The Arden Shakespeare margaret.bartley@bloomsbury.com Mark Dudgeon, Senior Commissioning Editor, Theatre Studies mark.dudgeon@bloomsbury.com Anna Brewer, Commissioning Editor, Drama anna.brewer@bloomsbury.com @methuendrama • @Ardenpublisher • @dramaonlinelib

2

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 2

01/03/2013 11:15

Decades of Modern British Playwriting Series Editors: Richard Boon, Emeritus Professor of Drama, the University of Hull, UK and Philip Roberts, Emeritus Professor in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK Essential for students of theatre studies, this series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to 2009 in six volumes. Each volume offers a critical analysis and re-evaluation of the work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade authored by a team of experts, together with an extensive commentary on the period. Original documents including interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes and other previously unpublished material is included.

Modern British Playwriting: The 1950s

Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s

Modern British Playwriting: The 1990s

Voices, Documents, New Interpretations David Pattie

Voices, Documents, New Interpretations Chris Megson

Voices, Documents, New Interpretations Aleks Sierz

Looks at:

Looks at:

Looks at:

• T.S Eliot (Sarah Bay-Cheng)

• Caryl Churchill (Paola Botham)

• Sarah Kane (by Catherine Rees)

• Terence Rattigan (David Pattie)

• David Hare (Chris Megson)

• Anthony Neilson (Patricia Reid)

• John Osborne (Luc Gilleman) • Arnold Wesker (John Bull)

• Howard Brenton (Richard Boon) • David Edgar (Janelle Reinelt)

• Mark Ravenhill (Graham Saunders) • Philip Ridley (Aleks Sierz)

DAVID PATTIE is Professor of Drama at the University of Chester, UK.

CHRIS MEGSON is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

ALEKS SIERZ is Visiting Professor at Rose Bruford College, UK.

UK October 2012 • December 2012 352 pages PB 9781408129272 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781408181973 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781408159569 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408129296 • £51.00 / $82.00 Methuen Drama Series: Decades of Modern British Playwriting

UK May 2012 • US July 2012 352 pages PB 9781408129388 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781408181324 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781408129395 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408177891 • £51.00 / $82.00 Methuen Drama Series: Decades of Modern British Playwriting

UK May 2012 • US April 2012 352 pages PB 9781408129265 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781408181331 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781408157121 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408129289 • £51.00 / $82.00 Methuen Drama Series: Decades of Modern British Playwriting

Modern British Playwriting: The 1960s

Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s

Modern British Playwriting: 2000-2009

Voices, Documents, New Interpretations Steve Nicholson

Voices, Documents, New Interpretations Jane Milling

Voices, Documents, New Interpretations Dan Rebellato

Looks at:

Looks at :

Looks at:

• Edward Bond (Steve Nicholson)

• Howard Barker (Sarah Goldingay)

• David Greig (Nadine Holdsworth)

• John Arden (Bill McDonnell)

• Jim Cartwright (David Lane)

• Simon Stephens (Jacqueline Bolton)

• Harold Pinter (Jamie Andrews)

• Sarah Daniels (Jane Milling)

• Tim Crouch (Dan Rebellato)

• Alan Ayckbourn (Frances Babbage)

• Timberlake Wertenbaker (Sara Freeman)

STEVE NICHOLSON is Director of Drama within the English Department at the University of Sheffield, UK.

JANE MILLING is Senior Lecturer in the department of Drama at the University of Exeter, UK.

UK October 2012 • US December 2012 352 pages PB 9781408129579 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781408181980 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781408157114 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408129623 • £51.00 / $82.00 Methuen Drama Series: Decades of Modern British Playwriting

UK October 2012 • US December 2012 352 pages PB 9781408129593 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781408182130 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781408157107 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408129609 • £51.00 / $82.00 Methuen Drama Series: Decades of Modern British Playwriting

• Roy Williams (Michael Pearce) • Debbie Tucker Green (Lynette Goddard) DAN REBELLATO is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. UK October 2013 • US December 2013 352 pages PB 9781408129562 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781408181997 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781408177877 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408129586 • £51.00 / $82.00 Methuen Drama Series: Decades of Modern British Playwriting

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 3

MODERN DRAMA

MODERN DRAMA

3

01/03/2013 11:15

MODERN DRAMA

MODERN DRAMA Modern Plays The Modern Plays series is world famous for containing the work of many of the finest contemporary playwrights. Established in 1959 with the publication of Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey, it remains a series synonymous with the very best in new writing for the stage.

Red Velvet

inspection

Lolita Chakrabarti Winner of the 2012 Most Promising Playwright Evening Standard Award “A play that first playfully, then powerfully, examines progress on the stage as a reflection of the wider world.”

Financial Times Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 1833. Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of his generation, has collapsed on stage whilst playing Othello. A young black American actor, Ira Aldridge, has been asked to take over the role. But, as the public riot in the streets, how will the cast, critics and audience react to the revolution taking place in the theatre?

UK October 2012 • US December 2012 128 pages PB 9781408173558 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408173565 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408173572 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

Your Last Breath, Olfactory and After the Rainfall

inspection

All New People Zach Braff “Sensationally funny” New York Times

Curious Directive

A sharp, witty and contemporary debut play by writer and actor Zach Braff.

“A company clearly destined for great things.”

Daily Telegraph

UK February 2012 • US April 2012 80 pages PB 9781408179819 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408179826 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408179833 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

UK August 2012 • US October 2012 160 pages PB 9781408173473 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408173480 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408173497 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

In Basildon

inspection

Snookered

“The irresistibly silly schoolboy banter is woven into much darker, deeper probings into fragile masculinity... a subtle, complex, entertaining and truthful play about the inner lives of young British men who happen to be Muslims.” New Statesman

“A gloriously rich, humorous, agonising and politically provocative play.” Independent UK February 2012 • US April 2012 128 pages PB 9781408164822 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408180150 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408180167 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

UK February 2012 • US March 2012 96 pages PB 9781408172551 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408172568 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408172575 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

inspection

Charlotte Keatley Time, memory and family is explored in this new work from the multi-award-winning playwright Charlotte Keatley.

UK February 2012 • US April 2012 128 pages PB 9781408172513 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408172520 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408172537 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

4

inspection

Ishy Din

David Eldridge

Our Father

inspection

Nativities

inspection

Zoe Cooper A darkly comic new play set in the wasteland of petty office politics, designated smoking areas and personal alienation.

UK February 2012 • US April 2012 128 pages PB 9781408172476 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408172483 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408172490 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 4

01/03/2013 11:15

Adapted Classics

A Doll’s House

inspection

The Prince and the Pauper

inspection

Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Simon Stephens

Mark Twain Adapted by Jemma Kennedy

“Simon Stephens’s agile new version... is quick and... full of subtle touches.” Observer

Jemma Kennedy’s stage adaptation of The Prince and the Pauper for young people is a dynamic and fastpaced adaptation of Mark Twain’s 1881 classic novel of confused identities.

UK June 2012 • US August 2012 128 pages PB 9781408173312 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408173329 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408173336 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

A Government Inspector

UK November 2012 • US January 2013 112 pages PB 9781472515636 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781472515643 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472515650 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

inspection

Nikolai Gogol Adapted by Deborah McAndrew This version of A Government Inspector is a Yorkshire take on Gogol’s 1836 fantastical Russian satire.

The setting is here transposed to a small northern town in the twenty-first century, geographically and culturally remote from the centre of government.

inspection

Eduardo De Filippo Adapted by Tanya Ronder Filumena is Eduardo De Filippo’s best-known work and arguably his finest comedy, drenched in Neapolitan atmosphere and full of entanglements at once romantic and cynical.

UK March 2012 • US May 2012 96 pages PB 9781408172636 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408172643 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408172650 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

Going Dark

inspection

Euripides Adapted by Mike Bartlett “Rage and fear seep through Mike Bartlett’s domesticated updating of Euripides, clashing brashly and inviting its protagonists to step outside.” The Stage

The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning

inspection

Tim Price “Powerful ... ultimately inspiring sympathy.”

Independent on Sunday A play which explores political radicalisation in light of the Wikileaks scandal.

UK April 2012 • US June 2012 96 pages PB 9781408172872 • £9.99 Individual eBook 9781408172889 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408172896 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English (excluding USA) Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

inspection

Hattie Naylor, Sound&Fury “Hattie Naylor’s script is full of the head-spinning facts that make astronomy both frightening and fascinating.” Guardian UK February 2012 • US April 2012 64 pages PB 9781408178492 • £9.99 / $14.99 Individual eBook 9781408178508 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408178515 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

Medea

UK October 2012 • US December 2012 96 pages PB 9781408183915 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408185148 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408183090 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

UK September 2012 • US December 2012 80 pages PB 9781408173633 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408173640 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408173657 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

Filumena

Vera Vera Vera

inspection

Hayley Squires “A fine and moving debut play.” Daily Telegraph This brave and uncompromising play questions both the validity of the myth of the martyred soldier and the true worth of survival for those left behind.

UK March 2012 • US April 2012 80 pages PB 9781408172711 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408172728 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408172735 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 5

MODERN DRAMA

MODERN DRAMA

5

01/03/2013 11:15

MODERN DRAMA

MODERN DRAMA

Shivered

inspection

The Beloved

inspection

Philip Ridley

Amir Nizar Zuabi

“Abundant, tonally varied ... emotionally eloquent.” Independent

“Fascinating as well as psychologically credible.”

The Times

A state of the nation play meets a dreamlike memory play by acclaimed writer Philip Ridley.

The Beloved is a haunting and heartbreaking twist on the story of Abraham and Isaac, which reminds us that this historic tale of sacrifice began with just one family.

UK March 2012 • US May 2012 128 pages PB 9781408172599 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408172605 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408172612 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

Belong

UK May 2012 • US July 2012 72 pages PB 9781408173152 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408173169 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408173176 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

inspection

Silent and Forgotten

Bola Agbaje “Having packed in the provocative questions along with the belly laughs - and one almighty gut-punch - Belong leaves us questioning. One thing is for sure though, this talented young writer belongs firmly in the vanguard of contemporary British theatre.” Time Out

Pat Kinevane

A contemporary political play exploring race, identity and the concept of home, by Olivier Award-winning playwright Bola Agbaje.

UK June 2012 • US August 2012 96 pages PB 9781408173275 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408173282 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408173299 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

UK April 2012 • June 2012 96 pages PB 9781408172834 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408172841 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408172858 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

The Static and Blackout

Featuring two plays by acclaimed Irish actor and writer Pat Kinevane, Silent and Forgotten, explore themes of ageing, memory, and individuals’ dislocation from society.

The Chair Plays inspection

Davey Anderson Two coming-of-age plays from one of Scotland’s most exciting writer/directors, The Static and Blackout showcase Davey Anderson’s electric and sensitive award-winning talents.

UK July 2012 • US September 2012 80 pages PB 9781408173435 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408173442 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408173459 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

inspection

inspection

Have I None; The Under Room and Chair Edward Bond Three one-act plays by master dramatist Edward Bond, combined into a single drama and exploring humanity amid a broken world.

UK April 2012 • US August 2012 96 pages PB 9781408172797 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408172803 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408172810 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

Druid Murphy:Plays by Tom Murphy

inspection

Tom Murphy

Clockwork

inspection

Laura Poliakoff An entertaining yet socially acerbic and poignant tale of old age for the 21st century.

UK May 2012 • US July 2012 96 pages PB 9781408172995 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408173008 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408173015 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

6

“Searing... potent... At once a monumental survey of an underrated playwright and of Ireland itself.”

Daily Telegraph Famine, A Whistle in the Dark and Conversations on a Homecoming - covers the period from the Great Hunger of the nineteenth century to the ‘new’ Ireland of the 1970s.

UK May 2012 • US July 2012 96 Pages PB 9781408173190 • £12.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408173206 • £12.99 / $20.99 Library eBook 9781408173213 • £39.00 / $63.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 6

01/03/2013 11:15

Methuen Drama at the National Theatre

The Effect

inspection

Lucy Prebble “A scintillating exploration of the clash between scientific advance and human impulse.” Financial Times The Effect is a clinical romance, a vibrant theatrical exploration into the human brain via the heart, from the award-winning writer of Enron, Lucy Prebble.

UK November 2012 • US January 2013 112 pages PB 9781408183489 £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408184653 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408186015 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Antigone

inspection

Sophocles Translated by Don Taylor “This 21st-century interpretation burns particularly hard into our age.” The Times This new edition of Don Taylor’s translation presents one of the most accessible and performable versions of this ancient play and provides a blueprint for understanding and staging the play today.

UK May 2012 • US September 2012 96 pages PB 9781408173237 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408173244 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408173251 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

inspection

This House

inspection

James Graham

Mark Haddon Adapted by Simon Stephens

“Astute, funny and hugely enjoyable.” Financial Times

“A highly skilful adaptation.” Guardian Simon Stephens’s adaptation of Mark Haddon’s awardwinning novel offers a richly theatrical exploration of this touching and bleakly humorous tale.

Explores Westminster and the 1974 hung parliament through a combination of wit and waspish dialogue, comedy and political comment and historical and contemporary concerns.

UK July 2012 • US September 2012 112 pages PB 9781408173350 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408173367 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408173374 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

UK September 2012 • US November 2012 96 pages PB 9781408173114 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408173121 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408173138 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

Birthday

inspection

Joe Penhall “An unsparing black comedy... compelling.” Time Out Raises intrinsic questions about the nature of birth and renewal, fear and isolation.

inspection

Simon Stephens Morning - a play for young people – takes a disturbing look at the cruel acts we are capable of committing.

UK August 2012 • US October 2012 64 pages PB 9781408173398 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408173404 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408173411 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

Mess and You’re Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy

inspection

Caroline Horton “Comes perilously close to genius and announces Horton as a major, major talent.” Time Out UK August 2012 • US October 2012 96 pages PB 9781408173510 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408173527 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408173534 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

UK June 2012 • August 2012 96 pages PB 9781408172919 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408172926 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408172933 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

Morning

You Can Still Make A Killing

inspection

Nicholas Pierpan Four years on from the collapse of the Lehman Brothers and still we find ourselves in crisis. It’s time to work out what’s wrong.

UK October 2012 • US December 2012 144 pages PB 9781408185605 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408185797 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408185698 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 7

MODERN DRAMA

MODERN DRAMA

7

01/03/2013 11:15

MODERN DRAMA

MODERN DRAMA

Straight

inspection

The Upstairs Room

D.C. Moore

David K. O’Hara

Based on the motion picture Humpday, Straight is a razor-sharp comedy about male friendship, sexuality and how the two things can be blurred more easily than one might think.

A modern take on Sartre’s play Huis Clo, in which a man and two women find themselves confined together in a drawing room for eternity.

UK November 2012 • US January 2013 96 pages PB 9781408184639 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408184349 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408183878 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

Where the Mangrove Grows

inspection

Joe Hammond “A powerful, thoughtful and accomplished debut play.” Huffington Post Confronts questions of family, neglect, escapism and love through a magical, though often harrowing, tale of a warped and lonely childhood.

UK November 2012 • US January 2013 72 pages PB 9781408185650 • £9.99 / $14.95 Library eBook 9781408184929 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781408185346 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

The Artist Man and the Mother Woman

UK November 2012 • US January 2013 96 pages PB 9781472515100 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781472515117 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472515124 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

A wickedly funny, deceptively simple, surreal portrait of a spectacularly dysfunctional relationship.

UK October 2012 • US December 2012 96 pages PB 9781408173718 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408173725 •£9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408173732 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

In a brand new translation, this scathing satire and parable transposes the rise of Hitler to gangland Chicago and continues to have relevance wherever totalitarianism appears today.

UK February 2013 • US April 2013 112 pages PB 9781408179932 • £12.99 / $19.95 Individual eBook 9781408189603 • £12.99 / $20.99 Library eBook 9781408189610 • £39.00 / $63.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

inspection

Nathaniel Martello-White “A sparky satire about the life of black British thesps.” Daily Telegraph UK October 2012 • US December 2012 80 pages PB 9781408173596 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408173602 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408173619 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

inspection

Philip Ridley Feathers in the Snow, a family show by acclaimed playwright and children’s author Philip Ridley, is an epic story of magic and migration.

UK January 2013 • US March 2013 112 Pages PB 9781472515148 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781472515155 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472515162 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays

Dancing on the Edge Blackta

inspection

Bertolt Brecht Translated by Jennifer Wise

Feathers in the Snow inspection

Morna Pearson

8

inspection

inspection

Stephen Poliakoff A five-part explosive new drama series for BBC2 set in the early 1930s following a black jazz band in London during times of extraordinary change.

UK January 2013 • US March 2013 368 pages PB 9781408185599 • £16.99 / $27.95 Individual eBook 9781408183250 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408185926 • £51.00 / $82.00 World English Methuen Drama

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 8

01/03/2013 11:15

The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays

inspection

Stunning; The Road Weeps, the Well Runs Dry; Pullman, WA; Hurt Village; Dying City; The Big Meal David Adjmi, Marcus Gardley, Young Jean Lee, Katori Hall, Christopher Shinn, Dan LeFranc Edited by Sarah Benson An anthology of six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights currently receiving critical acclaim in the States. It showcases work produced at a number of the leading theatres during the last decade and charts something of the extraordinary range of current playwriting in America. This book will be invaluable not only to readers and theatergoers in the U.S., but to those around the world seeking out new American plays and an insight into how U.S. playwrights are engaging with their current social and political environment. The featured plays range from the intimate to the epic, the personal to the national and taken together explore a variety of cultural perspectives on life in America.

SARAH BENSON is the artistic director of Soho Rep theatre in New York, USA. UK March 2013 • US May 2013 528 pages PB 9781408157015 • £17.99 / $27.95 Individual eBook 9781408157022 • £17.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781472503435 • £51.00 / $82.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Play Anthologies

The Methuen Drama Book of Post-Black Plays

inspection

How the Vote Was Won; Lady Geraldine’s Speech; Pot and Kettle; Miss Appleyard’s Awakening; Her Vote; The Mother’s Meetin; The Anti-Suffragist or The Other Side; Tradition Beatrice Harraden, Christopher St John, Cicely Hamilton, Evelyn Glover, George Middleton, H.M. Paull, H.V. Glover and L.S. Phibbs Edited by Naomi Paxton Eight exciting pieces written for and by members of the Actresses Franchise League from 190913. Immediately playable, they offer strong, varied roles for female casts, while also providing invaluable source material to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines. Featuring How The Vote Was Won, which remains one of the most popular and well known suffrage plays, the volume also includes seven shorter works. The plays featured articulate the arguments of the Suffrage Movement through a variety of styles, both comic and serious, and perfectly illustrate the use of drama as a medium for social change and entertainment. Together with illustrations and an introduction charting the history of the Actresses Franchise League and exploring the context and provenance of the plays, this is an excellent resource for both study and performance.

NAOMI PAXTON is an actress, writer and researcher. She is currently a PhD student in the Drama Department of the University of Manchester, UK.

inspection

Edited by Harry J. Elam Jr. and Douglas A. Jones Jr. ‘Post-black’ refers to an emerging trend within black arts to find new and multiple expressions of blackness, unburdened by the social and cultural expectations of blackness of the past and moving beyond the conventional binary of black and white.

Reflecting this multiplicity of perspectives, the plays in this collection explore the traditional ways of representing black families on the American stage, and create new means to consider the interplay of race with questions of class, gender, and sexuality. They engage and critique current definitions of black and African-American identity, as well as previous limitations placed on what constitutes blackness and black theatre.

Written by the emerging stars of American theatre such as Eisa Davis and Marcus Gardley, the plays explore themes such as individuality, alienation and gentrification, and reconciliation and belonging.

HARRY J. ELAM JR. is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, and the Freeman-Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University, USA. DOUGLAS A. JONES JR. is Cotsen Fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows at Princeton University, USA, where he teaches in the Department of English.

UK December 2012 • US January 2013 512 pages PB 9781408173824 • £18.99 / $27.95 Individual eBook 9781408176559 • £18.99 / $29.99 Library eBook 9781408176566 • £57.00 / $92.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Play Anthologies

The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays

UK January 2013 • US March 2013 128 pages PB 9781408176580 • £14.99 / $19.95 Individual eBook 9781408176597 • £14.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781408176603 • £45.00 / $72.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Play Anthologies

The Methuen Drama Anthology of Testimonial Plays

inspection

Bystander 9/11; The Travels; Big Head; Come Out Eli; Seven; The Sounds of the Coup; On the Record; The Fence Alecky Blythe, Alison Forsyth, Anna Deavere Smith, Denise Uyehara, María José Contreras Lorenzini, Meron Langsner, Noah BirkstedBreen, Tim Etchells Edited by Alison Forsyth This diverse anthology displays fresh, contemporary plays based upon testimonies from differing ages, genders, sexualities, ethnicities, and nationalities.

The challenging and provocative works of theatre included provide new perspectives on contemporary and historical events and allow the experiences of those silenced by censorship, illiteracy and poverty to be voiced.

The genre’s versatility is showcased through a range of plays which utilise oral testimony in varied and highly distinctive ways. The anthology provides practitioner notes, which help to elucidate the workings of the genre.

ALISON FORSYTH is a Lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK. UK August 2013 • US October 2013 400 pages • 8 bw illustrations PB 9781408176528 • £19.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781408176535 • £19.99 / $30.99 Library eBook 9781408176542 • £60.00 / $96.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Play Anthologies

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 9

MODERN DRAMA

ANTHOLOGIES

9

01/03/2013 11:15

MODERN DRAMA

A N T H O L O G I E S / C O N T E M P O R A R Y P L AY W R I G H T S

American Next Wave

inspection

Four contemporary plays from the HighTide Festival Stella Fawn Ragsdale, Mona Mansour, Laura Marks and Branden Jacob-Jenkins A collection of four plays by new American writers curated from the Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater, New York. These plays represent the finest works developed by the Public Theater, addressing contemporary social preoccupations: race, class, heritage, economic hardship, family values and identity.

The plays included are: Perish by Stella Fawn Ragsdale; The Hour of Feeling by Mona Mansour; Bethany by Laura Marks; and Neighbors by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

STELLA FAWN RAGSDALE has an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University, USA. MONA MANSOUR began her theater career as an actress and now teaches improv and writing classes to adults over 60 in New York, USA. LAURA MARKS is a current playwriting fellow at the Juilliard School, USA. BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS is a Brooklyn-based playwright and performer from Washington, D.C., USA. He is a former NYTW Playwriting fellow and is currently a member of the Soho Rep Writers/Directors Lab. UK May 2012 • US July 2012 336 pages PB 9781408173077 • £16.99 / $27.95 Individual eBook 9781408173084 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408173091 • £51.00 / $82.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Play Anthologies

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights Edited by Martin Middeke, Peter Paul Schnierer, Christopher Innes and Matthew Roudané This is an authoritative single-volume guide to the work of twenty-five American playwrights, written by a team of twenty-five eminent scholars. Each chapter provides: a biographical introduction to the playwright and their work; a survey and analysis of the major plays by each writer; a discussion of their style, dramaturgical concerns and the critical reception; and a full bibliography of published plays, listing of premieres and a select list of critical works. Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, this collection surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years. It is the perfect companion for students of American literature and drama.

Includes chapters on Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, August Wilson, Paula Vogel and Neil LaBute.

MARTIN MIDDEKE is Professor and Chair of English Literature at the University of Augsburg, Germany.

PETER PAUL SCHNIERER is Professor and Chair of English Literature at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

CHRISTOPHER INNES is a Professor of English at York University, Canada, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Performance and Culture.

MATTHEW ROUDANÉ is Professor and Chair of English at Georgia State University, USA. UK September 2013 • US November 2013 480 pages PB 9781408134795 • £18.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781408134818 • £18.99 / $29.99 Library eBook 9781408134801 • £57.00 / $92.00 Methuen Drama

10

Steven Berkoff: One Act Plays

inspection

Steven Berkoff Introduced by Geoffrey Colman Steven Berkoff has been variously described as controversial, thrilling, electric and dynamic. A Renaissance man of the theatre, he is known equally for his writing, directing and acting.

Collecting together nineteen one-act plays, this volume presents never-before-published material.

Abusive, shocking and endlessly surprising, these sharply written pieces showcase Berkoff’s trademark controversy, black humour and dramatic dialectics. The selection of plays allows the performer and reader to experience Berkoff’s fluid anarchic poetry at its most profane within the complete and pithy structure of the oneact play.

Established plays such as The Biblical Tales stand alongside largely unperformed material, giving the range of Berkoff’s work full expression, from his established thematic concerns to his new and unseen work. Perfect for student and amateur performances.

STEVEN BERKOFF formed the London Theatre Group in 1968. His plays and adaptations have been performed in many countries and in many languages, including Kafka’s Metamorphosis and The Trial and Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. He has directed and toured productions of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, also playing the title role, as well as Richard II, Hamlet and Macbeth.

GEOFFREY COLMAN is Head of Acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

UK October 2012 • US December 2012 416 pages PB 9781408182475 • £16.99 / $27.95 Individual eBook 9781408182482 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408182499 • £51.00 / $82.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Play Anthologies

James Graham Plays: 1

inspection

A History of Falling Things; Tory Boyz; The Man; The Whisky Taster; Sons of York James Graham This collection brings together four of Graham’s most successful and entertaining plays.

A History of Falling Things is a love story about a young man and woman forced to confront their fears of the outside world and discover what really matters to their lives. Tory Boyz is a fast-paced, political comedy about prejudice and ambition in Westminster, looking at homosexuality in the British Conservative party. The Man is an affectionate and funny portrait of an individual’s year-long experience, pieced together from receipts, shopping and commercial transactions. The Whisky Taster is a contemporary, subtle and witty exploration of feeling and perception in the modern world of advertising, and about seeing things too clearly in a city that never stands still. Sons of York, never before published, depicts three generations of the same family moving in together in Hull as the Winter of Discontent of 1978 builds up.

JAMES GRAHAM’s play This House premiered at the National Theatre in 2012. His film X and Y was on the prestigious ‘Brit List’, the list of the best unproduced screenplays in the UK. UK December 2012 • US January 2013 368 pages PB 9781408183946 • £16.99 / $27.95 Individual eBook 9781408183861 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408183922 • £51.00 / $82.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Contemporary Dramatists

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 10

01/03/2013 11:15

The Theatre of Sean O’Casey

The Theatre of Martin Crimp

2nd

edition

James Moran

Aleks Sierz

This Critical Companion is the first major study of Sean O’Casey’s work to consider his oeuvre and the archival material that has appeared during the last decade. Published ahead of the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, it provides a clear and detailed study of the work in context and performance.

First published in 2006, this groundbreaking study combines Sierz’s lucid prose and sharp analysis together with interviews with Martin Crimp and a host of directors and actors who have produced his work. This Critical Companion offers a richly rewarding and engaging assessment of this acutely satirical playwright. The second edition additionally explores the work produced between 2006 and 2013, both the major new plays and the translations and other work.

The most performed playwright at Ireland’s national theatre, O’Casey was also one of the most controversial. Since the start of the ‘Troubles’ in the North of Ireland, his work has become the subject of debate about Irish nationalism and revolutionary history.

Moran pays special attention to the Dublin trilogy and considers the work produced in exile, during the war and the late plays. The Companion also includes a number of essays from international scholars and theatre practitioners offering further critical perspectives.

JAMES MORAN is Head of Drama in the School of English Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. UK July 2013 • US September 2013 320 pages PB 9781408175354 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781408175347 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781408165966 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408165959 • £51.00 / $82.00 Methuen Drama Series: Critical Companions

The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker Sophie Bush This Critical Companion offers the first comprehensive overview of Wertenbaker’s playwriting career which spans more than thirty years of stage plays. It considers the contexts of their initial productions by a range of companies and institutions, including the Royal Court, the Arcola and the Women’s Theatre Group. While examining all of Wertenbaker’s original stage works, Sophie Bush’s companion focuses most extensively on the frequently studied plays Our Country’s Good and The Love of the Nightingale, but also draws attention to early unpublished works and more recent, critically neglected pieces, and the counterpoints these provide.

The Companion will prove invaluable to students and scholars, combining as it does close textual analysis with detailed historical and contextual study of the processes of production and reception.

SOPHIE BUSH is a writer-researcher specialising in contemporary British playwriting. She lectures at the Universities of Sheffield Hallam, Huddersfield and Manchester Metropolitan, UK. UK September 2013 • US November 2013 288 pages • 6 bw illustrations PB 9781408184790 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781408189641 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781408184097 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781472520685 • £51.00 / $82.00 Methuen Drama Series: Critical Companions

The two works that have brought Crimp considerable international acclaim in recent years are covered – the updated rewrite of The Misanthrope, which in 2009 played for several months in the West End starring Keira Knightley, and Crimp’s translation of Botho Strauss’s Big and Small, together with his other works in translation. The Theatre of Martin Crimp remains the fullest, most readable account of Crimp’s work for the stage.

ALEKS SIERZ is the theatre critic of Tribune, a freelance theatre reviewer and a lecturer in modern British theatre.

UK September 2013 • US November 2013 320 pages PB 9781408184417 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781408185841 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781408183779 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472517012 • £54.00 / $87.00 Methuen Drama Series: Critical Companions

The Theatre of David Greig Clare Wallace Since he began writing for theatre in the early nineties, David Greig’s work has been both copious and varied. This Critical Companion provides an analytical survey of his work, from his early plays such as Europe and The Architect through to more recent works Damascus, Dunsinane and Ramallah; it also considers the plays produced with the Suspect Culture Theatre Group and his work for young audiences. This is the first book to provide a critical account of the full variety of his work and will appeal to students and fans of contemporary British theatre. The Companion features an interview with David Greig and a further three essays by leading academics offering a variety of critical perspectives.

CLARE WALLACE is Senior Lecturer in Irish and British Literature and Irish and Intercultural Studies at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

UK August 2013 • US October 2013 288 pages PB 9781408157398 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781408157329 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781408159514 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408160602 • £51.00 / $82.00 Methuen Drama Series: Critical Companions

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 11

MODERN DRAMA

C O N T E M P O R A R Y P L AY W R I G H T S

11

01/03/2013 11:15

MODERN DRAMA

C O N T E M P O R A R Y P L AY W R I G H T S / S T U D E N T E D I T I O N S

The Theatre of Harold Pinter

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Mark Taylor-Batty The plays of the late Nobel laureate Harold Pinter have formed part of the canon of world theatre since the 1960s. Frequently revived on the professional stage, and studied on almost every Theatre Studies course, his importance and influence is hard to overestimate. This Critical Companion offers an assessment of Pinter’s entire body of work for the stage, appraising his skill as a dramatist and considering his impact and legacy.

Through a clear focus on issues of theatricality and the effect of the plays in performance, The Theatre of Harold Pinter offers a unifying theme through which over four decades of work may be understood.

The volume also features a series of essays from other leading scholars including Harry Burton on Pinter’s early drama; Ann Hall on Revisiting Pinter’s Women; Chris Megson on Pinter’s Memory Plays of the 1970s and Basil Chiasson on Neoliberalism and Democracy.

MARK TAYLOR-BATTY is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the Workshop Theatre, School of English, University of Leeds, UK. He is co-author with Juliette Taylor-Batty, of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (Continuum, 2009).

UK September 2013 • US November 2013 288 pages PB 9781408175309 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781408175316 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781408175323 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408175330 • £51.00 / $82.00 Methuen Drama Series: Critical Companions

Blue/Orange

“McDonagh’s writing is pitiless but compassionate: he casts a cold, hard, but understanding eye on relationships made of mistrust, hesitation, resentment and malevolence.” Sunday Times Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely spinster in her early forties, and Mag her devilishly manipulative ageing mother whose interference in Maureen’s first and potentially only loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as funny as it is horrific.

This Student Edition features expert and helpful annotation, including a scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes, characters, language and structure of the play, as well as a list of suggested reading and questions for further study and a review of performance history.

MARTIN MCDONAGH is a playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter. His first play The Beauty Queen of Leenane was nominated for six Tony awards, of which it won four, and the Laurence Olivier Award.

inspection

In a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator - a story that becomes unnervingly plausible. An incendiary tale of race, madness and a Darwinian power struggle at the heart of a dying National Health Service.

Blue/Orange is an accessible and vibrant play, which explores a number of important issues including themes of race and representation, sanity and insanity, as well the political context of New Labour and spin, and questions of prejudice and difference.

This Student Edition features expert and helpful annotation, including a scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes, characters, language and structure of the play, as well as a list of suggested reading and questions for further study and a review of performance history.

JOE PENHALL is the award-winning writer of Some Voices, BAFTA winning BBC serial Moses Jones and adaptations of Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Blue/Orange won an Olivier Award, an Evening Standard Award and the Critics Circle Award for Best Play.

12

Martin McDonagh Edited by Catheine Rees

UK February 2013 • US April 2013 160 pages PB 9781408173831 • £9.99 / $15.95 Individual eBook 9781472518620 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472518637 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Student Editions

Joe Penhall Edited by Rachel Clements

UK February 2013 • US April 2013 192 pages PB 9781408140918 • £9.99 / $15.95 Individual eBook 9781472515520 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472515537 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Student Editions

inspection

Pornography

inspection

Simon Stephens Edited by Jacqueline Bolton Pornography looks at the events of the first week of July 2005 (the G8 summit, Live 8, the announcement of the 2012 Olympics and the 7/7 bombings) through the perspectives of eight anonymous individuals, including a terrorist. This Student Edition offers a study of the meaning, context and performance choices available in this subtle and political play. The in-depth commentary explores the play’s themes, its kaleidoscopic structure and the play’s production history. The editor, Jacqueline Bolton, incorporates previously unpublished interviews with Simon Stephens and the directors and dramaturgs associated with the early productions.

The play can be performed by any number of actors with the scenes presented in any order. This flexibility means that it is ideal for student groups: containing four monologues, two duologues and fiftytwo self-contained anecdotal speeches.

SIMON STEPHENS has been the recipient of both the Pearson Award for Best New Play 2001-2 for Port, and the Olivier Award for Best New Play 2005 for On the Shore of the Wide World.

JACQUELINE BOLTON is currently nearing the completion of an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award in Dramaturgy and Literary Management at the University of Leeds, UK, in conjunction with West Yorkshire Playhouse.

UK July 2013 • US August 2013 144 pages PB 9781408179857 • £9.99 / $15.95 Individual eBook 9781408179864 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408179871 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Student Editions

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 12

01/03/2013 11:15

TITLE

AUTHOR

EDITOR

ISBN

UK PRICE

US PRICE

A Doll's House A Memory of Two Mondays A Raisin In The Sun A Servant to Two Masters A Streetcar Named Desire A Taste Of Honey A View from the Bridge Accidental Death of an Anarchist After the Fall All My Sons Antigone Antigone Blasted Blood Brothers Blood Wedding Broken Glass Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Closer Confusions Copenhagen Death and the King's Horseman Death of a Salesman Doña Rosita the Spinster Dreams Of Anne Frank Educating Rita Elektra Fear and Misery of the Third Reich Ghosts Glengarry Glen Ross Hedda Gabler Lear Life Of Galileo Loot Medea Miss Julie Mother Courage and Her Children My Mother Said I Never Should Oedipus the King/Oedipus Rex Oh What A Lovely War Oleanna Our Country's Good Saved Serious Money Serjeant Musgrave's Dance Shopping And F***ing Six Characters in Search of an Author Spring Awakening Sweet Bird of Youth The Caucasian Chalk Circle The Cherry Orchard The Crucible The Glass Menagerie The Good Person Of Szechwan The Government Inspector The House Of Bernarda Alba The Importance of Being Earnest The Last Yankee The Lieutenant of Inishmore The Lonesome West The Malcontent The Memory Of Water The Merchant The Playboy of the Western World The Price The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui The Rover The Seagull The Three Sisters The Threepenny Opera Top Girls Uncle Vanya Yerma The Playboy of the Western World The Price The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui The Rover The Seagull The Three Sisters The Threepenny Opera Top Girls Top Girls Uncle Vanya Yerma

Henrik Ibsen Arthur Miller Lorraine Hansberry Carlo Goldoni & Lee Hall Tennessee Williams Shelagh Delaney Arthur Miller Dario Fo Arthur Miller Arthur Miller Sophocles Jean Anouilh Sarah Kane Willy Russell Federico Garcia Lorca Arthur Miller Tennessee Williams Patrick Marber Alan Ayckbourn Michael Frayn Wole Soyinka Arthur Miller Federico Garcia Lorca Bernard Kops Willy Russell Euripides Bertolt Brecht Henrik Ibsen David Mamet Henrik Ibsen Edward Bond Bertolt Brecht Joe Orton Euripides August Strindberg Bertolt Brecht Charlotte Keatley Sophocles Theatre Workshop David Mamet Timberlake Wertenbaker Edward Bond Caryl Churchill John Arden Mark Ravenhill Luigi Pirandello Frank Wedekind Tennessee Williams Bertolt Brecht Anton Chekhov Arthur Miller Tennessee Williams Bertolt Brecht Nikolai Gogol Federico Garcia Lorca Oscar Wilde Arthur Miller Martin McDonagh Martin McDonagh John Marston Shelagh Stephenson Arnold Wesker John Millington Synge Arthur Miller Bertolt Brecht Aphra Behn Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov Bertolt Brecht Caryl Churchill Anton Chekhov Federico Garcia Lorca John Millington Synge Arthur Miller Bertolt Brecht Bertolt Brecht Aphra Behn Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov Bertolt Brecht Caryl Churchill Caryl Churchill Anton Chekhov Federico Garcia Lorca

Nick Worrall & Non Worrall Joshua Polster Deirdre Osborne Joseph Farrell Michael Hooper & Patricia Hern Elaine Aston & Glenda Leeming Steve Marino Joseph Farrell Brenda Murphy Toby Zinman Angie Varakis Ted Freeman Ken Urban Jim Mulligan Gwynne Edwards Alan Ackerman Philip Kolin Daniel Rosenthal Russell Whiteley Robert Butler

9781408106020 9781408123164 9781408140901 9781408131053 9781408106044 9781408106013 9781408108406 9780413772671 9781408123126 9781408108383 9780413776044 9780413695406 9781408103852 9780413695109 9780713685169 9781408128848 9781408114391 9780713683295 9780713685510 9780413773715 9780413695505 9781408108413 9781408105054 9780413712509 9780713687569 9780413770400 9781408100080 9780713686753 9780413774187 9780413770707 9780413519504 9780413577801 9780413567604 9780413770301 9780413775825 9780413492708 9780413684707 9780713686760 9780413775467 9780413773760 9780413692306 9781408100103 9780413771209 9780413492609 9780413773739 9780413772688 9781408140895 9781408114384 9780413544506 9780413695000 9781408108390 9780713685121 9781408100073 9780413773210 9780713686777 9780413396303 9781408123157 9781408111079 9781408125762 9780413162908 9780413776143 9780413516206 9780413519405 9781408123119 9780713685114 9780413668806 9780413771001 9780413771407 9780413774521 9781408106037 9780413774712 9780713683264 9780413519405 9781408123119 9780413772633 9780713685114 9780413668806 9780413771001 9780413771407 9780413774521 9780413644701 9781408106037 9780413774712 9780713683264

£8.99 £9.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £9.99 £8.99 £8.99 £8.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £8.99 £8.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99

$14.95 * * $13.95 * $14.95 * $13.95 * * $14.95 $12.95 $14.95 $12.95 $13.95 * * $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 * * $14.95 $10.95 $14.95 $12.95 $14.95 $14.95 * $12.95 $13.95** $14.95 $14.95** $13.95 $13.95 $14.95 $11.95 $14.95 $14.95 * * $14.95 $14.95 * $13.95 $13.95 $13.95 * $14.95 $12.95 * * $14.95 * $14.95 $12.95 * $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $12.95 * $14.95 $12.95 $12.95 $12.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $12.95 * $13.95 $14.95 $12.95 $12.95 $12.95 $14.95 $13.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95

Enoch Brater Gwynne Edwards Steve Lewis J. Michael Walton & Marianne McDonald Charlotte Ryland Non Worrall David Thomas Patricia Hern Hugh Rorrison Andrew Mayne Marianne McDonald & J. Michael Walton David Thomas & Jo Taylor Hugh Rorrison Angie Varakis Joan Littlewood & Steve Lewis Bill Naismith David Davis Glenda Leeming Dan Rebellato Joseph Farrell Charlotte Ryland Katherine Weiss Hugh Rorrison Nick Worrall Susan Abbotson Stephen Bottoms Charlotte Ryland & Tom Kuhn Nick Worrall & Non Worrall Gwynne Edwards Patricia Hern & Glenda Leeming Katherine Egerton Patrick Lonergan Patrick Lonergan Simon Trussler & William Naismith Steve Lewis Glenda Leeming Nick Worrall Jane K. Dominik Non Worrall Bill Naismith

Ralph Manheim & John Willett Bill Naismith & Nick Worrall

Nick Worrall Jane K. Dominik Non Worrall Non Worrall Bill Naismith

Ralph Manheim & John Willett Bill Naismith & Nick Worrall

STUDENT EDITIONS COMPLETE BACKLIST

STUDENT EDITIONS COMPLETE BACKLIST

All titles are paperback *Not available in N. America **Not available in USA

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 13

13

01/03/2013 11:15

MODERN DRAMA

B E R T O LT B R E C H T BERTOLT BRECHT (1898–1956), a major dramatist, was founder of one of the most influential theatre companies, the Berliner Ensemble, and the creator of some of the landmark plays of the twentieth century: The Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. His plays and dramatic theory are central to the study of modern theatre.

A Guide to the Plays of Bertolt Brecht

new in the US

Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life Stephen Parker

Stephen Unwin An indispensable, comprehensive and highly readable companion to the dramatic work of this challenging and rewarding writer. Provides detailed accounts of nineteen key plays and explores their context and Brecht’s dramatic theory to equip readers with a rich understanding of how Brecht’s work was shaped by his times and by his evolving thinking about the function of theatre.

STEPHEN UNWIN’S previous books include A Pocket Guide to 20th Century Drama, A Pocket Guide to Shakespeare’s Plays, A Pocket Guide to Ibsen, Chekhov & Strindberg and So You Want to be a Theatre Director?

The first significant Englishlanguage biography of Brecht (1898 – 1956) to emerge in two decades, Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life charts the life and work of one of the iconic cultural figures of the twentieth century, whose achievements in theatre and poetry rank alongside Picasso’s in painting.

Drawing on Brecht’s diaries and letters together with notebooks and unpublished material, Parker’s biography offers readers an enthralling and colourful account of Brecht’s life through the prism of the artist.

What emerges from Parker’s biography is a fascinating portrait of a compulsively contradictory, chameleon-like personality, whose iconic artistry left a lasting imprint on modern culture.

UK June 2005 • US August 2012 272 pages PB 9780413774163 • £14.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781408150313 • £14.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781408150320 • £45.00 / $72.00 Methuen Drama

STEPHEN PARKER is Henry Simon Professor of German at the University of Manchester, UK and was Leverhulme Research Fellow (2009-12).

Fear and Misery in the Third Reich

Bilingual Editions

new in the US

Edited by John Willett & Tom Kuhn Also known as The Private Life of the Master Race, this is a sequence of twentyfour realistic sketches showing how “ordinary” life under the Nazis was subtly permeated by suspicion and anxiety.

UK April 2002 • US March 2012 144 pages PB 9780413772664 • £9.99 / $14.95 World English Methuen Drama

Messingkauf Dialogues

2nd

edition

new in the US

Edited by John Willett Brecht’s most important treatise on theatre The Messingkauf Dialogues are the longest, but in some ways the most light hearted of all Brecht’s discussions of theatre. Here Actor, Actress, Dramaturg (or literary adviser) and Electrician argue with the Brechtian Philosopher who wants to exploit their talent for his own purposes. The result is a lively debate about the place of art in society.

UK November 2002 • US March 2012 112 pages PB 9780413388902 • £10.99 / $16.95 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Classics

UK February 2014 • US March 2014 768 pages • bw plate sections HB 9781408155622 • £30.00 / $45.00 Individual eBook 9781408155646 • £29.99 / $45.99 Library eBook 9781408155639 • £90.00 / $145.00 Methuen Drama

new in the

These unique bilingual editions allow students to compare the original German text with US an inventive and vigorous translation by one of the world’s leading playwrights, Tony Kushner. They also include a critical introduction and commentary notes on particular words and phrases.

Mother Courage and Her Children

The Good Person of Szechwan

Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder Translated by Tony Kushner, edited by Tom Kuhn

Der gute Mensch von Sezuan Translated by Tony Kushner, edited by Tom Kuhn

UK November 2010 • US March 2012 240 pages PB 9781408111512 £12.99 / $19.95 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Classics

UK January 2011 • US March 2012 288 pages PB 9781408111505 £12.99 / $19.95 World English Methuen Drama Series: Modern Classics

TONY KUSHNER, is best known for his two-part epic, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes and he has since emerged as one of America’s most gifted playwrights. He is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an Emmy Award, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards and an Oscar nomination, among many others.

14

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 14

01/03/2013 11:15

Brecht Collected Plays

new

The most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht’s plays available in the English language. Includes introductions and notes, as well as Brecht’s own notes.

in the US

Volume 3

Volume 4

Volume 8

The Mother; Lindbergh’s Flight; BadenBaden Lesson on Consent; He Said Yes/ He Said No; The Decision; Exception & the Rule; Horatians & Curiatians; St Joan of the Stockyards Edited by John Willett

Round & Pointed Heads; Fear & Misery; S. Carrar’s Rifles; Trial of Lucull; Dansen; How Much Is Your Iron?

Edited by John Willett & Tom Kuhn

The Antigone of Sophocles; The Days of the Commune; Turandot or the Whitewasher’s Congress Edited by Tom Kuhn

Contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political and cultural history - as well as in Brecht’s own life.

Includes two previously untranslated plays, as well as Brecht’s last completed plays, from the eight years between his return from America to Europe after the war and his death in 1956.

This volume brings together volume 3.1 and 3.2 of the hardback series.

UK April 1997 • US March 2012 464 pages PB 9780413704603 • £14.99 / $22.95 World English Methuen Drama Series: World Classics

UK May 2001 • US March 2012 448 pages PB 9780413704702 • £14.99 / $22.95 HB 9780413472304 • £25.00 / $39.95 World English Methuen Drama Series: World Classics

UK August 2003 • US March 2012 292 pages PB 9780413773524 • £14.99 / $22.95 HB 9780413758705 • £25.00 / $22.95 World English Methuen Drama Series: World Classics

Student Editions

new

Feature an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text.

Fear and Misery in the Third Reich

Mother Courage and Her Children

The Good Person Of Szechwan

Edited by Charlotte Ryland

Edited by Hugh Rorrison

Edited by Charlotte Ryland & Tom Kuhn

UK March 2009 • US March 2012 PB 9781408100080 • £9.99 / $14.95 World English Methuen Drama Series: Student Editions

Life Of Galileo Edited by Hugh Rorrison UK June 1986 • US March 2012 192 pages • 5 bw photographs PB 9780413577801 £9.99 / $14.95 World English Methuen Drama Series: Student Editions

UK June 1983 • US March 2012 160 pages PB 9780413492708 • £9.99 / $14.95 World English Methuen Drama Series: Student Editions

The Caucasian Chalk Circle Edited by Hugh Rorrison UK July 1984 • March 2012 176 pages PB 9780413544506 £9.99 / $14.95 World English Methuen Drama Series: Student Editions

in the US

UK March 2009 • US March 2012 224 pages PB 9781408100073 • £9.99 / $14.95 World English Methuen Drama Series: Student Editions

The Threepenny Opera Edited by Ralph Manheim & John Willett UK January 2005 • US March 2012 224 pages PB 9780413774521 • £9.99 / $14.95 World English Methuen Drama Series: Student Editions

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 15

MODERN DRAMA

B E R T O LT B R E C H T

15

01/03/2013 11:15

MODERN DRAMA

C L A S S I C P L AY W R I G H T S

Tennessee Williams: One Act Plays

inspection

The Complete Verse of Noël Coward Edited by Barry Day The Complete Verse of Noël Coward brings together the three volumes of verse produced during his lifetime, together with previously unpublished material for the very first time.

Tennessee Williams “The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays.

Some of which are like firecrackers on a rope.”

Tennessee Williams Tennessee Williams’s lesser-known one-act plays reveal a tantalising and fascinating perspective on one of the world’s most important playwrights. Written between 1934 and 1980 these plays offer a panoramic yet detailed view of the themes, demons, and wit of this iconic playwright. This collection gathers some of Williams’s most exuberant early work and includes one-act plays that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas: The Pretty Trap, a cheerful take on The Glass Menagerie, and Interior: Panic, a precursor to A Streetcar Named Desire. The volume features a foreword by Terence McNally.

This volume includes pieces of satire, fantasy, late and early work, which together provide a wide-ranging view of Williams’s career.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983) is widely regarded as one of the 20th century’s most important writers, and was also one of its most successful and prolific. His classic works include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie and The Rose Tattoo.

UK July 2012 • US September 2012 304 pages PB 9781408164815 • £16.99 / $27.95 Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market Methuen Drama Series: World Classics

Beginning with his youthful verse experiments, this volume arranges in themed chapters Coward’s prolific public and personal verse writings. Chapters bring together his verse on a wide variety of subjects including war, the theatre, love, friends, travel, and God and the infinite.

Published for the first time, verses sent to friends and family over many years, in letters, memos and cables, paint a vivid portrait of Coward’s more private life. The Complete Verse offers to Coward readers further enjoyment and appreciation of his wit, insatiable interest in people and skilful rendering of his public and private lives.

NOËL COWARD (1899-1973) was a consummate and prolific playwright, writer, actor and performer who was knighted in 1970. Among his best known and most revived works are the plays The Vortex, Hayfever, Private Lives and Blithe Spirit.

BARRY DAY has written extensively on Noël Coward. He was awarded an OBE for services to British Culture in the US. UK September 2011 • US January 2012 384 pages • bw illustrations throughout HB 9781408131749 • £30.00 / $45.00 Individual eBook 9781408145906 • £29.99 / $45.99 Library eBook 9781408164020 • £90.00 / $145.00 World English Methuen Drama

Samuel Beckett

The Plays of Samuel Beckett Katherine Weiss Beckett remains one of the most important writers of the twentieth century whose radical experimentations in form and content won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. This Critical Companion to his stage plays will be indispensable to students of his work.

Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies

Ten Ways of Thinking About Samuel Beckett

New Critical Essays Edited by Peter Fifield and David Addyman

The Falsetto of Reason Enoch Brater

This collection of essays by renowned Beckett scholar This volume presents the best Enoch Brater offers a new scholarship addressing delightfully original, playful the sources, development and and intriguing series of ongoing influence of Samuel approaches to Beckett’s Beckett’s work. The volume drama, fiction and poetry. opens up new avenues of enquiry and association for Each essay deftly illuminates scholars, students and readers of Beckett. aspects of Beckett’s thinking and craft, making Katherine Weiss’ study illuminates each astute and often surprising discoveries along Includes studies of: play and Beckett’s vision, and investigating the way. In a series of beguiling discussions • Beckett and the influence of new media his experiments with the body, voice and such as ‘Beckett’s Devious Interventions, or 1956-1960 technology. It includes in-depth studies of the Fun with Cube Roots’ and ‘The Seated Figure • the influence of silent film on Beckett’s work on Beckett’s Stage’, Brater proves the perfect major works Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp’s Last Tape, and as with other volumes • death, loss and Ireland in Beckett’s drama companion and commentator on Beckett’s in Methuen Drama’s Critical Companions series • a consideration of Beckett’s theatrical work, helping readers to approach it with it also features a series of essays by other notebooks and annotated copies of his plays fresh eyes and a renewed sense of the author’s scholars and practitioners offering different unique aesthetic.

• the French text of the novel Mercier et critical perspectives on Beckett in performance Camier ENOCH BRATER is the Kenneth T. Rowe Collegiate that will inform students’ own critical thinking.

Professor of Dramatic Literature and Professor of KATHERINE WEISS is an Associate Professor of English and Modern Drama at East Tennessee State University, USA. UK December 2012 • US January 2013 304 pages • 4 bw illustrations PB 9781408145579 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781408157305 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781408145593 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408145586 • £51.00 / $82.00 Methuen Drama Series: Critical Companions

16

DAVID ADDYMAN is Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, English and Theater, University of Michigan, USA. University of London, UK. PETER FIFIELD is a Junior Research Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford, UK where he runs the international seminar series Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies.

UK March 2013 • May 2013 176 pages HB 9781408183618 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781408184523 • £64.99 / $100.99 Library eBook 9781408183656 • £195.00 / $313.00 World English Methuen Drama

UK April 2011 • US March 2012 208 pages PB 9781408137222 • £16.99 / $25.95 Individual eBook 9781408137239 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408137246 • £51.00 / $82.00 Methuen Drama

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 16

01/03/2013 11:15

New Mermaids General Editors: Brian Gibbons, University of Münster, Germany; William C. Carroll, Boston University, USA and Tiffany Stern, University College, University of Oxford, UK A series of modernized and fully annotated classic plays, edited and updated by experienced teachers who are internationally recognized as authorities in their field. Ideal for, and accessible to, actors, theatre-goers and students, the books are in a clear, easy-to-use format, with annotations below the text and a comprehensive introduction.

The Rover

3rd

edition

inspection

Aphra Behn Edited by Robyn Bolam

Aphra Behn was the first female professional writer in England and the most prolific playwright of the late 17th century, after Dryden. The Rover, her most popular play, is set in Naples during the misrule of carnival time, when prohibitions are temporarily removed, privileges and rank suspended, and women, from convent girls to courtesans, take the initiative.

The Rover explores issues of love, trickery and deception, forced marriage, male power, fidelity and the excesses of sexual passion.

This new edition contains a completely new introduction, and takes into account important criticism from the past decade, as well as a new understanding of the nature of theatre in Behn’s time, and the significance of her contribution to English drama.

ROBYN BOLAM is Professor of Literature at St Mary’s University College, London, UK. UK October 2012 • US December 2012 176 pages • 5 photographs & line drawings PB 9781408152119 • £8.99 / $14.95 Methuen Drama Series: New Mermaids

A Woman Killed With Kindness

2nd

inspection

edition

Thomas Heywood Edited by Frances E. Dolan A Woman Killed With Kindness is a domestic tragedy, which combines two plots and has two women at its centre. One woman is almost prostituted by her brother in order to pay off his creditor.

The other woman begins an affair with her husband’s friend and house-guest, only to be discovered by her husband and sent away from their home. This supposed act of ‘kindness’ by her husband, who spares his wife the fate of being killed outright, ends in disaster, and this is a morality tale that Heywood wanted his audience to learn from.

FRANCES E DOLAN is Professor of English at the University of California at Davis, USA. UK September 2012 • US November 2012 144 pages PB 9780713677775 • £9.99 / $12.95 Methuen Drama Series: New Mermaids

Mrs Warren’s Profession

inspection

Bernard Shaw Edited by Brad Kent Shaw’s 1893 play centres on the relationship between Kitty Warren and her daughter, Vivie. When Vivie discovers that her mother brought her up and funded her Cambridge education on the money made from prostitution and the management of several brothels, she is horrified and can barely cope. What’s more, Vivie discovers that her mother’s brothels are still in operation.

Students will find a wealth of information in this text to guide their studies. Also included is Shaw’s original Preface, and the play itself contains numerous notes and explanations throughout to aid students’ understanding.

BRAD KENT is Associate Professor of British and Irish Literatures at Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada.

UK November 2012 • US January 2013 224 pages • photographs PB 9780713679946 • £9.99 / $14.95 Methuen Drama Series: New Mermaids

Thomas Middleton: Four Plays

inspection

Women Beware Women, The Changeling, The Roaring Girl and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Thomas Middleton Edited by William C. Carroll This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Thomas Middleton’s plays, with a new introduction by William Carroll, examining the plays in the context of early modern theatre, culture and politics, as well as their language, characters and themes.

WILLIAM C CARROLL is Professor of English at Boston University, USA. UK August 2012 • US October 2012 560 pages PB 9781408156582 • £9.99 / $19.95 Methuen Drama Series: New Mermaids

An Ideal Husband

inspection

Oscar Wilde Edited by Russell Jackson An Ideal Husband has divided critics more than any other. Treating political intrigue, financial fraud, blackmail, scandal and spin, and the role of women in public life, it is a play which engaged with issues of vital importance to its late-Victorian audience, which continue to resonate today.

Sos Eltis, a specialist in Victorian drama and its relation to women’s issues, provides a stimulating new perspective on An Ideal Husband, through an introduction that looks at its relation with contemporary social purity campaigns, women’s rights, and political scandals. The introduction also gives a substantial performance history.

RUSSELL JACKSON is Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Drama at the University of Birmingham, UK. UK June 2013 • US August 2013 208 pages PB 9781408137208 • £7.99 / $12.95 Methuen Drama Series: New Mermaids

The Country Wife

3rd

inspection

edition

William Wycherley Edited by James Ogden The Country Wife is a classic Restoration comedy and one of the mostly hotly debated plays of the period.

Focusing on the follies and vices of the London society of the time, Wycherley does not condemn his characters, however, but allows his audience to be the judges. The controversial nature of the characters and their actions mean that critics are divided as to what is heroic and virtuous, and what is criminal and immoral.

JAMES OGDEN is a former senior lecturer in English at Aberystwyth University, UK. UK September 2013 • US November 2013 200 pages PB 9781408179895 • £8.99 / $14.95 Methuen Drama Series: New Mermaids

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 17

NEW MERMAIDS

NEW MERMAIDS

17

01/03/2013 11:16

NEW MERMAIDS

NEW MERMAIDS COMPLETE BACKLIST TITLE

AUTHOR

EDITOR

ISBN

UK PRICE

US PRICE

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside A New Way to Pay Old Debts A Woman Killed With Kindness A Woman of No Importance All for Love Arden of Faversham Arms and the Man Bartholmew Fair 2nd Edition

Thomas Middleton Philip Massinger Thomas Heywood Oscar Wilde John Dryden Anon Bernard Shaw Ben Jonson

9780713650686 9780713637939 9780713677775 9780713673517 9780713671056 9780713677652 9780713679984 9780713674279

£9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £7.99 £8.99 £8.99 £8.99 £8.99

$14.95 $14.95 $12.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95

Bussy D'Ambois Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays Doctor Faustus Eastward Ho! Edward II Epicoene or The Silent Woman Every Man in His Humour Gammer Gurton's Needle Lady Windermere's Fan London Assurance Love for Love Major Barbara Marriage A-La-Mode Pygmalion Saint Joan She Stoops to Conquer Tamburlaine The Alchemist The Beaux' Stratagem The Beggar's Opera

George Chapman Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe Ben Jonson, George Chapman & John Marston Christopher Marlowe Ben Jonson Ben Jonson Anon Oscar Wilde Dion Boucicault William Congreve Bernard Shaw John Dryden Bernard Shaw Bernard Shaw Oliver Goldsmith Christopher Marlowe Ben Jonson George Farquhar John Gay

9780510333065 9781408149492 9780713673760 9780713639834 9780713666694 9780713666687 9780713643978 9780713644975 9780713666670 9780713626094 9780713643237 9780713679953 9780713666663 9780713679977 9780713679960 9780713667943 9780713668148 9781408110201 9780713670004 9780713673821

£7.99 £8.99 £6.99 £8.99 £7.99 £8.99 £8.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £8.99 £8.99 £9.99 £8.99 £8.99 £8.99 £8.99 £8.99 £8.99 £7.99

$14.95 $19.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95

The Changeling The Country Wife The Critic The Double-Dealer The Duchess of Malfi The Dutch Courtesan The Importance of Being Earnest The Jew of Malta 3rd Edition The Knight of the Burning Pestle The Malcontent The Man of Mode The Old Wife's Tale The Plain Dealer The Playboy of the Western World The Provoked Wife The Recruiting Officer The Relapse The Revenger's Tragedy The Rivals 2nd Edition The Roaring Girl The Rover 3rd Edition The School for Scandal The Shoemaker's Holiday The Spanish Tragedy The Tamer Tamed The Tragedy of Mariam The Way of the World The White Devil The Witch The Witch of Edmonton Thomas Middleton: Four Plays Tis Pity She's a Whore Volpone Women Beware Women

Thomas Middleton & William Rowley William Wycherley Richard Brinsley Sheridan William Congreve John Webster John Marston Oscar Wilde Christopher Marlowe Francis Beaumont John Marston George Etherege George Peele William Wycherley John Millington Synge John Vanbrugh George Farquhar John Vanbrugh Anon Richard Brinsley Sheridan Thomas Dekker,Thomas Middleton Aphra Behn Richard Brinsley Sheridan Thomas Dekker Thomas Kyd John Fletcher Elizabeth Cary William Congreve John Webster Thomas Middleton John Ford, Thomas Dekker & William Rowley Thomas Middleton John Ford Ben Jonson Thomas Middleton

Alan Brissenden T.W. Cruik Frances E. Dolan Ian Small N.J. Andrews Martin White & Tom Lockwood J. P. Wearing Alexander Leggatt & G.R. Hibbard Maurice Evans Brian Gibbons Roma Gill & Ros King Michael Neill Martin Wiggins & Robert Lindsey Roger Victor Holdsworth Robert N. Watson Charles Whitworth Ian Small John Ross Malcolm Kelsall Nicholas Grene David Crane Leonard Conolly Jean Chothia James Ogden Anthony B. Dawson Elizabeth Cook Prof. Ann Blake David Lindley & Prof. Vivien Jones Michael Neill James Ogden David Crane John Ross Brian Gibbons David Crane Russell Jackson James R. Siemon Michael Hattaway W. David Kay John Barnard Charles Whitworths John Ross Malcolm Kelsall James L. Smith Tiffany Stern Bernard Harris Brian Gibbons Tiffany Stern Elizabeth Cook Robyn Bolam Prof. Ann Blake Jonathan Gil Harris Andrew Gurr & J.R. Mulryne Lucy Munro Karen Britland Brian Gibbons Christina Luckyj Elizabeth Shafer Arthur F. Kinney William C. Carroll Martin Wiggins Robert Watson William C. Carroll

9780713668841 9780713666885 9780713631883 9780510335045 9780713667912 9780713644753 9780713630404 9780713677669 9780713650693 9780713642889 9780713681932 9780713642704 9780713634280 9780713643220 9780713666656 9780713673791 9780713628876 9780713682847 9780713667653 9780713668131 9781408152119 9780713662900 9780713673784 9781408114216 9780713688757 9780713688764 9780713666625 9780713681376 9780713639452 9780713642537 9781408156582 9780713650600 9780713654332 9780713666632

£7.99 £8.99 £8.99 £7.99 £6.99 £9.99 £7.99 £7.99 £8.99 £8.99 £8.99 £10.99 £9.99 £8.99 £8.99 £8.99 £12.99 £7.99 £8.99 £8.99 £8.99 £8.99 £8.99 £7.99 £9.99 £8.99 £8.99 £7.99 £9.99 £9.99 £9.99 £7.99 £7.99 £8.99

$14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $11.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95 $19.95 $14.95 $14.95 $14.95

All titles are paperback

18

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 18

01/03/2013 11:16

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides

(formerly Continuum Renaissance Drama)

Series Editors: Andrew Hiscock, Bangor University, UK and Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performative contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Each guide introduces the text’s critical and performance history but also provides students with an invaluable insight into the landscape of current scholarly research through a keynote essay and newly commissioned essays from different critical perspectives.

Assembled by leading scholars, these guides provide a comprehensive survey of major issues in the contemporary study of each play.

The books explore such issues as: • The play’s critical reception from the Renaissance to contemporary adaptations • The textual and performance history of the play • Key themes in current scholarship, including issues of nationalism, religion, sexuality and gender Each volume also includes a complete guide to resources available on the play.

Macbeth

Richard III

A Critical Reader Edited by John Drakakis and Dale Townshend

A Critical Reader Edited by Annaliese Connolly

Regularly performed and studied, Macbeth is not only one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays but also provides us with one of the literary canon’s most compellingly conflicted tragic figures.

JOHN DRAKAKIS is Professor of English Studies at the University of Stirling, UK. DALE TOWNSHEND is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling, UK. UK July 2013 • US September 2013 208 pages PB 9780567432278 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9780567640796 • £55.00 / $100.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides

Charting the ruthless rise and fall of the villainous king, Richard III remains one of Shakespeare’s most enduringly discussed and oft-performed plays.

ANNALIESE CONNOLLY is Senior Lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. UK September 2013 • US November 2013 224 pages PB 9781472504968 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441168252 • £55.00 / $100.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides

Twelfth Night

The Alchemist

A Critical Reader Edited by Alison Findlay and Liz Oakley-Brown

A Critical Reader Edited by Erin Julian and Helen Ostovich

Twelfth Night is the most mature and fully developed of Shakespeare’s comedies and as well as being one of his most popular plays, represents a crucial moment in the development of his art.

ALISON FINDLAY is Professor of Renaissance Drama at the Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Lancaster, UK. LIZ OAKLEY-BROWN is Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Writing at the Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Lancaster, UK. UK July 2013 • US September 2013 224 pages PB 9781472503299 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441128782 • £55.00 / $100.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides

The eponymous alchemist of Ben Jonson’s quickfire comedy is a fraud: he cannot make gold, but he does make brilliant theatre. The Alchemist is a masterpiece of wit and form about the self-delusions of greed and the theatricality of deception.

ERIN JULIAN is a Doctoral Student at McMaster University, Canada.

HELEN OSTOVICH is Professor of English at McMaster University, Canada.

UK March 2013 • US May 2013 272 pages PB 9781780938295 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441154156 • £55.00 / $100.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 19

THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE

E A R LY M O D E R N D R A M A

19

01/03/2013 11:16

THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE

E A R LY M O D E R N D R A M A Arden Early Modern Drama Series Editors: Suzanne Gossett, Professor Emeritus at Loyola University, Chicago, USA, John Jowett, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK and Gordon McMullan, Professor of English at King’s College London, UK Arden Early Modern Drama accompanies and complements the Arden Shakespeare Third Series, offering editions of non-Shakespearean Renaissance and Restoration drama from the period 1500-1700. Modelled on the Third Series in appearance and style, Arden Early Modern Drama editions offer high-quality textual scholarship, together with an accessible, student-friendly introduction.

A Jovial Crew

inspection

The Island Princess

inspection

Richard Brome Edited by Tiffany Stern

John Fletcher Edited by Clare McManus

A Jovial Crew, or The Merry Beggars is a comedy about four noble lovers who join the beggar community for a pastoral life of dance and song. Or is it? Whilst maintaining its unremitting good humour, A Jovial Crew shows that the literary depiction of beggar life, and real beggar life, are profoundly different.

The Island Princess is a tragicomic romance set in the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Fletcher rewrites Shakespeare’s The Tempest through the encounter of Islam and Christianity and the fierce European competition for wealth at the farthest reaches of empire. The play also stages the degeneration of religious tolerance into fanaticism.

The last production mounted before theatres were closed for the English Civil War, A Jovial Crew’s exploration of class, commonwealth, kinship and kingship shows an intense engagement with contemporary politics. This edition explores Brome’s attitude to performance and print, and follows A Jovial Crew from its first, Caroline staging, to its later manifestations as a Restoration comedy, an eighteenth-century opera, and a twentieth-century proto-Marxist tragicomedy.

UK November 2013 • US January 2014 256 pages PB 9781904271772 • £10.99 / $18.00 HB 9781408130018 • £65.00 / $120.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Early Modern Drama

The Tragedy of Mariam Elizabeth Cary Edited by Ramona Wray

This ground-breaking edition explores the play in its gendered, political, social and religious contexts whilst also finding its resonances for a twenty-first century audience. The critical introduction and on-page commentary notes create an ideal teaching text giving a comprehensive account of the play from both literary and performance perspectives.

CLARE MCMANUS is Reader in English Literature, Roehampton University, London, UK. UK December 2012 • US January 2013 360 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781904271536 • £15.99 / $19.95 HB 9781408130063 • £65.00 / $100.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Early Modern Drama

inspection

The Spanish p Tragedy

inspection

Thomas Kyd

Edited by Clara Calvo & Jesús Tronch The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary.

In its time, The Spanish Tragedy quickly became a First published in 1613, it was the first work by a box office success and probably inspired Shakespeare woman to be published under her real name. Never to write Hamlet. As a revenge tragedy, it set up performed during Cary’s lifetime, and apparently the salient features of a dramatic genre that would never intended for performance, the Senecan revenge last decades. Its hero, the aged Marshal of Spain tragedy tells the story of Mariam, the second wife Hieronimo, whose son is murdered at night, soon of Herod. The play exposes and explores the themes of sex, divorce, transcended the play and became the standard stage betrayal, murder, and Jewish society under Herod’s tyrannous rule. representation of grief, rhetorical passion and madness.

The comprehensive, illustrated introduction discusses the play in This edition explores the play in relation to its historical context the context of closet drama, female dramatists and in terms of the and contemporary Iberian dynastic policy. It also relates the play, as religious issues it explores, seeing Mariam as a martyr figure. The ona literary artefact, to other artistic manifestations of the European page commentary notes provide further close analysis and explanation, Renaissance and offers a fresh assessment of the play’s stage history. creating an ideal edition for study and teaching.

For the first time in the play’s textual history, this edition presents an RAMONA WRAY is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at Queen’s University, integrated text inviting a reading of the play as it was published both in Belfast, UK. 1592 and in 1602.

UK June 2012 • US September 2012 256 pages • 10 bw illustrations PB 9781904271598 • £12.99 / $19.95 HB 9781408129999 • £65.00 / $100.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Early Modern Drama

CLARA CALVO is Professor of English Studies at the University of Murcia, Spain.

JESÚS TRONCH is Senior Lecturer at the University of Valencia, Spain.

UK January 2013 • US March 2013 392 pages •15 bw ilustrations PB 9781904271604 • £9.99 / $16.00 HB 9781408129982 • £65.00 / $100.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Early Modern Drama

Please see p.23 for the complete Arden Early Modern Drama backlist

20

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 20

01/03/2013 11:16

Marlowe’s Literary Scepticism Politic Religion and Post-Reformation Polemic Chloe Preedy Marlowe’s Literary Scepticism re-evaluates the representation of religion in Christopher Marlowe’s plays and poems, demonstrating the extent to which his literary engagement with questions of belief was shaped by the virulent polemical debates that raged in post-Reformation Europe. Offering new readings of under-studied works such as the poetic translations and a fresh perspective on well-known plays such as Doctor Faustus, this book focuses on Marlowe’s depiction of the religious frauds denounced by his contemporaries. It identifies Marlowe as one of the earliest writers to acknowledge the practical value of religious hypocrisy, and a pivotal figure in the history of scepticism.

CHLOE PREEDY is a teaching associate at the University of Cambridge, UK.

UK January 2013 • US March 2013 256 pages HB 9781408164884 • £55.00 / $100.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Shakespeare Library

THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE

S T U D Y I N G E A R LY M O D E R N D R A M A

Shakespeare’s Sonnets for iPad Enjoy, explore and understand these immortal works of literature as never before • All 154 poems performed to camera by an all-star cast including Sir Patrick Stewart, Kim Cattrall, Stephen Fry and David Tennant • Full text and complete scholarly notes from the Arden Shakespeare • Share the performance of your favourite sonnet via Facebook, Twitter or email • Includes complete facsimile of the 1609 Quarto edition

“Clean and intuitive” – New York Times “This is Shakespeare reinvented for the modern age and the sign of literature apps to come.” – Telegraph, 100 Essential Apps “A dazzling app… this isn’t like buying a book, it’s like buying a whole university department.” – Sunday Times “An ambitiously conceived, superbly executed app.”

– The Literary Platform

“Has the power to awaken passions you never knew you had.” – Observer

£9.99 / $13.99

Produced in partnership by

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 21

21

01/03/2013 11:16

THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE

THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE THIRD SERIES The Arden Shakespeare Third Series General Editors: Richard Proudfoot, Emeritus Professor, King’s College London, UK; Ann Thompson, King’s College London, UK; David Scott Kastan, Yale University, USA; H.R. Woudhuysen, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK Associate General Editor: George Walton Williams, Emeritus Professor, Duke University, USA Each Arden edition includes: • A full and concise introduction with illustrations, designed to engage and attract the reader • A modernized, easy-to-read version of the text • Thorough commentary on every page explaining the speech and action taking place • Detailed explanations of unusual words and phrases • Appendices, source notes and extracts giving a fully rounded understanding for students • An index providing a pathway through the material

Coriolanus

inspection

Third Series

Romeo and Juliet Third Series

William Shakespeare Edited by Peter Holland

William Shakespeare Edited by René Weis

This Roman play is one of Shakespeare’s last tragedies, best known for its political and military themes. Its hero, Coriolanus, is a proud General who does not hesitate to show his arrogant and outspoken contempt of the Roman rabble. The Tribunes banish him and he raises an army to take his revenge on Rome. He finally concedes to the pleas of his mother to spare the city and leaves only to be publicly killed by his former allies.

Peter Holland’s comprehensive introduction and commentary notes open up the language, themes and ideas in this complex yet richly rewarding play for the student and teacher.

PETER HOLLAND is the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies and Associate Dean for the Arts at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

This major new edition of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy of love argues that the play is ultimately Juliet’s. The play text is expertly edited and the on-page commentary notes discuss issues of staging, theme, meaning and Shakespeare’s use of his sources to give the reader deep and engaging insights into the play.

The richly illustrated introduction looks at the play’s exceptionally beautiful and complex language and focuses on the figure of Juliet as being at its centre. René Weis discusses the play’s critical, stage and film history, including West Side Story and Baz Luhrmann’s seminal film Romeo + Juliet. An authoritative edition from a leading scholar giving the reader a penetrating and wide-ranging insight into this ever popular play.

RENE WEIS is Professor of English at University College London, UK and a distinguished editor and biographer of Shakespeare.

UK February 2013 • US April 2013 536 pages • 20 illustrations PB 9781904271284 • £9.99 / $17.00 HB 9781904271277 • £65.00 / $100.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

UK May 2012 • US July 2012 454 pages • 20 bw illustrations PB 9781903436912 • £8.99 / $13.95 HB 9781903436905 • £65.00 / $100.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

Hamlet

King Lear

The Tempest

Third Series William Shakespeare Edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor

Third Series William Shakespeare Edited by R. A. Foakes

Third Series William Shakespeare Edited by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan

UK March 2006 • US March 2006 640 pages PB 9781904271338 • £8.99 / $17.00 HB 9781904271321 • £65.00 / $100.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

22

inspection

UK May 1997 • US May 1997 464 pages PB 9781903436592 • £8.99 / $17.00 HB 9781903436585 • £65.00 / $100.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

UK August 2011 • US November 2011 416 pages PB 9781408133477 • £8.99 / $13.95 HB 9781408133484 • £65.00 / $100.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 22

01/03/2013 11:16

TITLE

EDITOR(S)

BINDING

ISBN

UK PRICE

US PRICE

A Midsummer Night's Dream*

Harold Brooks

Paperback

9781903436608

£8.99

$17.00

All's Well That Ends Well*

G. K. Hunter

Paperback

9781903436233

£9.99

$18.00

Antony and Cleopatra

John Wilders

Paperback

9781904271017

£8.99

$17.00

As You Like It

Juliet Dusinberre

Paperback

9781904271222

£8.99

$17.00

Cymbeline*

J. M. Nosworthy

Paperback

9781903436028

£9.99

$18.00

Double Falsehood

Brean Hammond

Paperback

9781903436776

£16.99

$19.95

Hamlet

Ann Thompson & Neil Taylor

Paperback

9781904271338

£8.99

$17.00

Hamlet: The Texts Of 1603 and 1623

Ann Thompson & Neil Taylor

Paperback

9781904271802

£12.99

$22.00

Julius Caesar

David Daniell

Paperback

9781903436219

£8.99

$17.00

King Henry IV Part 1

David Scott Kastan

Paperback

9781904271352

£9.99

$18.00

King Henry IV Part 2*

A. R. Humphreys

Paperback

9781904271062

£8.99

$17.00

King Henry V

T.W. Craik

Paperback

9781904271086

£8.99

$17.00

King Henry VI Part 1

Edward Burns

Paperback

9781903436431

£12.99

$18.00

King Henry VI Part 2

Ronald Knowles

Paperback

9781903436639

£9.99

$18.00

King Henry VI Part 3

Eric Rasmussen & John D. Cox

Paperback

9781903436318

£9.99

$18.00

King Henry VIII

Gordon McMullan

Paperback

9781903436257

£11.99

$18.00

King John*

E.A.J. Honigmann

Paperback

9781903436097

£10.99

$18.00

King Lear

R. A. Foakes

Paperback

9781903436592

£8.99

$17.00

King Richard II

Charles R. Forker

Paperback

9781903436332

£8.99

$17.00

King Richard III

James R. Siemon

Paperback

9781903436899

£9.99

$17.00

Love's Labour's Lost

H. R. Woudhuysen

Paperback

9781904271109

£8.99

$17.00

Macbeth*

Kenneth Muir

Paperback

9781903436486

£8.99

$17.00

Measure For Measure*

J. W. Lever

Paperback

9781903436448

£8.99

$17.00

Much Ado About Nothing

Claire McEachern

Paperback

9781903436837

£8.99

$17.00 $17.00

Othello

E. A. J. Honigmann

Paperback

9781903436455

£8.99

Pericles

Suzanne Gossett

Paperback

9781903436851

£9.99

$18.00

Poems

H. R. Woudhuysen & Katherine Duncan-Jones

Paperback

9781903436875

£9.99

$18.00

Romeo and Juliet

Rene Weis

Paperback

9781903436912

£8.99

$13.95

Sir Thomas More

John Jowett

Paperback

9781904271482

£16.99

$19.95

Sonnets

Katherine Duncan Jones

Paperback

9781408017975

£9.99

$17.00

Tempest

Alden T Vaughan & Virginia Mason Vaughan

Paperback

9781408133477

£8.99

$13.95

The Comedy of Errors*

R. A. Foakes

Paperback

9781903436011

£9.99

$18.00

The Merchant Of Venice

John Drakakis

Paperback

9781903436813

£9.99

$17.00

The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Giorgio Melchiori

Paperback

9781904271123

£10.99

$18.00

The Taming of The Shrew

Barbara Hodgdon

Paperback

9781903436936

£9.99

$17.00

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

William Carroll

Paperback

9781903436950

£9.99

$18.00

The Two Noble Kinsmen

Lois Potter

Paperback

9781904271185

£11.99

$18.00

The Winter's Tale

John Pitcher

Paperback

9781903436356

£9.99

$17.00

Timon Of Athens

Anthony Dawson & Gretchen Minton

Paperback

9781903436974

£8.99

$17.00

Titus Andronicus

Jonathan Bate

Paperback

9781903436059

£8.99

$17.00

Troilus And Cressida

David Bevington

Paperback

9781903436691

£9.99

$18.00

Twelfth Night

Keir Elam

Paperback

9781903436998

£8.99

$17.00

THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE

THIRD SERIES COMPLETE BACKLIST

Note: All books are Arden Third Series, except those marked with *, which are Second Series Please see our website for hardback availability

A R D E N E A R LY M O D E R N D R A M A C O M P L E T E B A C K L I S T TITLE

AUTHOR

EDITOR(S)

BINDING

ISBN

UK PRICE

US PRICE

Everyman and Mankind

Anon

Douglas Bruster & Eric Rasmussen

Paperback

9781904271628

£10.99

$17.95

Hardback

9781408119464

£65.00

$95.00

9781904271734

£11.99

$18.95

Philaster

Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher Suzanne Gossett

Paperback Hardback

9781408119471

£65.00

$95.00

The Duchess of Malfi

John Webster

Leah Marcus

Paperback

9781904271512

£10.99

$17.95

Hardback

9781408119488

£65.00

$95.00

The Renegado

Philip Massinger

Michael Neill

Paperback

9781904271611

£10.99

$17.95

Hardback

9781408125182

£65.00

$100.00

Tis Pity She's A Whore

John Ford

Sonia Massai

Paperback

9781904271505

£9.99

$16.00

Hardback

9781408129968

£65.00

$100.00

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 23

23

01/03/2013 11:16

THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE

STUDYING SHAKESPEARE

A Year of Shakespeare

Shakespeare for Young People

Re-living the World Shakespeare Festival Edited by Paul Edmondson, Paul Prescott and Erin Sullivan

Productions, Versions and Adaptations Abigail Rokison

A Year of Shakespeare gives a uniquely comprehensive, expert and exciting overview of the largest Shakespeare festival the world has ever known: The World Shakespeare Festival, 2012. This is the only book fully to document all 74 productions which formed part of the Festival in 2012 through well-informed, lively and accessible reviews and other short pieces of related interest.

From a Lithuaninan Hamlet, an Israeli Merchant of Venice and Jonathan Pryce’s King Lear, this is a rich resource of critical interest to all students and scholars of Shakespeare in performance, global Shakespeare and the adaptation of Shakespeare. Illustrated with images from the productions, the book is also a great read, capturing the vitality and excitement of this extraordinary event.

PAUL EDMONDSON is Head of Research and Knowledge for The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

PAUL PRESCOTT is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, a specialist in Shakespeare theatre reviewing, and a teaching associate for The Royal Shakespeare Company.

ERIN SULLIVAN is a Lecturer, Fellow, and the Distance Learning Co-ordinator at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. UK April 2013 • US June 2013 272 pages • 20 illustrations PB 9781408188149 • £14.99 / $24.95 HB 9781408188132 • £45.00 / $80.00 Arden Shakespeare

Essential Shakespeare

inspection

An introductory critical study for first year undergraduates which bridges the gap between A Level and university study. The book offers an accessible overview of key critical perspectives, early modern contexts, and methods of close reading, as well as screen and stage performances spanning several decades. Organised around the discussion of fourteen major plays, it introduces readers to the diverse theoretical approaches typical of today’s English studies. This is a go-to resource that can be consulted thematically or by individual play or genre.

Critical approaches can overwhelm students who are daunted by the quantity and complexity of current scholarship; Bickley and Stevens are experienced teachers at both A and university level and are thus uniquely qualified to show how a mix of critical ideas can be used to inform ways of thinking about a play.

JENNY STEVENS and PAMELA BICKLEY have taught Shakespeare at pre-university and degree level for many years. They lead the English Association’s ongoing involvement with transition issues and lecture and publish on a range of literary topics.

24

It is the only comprehensive overview of its kind, engaging with a range of genres - drama, prose narrative, television and film - and including both British and international examples. Abigail Rokison covers stage and screen productions, shortened versions, prose narratives and picture books, animations and original novels, plays and films rewriting Shakespeare. The book combines an informative guide to the productions and adaptations discussed with critical analysis of their relative strengths.

ABIGAIL ROKISON is Lecturer at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. UK March 2013 • US May 2013 256 pages PB 9781441125569 • £19.99 / $34.95 HB 9781441172280 • £65.00 / $120.00 Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare Up Close

The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation Pamela Bickley and Jenny Stevens

UK August 2013 • US October 2013 240 pages PB 9781408158739 • £12.99 / $19.95 HB 9781472520272 • £45.00 / $80.00 Arden Shakespeare

The search to find engaging and inspiring ways to introduce children and young adults to Shakespeare has resulted in a wide variety of approaches to producing and adapting Shakespeare’s plays and the stories and characters at their heart. This book explores the range of productions, versions, and adaptations of Shakespeare aimed particularly at children or young people.

Reading Early Modern Texts Edited by Russ McDonald, Nicholas D. Nace and Travis D. Williams This landmark collection of newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars, offers expert close readings of Shakespeare and other early modern authors. The book is an intervention into current critical methodology as well as an invaluable tool for all students of the literature of the period, exemplifying the possibilities of close reading in the hands of a range of gifted practitioners. Chapters cover a range of key texts from Shakespeare and other major writers of the period such as Milton, Donne, Jonson and Sidney.

This is a unique collection as no other book offers such a rich variety of self-contained, short-form close readings. As such it can be used in the undergraduate classroom as well as by scholars and postgraduates and will also appeal to literary readers with an enthusiasm for Shakespeare.

RUSS MCDONALD is Professor of English Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. NICHOLAS D. NACE is Assistant Professor at the State University of New York, Binghamton, USA. TRAVIS D. WILLIAMS is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Rhode Island, USA. UK November 2012 • US January 2013 416 pages PB 9781408158784 • £18.99 / $29.95 Arden Shakespeare

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 24

01/03/2013 11:16

Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory

Women Making Shakespeare

New Historicism and Cultural Materialism Neema Parvini

A series of 20-25 short essays that draw on a variety of resources, including interviews with directors, actors, and other performance practitioners, to explore the place (or constitutive absence) of women in the Shakespearean text and in the history of Shakespearean reception.

This comprehensive guide introduces students to the key writers, texts and ideas of contemporary Shakespeare criticism and alternatives to new historicist and cultural materialist approaches suggested by a range of dissenters including evolutionary critics, historical formalists and advocates of ‘the new aestheticism’, and the more politically active presentists.

NEEMA PARVINI is Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Richmond, The American International University, UK. UK September 2012 • US November 2012 240 pages PB 9781441193933 • £19.99 / $34.95 HB 9781441111272 • £65.00 / $120.00 Arden Shakespeare

Gordon McMullan, Lena Orlin and Virginia Vaughan

The volume highlights the essential role Shakespeare’s texts have played in the historical development of feminism. Rather than a traditional collection of essays, Women Making Shakespeare brings together materials from diverse resources and uses diverse research methods to create something new and transformative. Among the many women’s interactions with Shakespeare to be considered are acting, editing, teaching, academic writing, and recycling through adaptations and appropriations.

GORDON MCMULLAN is Professor of English, King’s College London UK.

THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE

STUDYING SHAKESPEARE

LENA ORLIN is Professor of English, Georgetown University, USA. VIRGINIA MASON VAUGHAN is Professor of English at Clark University, Worcester, USA. UK December 2013 • US February 2014 256 pages PB 9781408185230 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781408185339 • £50.00 / $90.00 Arden Shakespeare

Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing Series Editor: Dympna Callaghan, William Safire Professor of Modern Letters, Syracuse University, USA Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing offers a new approach to studying Shakespeare, focussing on the particular challenges raised by his rich dramatic language and on the skills and techniques students can use to build their own critical skills. Each author in the series offers both a unique critical view of the play under discussion and the wealth of their experience and expertise as university level teachers.

Macbeth: Language and Writing Emma Smith This volume on Macbeth discusses the play in its Jacobean context and in relation to Shakespeare’s other tragedies before looking closely at its language and poetry. The third section examines the play’s critical history and how students can use this in forming their own critical responses. A final section looks at the play’s history in performance and its afterlife in film and other media.

This is a new type of study guide which combines an exploration of Shakespeare’s language with specific help for students looking to develop their own critical responses and skills.

EMMA SMITH is Fellow in English at Hertford College, Oxford, UK. UK May 2013 • US July 2013 192 pages PB 9781408152904 • £9.99 / $15.95 Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing

The Tempest: Language and Writing Brinda Charry This volume on The Tempest discusses the play’s early stage history before going on to examine the complexities and ambiguities of its language through close reading and analysis. Further sections look at the play’s critical history and in particular contemporary critical responses to it, especially those of postcolonial critics. The sections on students’ writing and critical skills focus on helping the student formulate and express a critical response to a play about which so much has been written and which has been staged and adapted in a huge variety of ways.

BRINDA CHARRY is Assistant Professor of English at Keene State College in New Hampshire, USA. UK May 2013 • US July 2013 208 pages PB 9781408152898 • £9.99 / $15.95 Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 25

25

01/03/2013 11:16

THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE

STUDYING SHAKESPEARE

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage

Shakespeare and the Medieval World Helen Cooper Helen Cooper’s unique study examines how continuations of medieval culture into the early modern period, forged Shakespeare’s development as a dramatist and poet. Medieval culture pervaded his life and work, from his childhood, spent within reach of the last performances of the Coventry Corpus Christi plays, to his dramatisation of Chaucer three years before his death.

Passion’s Slaves Bridget Escolme This volume demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. It argues that the ways in which today’s popular and theatrical cultures judge how much is too much can distort our understanding of early modern drama and theatre.

The book deals with moments in the theatre when excessive emotion is rewarded and applauded - and about moments when the expression of emotion is in excess of what is socially acceptable: embarrassing, shameful, unsettling or insane. It asks how these excesses are produced or erased, give pleasure or pain, in versions of early modern drama in theatre, film and television today.

BRIDGET ESCOLME is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Queen Mary College, University of London, UK.

HELEN COOPER is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge, UK. UK September 2010 • US October 2012 288 pages • 7 bw illustrations PB 9781408172322 • £18.99 / $29.95 HB 9781904271789 • £55.00 / $100.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Critical Companions

UK August 2013 • US September 2013 256 pages PB 9781408179673 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781408179666 • £55.00 / $100.00 Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Theatres and the Effects of Performance Edited by Farah KarimCooper & Tiffany Stern How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence staging and writing?

Shakespeare’s Theatres and the Effects of Performance is a landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addressing these and other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.

FARAH KARIM-COOPER is Head of Research at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, UK and the author of several critical studies focussing on performance.

TIFFANY STERN is Beaverbrook and Bouverie Fellow and Tutor in English, University College, Oxford, UK. She is a General Editor of the New Mermaids series and the author of several critical studies.

UK February 2013 • US April 2013 320 pages • 12 bw illustrations HB 9781408146927 • £55.00 / $85.00 World English Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Shakespeare Library

26

Shakespeare’s World of Words Edited by Paul Yachnin The contributors to this volume propose that Shakespeare was not the poet of nature, but rather that he is a genius of rewriting and re-creation, someone able to generate a new language and new ways of seeing the world by orchestrating existing social and literary vocabularies.

Each chapter begins with a key word or phrase from Shakespeare and builds toward a broader consideration of the social, poetic, and theatrical dimensions of his language. Includes discussions of biblical language, Latinity, philosophy of language and subjectivity, languages of commerce, criminality, history, and education, the gestural vocabulary of performance, as well as accounts of verbal modality and Shakespeare’s metrics.

PAUL YACHNIN is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI) at McGill University, Canada.

UK November 2013 • US January 2014 256 pages HB 9781472515292 • £60.00 / $110.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Shakespeare Library

Shakespeare and the Language of Translation Edited by Ton Hoenselaars Shakespeare’s international status as a literary icon is largely based on his masterful use of the English language, yet beyond Britain his plays and poems are read and performed mainly in translation. Shakespeare and the Language of Translation addresses this apparent contradiction and is the first major survey of its kind.

Covering the many ways in which the translation of Shakespeare’s works is practised and studied from Bulgaria to Japan, it also discusses the translation of Macbeth into Scots and of Romeo and Juliet into British Sign Language.

TON HOENSELAARS is Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Culture at the English Department of Utrecht University, Netherlands.

UK April 2012 • US August 2012 256 pages PB 9781408179741 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781904271697 • £55.00 / $75.00 Series: Arden Shakespeare Library

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 26

01/03/2013 11:16

Shakespeare Now! Shakespeare Now! is a series of short books that engage imaginatively and often provocatively with the possibilities of Shakespeare’s plays. It goes back to the source - the most living language imaginable - and recaptures the excitement, audacity and surprise of Shakespeare. It will return you to the plays with opened eyes.

Hamlet’s Dreams

Shakespeare’s Universality

The Robben Island Shakespeare David Schalkwyk

inspection

Keirnan Ryan

Hamlet’s Dreams brings together the Robben Island Prison of Nelson Mandela and the prison that is Denmark for Shakespeare’s Hamlet. David Shalkwyk uses the circulation of the so-called ‘Robben Island Shakespeare’, a copy of the Alexander edition of the Complete Works that was secretly circulated, annotated and signed by a group of Robben Island political prisoners in the 1970s (including Mandela), to examine the representation and experience of imprisonment in South African prison memoirs and Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

DAVID SCHALKWYK is Director of Research at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., USA and Professor of English at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Through arresting new readings of key comedies, histories and tragedies this book sets out to reclaim the idea of Shakespeare’s timeless universality from reactionary and radical critics alike and reveal its revolutionary potential in the modern world. Its argument is driven throughout by the belief that at this moment in history the need to reclaim and activate the revolutionary potential of Shakespeare’s drama is more urgent than ever.

THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE

STUDYING SHAKESPEARE

KIERNAN RYAN is Professor of English Literature and Language at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. UK October 2013 • US December 2013 112 pages PB 9781408183496 • £10.99 / $17.95 Arden Shakespeare Series: Shakespeare Now!

UK January 2013 • US March 2013 208 pages PB 9781441129284 • £14.99 / $24.95 Arden Shakespeare Series: Shakespeare Now!

Nine Lives of William Shakespeare

new in PB

Graham Holderness In this critically acclaimed book, Graham Holderness takes a hard and fresh look at the possible relations between a life and the works that Shakespeare’s life created. He offers nine possible short “lives” of Shakespeare, each based on specific facts and traditions, drawn from the documentary record and from biographical interpretation and each supported by a body of critical and biographical work. Each section includes a critical essay detailing the biographical facts and showing how they have been interpreted, paired with a fictional narrative based on those facts.

GRAHAM HOLDERNESS is Professor of English at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. UK September 2013 • US November 2013 304 pages PB 9781472517302 • £12.99 / $19.95 Arden Shakespeare Series: Shakespeare Now!

Teaching Shakespeare and Marlowe Learning versus the System Liam Semler Our schools and universities are formal courts of learning in which educators and students are system creatures busily fulfilling system protocols.

Like Shakespeare in the classroom, any teacher or academic yearning for fresh and authentic approaches to their discipline must first find ways to imagine possibilities beyond the system’s limits.

This book proposes strategies for effecting voluntarily exile from court. Shakespeare and Marlowe are our subjects, guides and collaborators in this attempt.

LIAM SEMLER is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia.

UK December 2013 • February 2014 104 pages PB 9781408185025 • £10.99 / $17.95 Arden Shakespeare Series: Shakespeare Now!

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 27

27

01/03/2013 11:16

THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE

STUDYING SHAKESPEARE Springboard Shakespeare Ben Crystal “Having Crystal as a companion through the stickier parts of Hamlet and Macbeth is like going to the theatre with an intelligent friend.”

Independent These accessible introductions offer a ‘springboard’ into Shakespeare’s plays, breaking down any fears or preconceptions and taking a handson, performance-based approach. Each book is structured in three parts, exploring things you need to know and think about before you see or study a play, while you see or read it, and ideas and questions to explore afterwards, as you form your own critical view of the play. Each book includes a detailed glossary and a scene by scene analysis.

BEN CRYSTAL is an actor and writer with established expertise in Shakespeare. His most recent book Shakespeare on Toast was widely acclaimed.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Macbeth

UK June 2013 • US August 2013 96 pages PB 9781408164631 • £6.99 / $10.95 Arden Shakespeare Series: Springboard Shakespeare

UK June 2013 • US August 2013 96 pages PB 9781408164624 • £6.99 / $10.95 Arden Shakespeare Series: Springboard Shakespeare

King Lear

Hamlet

UK June 2013 • US August 2013 96 pages PB 9781408164679 • £6.99 / $10.95 Arden Shakespeare Series: Springboard Shakespeare

UK June 2013 • US August 2013 96 pages PB 9781408164662 • £6.99 / $10.95 Arden Shakespeare Series: Springboard Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Demonology A Dictionary Marion Gibson and Jo Ann Esra This volume in the long-running and acclaimed Shakespeare Dictionary series is a detailed, critical reference work examining all aspects of magic, good and evil, across Shakespeare’s works. Topics covered include the representation of fairies, witches, ghosts, devils and spirits.

MARION GIBSON is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, UK. JO ANN ESRA is a Doctoral student at the University of Exeter, UK. UK October 2013 • US December 2013 480 pages HB 9780826498342 • £150.00 / $295.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries

Shakespeare’s Plants, Gardens and Landscapes A Dictionary Nicki Faircloth and Vivian Thomas Shakespeare lived when knowledge of plants and their uses was a given. His lifetime saw the beginning of scientific interest in plants, the first large-scale plant introductions from outside the country since Roman times, and the beginning of gardening as a leisure activity.

This dictionary offers a complete companion to Shakespeare’s references to landscape, plants and gardens, including both formal and rural settings. It covers plants and flowers, gardening terms, and the activities that Shakespeare included within both cultivated and uncultivated landscapes as well as encompassing garden imagery in relation to politics, the state and personal lives. Each alphabetical entry offers an definition and overview of the term discussed in its historical context, followed by a guided tour of its use in Shakespeare’s works and finally an extensive bibliography, including primary and secondary sources, books and articles.

NICKI FAIRCLOTH is a freelance lecturer and writer based in London, UK. VIVIAN THOMAS is a freelance lecturer for the University of Warwick and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK. UK October 2013 • US November 2013 480 pages HB 9781441143709 • £175.00 / $300.00 Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries

28

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 28

01/03/2013 11:16

Great Shakespeareans Series Editors: Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA and Adrian Poole, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK COMPLETE SET – NEW FOR 2013 Bloomsbury is proud to announce the completion of this major 18-volume international reference project, first published by Continuum, which offers a systematic account of the figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare.

THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE

REFERENCE

The volumes cover the contributions made by the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors as well as novelists, poets, composers and thinkers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

Each volume includes: • An assessment of the dual impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding of Shakespeare • An overview of the figure’s intellectual or professional biography • An account of the wider cultural context including comparison with other figures within the same field • World class contributors and editors

£1250/$1895

Special introductory offer: £995/$1590 When you order within first three months of publication NEW

Great Shakespeareans Set IV UK October 2013 • US December 2013 1120 pages HB 5 volume set 9781441109149 • £375/$700 Special introductory offer: £350/$650 When you order within three months of publication

Volume XIV: Hugo, Pasternak, Brecht, Césaire [9781441139467], edited by Ruth Morse [Paris Diderot University, France]

Volume XV: Poel, Granville Barker, Guthrie, Wanamaker [9781441133724], edited by Cary M. Mazer [University of Pennsylvania, USA]

Volume XVI: Gielgud, Olivier, Ashcroft, Dench [9781441185259], edited by Russell Jackson (University of Birmingham, UK)

Volume XVII: Welles, Kozintsev, Kurosawa, Zeffirelli [9781441150721], edited by Mark Thornton Burnett [Queen’s University Belfast, UK], Courtney Lehmann [University of the Pacific, USA] and Ramona Wray [Queen’s University Belfast, UK]

Volume XVIII: Hall, Brook, Ninagawa, Lepage [9781441134653], edited by Peter Holland [University of Notre Dame, USA]

All volumes in the Great Shakespeareans series are also available for purchase in sub-sets or individually.

Individual hardback volumes are prices £75/$140. Please see our website for more details and full listings. www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 29

29

01/03/2013 11:16

ANCIENT DRAMA

ANCIENT DRAMA

Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound

inspection

Ian Ruffell Prometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action. This companion sets the play in its historical context, explores its challenge to authority, and traces its reception from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Many scholars have disputed its Aeschylean authorship, but it has proved the most influential of tragedies outside academia.

Marx’s favourite tragedy, Prometheus Bound is also a foundational text for the genre of science fiction through its influence on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In its open-eyed celebration of technology and democracy, it is the tragedy for the modern age.

IAN RUFFELL is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow, UK. His main research interest is Greek drama and he has worked most extensively on comedy.

UK May 2012 • US July 2012 176 pages PB 9780715634769 • £14.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781472502506 • £14.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781472502490 • £45.00 / $72.00 Series: Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy

The Comedian as Critic Greek Old Comedy and Poetics Matthew Wright

Euripides: Alcestis Niall W. Slater

In Alcestis, the title character sacrifices her own life to save that of her husband, Admetus, when Apollo obtains for him from the Fates the opportunity to have someone die in his place.

Currently dominant post-structuralist models of Greek tragedy focus on its ‘oppositional’ role in the discourse of war and public values. This study challenges not only this politicised model of tragic discourse but also both traditional masculinist and more recent feminist readings of the discourse and performance of gender in this remarkable play.

Niall Slater’s study explores the reception and afterlife of the play, as well as its main themes, the myth before the play, the play’s historical and social context and the central developments in modern criticism.

NIALL SLATER’S research interests are in ancient theatre, the archaeology of the theatre and ancient novel gender studies.

Sophocles: Antigone

inspection

Douglas Cairns Providing an accessible introduction to Sophocles’ Antigone, this volume discusses the main themes of the play and addresses the historical context and modern criticisms. A guide to further reading, glossary and chronology are included, all Greek is translated and technical and theoretical aims are clearly explained.

DOUGLAS CAIRNS is Professor of Classics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. UK August 2013 • US October 2013 160 pages PB 9781472505095 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781472514332 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781472512147 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781472513441 • £51.00 / $82.00 Series: Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy

For Don Taylor’s modern translation of Antigone, see page 7.

UK July 2013 • US September 2013 144 pages PB 9781780934730 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781780934723 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781780934747 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781780934754 • £51.00 / $82.00 Series: Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy

new in PB

Some of the best evidence for the early development of literary criticism before Plato and Aristotle comes from Athenian Old Comedy.

How can we make use of the evidence of comedy?

Why were the comic poets so preoccupied with questions of poetics? What criteria emerge from comedy for the evaluation of literature? What do the ancient comedians’ jokes say about their own literary tastes and those of their audience? How do different types of readers in antiquity evaluate texts, and what are the similarities and differences between ‘popular’ and ‘professional’ literary criticism?

Does Greek comedy have anything serious to say about the authors and texts it criticizes? How can the comedians be related to the later literary-critical tradition represented by Plato, Aristotle and subsequent writers? This book attempts to answer these questions by examining comedy in its social and intellectual context, and by using approaches from modern literary theory to cast light on the ancient material.

30

inspection

No Laughing Matter Studies in Athenian Comedy Edited by C.W. Marshall and George Kovacs No Laughing Matter is a wide-ranging collection of new studies of the comic theatre of Athens, from its origins until the 340s BCE. Fifteen international scholars employ an array of approaches and methodologies that will appeal to Classics and Theatre scholars while still remaining accessible to students. By including discussions of fragmentary authors alongside Aristophanes, the collection provides a broad understanding of the richness of Athenian comedy. The collection showcases the best of the new scholarship on Old and Middle Comedy, using the most up-to-date texts and tools.

No Laughing Matter has been prepared in tribute to Professor Ian Storey of Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario), whose work on Athenian comedy will continue to shape scholarship for many years to come.

C W MARSHALL is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Theatre at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

MATTHEW WRIGHT is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Exeter, UK and Blegen Research Fellow at Vassar College, USA.

GEORGE KOVACS is Assistant Professor of Ancient History and Classics at Trent University, Canada.

UK November 2013 • US February 2014 256 pages PB 9781472504449 • £19.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781780933474 • £19.99 / $30.99 Library eBook 9781780933467 • £60.00 / $96.00

UK July 2012 • US September 2012 224 pages PB 9781780930152 • £25.00 / $44.95 Individual eBook 9781472503046 • £34.99 / $37.99 Library eBook 9781472503039 • £75.00 / $120.00

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 30

01/03/2013 11:16

Played in Britain Modern Theatre in 100 Plays+ Kate Dorney and Frances Gray Published in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Musuem, Played in Britain: Modern Theatre in 100 Plays explores the best and most influential plays from 1945 to date.

An essay on each period first sets the context and explores trends, while the commentary accompanying each play illuminates the plot and themes, considers its original reception and subsequent afterlife. Photographs from the V&A’s extensive collection illustrate each play including iconic images from the premieres of major plays such as Waiting for Godot and Look Back in Anger.

Illustrated throughout with stage production photography, Played in Britain: Modern Theatre in 100 Plays presents a unique and visually stunning panorama of key dramatic works produced in Britain over the past seventy years.

KATE DORNEY is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Performance at the Victoria & Albert Theatre Collections, London, UK. FRANCES GRAY is former Reader in Drama at the University of Sheffield, UK. UK February 2013 • US April 2013 224 pages • over 100 illustrations HB 9781408164808 • £25.00 / $40.00 Individual eBook 9781408177921 • £24.99 / $37.99 Library eBook 9781408189634 • £75.00 / $120.00 Methuen Drama

John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star

Theatre Pioneer and Provocateur Paul Elsam

Jonathan Croall The most authoritative and comprehensive account of the finest classical actor of the twentieth century. This entertaining but critical biography charts the ups and downs of Gielgud’s long and glittering career. It also reassesses his complex relationship with his great rival Laurence Olivier and throws fresh light on his personal relationships and the turbulent episodes of his private life that threatened to shatter his career.

For this biography Jonathan Croall’s exhaustive research has included over a hundred new interviews with key people from his life and career and it draws on several hundred letters to and from Gielgud that have never been published, including correspondences with Noël Coward, Edith Evans and Edward Gordon Craig. What emerges is an intimate, complex and often startling portrait of this great actor and muchloved man.

JONATHAN CROALL edits and writes for the programmes at the Old Vic theatre, and was editor of the National Theatre’s StageWrite magazine 1992-2007.

UK May 2011 • US July 2011 736 pages • 2x8 page colour plates PB 9781408179451 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781408131060 • £30.00 / $45.00 Individual eBook 9781408131077 • £16.99 / $26.99 Methuen Drama

Tales of the Tricycle Theatre Terry Stoller Tales of the Tricycle Theatre provides an inside look at the forty year history of the North London theatre which has achieved renown with its staging of Black and Irish plays and documentary theatre. Drawing extensively on archival research and interviews with actors, playwrights, directors, designers and board members, the book both documents and celebrates the work of a theatre that embodies the true meaning of community and which has made a significant contribution to contemporary political theatre.

TERRY STOLLER is a freelance arts writer, has a Ph.D. in theatre from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA and has taught at Baruch College and the City College Center for Worker Education, USA. UK June 2013 • US August 2013 272 pages • 20 illustrations PB 9781408183809 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781408183151 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781408185209 • £16.99 / $26.99 Methuen Drama

Stephen Joseph A 1967 obituary in The Times labelled Stephen Joseph ‘the most successful missionary to work in the English theatre since the second world war’. This radical man brought theatre-in-theround to Britain, provoked Ayckbourn, Pinter and verbatim theatre creator Peter Cheeseman to write and direct, and democratised theatregoing. This monograph investigates his forgotten legacy.

Drawing on largely unsorted archival material and on new interviews with figures including Sir Alan Ayckbourn, and Sir Ben Kingsley, the book demonstrates how the impact on theatre in Britain of Stephen Joseph has been far greater than is currently acknowledged.

The text provides a detailed assessment of Joseph’s work and ideas during his lifetime, and summarises his broadly-unrecognised posthumous legacy within contemporary theatre. Key incidents and events during Joseph’s career are interrogated, and case studies that highlight Joseph’s influence and working methods are provided.

PAUL ELSAM trained as an actor at the former Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre, and has worked widely as a performer in theatre, radio, film and television.

UK October 2013 • US December 2013 272 pages HB 9781408185674 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781408185377 • £54.99 / $84.99 Library eBook 9781472515506 • £165.00 / $265.00 Methuen Drama

Theatre of Engagement U.S. Theatre and Performance 1898-1949 Joshua Polster This volume examines the influence on American theatre and performance of: • Colonialism and native rule • Ethnicity and race, including the civil rights movement • Gender and sexuality, including feminism, the sexual revolution and broadway • Economic systems, including the Great Depression, the New Deal • Systems of Government, including the rise of Fascism Readers will gain a rich understanding of the dynamic and volatile relationship between U.S. theatre, politics and culture.

JOSHUA POLSTER is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies in Emerson College’s Department of Performing Arts, USA. UK November 2013 • US January 2014 272 pages PB 9781408154465 • £14.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781408154489 • £14.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781408154472 • £45.00 / $72.00 Methuen Drama Series: Critical Companions

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 31

T H E AT R E S T U D I E S

T H E AT R E S T U D I E S

31

01/03/2013 11:16

A State of Play

Seven Approaches to Performance Alan Read

British Politics on Screen, Stage and Page, from Anthony Trollope to The Thick of It Steven Fielding

This is a fiercely original, bold and revelatory exploration of the fields of theatre and performance studies and the received narratives and histories that underpin them. Rich with interdisciplinary reference, international, eclectic and broad-ranging in its examples, it offers readers a compelling and provocative reassessment of the disciplines, one that spans pre-history to the present day.

Identifying seven ways of exploring the performance field, from Prehistory to postdramatic Theatre the book presents studies of both contemporary and historical works not as a chronological succession, but as movements or ‘generations’ of connection and interaction, dissensus and interruption.

STEVEN FIELDING is Professor of Political History in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, UK.

ALAN READ is Professor of Theatre at King’s College, London, UK.

UK November 2013 • US January 2014 240 pages PB 9781780933160 • £18.99 / $29.95 HB 9781849669788 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781849669801 • £18.99 / $29.99 Library eBook 9781849669818 • £57.00 / $92.00

Postdramatic Theatre and the Political

Censoring Translation

International Perspectives on Contemporary Performance Edited by Karen Jürs-Munby, Jerome Carroll and Steve Giles

Censorship, Theatre, and the Politics of Translation Michelle Woods

Is postdramatic theatre political and if so how? How does it relate to Brecht’s ideas of political theatre, for example? How can we account for the relationship between aesthetics and politics in new forms of theatre, playwriting, and performance?

This edited volume explores the relationships between postdramatic theatre and the political from different perspectives and using examples from contemporary theatre and performance. Offering analyses of a wide range of international performance examples, scholars in this volume engage with HansThies Lehmann’s theoretical positions both affirmatively and critically, relating them to other approaches by thinkers ranging from early theorists such as Brecht, Adorno and Benjamin, to contemporary thinkers such as Fischer-Lichte, Rancière and others.

KAREN JURS-MUNBY is a lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Lancaster, UK. JEROME CARROLL is lecturer in German Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. STEVEN GILES is Professor Emeritus of German Studies and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham, UK. UK October 2013 • US December 2013 256 pages PB 9781408184868 • £19.99 / $29.95 HB 9781408185704 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781408185162 • £19.99 / $30.99 Library eBook 9781408185889 • £60.00 / $96.00 Methuen Drama Series: Methuen Drama Engage

32

How has British democracy been represented in novels, plays and films during a century of political turbulence? Steven Fielding offers the first booklength study of the fictionalization of British politics during the rise, consolidation and apparent fall of party politics, covering work ranging from Robert Tressel’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists to Jeffrey Archer’s First Among Equals, and from Passport to Pimlico to David Hare’s Gethsemane.

Transatlantic connections are also explored: Fielding reveals why The West Wing has been so influential and just why it wouldn’t work in a British context.

Illustrated throughout with line-drawings, Theatre in the Expanded Field is as richly rewarding as it is ambitious and expansive in it vision.

UK December 2013 • US January 2014 320 pages • 50 illustrations PB 9781408184950 • £24.99 / $44.95 HB 9781408185483 • £75.00 / $140.00 Individual eBook 9781408183410 • £24.99 / $37.99 Library eBook 9781408185643 • £75.00 / $120.00 Methuen Drama Series: Methuen Drama Engage

ACTING

T H E AT R E S T U D I E S

Theatre in the Expanded Field

A play is written, faces censorship and is banned in its native country. There is strong international interest; the play is translated into English, it is adapted, and it is not performed.

Censoring Translation questions the role of textual translation practices in shaping the circulation and reception of foreign censored theatre. It examines three forms of censorship in relation to translation: ideological censorship; gender censorship; and market censorship.

This examination of censorship is informed by extensive archival evidence from the previously unseen archives of Václav Havel’s main theatre translator, Vera Blackwell. Michelle Woods uses this previously unresearched archive to explore broader questions on censorship, asking why texts are translated at a given time, who translates them, how their identity may affect the translation, and how the constituents of success in a target culture may involve elements of censorship.

MICHELLE WOODS is Assistant Professor of English at The State University of New York, New Paltz, USA. UK July 2012 • US May 2012 200 pages PB 9781441100573 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441185853 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441116987 • $17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781441187185 • $54.00 / $87.00

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 32

01/03/2013 11:16

ACTING

T H E AT R E S T U D I E S

ACTING

Stanislavski KONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKI (1863 – 1938) was a Russian director who sought ‘inner realism’ by insisting that his actors find the truth within themselves and ‘become’ the characters they portrayed. His work brought international fame to the Moscow Art Theatre, which he had co-founded with Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko in 1897.

An Actor Prepares

Building a Character

Konstantin Stanislavski

Creating a Role

Konstantin Stanislavski

Konstantin Stanislavski

An Actor Prepares is the most famous acting training book ever to have been written and the work of Stanislavski has inspired generations of actors and trainers. This translation was the first to introduce Stanislavski’s ‘system’ to the English speaking world and has stood the test of time in acting classes to this day. Stanislavski here deals with the inward preparation an actor must undergo in order to explore a role to the full.

In this follow up to An Actor Prepares, Stanislavski develops his influential ‘system’ of acting by exploring the imaginative processes at the heart of the actor’s craft. Building a Character deals with the physical realisation of character on the stage through such tools as expressions, movement and speech. It is a book in which every theory is inextricably bound up with practice - a perfect handbook to the physical art of acting.

Creating A Role is the third book in the series of influential translations that introduced Stanislavski’s acting ‘system’ to the English-speaking world.

Here Stanislavski describes the elaborate preparation that an actor must undergo before the actual performance itself. Now published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, the book includes the director’s analysis of such works as Othello and Gogol’s Inspector General.

UK April 2013 • US June 2013 280 pages PB 9781780938431 • £9.99 / $17.95 Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market Series: Bloomsbury Revelations

UK April 2013 • US June 2013 280 pages PB 9781780935676 • £9.99 / $17.95 Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market Series: Bloomsbury Revelations

UK April 2013 • US June 2013 280 pages PB 9781780936918 • £9.99 / $17.95 Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market Series: Bloomsbury Revelations

Introducing

BLOO

Bloomsbury Revelations CHANGE

THE

WAY

YOU

VIEW

THE

MSBU

L AT REVE

PERFORMANCE AND TECHNIQUE

ACTING

S TA N I S L AV S K I

RY

IONS

WORLD

A new series, bringing together books and thinkers that have opened up startling new ways of looking at the world, Bloomsbury Revelations celebrates the originality and excellence of Bloomsbury’s non-fiction publishing.

9781780935355 • £12.99/$19.95

9781780936246 • £16.99/ $29.95

9781780938219 • £12.99/ $19.95

9781780938233 • £12.99/ $19.95

UK APRIL 2013 • US JUNE 2013

Bloomsbury.com/revelations

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 33

33

01/03/2013 11:16

“A map, compass, guide-book.” Simon Callow “Use of this book will save you time and money.”

Samuel West Actors’ Yearbook is an established and respected directory that enables actors to find work in stage, screen and radio. It is the only directory to provide detailed information for each listing and specific advice on how to approach companies and individuals, saving hours of further research. From agents and casting directors to producing theatres, showreel companies and photographers, Actors’ Yearbook editorially selects only the most relevant and reputable contacts for the actor.

Articles and commentaries provide valuable insight into the profession: auditions, interviews and securing work alongside a casting calendar and advice on contracts and finance. This is an incredibly useful professional tool in an industry where contacts and networking are key to career survival.

The listings detailed in this edition have been thoroughly updated alongside fresh advice from industry experts.

SIMON DUNMORE is a freelance theatre director, writer and teacher of acting.

UK September 2012 • US November 2012 496 pages PB 9781408174517 • £14.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781408175194 • £14.99 / $22.99 Methuen Drama

Jackie Snow Movement training techniques allow actors to acquire the physical body language and non-verbal skills to clearly express the ideas and emotions of their characters. The techniques contained in this book help actors to develop awareness of their own natural posture, walk and rhythm, release the physical imagination and transform into the characters they are portraying, on stage, in film or on television.

Movement Training for Actors provides a practical workbook approach to the core fundamentals of movement, fusing together the work of several key practitioners.

AUDITIONS

Edited by Simon Dunmore

Movement Training for Actors

The book is illustrated with photographs throughout and contains a DVD featuring over an hour of movement exercises. The highly practical approach will suit actors of all abilities as well as serving as an inspirational teaching guide.

JACKIE SNOW is a choreographer, movement director and teacher of actors for both stage and screen specialising in movement, acrobatics and historical dance.

She is the former Head of Movement at RADA. UK December 2012 • US January 2013 208 pages • Line Art PB 9781408128572 • £24.99 / $34.95 Individual eBook 9781408157138 • £24.99 / $37.99 Library eBook 9781472515216 • £75.00 / $120.00 Methuen Drama

MUSIC AND DANCE

PERFORMANCE AND TECHNIQUE

Actors’ Yearbook 2013 - Essential Contacts for Stage, Screen and Radio

Actors Performers A PROFESSIONAL ONLINE RESOURCE TO HELP YOU MANAGE YOUR CAREER

Industry Contacts

Advice

Community

Actors Yearbook Online

Get expert help

Joint in – it’s free!

% 2UV^ ^OV [V JVU[HJ[ % *YLH[L `V\Y V^U JVU[HJ[Z SPZ[ % 6\[W\[ [V SL[[LYZ HUK SHILSZ

% -YLL HK]PJL HY[PJSLZ % ,_WLY[ ISVNZ % )YV^ZL IVVRZ

% :OHYL `V\Y L]LU[Z % (ZR H X\LZ[PVU % ,HYU YL^HYKZ

^^^ HJ[VYZHUKWLYMVYTLYZ JVT

34

COMING SPRING 2013

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 34

01/03/2013 11:16

ACTING

ACTING

AUDITIONS

In the Studio with Joyce Piven: Theatre Games, Story Theatre and Text Work for Actors Joyce Piven and Susan Applebaum This book takes you directly inside the creative process of the renowned Piven Workshop led by Joyce and Byrne Piven. The Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago has nurtured theatre artists such as Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Jeremy Piven, Aidan Quinn, Sarah Ruhl, Lili Taylor and Kate Walsh. Co-authors Joyce Piven and Susan Applebaum describe the Workshop techniques, as a virtual fly-on-the-wall experience, taking the reader inside the director’s studio, classroom, and green room.

MUSIC AND DANCE

The book introduces the central principles of game work and the concept of ‘encounter’ as well as providing fully-detailed transcripts of physical and vocal workshops accompanied by explanations and tips for teaching. There is also an alphabetical appendix of games. A highly regarded guide and resource for anyone interested in the creative process of acting and actor training.

JOYCE PIVEN is a celebrated master teacher, director, actress and co-founder of the Piven Theatre Workshop with her husband Byrne Piven. As Artistic Director Emeritus, Joyce continues to teach and direct in Evanston and Los Angeles.

SUSAN APPLEBAUM has a long and rich affiliation with the Piven Theatre Workshop where she trained under Joyce and Byrne Piven. Susan currently serves on the theatre faculty of Loyola University Chicago, USA. UK September 2012 • US November 2012 240 pages PB 9781408173879 • £14.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781408174555 • £14.99 / $22.99 Methuen Drama

Encountering Ensemble

PERFORMANCE STUDIES

John Britton This is a text for students, teachers, researchers and practitioners who wish to develop a deeper understanding of the history, conceptual foundations and practicalities of the world of ensemble theatre.

It is the first book to draw together definitions and practitioner examples, making it a cutting edge work on the subject. It combines historical and contemporary case studies with a wide range of approaches and perspectives and is divided into three sections: 1. Introduction and an approach to training ensembles 2. Practitioner case studies and analysis of specific practical approaches to training ensembles (or individuals in an ensemble context) 3. Succinct perspectives from practitioners reflecting on a range of questions including: What is an ensemble?; the place of ensemble in the contemporary theatre landscape; and training issues.

JOHN BRITTON is Senior Lecturer in Performance at the University of Huddersfield, UK. UK August 2013 • US September 2013 224 pages PB 9781408152003 • £14.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781408155172 • £14.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781408155189 • £45.00 / $72.00 Methuen Drama

Affective Performance and Cognitive Science Body, Brain and Being Edited by Nicola Shaughnessy Through a series of essays and case studies this book explores new developments in the dialogues between science and theatre, and how the cognitive revolution in the humanities is creating new insights into the audience experience, performance processes and training. Scientists are collaborating with artists to investigate how our brains and bodies engage with performance to create new understanding of perception, emotion, imagination and empathy.

Affective Science and Performance charts new directions in the relations between disciplines, exploring how science and theatre can impact upon each other with reference to training, drama texts, performance and spectatorship. The book assesses the current state of play in this interdisciplinary field, facilitating cross disciplinary exchange and preparing the way for future studies.

NICOLA SHAUGHNESSY is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent, UK. UK December 2013 • US January 2014 304 pages PB 9781408185773 • £24.99 / $42.95 HB 9781408183984 • £75.00 / $140.00 Individual eBook 9781408183694 • £24.99 / $37.99 Library eBook 9781408193150 • £75.00 / $120.00 Methuen Drama

Secrets of Performing Confidence For musicians, singers, actors and dancers Andrew Evans and Adam Evans

2nd

edition

Secrets of Performing Confidence Second Edition covers the majority of practical performing and psychological issues that concern performers including motivation, confidence, peak performance and creativity alongside strategies for dealing with performance anxiety, stress, burnout and fame. The book addresses how to survive in the business of performing and the skills this assumes.

The approach is straightforward with an emphasis on identifying issues and offering insights which can enhance the performing experience.

The majority of the material has been derived from conversations with performers over 25 years, much of this through private coaching sessions, making the content entirely authentic and easily recognizable to performers.

Topics include mastering your thoughts and emotions, changing learned responses, and learning the right attitude and techniques for public appearances. This second edition incorporates more of a focus on the US and will have particular appeal to students and young performers, who have extensive involvement in media and new technology.

ANDREW EVANS is a professional musician and psychologist who has also had experience of TV acting, along with radio and TV broadcasting and media work.

UK October 2013 • US December 2013 272 pages PB 9781408154205 • £16.99 / $27.95 Individual eBook 9781408159545 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408159552 • £51.00 / $82.00 Methuen Drama

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 35

PERFORMANCE AND TECHNIQUE

ACTING

ACTING

35

01/03/2013 11:16

An introduction to Knight-Thompson Speechwork Dudley Knight Actors and other professional voice users need to speak clearly and expressively in order to communicate the ideas and emotions of their characters – and themselves.

This book, an introduction to Knight-Thompson Speechwork, gives speakers the ownership of a vast variety of speech skills and the ability to explore unlimited varieties of speech actions-without imposing a single, unvarying pattern of ”good speech.” The skills gained through this book enable actors to find the unique way in which a dramatic character embodies the language of the play. They also help any speaker to communicate to a listener with total intelligibility without compromising the speaker’s own accent; and to vary speech actions to meet different language needs. An audio DVD provides 116 tracks illustrating the exercises described in the book.

DUDLEY KNIGHT is Professor Emeritus of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA.

Writing Comedy

Chris Ritchie

John Byrne

Performing Live Comedy is for anyone who has ever thought about getting up onstage and being funny or for those who have already started. It offers a breakdown of the process of live comedy and provides a basic toolbox for the student and aspirant comedian, covering all aspects of live comedy such as stand-up, music, double acts, ventriloquists and magicians. Issues connected with gender, sexuality, ethnicity and disability are also covered in this book as well as ethical considerations on what we should or should not joke about. The book breaks down the entire process of live comedy from writing a simple one-liner to creating a complete act, from organizing an open spot at the local comedy club to getting into the Edinburgh Festival and running your own venue.

CHRIS RITCHIE created the Innovative Comedy: Writing and Performance degree at Southampton Solent University, UK. He is the principal editor of Comedy Studies Journal (Intellect) and has been lecturing on the performance, writing and mediation of stand-up comedy since 1994.

UK September 2012 • US November 2012 240 pages PB 9781408146439 • £14.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781408147238 • £14.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781408147245 • £45.00 / $172.00 Methuen Drama

“This is a book every comedy writer will come to value.” Ken Rock, founder member of the British Society of Comedy Writers Comedy has always been one of the most high-profile, glamorous and potentially lucrative markets for scriptwriters, but it is also perceived as one of the hardest. In the fourth edition of this highly regarded handbook, John Byrne breaks down the basics of writing comedy into simple steps and shows you how to make the most of your own comedy writing talent and - just as importantly - your ability to market that talent.

Here is a wealth of practical advice both on how to get your career off the ground and how to keep developing it. Whether you are writing comedy routines, sketches or sitcoms, and aiming your work at the page, the stage or the ever-expanding world of broadcasting, you will find something in this book to encourage, inform and inspire you.

JOHN BYRNE has over twenty-five years’ experience as a working comedy writer, cartoonist and broadcaster. He is also The Stage newspaper’s Entertainment Industry Career Advisor.

UK February 2012 • US April 2012 208 pages PB 9781408146453 • £14.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781408151761 • £14.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781408151754 • £45.00 / $72.00 Methuen Drama

Keith Johnstone

Getting the Joke

In Search of the Ideal Classroom Theresa Dudeck

The Inner Workings of Stand-Up Comedy Oliver Double

Keith Johnstone is a theatre practitioner of lasting influence. His Impro System for actor training encourages spontaneous, collaborative creation using the intuitive, uncensored imaginative responses of the participants. The Impro System has influenced theatre education worldwide and later became a best-selling book, Impro, with a cult and widespread following.

This is the first critical, authorised biography to offer a rigorous examination of Johnstone’s work from both an historical and theoretical perspective. It is the first book to utilize archival sources, participant-observation and original interviews with Johnstone, his colleagues and former students, to develop an argument about Johnstone’s radical pedagogical approach to artistic work. This biography is a journey through the corporeal spaces that have served as Johnstone’s transformative ‘classroom’ but also into the conceptual spaces which inform Johnstone’s own radical pedagogy and approach to artistic work.

THERESA DUDECK is the Literary Executor for Keith Johnstone responsible for preserving, documenting and organising his archive. She is a Teaching Associate at California State University at Northridge, USA.

4th

edition

2nd

edition

Getting the Joke sets out to re-examine the world of stand-up comedy in the internet age. Drawing material from the book’s acclaimed first edition, Oliver Double probes the forms and techniques of stand-up comedy, looking in particular at the recent surge in its popularity and the impact of the internet on new forms of comedy.

This Second Edition includes a greater focus on the US comedy scene and its comedians as well as studies of the new ‘DIY’ comedy scene; the growth in importance of solo stand-up shows; the role of Twitter in stand-up; and the boom in stand-up in the last five years. Expanded sections include more information on the craft of joke construction, challenging the audience and updated exercises for the aspiring stand-up comedian. Foreword by Ross Noble.

SCHOOLS AND YOUNG PEOPLE

UK August 2012 • US September 2012 352 pages • line art PB 9781408156896 • £22.99 / $26.95 Individual eBook 9781408157152 • £22.99 / $35.99 Methuen Drama

Performing Live Comedy

SCHOOLS AND YOUNG PEOPLE

PERFORMANCE AND TECHNIQUE

Speaking With Skill

OLIVER DOUBLE is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Kent, UK. UK November 2013 • US January 2014 368 pages PB 9781408174609 • £14.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781408177693 • £14.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781408177709 • £45.00 / $72.00 Methuen Drama

UK August 2013 • US October 2013 288 pages PB 9781408183274 • £22.99 / $39.95 HB 9781408185520 • £70.00 / $130.00 Individual eBook 9781408184011 • £22.99 / $35.99 Library eBook 9781408184714 • £69.00 / $111.00 Methuen Drama

36

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 36

01/03/2013 11:16

S TA G I N F A N D D I R E C T I O N

ACTING

SCHOOLS AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Mastering the Audition How to perform under pressure Donna Soto-Morettini Auditioning is a maddening business for everyone involved. The people behind the audition desk are looking for a killer audition (often under tremendous pressure), but most of the auditionees walk into the room feeling nervous, unprepared, and unable to control their own performance.

Drawing on some fascinating, cutting-edge research into how the brain copes and responds in high-stress situations, Mastering the Audition looks closely at the effects of fear, at our flawed ability to assess or really know ourselves, at what really drives us, and at what it really takes to master the audition experience. Applicable to all areas of performing, this book helps you to hone your performing skills and develop the mental toughness that can keep you going through the inevitable ups and downs of the audition process.

DONNA SOTO-MORETTINI has served as Director of Drama for the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Head of Acting and Dance for Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, and Head of Acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama, UK. She is currently the Casting Director and Performance Coach for BBC’s The Voice.

UK September 2012 • US November 2012 256 pages PB 9781408160619 • £14.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781408166192 • £14.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781408166208 • £45.00 / $72.00 Methuen Drama

MUSIC AND DANCE

PERFORMANCE AND TECHNIQUE

S TA G I N F A N D D I R E C T I O N

AUDITIONS

The Alexander Technique for Musicians Judith Kleinman and Peter Buckoke This is a unique book for all musicians, providing a practical and informative guide to being a successful, healthy and comfortable performer. Serving as a resource to supplement training in the area, but also suited to the musician with only a basic knowledge of the Alexander Technique, issues addressed include daily and last-minute practice, breathing, performance and performance anxiety, teacher-pupil relationships, ensemble skills, and instrumental and vocal training in relation to the Alexander Technique.

The book is made up of tried-and-tested advice and is written with a clarity and hands-on approach that will make this an essential handbook for every musician to help them perform to the best of their ability, and steer clear of injury or strain.

JUDITH KLEINMAN has taught Alexander Technique at the Royal College of Music, UK for twenty years and at the Royal Academy of Music Junior Department for fifteen years.

PETER BUCKOKE runs the Alexander department at the Royal College of Music, UK where he has been Professor of Double Bass and Alexander Technique since 1989.

UK November 2013 • US January 2014 224 pages PB 9781408174586 • £19.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781408176832 • £19.99 / $30.99 Library eBook 9781408176849 • £60.00 / $96.00 Methuen Drama

PERFORMANCE STUDIES

Performance and Community Commentary and Case Studies Edited by Caoimhe McAvinchey Focusing on the work of various arts organisations working in specific community contexts in the UK, but which have links and reputations overseas also, Performance and Community is an edited collection of case studies and interviews conducted by leading academics and practitioners, giving unprecedented access into the working practices of companies who are pioneering work in educational, community and social contexts. Much of this information and insights are not available to the general public audience. What happens during the artistic process? What choices are made about the form of theatre practice, the participants, the space, the content of the project? Why are those decisions made? What are the politics of this? This book will prove a unique and much-needed resource for anyone studying or working in any area of community theatre.

CAOIMHE MCAVINCHEY is the convenor of the MA programme in Applied Theatre at Queen Mary, University of London, and a visiting lecturer in Applied Theatre at the Central School of Speech and Drama, UK. UK September 2013 • US November 2013 272 pages PB 9781408146422 • £16.99 / $27.95 Individual eBook 9781408147269 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408147252 • £51.00 / $82.00 Methuen Drama

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 37

37

01/03/2013 11:16

S TA G I N G A N D D I R E C T I O N

S TA G I N G A N D D I R E C T I O N

SCHOOLS AND YOUNG PEOPLE

SCHOOLS AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Creating Musical Theatre Conversations with Broadway Directors and Choreographers Lyn Cramer Creating Musical Theatre features interviews with the directors and choreographers that make up today’s Broadway elite.

From Susan Stroman and Kathleen Marshall to Andy Blankenbuehler and Christopher Gattelli; this book features twenty creative artists, mostly director-choreographers, many of who have also crossed over into film and television.

This book delivers specific information on how these artists work and will serve as insight into exactly what these artists are looking for in the audition process and the rehearsal environment. Every interview is different, yet the objectives were the same: to transcribe their thought and creative processes and their rise in the world of musical theatre, each one offering new insight and a deeper understanding of Broadway today. Crossing over into film and television, opera and ballet, this is the first book to address the new generation.

LYN CRAMER is Endowed Professor of Musical Theatre Dance at Oklahoma University, USA. UK September 2013 • US November 2013 320 pages PB 9781408185322 • £19.99 / $29.95 HB 9781408185438 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781408184592 • £19.99 / $30.99 Library eBook 9781408184752 • £60.00 / $96.00 Methuen Drama

How Drama Activates Learning

Inspiring Writing through Drama

Contemporary Research and Practice Edited by Michael Anderson and Julie Dunn

Creative Approaches to Teaching Ages 7-16 Patrice Baldwin and Rob John

How Drama Activates Learning: Contemporary Research and Practice draws together leaders in drama and education from across the globe, including authors from Europe, North America and Australasia, to explore the transformations that can be achieved across a diverse range of learning areas when the processes of drama education are applied, enlivening and enriching a range of learning contexts. The range of areas explored includes:

inspire students aged 7-16 to write for a range of purposes and audiences.

Each drama unit offers: • A planning grid flagging the writing opportunities within the drama • Original resources, such as poems, text messages and fragments of graffiti • Individual, group and whole-class writing opportunities, some teacher-led and others guided by the students • Icons to signpost differentiated activities Reading, writing, speaking and listening opportunities are embedded within the drama experiences, and you can follow the schemes or use the texts as a springboard to developing your own drama units and writing opportunities. This book offers a clear methodology and highquality practical drama activities that will motivate students to write purposefully within compelling imaginary contexts.

• History • Literacy and literature • Creativity and imagination • Science • Citizenship, democracy and social justice education • Language learning • Human relationships • Conflict management Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, the contributors present detailed case study material that outlines these processes in action, before the volume editors synthesize the key findings generated.

PATRICE BALDWIN is President of the International Drama Theatre and Education Association (IDEA), Chair of National Drama and Director of Drama for Learning and Creativity (D4LC).

MICHEAL ANDERSON is Associate Professor, Associate Dean and Head of Drama Education at the University of Sydney, Australia.

ROB JOHN is a playwright and drama consultant who has been training teachers in drama and theatre for over twenty years.

JULIE DUNN is Associate Professor at Griffith University, Australia.

ANDY KEMPE is Senior Lecturer in Drama Education and Director of Initial Teacher Training at the University of Reading, UK.

UK July 2013 • US September 2013 320 pages HB 9781441136343 • £80.00 / $125.00 Individual eBook 9781441194169 • £79.99 / $123.99 Library eBook 9781441116710 • £240.00 / $386.00

38

Inspiring Writing through Drama offers interactive, high-quality drama schemes that will motivate and

UK November 2012 • US January 2013 176 pages • 12 illustrations PB 9781441159090 • £24.99 / $44.95 Individual eBook 9781441155115 • £24.99 / $37.99 Library eBook 9781441170224 • £75.00 / $120.00

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 38

01/03/2013 11:16

National Theatre Connections 2013 Introduction by Anthony Banks Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights – a mixture of established and current writers – National Theatre Connections 2013 offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study.

Each play is specifically commissioned by the National Theatre’s literary department and reflects the past year’s programming at the venue in the plays’ ideas, themes and styles. The plays are performed by approximately 200 schools and youth theatre companies across the UK and Ireland, in partnership with multiple professional regional theatres where the works are showcased.

This year’s collection features work from Howard Brenton, Jim Cartwright, Lucinda Coxon, Ryan Craig, Stacey Gregg, Jonathan Harvey, Lenny Henry, Jemma Kennedy, Morna Pearson, and Anya Reiss.

ANTHONY BANKS is Associate Director for the National Theatre Discover Programme, UK where he commissions scripts for the Connections seasons, the Primary Theatre programme and Shakespeare Schools Festival, and curates a variety of projects and events for lifelong learning.

UK March 2013 • US May 2013 544 pages PB 9781408184363 • £14.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781408184585 • £14.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781408184943 • £45.00 / $72.00 World English Methuen Drama

MasterClass in Drama Education Transforming Teaching and Learning Michael Anderson MasterClass in Drama Education explores drama teaching, drawing directly on international research and practice, presenting effective and engaging approaches for drama learning and focusing on the skills, knowledge and understanding needed by researchers teachers and Master’s-level students.

Anderson also draws on the history of drama education to create a foundation for effective learning and teaching.

Topics covered include: • The foundations of drama learning • Planning • Knowledge and skills • Assessment MasterClass in Drama Education will be essential reading for all studying the teaching and learning of drama on PGCE and Education MEd/MA courses.

SCHOOLS AND YOUNG PEOPLE

SCHOOLS AND YOUNG PEOPLE

MICHEAL ANDERSON is Associate Professor, Associate Dean and Head of Drama Education at the University of Sydney, Australia.

UK December 2011 • US February 2012 184 pages • 10 illustrations PB 9781441185891 • £24.99 / $38.95 HB 9781441167002 • £75.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781441106186 • £23.99 / $34.99 Series: MasterClass

For Creative Shakespeare: The Globe Education Guide to Practical Shakespeare, see p. 19

Critical Scripts The Critical Scripts series features first-class plays by leading authors together with inspiring activities for the English classroom. Created to meet the requirements at KS3, GCSE and the Curriculum for Excellence, each book includes a detailed, structured scheme of work designed by series editors Paul Bunyan and Ruth Moore to raise achievement.

Titles in the series: • Utilise drama activities to develop pupils’ critical skills • Offer further free resources online, available from the Bloomsbury web site: www.bloomsbury.com/criticalscripts PAUL BUNYAN is a Drama Education consultant with many years of school and local authority experience across all phases.

RUTH MOORE is a Deputy Headteacher with many years of Leadership and Drama and English teaching experience.

Divided City The Play Theresa Breslin and Martin Travers Theresa Breslin’s hit novel tells of how two young boys - one Rangers fan, one Celtic fan - are drawn into a secret pact to help a young asylum seeker when all they really want to do is play football for Glasgow City. Now adapted for the stage by Martin Travers, the play has already been produced to great success.

THERESA BRESLIN is a popular Carnegie medal winning author, critically acclaimed for over thirty books, whose work has been filmed for television dramatised on radio.

MARTIN TRAVERS is a dramatist based at Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre, UK where he is head of Citizens Learning and TAG Theatre Company.

UK January 2013 • US March 2013 144 pages PB 9781408181577 • £9.50 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408181591 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408181584 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Critical Scripts

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The Play Mark Haddon and Simon Stephens Christopher, fifteen, stands beside Mrs Shears’s dead dog. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington. He has an extraordinary brain but he is ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. Christopher’s detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that turns his world upside-down.

MARK HADDON’S work as an author includes A Spot of Bother, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and The Real Porky Philips.

SIMON STEPHENS has been the recipient of both the Pearson Award for Best New Play 2001-2 for his play Port, and the Olivier Award for Best New Play 2005 for On the Shore of the Wide World.

UK April 2013 • US June 2013 144 pages • 4 illustrations PB 9781408185216 • £9.99 / $15.95 Individual eBook 9781408183540 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408185407 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Methuen Drama Series: Critical Scripts

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 39

39

01/03/2013 11:16

INDEX

INDEX A

C

Elsam, Paul ................................................................31

Actor Prepares, An .....................................................33

Cairns, Douglas ..........................................................30

Eltis, Sos.....................................................................17

Actors’ Yearbook 2013 - Essential Contacts for Stage, Screen and Radio.......................................34

Calvo, Clara ................................................................20

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage .........26

Carroll, Jerome ..........................................................32

Encountering Ensemble .............................................35

Carroll, Wiliam C. .......................................................17

Escolme, Bridget ........................................................26

Cary, Elizabeth ...........................................................20

Esra, Jo Ann ...............................................................28

Caucasian Chalk Circle, The .......................................15

Essential Shakespeare ...............................................24

Censoring Translation ................................................32

Etchells, Tim ................................................................9

Chair Plays, The ...........................................................6

Euripides......................................................................5

Chakrabarti, Lolita .......................................................4

Euripides: Alcestis ......................................................30

Charry, Brinda ............................................................25

Evans, Adam ..............................................................35

Clements, Rachel .......................................................12

Evans, Andrew ...........................................................35

Addyman, David ........................................................16 Adjmi, David ................................................................9 Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound...................................30 Affective Performance and Cognitive Science ............35 Agbaje, Bola.................................................................6 Alchemist, The ...........................................................19 Alexander Technique for Musicians, The ...................37 All New People.............................................................4 American Next Wave .................................................10 Anderson, Davey .........................................................6 Anderson, Michael ..............................................38, 39 Antigone ......................................................................7 Applebaum, Susan .....................................................35 Artist Man and the Mother Woman, The ....................8

B Baldwin, Patrice .........................................................38 Banks, Anthony..........................................................39 Bartlett, Mike...............................................................5 Beauty Queen of Leenane, The ..................................12 Behn, Aphra ...............................................................17 Belong .........................................................................6 Beloved, The ................................................................6 Benson, Sarah ..............................................................9 Berkoff, Steven ..........................................................10 Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life ....................................14

Clockwork ....................................................................6 Colman, Geoffrey ......................................................10

F

Comedian as Critic, The .............................................30

Faircloth, Nicki ...........................................................28

Complete Verse of Noël Coward, The ........................16

Fear and Misery in the Third Reich ......................14, 15

Connolly, Annaliese ...................................................19

Feathers in the Snow ...................................................8

Contreras Lorenzini, María José ..................................9

Fielding, Steven .........................................................32

Cooper, Helen ............................................................26

Fifield, Peter ..............................................................16

Cooper, Zoe .................................................................4

Filumena ......................................................................5

Coriolanus..................................................................22

Findlay, Alison ............................................................19

Country Wife, The ......................................................17

Fletcher, John ............................................................20

Cramer, Lyn ................................................................38

Foakes, R.A. ...............................................................22

Creating a Role ..........................................................33

Forsyth, Alison .............................................................9

Creating Musical Theatre ..........................................38 Croall, Jonathan .........................................................31

G

Crystal, Ben................................................................28

Gardley, Marcus...........................................................9

Curious Directive .........................................................4

Getting the Joke .........................................................36

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The .........................................................................7, 39

Gibson, Marion ..........................................................28

Bickley, Pamela ..........................................................24

Glover, Evelyn ..............................................................9

Birksted-Breen, Noah ..................................................9

D

Birthday .......................................................................7

Dancing on the Edge....................................................8

Gogol, Nikolai ..............................................................5

Blackta .........................................................................8

Day, Barry ..................................................................16

Going Dark...................................................................5

Blue/Orange ..............................................................12

De Filippo, Eduardo .....................................................5

Good Person of Szechwan, The ............................14, 15

Blythe, Alecky ..............................................................9

Deavere Smith, Anna ...................................................9

Government Inspector, A .............................................5

Bolam, Robyn ............................................................17

Din, Ishy .......................................................................4

Graham, James ......................................................7, 10

Bolton, Jacqueline .....................................................12

Divided City................................................................39

Gray, Frances .............................................................31

Bond, Edward ..............................................................6

Dolan, Fran ................................................................17

Great Shakespeareans: Set IV....................................29

Braff, Zach ....................................................................4

Dolls House, A ..............................................................5

Brater, Enoch .............................................................16

Dorney, Kate ..............................................................31

Great Shakespeareans: Volume XIV: Hugo, Pasternak, Brecht, Césaire .........................................29

Brecht Collected Plays: Volume 3 ..............................15

Double, Oliver............................................................36

Brecht Collected Plays: Volume 4 ..............................15

Drakakis, John............................................................19

Brecht Collected Plays: Volume 8 ..............................15

Druid Murphy: Plays by Tom Murphy ..........................6

Brecht, Bertolt .............................................................8

Dudeck, Theresa ........................................................36

Breslin, Theresa .........................................................39

Dunmore, Simon .......................................................34

Britton, John ..............................................................35

Dunn, Julie .................................................................38

Brome, Richard ..........................................................20

40

Giles, Steve ................................................................32

Buckoke, Peter ...........................................................37

E

Building a Character ..................................................33

Edmondson, Paul .......................................................24

Bunyan, Paul ..............................................................39

Effect, The ....................................................................7

Bush, Sophie ..............................................................11

Elam Jr, Harry J.............................................................9

Byrne, John ................................................................36

Eldridge, David.............................................................4

Glover, H.V. ..................................................................9

Great Shakespeareans: Volume XV: Poel, Granville Barker, Guthrie, Wanamaker ......................29 Great Shakespeareans: Volume XVI: Gielgud, Olivier, Ashcroft, Dench .............................................29 Great Shakespeareans: Volume XVII: Welles, Kozintsev, Kurosawa, Zeffirelli ...................................29 Great Shakespeareans: Volume XVIII: Hall, Brook, Ninagawa, Lepage .........................................29 Guide to the Plays of Bertolt Brecht, A ......................14

H Haddon, Mark........................................................7, 39 Hall, Katori ...................................................................9 Hamilton, Cicely ..........................................................9

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 40

01/03/2013 11:16

Hamlet .................................................................22, 28

M

Nativities .....................................................................4

Hamlet’s Dreams .......................................................27

Macbeth ..............................................................19, 28

Naylor, Hattie ...............................................................5

Hammond, Joe ............................................................8

Macbeth: Language and Writing...............................25

Nicholson, Steve ..........................................................3

Harraden, Beatrice ......................................................9

Manheim, Ralph ........................................................15

Nine Lives of William Shakespeare ............................27

Heywood, Thomas .....................................................17

Mansour, Mona .........................................................10

No Laughing Matter ..................................................30

Hoenselaars, Ton .......................................................26

Marks, Laura ..............................................................10

Holderness, Graham ..................................................27

Marlowe’s Literary Scepticism ...................................21

O

Holland, Peter ......................................................22, 29

Marshall, C.W. ............................................................30

O’Hara, David K. ..........................................................8

Horton, Caroline ..........................................................7

Martello-White, Nathaniel ..........................................8

Oakley-Brown, Liz ......................................................19

How Drama Activates Learning .................................38

Mason Vaughan, Virginia ...........................................22

Orlin, Lena .................................................................25

MasterClass in Drama Education ..............................39

Ostovich, Helen .........................................................19

Mastering the Audition..............................................37

Our Father ...................................................................4

I Ibsen, Henrik ...............................................................5

Mazer, Cary M. ..........................................................29

Ideal Husband, An .....................................................17

McAndrew, Deborah....................................................5

P

In Basildon ...................................................................4

McAvinchey, Caoimhe ...............................................37

Parker, Stephen .........................................................14

In the Studio with Joyce Piven: Theatre Games, Story Theatre and Text Work for Actors.....................35

McDonagh, Martin ....................................................12

Parvini, Neema ..........................................................25

McDonald, Russ .........................................................24

Pattie, David ................................................................3

McManus, Clare ........................................................20

Paull, H.M. ...................................................................9

McMullan, Gordon ....................................................25

Paxton, Naomi .............................................................9

Medea .........................................................................5

Pearson, Morna ...........................................................8

Megson, Chris ..............................................................3

Penhall, Joe............................................................7, 12

Mess and You’re Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy ........7

Performance and Community ....................................37

Messingkauf Dialogues..............................................14

Performing Live Comedy ............................................36

James Graham Plays: 1..............................................10

Methuen Drama Anthology of Testimonial Plays, The ...............................................................................9

Phibbs, L.S. ..................................................................9

John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star .................31

Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays, The ....9

John, Rob ...................................................................38

Piven, Joyce ...............................................................35

Methuen Drama Book of Post-Black Plays, The ...........9

Jones Jnr, Douglas A. ...................................................9

Played in Britain ........................................................31

Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays, The ..............9

Jovial Crew, A .............................................................20

Plays of Samuel Beckett, The .....................................16

Julian, Erin .................................................................19

Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights, The ........................................10

Poliakoff, Laura ............................................................6

Jürs-Munby, Karen .....................................................32

Middeke, Martin........................................................10

Innes, Christopher .....................................................10 Inspiring Writing through Drama ..............................38 Island Princess, The ...................................................20

J Jackson, Russell .........................................................29 Jacob-Jenkins, Branden .............................................10

Middleton, George ......................................................9

K Karim, Farah ..............................................................26 Keatley, Charlotte ........................................................4 Keith Johnstone .........................................................36 Kennedy, Jemma..........................................................5 Kent, Brad ..................................................................17 Kinevane, Pat ...............................................................6 King Lear..............................................................22, 28 Kleinman, Judith ........................................................37 Knight, Dudley ...........................................................36 Kovacs, George ..........................................................30 Kuhn, Tom............................................................14, 15 Kushner, Tony ............................................................14 Kyd, Thomas ..............................................................20

L Langsner, Meron ..........................................................9 Lee, Young Jean ...........................................................9 LeFranc, Dan ................................................................9 Lehmann, Courtney ...................................................29 Life Of Galileo ............................................................15

Middleton, Thomas ...................................................17 Midsummer Night’s Dream, A ...................................28 Milling, Jane ................................................................3 Modern British Playwriting: 2000-2009 ......................3 Modern British Playwriting: The 1950s .......................3 Modern British Playwriting: The 1960s .......................3 Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s .......................3 Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s .......................3 Modern British Playwriting: The 1990s .......................3 Moore, D.C. .................................................................8 Moore, Ruth ..............................................................39 Moran, James ............................................................11 Morning .......................................................................7 Morse, Ruth ...............................................................29 Mother Courage and Her Children ......................14, 15 Movement Training for Actors ...................................34 Mrs Warren’s Profession............................................17 Murphy, Tom ...............................................................6

N Nace, Nicholas D........................................................24 National Theatre Connections 2013 ..........................39

Pierpan, Nicholas.........................................................7

Poliakoff, Stephen ........................................................8 Polster, Joshua ...........................................................31 Poole, Adrian .............................................................29 Pornography ..............................................................12 Postdramatic Theatre and the Political .....................32 Prebble, Lucy ...............................................................7 Preedy, Chloe.............................................................21 Prescott, Paul .............................................................24 Price, Tim .....................................................................5 Prince and the Pauper, The ..........................................5

R Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, The ......................5 Ragsdale, Stella Fawn ................................................10 Read, Alan .................................................................32 Rebellato, Dan .............................................................3 Red Velvet ....................................................................4 Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The ...................................8 Richard III ..................................................................19 Ridley, Philip ............................................................6, 8 Ritchie, Chris..............................................................36 Rokison, Abigail .........................................................24 Romeo and Juliet .......................................................22 Rorrison, Hugh...........................................................15

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 41

INDEX

INDEX

41

01/03/2013 11:16

INDEX

INDEX Roudané, Matthew ....................................................10

T

Wright, Matthew .......................................................30

Rover, The ..................................................................17

Tales of the Tricycle Theatre ......................................31

Writing Comedy .........................................................36

Ruffell, Ian .................................................................30

Taylor, Don ...................................................................7

Wycherley, William ....................................................17

Ryan, Keirnan.............................................................27

Taylor, Neil .................................................................22

Ryland, Charlotte .......................................................15

Taylor-Batty, Mark .....................................................12

Y

Teaching Shakespeare and Marlowe .........................27

Yachnin, Paul .............................................................26

Tempest, The .............................................................22

Year of Shakespeare, A ..............................................24

Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies .........................16

Tempest: Language and Writing, The ........................25

You Can Still Make A Killing .........................................7

Schalkwyk, David .......................................................27

Ten Ways of Thinking About Samuel Beckett .............16

Your Last Breath, Olfactory and After The Rainfall ......4

Schnierer, Peter Paul .................................................10

Tennessee Williams: One Act Plays............................16

Secrets of Performing Confidence..............................35

Theatre in the Expanded Field ...................................32

Z

Semler, Liam ..............................................................27

Theatre of David Greig, The.......................................11

Zuabi, Amir Nizar .........................................................6

Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory....................25

Theatre of Engagement .............................................31

Shakespeare and the Language of Translation..........26

Theatre of Harold Pinter, The ....................................12

Shakespeare and the Medieval World .......................26

Theatre of Martin Crimp, The ....................................11

Shakespeare for Young People...................................24

Theatre of Sean O’Casey, The ....................................11

Shakespeare Up Close................................................24

Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker, The ..................11

Shakespeare, William ................................................22

This House ...................................................................7

Shakespeare’s Demonology .......................................28

Thomas Middleton: Four Plays ..................................17

Shakespeare’s Plants, Gardens and Landscapes ........28

Thomas, Vivian ..........................................................28

Shakespeare’s Theatres and the Effects of Performance ..............................................................26

Thompson, Ann .........................................................22

S

Shakespeare’s Universality ........................................27 Shakespeare’s World of Words ..................................26 Shaughnessy, Nicola ..................................................35 Shaw, Bernard............................................................17 Shinn, Christopher .......................................................9 Shivered .......................................................................6 Sierz, Aleks.............................................................3, 11 Silent and Forgotten ....................................................6 Slater, Niall W.............................................................30 Smith, Emma .............................................................25 Snookered ....................................................................4 Snow, Jackie ...............................................................34 Sophocles ....................................................................7 Sophocles: Antigone ..................................................30 Soto-Morettini, Donna ..............................................37 Sound&Fury.................................................................5 Spanish Tragedy, The .................................................20 Speaking With Skill ....................................................36 Squires, Hayley ............................................................5 St John, Christopher ....................................................9 Stanislavski, Konstantin .............................................33 State of Play, A...........................................................32 Static and Blackout, The ..............................................6 Stephen Joseph ..........................................................31 Stephens, Simon .......................................... 5, 7, 12, 39 Stern, Tiffany .................................................17, 20, 26 Steven Berkoff: One Act Plays ....................................10 Stevens, Jenny ...........................................................24 Stoller, Terry...............................................................31 Straight ........................................................................8 Sullivan, Erin ..............................................................24

42

Thornton Burnett, Mark ............................................29 Threepenny Opera, The .............................................15 Townshend, Dale .......................................................19 Tragedy of Mariam, The ............................................20 Tronch, Jesus .............................................................20 Twain, Mark .................................................................5 Twelfth Night .............................................................19

U Unwin, Stephen .........................................................14 Upstairs Room, The .....................................................8 Uyehara, Denise ..........................................................9

V Vaughan, Alden T. ......................................................22 Vaughan, Virginia.......................................................25 Vera Vera Vera .............................................................5

W Wallace, Clare ............................................................11 Weis, René .................................................................22 Weiss, Katherine ........................................................16 Where the Mangrove Grows .......................................8 Wilde, Oscar ..............................................................17 Willett, John ........................................................14, 15 Williams, Tennessee ..................................................16 Williams, Travis D.......................................................24 Wise, Jennifer ..............................................................8 Woman Killed With Kindness, A.................................17 Women Making Shakespeare ....................................25 Woods, Michelle ........................................................32 Wray, Ramona .....................................................20, 29

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 42

01/03/2013 11:16

Marketing, Sales, and Editorial Offices Bloomsbury 50 Bedford Square London WC1B 3DP T +44 (0)207 631 5600 F +44 (0)20 7631 5800 E academic@bloomsbury.com

Eire and Northern Ireland Louise Dobbin Rep Force Ireland Dublin 4 Eire T +3531 364 9927 E info@repforce.ie

Orders and Customer Service Customer Services, Macmillan Distribution (MDL) Brunel Road Houndmills Basingstoke Hampshire RG21 6XS T +44 (0)1256 302 692 F +44 (0)1256 812 558 E orders@macmillan.co.uk

EUROPE

UK Academic Key Accounts Manager Phil Prestianni Bloomsbury Publishing Plc T +44 (0)7733 328663 E phil.prestianni@bloomsbury.com South West England, South Wales, Oxfordshire and Hampshire David Simm Bloomsbury Publishing Plc T +44 (0)7714 849550 E david.simm@bloomsbury.com City of London, Northern and Eastern Home Counties Robin Birch Bloomsbury Publishing Plc T +44 (0)7775 891729 E robin.birch@bloomsbury.com Central London and the Southern Home Counties David Foy Bloomsbury Publishing Plc T +44 (0)7824 435717 E david.foy@bloomsbury.com Midlands and Eastern Counties Max Bridgewater Bloomsbury Publishing Plc T +44 (0)7770 503641 E max.bridgewater@bloomsbury.com Northern England, North Wales and Scotland Terry Lee Bloomsbury Publishing Plc T +44 (0)7802 617672 E terry.lee@bloomsbury.com

Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and The Netherlands Rachel Webster Bloomsbury Publishing Plc T +44 (0) 207 631 5918 E rachel.webster@bloomsbury.com Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Colin Flint Ltd 26 Harvey Goodwin Avenue Cambridge CB4 3EU T +44 1223 565 052 E ben.greig@dial.pipex.com Austria, Greece and Cyprus Tyers Book Sales Ltd. Stisilaou 13 11 363 Ano Kypseli Athens Greece T +30 210 2133 436 E gellag@hol.gr Central and Eastern Europe Jacek Lewinson Nowogrodzka 18m.20 PL-00-511 Warszawa Poland T +48 226 283 956 E jacek@jaceklewinson.com Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar Iberian Book Services Sector Islas, 12, 1B 28760 Tres Cantos Madrid Spain T +34 91 8034918 F +34 91 8035936 E pprout@telefonica.net

MIDDLE EAST / NORTH AFRICA (EXC LUDING ISRAEL) AND MALTA International Publishers Services (IPS) P.O. Box 27533 Dubai United Arab Emirates T +971 4 238 4001 F +971 4 238 4005 E itpme@emirates.net.ae ISRAEL Emily Medcalf Bloomsbury Publishing Plc T +44 (0) 207 631 5819 E emily.medcalf@bloomsbury.com

AFRICA Southern Africa (Lesotho, Botswana, Namibia, Republic of South Africa, Swaziland) Book Promotions / Horizon Books P O Box 6836 Roggebaai 8012 South Africa T +27 21 4698900 F +27 21-4698903 E enquiries@bookpro.co.za Rest of Africa Tula Publishing Ltd Aristotle House Aristotle Lane Oxford OX2 6TR T +44 (0)1865 553606 E julian@tulapublishing.co.uk E tom@tulapublishing.co.uk

ASIA

Hong Kong Andrew Kwan Manager E andrew.kwan@tandf.com.sg Thailand Nonglak Sawaithong Account Manager E s.nonglak@tandf.com.sg Malaysia and Brunei Taylor & Francis Asia Pacific No. 23-2, Jalan PJS 8/18 Dataran Mentari 46150 Petaling Jaya Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia T +603 56301361 F +603 56301732 David Yeong General Manager E david.yeong@tandf.com.sg

India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt Limited VISHRUT Building Building no3, DDA Complex, Ground Floor Pocket C 6&7, Vasant Kunj New Delhi 110070 India T +91 11 40574957 T +91 11 40574954 E marketing-in@bloomsbury.com

China Taylor & Francis Asia Pacific Room 1108, Culture Plaza Jia #59, Zhongguancun St., Haidian District Beijing 100872 PR China

Pakistan Jennifer Cima Bloomsbury Publishing Plc T +44 (0) 207 631 5914 E jennifer.cima@bloomsbury.com

Taiwan Taylor & Francis Asia Pacific Room 629, 6F, No.6, Sec.4, Hsinyi Road Taipei 10683 Taiwan T +886 2 5551 1266 ext. 6291

Japan Jennifer Cima Bloomsbury Publishing Plc T +44 (0) 207 631 5914 E jennifer.cima@bloomsbury.com South Korea Information and Culture Korea 473-19 Seokyo-dong Mapo-ku Seoul 121-842 South Korea T +822 3141 4791 F +822 3141 7733 E cs.ick@ick.co.kr Asia Pacific - General Enquiries, Customer Service and Orders Taylor & Francis Asia Pacific 60 MacPherson Road Block 1 #06-09 Siemens Centre Singapore 348615 T +65 67415166 F +65 67429356 E info@tandf.com.sg Singapore and Indonesia Mohamed Feroz Assistant Sales Manager E mohamed.feroz@tandf.com.sg Philippines and Vietnam Jeffrey Lim Books Sales Director E jeffrey.lim@tandf.com.sg

Cynthia Ji Sales Manager E cynthia.ji@tandf.com.sg

Jason Lin Sales Manager E Jason.lin@tandf.com.sg

AUSTRALASIA Bloomsbury Publishing Pty Ltd Hannah Temby Level 4 387 George St Sydney 2000 NSW Australia T +61 2 8820 4902 E hannah.temby@bloomsbury.com For all other international queries please contact: E export@bloomsbury.com

RIGHTS Elizabeth White Academic Rights Manager Bloomsbury Publishing Plc T +44 (0) 207 631 5905 E elizabeth.white@bloomsbury.com

JOURNALS Turpin Distribution Services Ltd Stratton Business Park Pegasus Drive Biggleswade, SG18 8TQ UK T +44 (0)1767 604 951 E custserv@turpin-distribution.com

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 43

R E P R E S E N TAT I V E S , A G E N T S & D I S T R I B U T O R S – U K , E U R O P E , R E S T O F W O R L D

R E P R E S E N TAT I V E S , A G E N T S & D I S T R I B U T O R S – U K , E U R O P E , R E S T O F W O R L D

43

01/03/2013 11:16

R E P R E S E N TAT I V E S , A G E N T S & D I S T R I B U T O R S – U S A , C A N A D A , L AT I N A M E R I C A

R E P R E S E N TAT I V E S , A G E N T S & D I S T R I B U T O R S – U S A , C A N A D A , L AT I N A M E R I C A USA Marketing, Sales, and Editorial Offices Bloomsbury Academic 80 Maiden Lane, Suite 704 New York, NY 10038 T 212-953-5858 F 212-953-5944 E askacademic@bloomsbury.com Orders and Customer Service Bloomsbury USA MPS/BUSA Orders 16365 James Madison Highway Gordonsville, VA 22942 T 888-330-8477 F 800-672-2054 E orders@mpsvirginia.com E customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Northern California, Pacific Northwest and Mountains & Plains Redsides Publishing Services George Carroll 4616 25th Ave NE, PMB 597 Seattle, WA 98105 T 425-922-1045 F 425-671-0362 E geocarroll@earthlink.net Midwest Abraham Associates Roy Schonfeld 2084 Mirimar Blvd S. Euclid, OH 44121 T 216-291-3538 F 216-691-0548 E roy@abrahamassociatesinc.com Stu Abraham 5120-A Cedar Lake Rd St. Louis Park, MN 55416 T 952-927-7920 F 952-927-8089 E stu@abrahamassociatesinc.com Steve Horwiz 5120-A Cedar Lake Rd St. Louis Park, MN 55416 T 651-647-1712 F 651-647-1717 E steve@abrahamassociatesinc.com John Mesjak 509 Edward Street Sycamore, IL 60178 T 815-899-0079 F 815-261-4114 E john@abrahamassociatesinc.com Nevada, Arizona, Southern California and New Mexico Faherty & Associates Richard McNeace 1402 Highgate Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90042 T 323-273-7763 F 323-478-0182 E richard@fahertybooks.com Tom Faherty 6665 SW Hampton St., Suite 100 Portland, OR 97223 T 800-824-2888 x.11 F 503-598-9850 E tomjr@fahertybooks.com Trevin Matlock 7765 Calle Casino Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 T 909 263-2346 F 613 822-5457 E trevin@fahertybooks.com

44

Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North/South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia Southeastern Book Travelers, LLC Chip Mercer 1920 Valleydale Road, Suite 220 Birmingham, AL 35244 T 205-682-8570 F 770-804-2013 E chipmercer@bellsouth.net

CANADA

Jim Barkley 1153 Bordeau Court Dunwoody, GA 30338 T 770-827-0488 F 770 234-5715 E jbarkley@mindspring.com

For all other titles Codasat Canada Ltd 3122 Blenheim Street Vancouver, BC V6K 4J7 Canada Tel: 604-228-9952 Fax: 604-222-2965 info@codasat.com

Stewart Koontz 6012 Shadow Moss Circle Raleigh, NC 27603 T 256 483-7969 F 770 804-2013 E cskoontz@hotmail.com Rich Thompson 576 Bentmoor Dr. Helena, AL 35080 T 205-910-2687 F 770-804-2013 E richthompson@charter.net

For Methuen Drama and Arden Shakespeare titles Penguin Group (Canada) 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700 Toronto, Ontario, M4P 2Y3 Canada Tel: 416-925-2249 Fax: 416-925-0068 info@penguin.ca

MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN Shanta Inshiqaq Bloomsbury Academic 80 Maiden Lane, Suite 704 New York, NY 10038 T 212-953-5858 F 212-953-5944 E shanta.inshiqaq@bloomsbury.com

Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas Bill McClung & Associates 20540 Hwy 46W Suite 115 Spring Branch, TX 78070 T 214-505-1501 F 888-311-8932 E bmcclung@ix.netcom.com

LIBRARY SALES

Theresa McClung 20540 Hwy 46W Suite 115 Spring Branch, TX 78070 T 214-676-3161 F 888-311-8932 E tmcclung@ix.netcom.com

Elizabeth White Academic Rights Manager Bloomsbury Publishing Plc T +44 (0) 207 631 5905 E elizabeth.white@bloomsbury.com

Mid Atlantic and New England Parson Weems’ Publisher Services Christopher R. Kerr 565 Broadway, #5A Hastings on Hudson, NY 10706-1712 T 914-478-5751 F 914-478-5751 E chrisKerr@parsonweems.com

Sonia Dubin Senior Manager, Library Sales and Marketing (America) T 212-630-4552 E Sonia.Dubin@bloomsbury.com

RIGHTS

JOURNALS Turpin Distribution Services Ltd Stratton Business Park Pegasus Drive Biggleswade, SG18 8TQ UK T +44 (0)1767 604 951 E custserv@turpin-distribution.com

Eileen Bertelli 48 Wawayanda Road Warwick, NY 10990-3339 T 845-987-7233 Cell: 845-492-7309 F 866-761-7112 E eileenbertelli@parsonweems.com Causten Stehle, Manager 55 McKinley Ave., #D214n White Plains, NY 10606 T 914-948-4259 F 866-861-0337 E office@parsonweems.com Linda Cannon 220 E. 31st St., Apt.3D Baltimore, MD 21218-3951 T 724-513-9426 F 866-583-2066 E lindacannon@parsonweems.com

www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302699 • direct@macmillan.co.uk

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 44

01/03/2013 11:16

VISIT THE NEW BLOOMSBURY WEBSITE w w w. b l o o m s b u r y. c o m / a c a d e m i c

K E Y F E AT U RE S



Bloomsbury’s complete range of academic titles, all in one place, by discipline Online previews of many titles Join in our online communities via blogs, twitter and facebook



Sign up for our subject-specific newsletters

FO R ACA D E M IC S

FO R L IBR AR IANS

• Full inspection copy ordering service, including NEW e-inspection copies

• Bloomsbury Academic Collections and Major Reference Work areas

• Links to online resources and companion websites

• Links to our Online Libraries, including Berg Fashion Library, The Churchill Archive and Drama Online

• Discuss books, new research and current affairs on our subject-specific academic online communities • Dedicated textbook and eBook areas

• Information and subscription details for Bloomsbury Journals, including Fashion Theory, Food, Culture and Society, The Design Journal and Anthrozoos

FO R ST UD E N T S

FO R AUT HO R S

• Links to online resources, such as bibliographies, author interviews, case studies and audio/video materials

• Information about publishing with Bloomsbury and the publishing process

• Share ideas and learn about research and key topics in your subject areas via our online communities

• Style guidelines • Book and journal submissions information and proposals form

• Recommended reading lists suggest key titles for student use

Sign up for newsletters and to join our communities at:

w w w. b l o o m s b u r y. c o m

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 45

01/03/2013 11:02

PAGE 3

PAGE 4

PAGE 7

PAGE 7

PAGE 9

PAGE 9

PAGE 1 0

PAGE 1 4

PAGE 1 6

PAGE 1 9

PAGE 2 0

PAGE 2 2

PAGE 2 2

PAGE 2 4

PAGE 2 7

PAGE 2 8

PAGE 3 5

PAGE 3 5

PAGE 3 6

PAGE 3 6

www.bloomsbury.com

Bloomsbury_Drama_4.0.indd 46

01/03/2013 11:02