Drama & Performance Studies Catalogue April-December 2019

Drama & Performance Studies New Books Catalogue

April-December 2019

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Revised Edition

Migration Plays

Ben Jonson

Four large cast ensemble stories for teenagers

Edited by Robert N. Watson, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Satinder Chohan, Asif Khan, Sumerah Srivastav & Sharmila Chauhan

The sharpest, funniest comedy about money and morals in the 17th century is still the sharpest and funniest about those things in the 21st. The full, modernised play text is accompanied by incisive commentary notes which communicate the devastating comic energy of Volpone’s satire.

The introduction provides a firm grounding in the play’s social and literary contexts, demonstrates how careful close-reading can expand your enjoyment of the comedy, shows the relevance of Jonson’s critique to our modern economic systems, and provides a clear picture of how the main relationships in the play function on the page and stage.

UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 216 pages PB 9781350007796 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350007772 Library eBook 9781350007765 Series: New Mermaids • Methuen Drama

National Theatre Connections 2019

Rob Drummond, Nell Leyshon, Katie Hims, Tom Wells, Ben Bailey Smith, Lajaune Lincoln, Dawn King, Laura Lomas, Katherine Soper, Benjamin Kuffuor & Luke Barnes National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights, the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world of professional theatre-making, giving them full control of a theatrical production - from costume and set design to stage management and marketing campaigns. NT Connections have published over 150 original plays and regularly works with 500 theatre companies and 10,000 young people each year.

UK June 2019 • US July 2019 • 640 pages PB 9781350108370 • £21.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781350108387 Library eBook 9781350108394 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women Celebrating 40 Years of Clean Break Theatre Company

Edited by Roisin McBrinn & Lauren Mooney Drawn from over 40 years of writing from Clean Break theatre company, this collection features the unheard voices in the criminal justice system. Offering a diverse set of monologues representing a range of characters in age, ethnicity and lived experience, Monologues for Women by Women is just that: an opportunity for female performers to celebrate the opportunities inherent in allowing women to represent themselves in theatre.

The collection includes both published and unpublished works and features writers such as: Chloë Moss, Theresa Ikoko, Alice Birch, Winsome Pinnock, Tanika Gupta, Lucy Kirkwood and many more.

UK May 2019 • US June 2019 • 120 pages PB 9781350097506 • £14.99 / $20.95 Individual eBook 9781350097513 Library eBook 9781350097520 Series: Audition Speeches • Methuen Drama World English

Edited by Fin Kennedy Featuring four new plays written and devised in collaboration with groups of secondary school children, this collection examines both immigration to and emigration from the UK. A theatrein-education project coordinated by Tamasha theatre company and The Migration Museum, children spent a day working on exercises designed to develop their understanding of, and feelings about, migration. Their reactions were then incorporated into a piece of theatre by a professional playwright that the students performed.

UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 128 pages PB 9781350090415 • £16.99 / $22.95 Individual eBook 9781350090446 Library eBook 9781350090422 Methuen Drama World English

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Volpone

American Political Plays in the Age of Terrorism

Break of Noon; 7/11; Omnium Gatherum; Columbinus; Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them Neil LaBute, Playwright, Kia Corthron, Playwright, Theresa Rebeck, Playwright, USA, Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros, Playwright, USA, Stephen Karam, Playwright, USA, PJ Paparelli, former Artistic Director, American Theatre Company, USA & Christopher Durang, Playwright, USA Edited by Allan Havis This anthology brings together reflective and raw plays by American playwrights surrounding the psychic and political boundaries of the many faces and shadows of terrorism. The plays featured are Break of Noon by Neil LaBute; 7/11 by Kia Corthron; Omnium Gatherum

by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gestern-Vassilaros; Columbinus by PJ Paparelli and Stephen Karam and Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them by Christopher Durang.

UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 352 pages PB 9781350044364 • £29.99 / $40.95 • HB 9781350044401 • £95.00 / $130.00 Individual eBook 9781350044388 Library eBook 9781350044371 Methuen Drama World English

Actors and Performers Yearbook 2020

Essential Contacts for Stage, Screen and Radio Edited by Lloyd Trott, RADA, UK "An essential tool for all actors" - Christine Payne, Equity This well-established and respected directory supports actors in their search for work on 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, photographers and much more, this essential reference book editorially selects only the most relevant and reputable contacts for the actor.

UK October 2019 • US November 2019 • 512 pages PB 9781350107571 • £16.99 / $22.95 Individual eBook 9781350107588 Library eBook 9781350107595 Methuen Drama

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Performance Books An Introduction to Theatre, Performance and the Cognitive Sciences John Lutterbie, Stony Brook University, USA

Beginning with the interaction of the performer and spectator, the reader explores the science and philosophy of embodiment, its relation to performance ecologies and aesthetics, and how the sciences can help us understand the experience of art. Written in an approachable style, this book weaves together case studies of a wide range of performances with scientific evidence and poststructural theory. The result is a complex understanding not only of the act of performing but the forces that mark the place of theatre in contemporary society.

UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 224 pages • 7 bw illus PB 9781474257046 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781474256810 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781474256827 Library eBook 9781474256834 Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues • Methuen Drama

The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit A Practical Guide to Creating A Role Martin Constantine Drawing upon the innovative approach to the training of young opera singers developed by Martin Constantine, Co-Director of ENO Opera Works, the book leads the singer through the process of bringing the libretto and score to life to create character. It draws on the work of practitioners such as Stanislavski, Lecoq, Laban and Cicely Berry to introduce the singer to the tools needed to create an interior and physical life for a character. The book uses operatic repertoire from Handel through Mozart to Britten to present practical techniques and exercises to help the singer develop their own individual dramatic toolbox.

UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 176 pages PB 9781350006454 • £22.99 / $31.95 • HB 9781350006461 • £70.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781350006485 Library eBook 9781350006478 Methuen Drama World English

Theatre Blogging

Selected writings on contemporary theatre Megan Vaughan, Live Art Development Agency, UK To what extent have theatre bloggers established a new critical culture? Has the potential of the form been realised? Megan Vaughan contextualises key writings with current research, and brings past and present practitioners into conversation with one another. The work of prominent and influential early adopters such as Encore Theatre Magazine and Chris Goode in London; George Hunka and Isaac Butler in New York; Jill Dolan at Princeton University and Alison Croggon in Melbourne are considered alongside those who followed them.

Voice and Speech for Musical Theatre A Practical Guide and Video

Chris Palmer, Guildford School of Acting, UK Voice and Speech for Musical Theatre is the first book to combine traditional actor vocal training with musical theatre training, offering support and guidance for performers seeking to train their spoken voice with reference to singing and performing in musical theatre. Ideal for the triple-threat performer, Voice and Speech for Musical Theatre features exercises for performers, tips for teachers and online video resources, allowing for a focused and outcome-oriented training of vocal techniques for musical theatre performers.

UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 176 pages • 16 bw illus PB 9781350011250 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350011243 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781350011267 Library eBook 9781350011236 Series: Performance Books • Methuen Drama

The Actor Speaks

Voice and the Performer Patsy Rodenburg, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK From the bestselling author of The Right to Speak and The Need for Words comes this essential guide to voice work: The Actor Speaks. This revised edition begins with what every first-year acting student faces in class and ends with what leading professional actors must achieve every night on stage. Patsy Rodenburg’s celebrated work as one of the world’s foremost voice and acting coaches is fully revealed in this thoughtful and inspirational book.

UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 416 pages PB 9781350027138 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350027121 • £70.00 / $95.00 Individual eBook 9781350027145 Library eBook 9781350027114 Series: Performance Books • Methuen Drama

Russian Theatre in Practice The Director's Guide

Edited by Amy Skinner, University of Hull, UK Strongly practical in its approach, Russian Theatre in Practice equips readers with an understanding of the varying approaches of each director, and through the practical exercises gives them the opportunity to participate and explore ideas in practice, thereby honing their own directing skills. Each chapter focuses on one director, combining an examination of their directing theory and technique with practical exercises for use in classroom or rehearsal settings.

UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 296 pages • 25 bw illus PB 9781474284417 • £24.99 / $33.95 • HB 9781474284424 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781474284431 Library eBook 9781474284448 Series: Performance Books • Methuen Drama

UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350068810 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350068827 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781350068834 Library eBook 9781350068841 Methuen Drama

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Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion Peta Tait

Emotion explores a spectrum of concepts of emotion in theatre and contemporary performance, investigating its purpose in performance and therefore in society. Readers are encouraged to think about how emotion is aurally and visually developed and presented in all its complexity; they will access new methodologies and approaches for their own exploration of 'emotion' as a performance component. The 3-part structure examines how the term has been understood and applied historically, in the present, and in new discourse around economic processes. Case studies include Twelfth Night, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, A Doll’s House, The Wooster Group’s productions and the drama of Caryl Churchill.

UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 144 pages PB 9781350030848 • £12.99 / $17.95 • HB 9781350030855 • £45.00 / $60.00 Individual eBook 9781350030862 Library eBook 9781350030879 Series: Theory for Theatre Studies • Methuen Drama

Theory for Theatre Studies: Sound

Susan Bennett, University of Calgary, Canada Sound provides the first overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Exploring areas such as music, speech and soundscape, this volume will open up the study of theatrical production and live performance to engage more effectively its aural dimensions. By way of developed case studies, readers will access new methodologies and approaches for their own exploration of 'sound' as a performance component. In an engagement with the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of sound studies, this book will alert theatre and performance studies scholars and students to new work important to our fields.

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Theory for Theatre Studies

UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 168 pages PB 9781474246477 • £12.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781474246460 • £45.00 / $60.00 Individual eBook 9781474246484 Library eBook 9781474246453 Series: Theory for Theatre Studies • Methuen Drama

Critical Companions The Theatre of August Wilson Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky, USA

The first comprehensive study of August Wilson's drama, this Companion introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson's ten-play cycle about African American life in each decade of the 20th century. Framed by Wilson's life experiences and informed by extensive interviews, it provides fresh, detailed readings of each play and an overview of the cycle as a whole, demonstrating how it comprises a compelling interrogation of American culture and historiography. The study is augmented by a small collection of essays by other major scholars: Harry Elam, Sandra Shannon, Donald Pease and Vershawn Young.

UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 232 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781472534439 • £16.99 / $22.95 Previously published in HB 9781472530486 Individual eBook 9781472528322 Library eBook 9781472527646 Series: Critical Companions • Methuen Drama

Tragedy Since 9/11

Reading a World out of Joint Jennifer Wallace, Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge, UK

The Theatre of Eugene O’Neill

American Modernism on the World Stage Kurt Eisen, Tennessee Tech University, USA The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill offers a new comprehensive overview of O'Neill's career and plays in the context of the American theatre.

Organised thematically, it considers his modernist intervention in the theatre, offers readers detailed analysis of the plays, and assesses the recent resurgence in his reputation and new approaches to staging his work. It includes a study of all his major plays - The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Desire Under the Elms - besides numerous other full length and one act dramas.

UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 256 pages • 5 bw illus PB 9781350112490 • £21.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781474238410 Individual eBook 9781474238427 Library eBook 9781474238434 Series: Critical Companions • Methuen Drama

A Beginner's Guide to Devising Theatre

Jess Thorpe, Artistic Director, UK & Tashi Gore, Artistic Director, UK

From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the crises and terrifying events of the early 21st century and argues that a knowledge of tragedy, from the work of Sophocles to Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett, can help us understand them. Jennifer Wallace argues that 9/11 ushered in a new age of tragedy which ruptured the secular complacencies of the 1990s. From this starting point, she offers a cultural analysis of the crises of the past two decades with reference to a litany of key dramatic texts.

This book, written by the artistic directors of the award-winning young people’s performance company Junction 25 and aimed at the young performer, explores creative ways to devise original theatre work from a contemporary stimulus. It offers a structure with which to approach a creative process, including ideas on finding a starting point, generating material, composition and design; it provides practical ideas for use in rehearsal; and it presents grounding in terminology that will support a confident and informed approach to production. The book is ideal for any student faced with the challenge of devising work from scratch.

UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 256 pages PB 9781350035621 • £18.99 / $25.95 • HB 9781350035614 • £60.00 / $82.00 Individual eBook 9781350035638 Library eBook 9781350035645 Bloomsbury Academic

UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 288 pages PB 9781350025943 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350099746 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781350025967 Library eBook 9781350025950 Methuen Drama World English

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Teaching Playwriting

Live Art in the UK

Paul Gardiner, University of Sydney, Australia

Edited by Maria Chatzichristodoulou, University of Hull, UK

Creativity in Practice

Teaching Playwriting is an essential resource for teachers wanting to gain the skills and confidence necessary to introduce playwriting to their students.

Based on rich research and clearly explained theoretical concepts, the author explores the lessons from creativity theory that will provide the teacher with the skills and knowledge necessary to structure engaging and rigorous teaching and learning that will empower students’ writing and creativity.

UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 264 pages PB 9781474288019 • £24.99 / $33.95 • HB 9781350011328 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781474288033 Library eBook 9781474288026 Methuen Drama World English

Contemporary Performances of Precarity

Since entering the performance lexicon in the 1970s, the term Live Art has been used to describe a diverse but interrelated array of performance practices and approaches.This volume offers a contextual and critical introduction to the scene of contemporary Live Art in Britain. Focusing on the key artists, companies and organisations with a prolific body of work and which have been vital to the development of contemporary practice, this edited volume maps the landscape, illuminating the origins, concerns and aesthetics of Live Art in the UK today.

UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 304 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781474257718 • £18.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781474257701 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781474257725 Library eBook 9781474257732 Methuen Drama

Bertolt Brecht's Refugee Conversations

Michael Chekhov Technique in the Twenty-First Century

Bertolt Brecht

New Pathways

Edited by Tom Kuhn, St Hugh's College, Oxford University, UK Published in English for the first time, Refugee Conversations is a delightful work that reveals Brecht as a master of comic satire. Written swiftly in the opening years of the Second World War, the dialogues have an urgent contemporary relevance to a Europe once again witnessing populations on the move.

The premise is simple: two refugees from Nazi Germany meet and discuss the current state of the world. Despite their differences they find they have unexpected common ground – especially in their more recent experience of the surreal twists and turns of life in exile and the pathetic failings of the societies that are their unwilling hosts.

UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 192 pages PB 9781350044999 • £22.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781350045002 • £70.00 / $95.00 Individual eBook 9781350045019 Library eBook 9781350045026 Methuen Drama World English

Edited by Cass Fleming, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, Tom Cornford, University of York, UK & Sinéad Rushe, Central School of Speech and Drama, UK The culmination of an innovative practice-based research project, Michael Chekhov Technique in the Twenty-first Century is a thorough and fascinating investigation into new uses of the Michael Chekhov technique which draws on clusters of historical writings and archive materials to investigate how we can use Chekhov’s technique for other areas of theatre-making practice. The central areas explored are: Devising and Catalyst Direction; Collaborating with Playwrights; and Scenographic practice. The book also investigates the potential use of the technique in relation to other areas of performer-training, as well as looking beyond the theatre to applied performance and therapeutic contexts.

UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 320 pages HB 9781474273183 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781474273206 Library eBook 9781474273213 Methuen Drama

Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues Performing Specimens

Contemporary Performance And Biomedical Display Gianna Bouchard, University of Birmingham, UK Through an examination of selected performance and theatre works that turn the performer’s body or another’s body into a specimen, this book maps out the relations between these performative acts and medical practices of collecting, storing and showing specimens in a variety of modes and contexts. Moving from an examination of the medical and historical contexts of specimen display in the museum and the anatomy theatre to contemporary performance, the book engages with examples from live art, bio-art, popular culture and theatre since the year 2000 that stage the performer’s body as a specimen.

UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350035676 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350035683 Library eBook 9781350035690 Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues • Methuen Drama

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Performing the Remembered Present The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music

Edited by Pil Hansen, University of Calgary, Canada & Bettina Bläsing, Bielefeld University, Germany This international collection brings together scientists, scholars, and artist-researchers from four continents to explore the cognition of memory through the performing arts and examine artistic strategies that target cognitive processes of memory and learning. The strongly embodied and highly trained memory systems of performing artists render artistic practice a rich context for understanding how memory is formed, utilized, and adapted through interaction with others and active engagement with tasks, instruments and environments.

UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 288 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781350118843 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474284714 Individual eBook 9781474284721 Library eBook 9781474284738 Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues • Methuen Drama

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Series Editors: Mark Taylor-Batty, Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, UK and Enoch Brater, The University of Michigan, USA Methuen Drama Engage offers original reflections about key practitioners, movements and genres in the fields of modern theatre and performance. Each volume challenges mainstream critical thought through the introduction of original and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Performing Architectures Projects, Practices, Pedagogies

Edited by Andrew Filmer, Aberystwyth University, UK & Juliet Rufford, Birkbeck, University of London, UK This volume explores the significance of architecture for performance theory and theatre and performance practice. It maps the diverse relations that exist between these disciplines and demonstrates how their aims, concerns and practices overlap through shared interests in space, action and event. Through a wide range of international examples and contributions from scholars and practitioners, it offers readers an analytical survey of current practices and equips them with the tools for analyzing site-specific and immersive theatre and performance.

UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 256 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781474247979 • £22.99 / $31.95 Previously published in HB 9781474247986 Individual eBook 9781474247993 Library eBook 9781474248006 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama

Contemporary Scenography Practices and Aesthetics in German Theatre, Arts and Design

Edited by Birgit E. Wiens, University of Munich, Germany Based on case studies and discussions of significant artworks and designs, this book explores scenographic concepts, practices and aesthetics in Germany after 1989. Facing the end of the political divide, the advent of the digital age and the challenges of globalization, German-based designers and scenographers have reacted in a variety of ways to these shifts in the cultural landscape.

The book includes interviews, statements and case studies by artists such as Katrin Brack, Anna Viebrock, Bert Neumann, Aleksander Denic, Ulrich Rasche, almong others. By identifying scenographic practices and artistic tools, this book offers the first overview and analysis of the multifaceted field of contemporary German scenography.

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Methuen Drama Engage

UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 304 pages • 31 bw illus HB 9781350064478 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350064485 Library eBook 9781350064492 Series: Performance and Design • Methuen Drama

Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship Provocations for Change

Christoph Schlingensief

Staging Chaos, Performing Politics and Theatrical Phantasmagoria Anna Teresa Scheer, University of New England, NSW, Australia The first book to focus specifically on the late German artist's theatre work, which subversively merges art, politics and everyday life to imbue his productions with a re-energized concept of the political in art. The book proposes the pluralistic concept of the phantasmagoria as a means to decode Schlingensief’s unique theatrical vision.

UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 304 pages PB 9781350126565 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350001053 Individual eBook 9781350001060 Library eBook 9781350001077 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama

Theatres of Contagion

Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary Performance Edited by Fintan Walsh, Birkbeck, University of London, UK To what extent is theatre an agent for contagion which might threaten cultures and cultural boundaries? This book responds to the current political and cultural climate by investigating theatre’s status as a contagious cultural practice, questioning its role in the spread or control of medical, psychological and emotional conditions and phenomena. Observing a diverse range of practices from the early modern to contemporary periods, essays consider how this contagion is understood to happen and operate, its real and imagined effects, and how these have been a source of pleasure and anxiety for theatre makers, audiences and various authorities.

UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 256 pages • 7 bw illus HB 9781350085985 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350085992 Library eBook 9781350086005 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama

Liz Tomlin, University of Birmingham, UK Liz Tomlin argues that the capacities of the contemporary and future spectator to be ‘effected’ or ‘affected’ by politically-motivated theatre needs to be urgently re-evaluated in light of the current political and philosophical climate. Drawing on philosophical, psychological and sociological research, Tomlin re-evaluates politically-motivated models of contemporary theatre such as Brechtian ideology critique, radical tragedy, documentary, verbatim and relational theatre practices in order to interrogate if and how theatre can contribute to the emerging resistance to global neoliberal capitalism.

UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 240 pages HB 9781474295604 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781474295611 Library eBook 9781474295628 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama

Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre Performing Literature

Frances Babbage, University of Sheffield, UK Why are so many theatre productions adaptations of one kind of another? This study explores the fascination of novels, short stories, children's books and autobiographies for theatre makers and examines what 'becomes' of such texts when these are filtered into contemporary practice that includes physical theatre, multimedia performance, puppetry, immersive and site-specific performance, and live art.

Setting out a series of fresh critical perspectives on the theory of adaptation in theatre-making, each chapter examines the characteristic features, restrictions and potency presented by the source material, before tracing the ways that they have been played out in recent performance projects.

UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 280 pages PB 9781472531421 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781472530523 Individual eBook 9781472527233 Library eBook 9781472534163 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama

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Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance A Century of South African Theatre

The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust

Loren Kruger, University of Chicago, USA Building on the author's previous publications, Loren Kruger offers an updated, wide-ranging chronicle of a century of theatre and performance in South Africa. Its comprehensive coverage includes the Pageant of Union celebrating white South Africa’s entry into the British Commonwealth in 1910, through apartheid culture and anti-apartheid protest and testimonial theatre, right up to the dramatization of the problems of today’s unevenly post-apartheid society. It considers work performed both in local languages - such as Afrikaans and Zulu - as well as varieties of English, and local fusions of international forms from melodrama to the musical, tribal epics to avant-garde and multi-media experiments.

UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 272 pages PB 9781350008014 • £22.99 / $31.95 • HB 9781350008007 • £65.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781350008021 Library eBook 9781350008038 Series: Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance • Methuen Drama

The Life of Training

John Matthews, Theatre Royal Plymouth, UK Following on from the 2014 volume Anatomy of Performance Training, Matthews’s investigation of the implications of training again focuses on individual body parts, exploring their symbolic and semantic value in the field of performance training. Here the author combines his unique approach with elements of Hannah Arendt’s mature philosophy to reach surprising and essential conclusions about the role of the body in training and the creation of meaning onstage. Ideal for readers seeking to understand the relationship the body has with the theatre and training, or for teachers looking for a new, innovative approach to performance.

UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 216 pages HB 9781350046405 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350046412 Library eBook 9781350046429 Methuen Drama

New Playwriting at Shakespeare’s Globe

Vera Cantoni, University of Pavia, Italy Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is recognised worldwide as both a monument to and significant producer of the dramatic art of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. But it has established a reputation too for commissioning innovative and distinctive new plays that respond to the unique characteristics and identity of the theatre. This is the first book to focus on the new drama commissioned and produced at the Globe, to analyse how the specific qualities of the venue have shaped those works and to assess the influences of both past and present in the work staged.

UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 256 pages PB 9781350118836 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474298247 Individual eBook 9781474298254 Library eBook 9781474298261 Methuen Drama

Grzegorz Niziolek, Jagiellonian University, Poland Grzegorz Niziolek’s The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and society from 1945 to the present. It reveals the role of theatre within Polish society as a crucial medium of collective memory – and collective forgetting – of the trauma of the Holocaust.

Through close study of key productions and the work of post-war directors the author shows how six decades of Polish theatre have been shaped by the perspective of the Holocaust in which its presence is variously visible, or displaced.

UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 352 pages • 47 bw illus HB 9781350039667 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350039674 Library eBook 9781350039681 Series: Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance • Methuen Drama World English

Good Nights Out

An Alternative History of Popular British Theatre, 19402015 Aleks Sierz Focusing on the plays and musicals that were enormous commercial successes in the post-war era, Aleks Sierz offers an alternative history that illuminates the popular shows more commonly neglected in accounts of the British theatre. He demonstrates that genres such as the British musical, light comedy, sex farce or murder mystery are worth valuing not only for their intrinsic qualities, but also as examples of broader cultural, social and political trends. The book challenges the idea that mega-hits are necessarily just mere escapist entertainments and instead shows how they contribute to the creation of powerful myths about our national life.

UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781350046214 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350046221 Library eBook 9781350046238 Methuen Drama

American Theatre Ensembles 1970–1995

Mabou Mines, Theatre X, Goat Island, Lookingglass, Elevator Repair Service and SITI Company Edited by Mike Vanden Heuvel This volume presents the history, processes and achievements of American theatre companies which use collective and/or ensemble-based techniques to generate new work. This volume considers theatre companies working in the period 19701995. Preliminary chapters provide an overview of ensemble-based creation within the general historical and cultural contexts of the period, followed by a detailed study of the evolution of ensemblebased work. Contributed case studies of 6 companies from the period examine the work of Theatre X, Mabou Mines, SITI Company, Goat Island, Elevator Repair Service, and Lookingglass Theatre and cover: a history of development and methods; key productions and projects; critical reception, and a chronology of significant productions.

UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 320 pages HB 9781350051546 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350051553 Library eBook 9781350051560 Methuen Drama

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Nomadic Theatre

Mobilizing Theory and Practice on the European Stage Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink, Utrecht University, The Netherlands This study introduces the concept of ‘nomadic theatre’ as a tool for analyzing mobile performances and performative installations. It includes detailed analysis of contemporary performance practices by leading European artists, including Rimini Protokoll, Dries Verhoeven, Ontroerend Goed and Signa, and demonstrates how mobile performances radically rethink the conditions of the stage and alter our understanding of spectatorship. Nomadic Theatre takes an integrated approach to theory and practice, instigates connections across disciplinary fields, and feeds dramaturgical analysis with insights derived from media theory, urban philosophy, cartography, architecture and game studies.

UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 224 pages • 12 bw illus HB 9781350051034 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350051041 Library eBook 9781350051058 Series: Thinking through Theatre • Methuen Drama

American Theatre Ensembles 1996–2018

Rude Mechs, The Builders Association, Pig Iron, Radiohole, The Civilians and 600 Highwaymen Edited by Mike Vanden Heuvel This volume presents the history, processes and achievements of American theatre companies renowned for their use of collective and/or ensemble-based techniques to generate new work. Preliminary chapters provide an overview of ensemblebased creation within the general historical and cultural contexts of the period, followed by a detailed study of the evolution of ensemble-based work. Six case studies examine the work of Builders Association, Pig Iron Theatre, Rude Mechs, Civilians, Radiohole and 600 Highwaymen.

UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 320 pages HB 9781350051638 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350051645 Library eBook 9781350051652 Methuen Drama

The Methuen Drama Handbook to Theatre History and Historiography Edited by Claire Cochrane, University of Worcester, UK & Jo Robinson, University of Nottingham, UK

Series Editors: Andrew Hiscock, Bangor University, UK & Lisa Hopkins, University of Sheffield Hallam, UK

The Changeling: A Critical Reader

Edited by Mark Hutchings, University of Reading, UK This volume offers an accessible and thoughtprovoking guide to this major Renaissance tragedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. It provides a uniquely detailed and up-to-date history of the play’s rich stage performance, while critical essays open up fresh perspectives, including an exploration of the characters’ mechanical psychology, the influence of Spanish literature and its treatment of virginity and rape on the construction of Middleton and Rowley’s plot, and recent theatre-makers’ handling of the play’s dramaturgy. It finishes with a guide to critical, web-based, audio and video resources, discussing the ways in which they can be used in the classroom.

UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 288 pages HB 9781350011403 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350011397 Library eBook 9781350011380 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader

Edited by Deborah Cartmell, De Montfort University, UK & Peter J. Smith, Nottingham Trent University, UK

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Arden Early Modern Drama Guides

This volume offers an accessible and thoughtprovoking guide to this major Shakespearean comedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play’s rich stage and screen performance, looking closely at major contemporary performance. Moving through to four new critical essays, the guide opens up fresh perspectives, including contemporary directors’ deployment of older actors within the lead roles, the play’s relationship to Love’s Labour’s Lost, its presence on Youtube and the ways in which tales and ruses in the play belong to a wider concern with varieties of crime.

UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 280 pages PB 9781350126534 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474284370 Individual eBook 9781474284394 Library eBook 9781474284387 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra: A Critical Reader

Edited by Domenico Lovascio, University of Genoa, Italy

The definitive guide to contemporary debates and practices in this field. Covering the current key themes and methods in theatre history research, it expands the object of study to include engagement with theatre and performance practices and the development of theatre histories around the world.

The chapters draw on academic contexts beyond the Western academy to expand our knowledge of the exciting new directions the field is taking. Featuring a series of indispensable research tools, including a detailed list of resources and a fully annotated bibliography, this is the essential scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance history and historiography.

Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's most enduringly popular and intellectually as well as emotionally challenging tragedies. This guide offers students and scholars an introduction to its critical and performance history, including notable stage productions and film versions. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays that chart the play’s wrestling with the cultural iconography of three consequential personalities in Roman history and their role in a pivotal moment in Rome’s transition to empire.

UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 448 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350034297 • £130.00 / $176.00 Individual eBook 9781350034303 Library eBook 9781350034310 Series: Methuen Drama Handbooks • Methuen Drama

UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781350049901 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350049918 Library eBook 9781350049925 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare

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Measure For Measure Third Series

William Shakespeare Edited by A.R. Braunmuller, UCLA, USA & Robert N. Watson, University of California, Los Angeles, USA The latest Arden edition of Shakespeare's dark comedy of justice, mercy and the governance of sexual desire. As well as detailed on-page commentary notes, this new edition has a long, illustrated introduction exploring the play's performance and critical history.

UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 384 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781904271437 • £10.99 / $14.95 • HB 9781904271420 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781408151884 Library eBook 9781408151877 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series • The Arden Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice: Language and Writing

Macbeth: Arden Performance Editions William Shakespeare

Edited by Katherine Brokaw, University of California, Merced, USA For the first time, the world-renowned Arden Shakespeare is producing Performance Editions, aimed specifically for use in the rehearsal room.

Published in association with the Shakespeare Institute, the text features easily accessible facing-page notes – including short definitions of words, key textual variants, and guidance on metre and pronunciation; a larger font size for easier reading; space for writing notes and reduced punctuation aimed at the actor rather than the reader. The Series Editors are distinguished scholars Professor Michael Dobson and Dr Abigail Rokison and leading Shakespearean actor, Simon Russell Beale.

UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 288 pages PB 9781350046788 • £7.99 / $10.95 Individual eBook 9781350046795 • £8.62 / $9.91 Library eBook 9781350046818 Series: Arden Performance Editions • The Arden Shakespeare

Douglas M. Lanier, University of New Hampshire, USA Shakespeare’s engagement with anti-Semitic tradition is a notoriously disturbing feature of The Merchant of Venice – in this volume, Douglas Lanier carefully shows how students can productively analyse this language for themselves. The guide also shows how to unpick the play’s challenging linguistic nexus of money, so that students can understand how economic ways of speaking and thinking drive the characters' actions and emotions. Each chapter’s "Writing Matters" section gives ideas and guidance for building a critical response to the play, while the final chapter leads students through effective strategies for essay construction.

UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 224 pages PB 9781472571489 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781472571496 • £50.00 / $68.00 Individual eBook 9781472571502 Library eBook 9781472571519 Series: Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing • The Arden Shakespeare

Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre Thinking with the Body

Evelyn Tribble, University of Otago, New Zealand What skills did Shakespeare’s actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? This book examines the ‘toolkit’ of the early modern player and suggests new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens of their expertise.

Evelyn Tribble argues that recapturing a positive account of the abilities of the early modern players will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of theatricality in the period.

UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781472576026 • £21.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781472576033 Individual eBook 9781472576040 Library eBook 9781472576057 The Arden Shakespeare

Arden Shakespeare The State of Play The Revenger's Tragedy: The State of Play

Edited by Gretchen E. Minton, Montana State University, USA

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Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play

Edited by Lynn Enterline, Vanderbilt University, USA

The Revenger’s Tragedy (1606), now widely attributed to Thomas Middleton, is a play that provides a dark, satirical response to other revenge tragedies such as Hamlet. With its over-the-top and highly theatrical approach to revenge, The Revenger's Tragedy has emerged as one of the most compelling examples of a drama by one of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. This collection of ten newly-commissioned essays situates the play with respect to other Middleton and Shakespeare works as well as repertory, showcasing recent research about the play’s engagement with issues such as religion, genre, race, language and performance.

Shakespeare saw only two poems through to publication: Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. This volume traces the larger conversation that took place in the 1590s within the vogue for minor epic narratives as Shakespeare and a coterie of Ovidian imitators composed and published erotic epyllia to, for, and against one another. These poems take place in imagined worlds far removed from urban world of London and these classicizing narratives are deeply engaged in wide-ranging critiques of 16th century norms for masculine conduct – whether professional, poetic, economic, legal, emotional, or sexual.

UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 296 pages PB 9781350112506 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474280372 Individual eBook 9781474280389 Library eBook 9781474280396 Series: Arden Shakespeare The State of Play • The Arden Shakespeare

UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 272 pages • 2 bw illus HB 9781350073364 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350073371 Library eBook 9781350073388 Series: Arden Shakespeare The State of Play • The Arden Shakespeare

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Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England Yasmin Arshad, Independent Scholar Shakespeare's characterization of Cleopatra may dominate the collective consciousness, but he was only one of several 16th-century writers fascinated with the former Queen of Egypt. This interdisciplinary study investigates images of Cleopatra in the early modern period and examines how her story was mediated and used. It draws on literary, philosophical, historical, art historical, and biographical resources, and gender, race, and performance studies, to consider what was known and thought about Cleopatra in the period.

UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 320 pages • 18 bw illus HB 9781350058965 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350058972 Library eBook 9781350058989 Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Common Language

Alysia Kolentsis, University of Waterloo, Canada What can recent developments in contemporary linguistics and language theory reveal about Shakespeare’s language in the plays? In this book, Alysia Kolentsis offers a finely-grained analysis of Shakespeare's use of language to illuminate how the common words used by characters in the plays contain significant clues about moments of interaction which are pivotal to the plots.

With chapters focused on different approaches based in language theory, the author analyzes language change in Coriolanus; employs discourse analysis in her study of Troilus and Cressida; focuses on pragmatics in Richard II, and explores how Shakespeare engaged with various aspects of grammar in As You Like It. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 240 pages HB 9781350007017 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350007000 Library eBook 9781350006997 Series: Arden Shakespeare Studies in Language and Digital Methodologies • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Artists

The Painters, Sculptors, Poets and Musicians in his Plays and Poems B. J. Sokol, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK This study of the many poets, musicians and visual artists portrayed or described in Shakespeare’s plays and poems reveals a fascination with art and its makers that continued to influence Shakespeare’s work throughout his career. It also uncovers unexpected aspects of an enthusiastic Elizabethan consumption of artworks, an enthusiasm that had significant bearing on the quite new profession that Shakespeare himself followed.

UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 344 pages PB 9781350122444 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350021938 Individual eBook 9781350021945 Library eBook 9781350021952 The Arden Shakespeare

Antipodal Shakespeare

Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916 - 2016 Gordon McMullan, King's College London, UK, Philip Mead, University of Western Australia, Australia, Ailsa Grant Ferguson, Brighton University, UK, Mark Houlahan, University of Waikato, New Zealand & Kate Flaherty, Australian National University, Australia Scholars from Britain, Australia and New Zealand reflect on the modes of commemoration of Shakespeare in and after the Tercentenary year, 1916, in two hemispheres, arguing that it was at this moment of remembering that ‘global Shakespeare’ first emerged in recognisable, if embryonic, form.

UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 240 pages PB 9781350126541 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474271431 Individual eBook 9781474271448 Library eBook 9781474271455 The Arden Shakespeare

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Imagining Cleopatra

Shakespeare and the 'Live' Theatre Broadcast Experience

Edited by Pascale Aebischer, University of Exeter, UK, Susanne Greenhalgh, University of Roehampton, UK & Laurie Osborne, Colby College, USA This collection concentrates exclusively on the phenomenon of how Shakespeare has, in the twenty-first century, been experienced as a "live" or "as-live" theatre broadcast by audiences around the world. The essays explore some of the precursors of this phenomenon, consider some of the most important companies that have produced such broadcasts since 2009 and examine the impact these broadcasts have had on branding, ideology, style and access to Shakespeare for international audiences. International contributors reflect on changing viewing practices, Shakespearean fan cultures and the use of social media by audience members for whom "liveness" is increasingly tied up in the experience economy.

UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 264 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781350125810 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781350030466 Individual eBook 9781350030473 Library eBook 9781350030480 The Arden Shakespeare

Broadcast your Shakespeare

Continuity and Change Across Media Edited by Stephen O'Neill, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland This volume of essays contributes to current debates about Shakespeare in new media. It importantly develops the field by providing a comparativist approach to Shakespeare’s dynamic media history. Contributors to Broadcast Your Shakespeare address the variety of ways Shakespeare texts have been expressed through different media and continue to be. Writing at the intersection of Shakespeare studies and media studies, these international contributors also consider the role of a particular media in producing Shakespeare’s effect on us - as readers, viewers and users.

UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 336 pages PB 9781350118829 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474295116 Individual eBook 9781474295130 Library eBook 9781474295123 The Arden Shakespeare

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Global Shakespeare Inverted Eating Shakespeare

Shakespeare in the Global South

Edited by Anne Sophie Refskou, University of Surrey, UK, Marcel Alvaro de Amorim & Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho

Sandra Young, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Cultural Anthropophagy as Global Methodology

This collection of essays and interviews by leading international scholars and practitioners introduces the concept of ‘Cultural Anthropophagy’, originating in 20th Century Brazilian Modernism, as an original methodology within the field currently understood as ‘Global Shakespeare’, and demonstrates its value with reference to a broad range of examples in theatre, film and education, including Miguel Del Arco’s Las Furias, Zé Celso's Ham-let (1993) and Clowns de Shakespeare's Sua Incelença, Ricardo III. It also presents a timely and fruitful dialogue between global Shakespearean theory and practice by including a series of interviews and reflections by practitioners with Paul Heritage, Mark Thornton Burnett and Fernando Yamamoto.

UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 336 pages • 6 bw illus HB 9781350035706 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350035713 Library eBook 9781350035737 Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted • The Arden Shakespeare

Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England Edited by Tiffany Stern, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK

Shakespeare in the Global South proposes the critical frame provided by the idea of a Global South in order to theorize cultural difference. It looks sideways across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to a variety of non-­traditional centres of Shakespeare theatre-­making to explore the solidarities and affinities not as evident in Stratford’s Shakespeare.

It takes its lead from innovative theatre practice in Mauritius, Cape Verde, north India, and post-apartheid South Africa, to assess the value for cultural theory of conceptualising the transformation of Shakespeare across the world as indigenisation, creolisation, Africanisation, and localisation of endlessly transforming iterations of Shakespeare’s work.

UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 192 pages HB 9781350035744 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350035751 Library eBook 9781350035768 Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Body Language

Shaming Gestures and Gender Politics on the Renaissance Stage Miranda Fay Thomas, Independent scholar, UK

This collection brings together major scholars to introduce, analyze and theorize the rich variety of entangled documents produced in the playhouse before, during and after performance. As it provides new material and new ways of thinking about that material, it informs and complicates ideas about play-construction, performance, revision and reception, redefining the relationship between play, text and performance.

Reveals the previously unseen history of how social tensions are found within the performance of gestures, and how such gestures are used as a powerful form of control to shame others within the body politic of early modern England. Featuring in-depth analyses of plays across Shakespeare's career, this book explores how the playwright’s understanding of shame and humiliation is rooted in performance anxiety and gender politics.

UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 224 pages • 5 bw illus HB 9781350051348 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350051355 Library eBook 9781350051362 The Arden Shakespeare

UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 256 pages • 16 bw illus HB 9781350035478 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350035485 Library eBook 9781350035492 The Arden Shakespeare

Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre

Edited by Gillian Woods, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK & Sarah Dustagheer, University of Kent, UK Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre illustrates the creative possibilities of these understudied but crucial parts of play-texts. It brings together the most recent and innovative research from a range of established and emerging scholars. Essays illuminate the function of stage directions on both the stage and the page, considering issues such as the playwrights’ shaping of space, the actor’s body, the audience’s gaze and the reader’s imagination. In asking how stage directions impact on the dialogue they frame, this collection provides new insights into a range of Renaissance plays.

UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 368 pages PB 9781350118812 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474257473 Individual eBook 9781474257480 Library eBook 9781474257497 The Arden Shakespeare

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Stories of Oceans Crossed in Contemporary Adaptation

Shakespeare and Fun

The Birth of Entertainment Value Donald Hedrick In this decisively innovative approach to Shakespeare’s plays through their competitive relation to other choices from London’s vast entertainment industry, Donald Hedrick recovers a coherent internal dynamic of theatre’s 'pleasure enclosure' accompanying the revolutionary logic of capital’s new cultural and economic 'extremes'. Applying these relations to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello and The Taming of the Shrew, he draws from cultural studies, contemporary and personal parallels, and wide-ranging historical materials.

UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 272 pages HB 9781350002845 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350002852 Library eBook 9781350002869 The Arden Shakespeare

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Series Editors: Bridget Escolme, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, Farah Karim Cooper, Globe Education (Shakespeare's Globe) and Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London, UK, and Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA

Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King's Men Lucy Munro, King's College London, UK

The King’s Men reappraises the company as theatre artists, analysing in detail the performance practices, cultural contexts and political pressures that helped to shape and reshape Shakespeare’s plays between 1603 and 1642. Reconsidering casting and acting styles, staging and playing venues, audience response, influence and popularity, and local, national and international politics, the book presents case-studies of performances of Macbeth, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Richard II, Henry VIII, Othello and Pericles alongside a broader reappraisal of the repertory of the company and the place of Shakespeare’s plays within it.

UK November 2019 • US January 2020 • 224 pages HB 9781474262613 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781474262620 Library eBook 9781474262637 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Feminist Theory

Marianne Novy, University of Pittsburgh, USA Are Shakespeare’s plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first played by boys? This book shows how many kinds of feminist theory help analyze the dynamics of Shakespeare’s plays. This lively exploration of these and related issues is an ideal introduction to the field of feminist readings of Shakespeare.

UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 224 pages PB 9781472567062 • £21.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781472567079 Individual eBook 9781472567086 Library eBook 9781472567093 Series: Shakespeare and Theory • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and the Politics of Nostalgia

Negotiating the Memory of Elizabeth I on the Jacobean Stage Yuichi Tsukada, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan The volume reveals the unnoticed richness of Shakespeare’s Jacobean drama by focusing on the growing cultural and political nostalgia for England’s dead queen. Yuichi Tsukada demonstrates that, far from not involving himself in the phenomenon of nostalgia for Elizabeth, Shakespeare interacted closely with retrospective writings on Elizabeth and illuminated the complex politics behind the nostalgia. Based around close readings of Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, and Henry VIII, together with a range of plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries, including Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, George Chapman, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, the study traces the ongoing cultural negotiation of the memory of Elizabeth.

UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 240 pages HB 9781350067226 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350067233 Library eBook 9781350067240 The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Hall

Stuart Hampton-Reeves, University of Central Lancashire, UK Peter Hall was one of the most influential directors of Shakespeare’s work of modern times. Through both his own work and the management of two national theatre companies, the National Theatre and the RSC, Hall promoted Shakespeare as a writer who can comment incisively on the modern world. His best productions exemplified this approach: Coriolanus (1959), The Wars of the Roses (1963) and Hamlet (1965) established his reputation as a director able to bring Shakespeare to the heart of contemporary politics.

UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 240 pages • 6 bw illus HB 9781472587077 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781472587091 Library eBook 9781472587107 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare

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Shakespeare in the Theatre

Temporality, Genre and Experience in the Age of Shakespeare Forms of Time

Edited by Lauren Shohet, Villanova University, USA Focusing on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, these original essays by leading scholars explore how theatrical, aesthetic, and linguistic forms engage early modern experiences of temporality.

Encompassing comedy, tragedy, history, and romance, some contributions consider how different models of pastness, presentness, sequentiality, memory, and historical meaning underwrite particular representational practices. Others, conversely, investigate how aesthetic forms afforded diverse ways for early-modern people to understand or experience time - and how this can impact us today.

UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 344 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781350126558 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350017290 Individual eBook 9781350017313 Library eBook 9781350017306 The Arden Shakespeare

Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company A Critical History

John Wyver, Independent Scholar, UK No theatre company has been involved in such a broad range of adaptations for television and film as the Royal Shakespeare Company. Drawing on interviews with actors and directors, this is the first book to explore the remarkable history of collaborations between stage and screen and considers key questions about adaptation that concern all those involved in theatre, film and television. Written by John Wyver, a broadcasting historian and the television producer of Hamlet as well as of RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, the book provides a vivid, detailed and fascinating account of the RSC’s television and film productions.

UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 240 pages • 12 bw illus HB 9781350006584 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350006591 Library eBook 9781350006607 The Arden Shakespeare

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