Drama Performance Studies New Books July-Sept 2023

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Student Editions

Jenny Stevens, Open University, UK, Chris Megson, Matthew Nichols, Head of Drama, Manchester Grammar, UK & Sara Freeman

Emilia

Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

Edited by Elizabeth Schafer

Living at a time when women had such limited opportunities, Emilia Bassano (1569 - 1645) - poet, teacher and feminist - is a fascinating subject for this speculative history In presenting her story, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm presents the story of women everywhere whose narratives have been written out of history Originally commissioned for Shakespeare's Globe with an all-female cast, Emilia is published here as a Methuen Drama Student Edition with commentary & notes by Professor Elizabeth Schafer, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 184 pages

PB 9781350200258 • £12 99 / $17 95

ePub 9781350200272 • £11 69 / $16 19

ePdf 9781350200265 • £11 69 / $16 19

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

World English

Sweet Bird of Youth

Tennessee Williams

Edited by Alison Walls

Offers an invigorating, contemporary take on Williams's seminal 1959 classic about ageing movie star and her ambitious companion This new edition includes an introduction by Alison Walls, that explores the play's production history; political, cultural and social context; Williams's dramatic style and use of language, as well as the dramatic, thematic, and academic debates that surround it An essential edition of anyone studying the play or Williams's work more widely

UK August 2023 • 136 pages

PB 9781350238022 • £9 99

ePub 9781350238046 • £8 99

ePdf 9781350238039 • £8 99

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

The Wonderful World of Dissocia

Anthony Neilson

Edited by anna six, University of Warwick, UK

This Student Edition of Neilson's magical and moving play,The Wonderful World of Dissocia, features an introduction and notes by anna six It introduces students to debates surrounding mental health and situates Neilson within a British theatrical tradition It also includes an interview with the playwright

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 128 pages

PB 9781350200975 £12 99 / $17 95

ePub 9781350200999 £11 69 / $16 19

ePdf 9781350200982 £11 69 / $16 19

Series: Student Editions

• Methuen Drama

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams

Edited by Benjamin Hudson, Rollins College, USA

The commentary in this Student Edition delves into contemporary productions of the play, as well as probing major themes, including illness and mortality; white supremacy; mendacity and 'fake news'; alcoholism and addiction; as well as sexuality, womanhood and mid-century masculinity It looks at context, including the cultural, social and political landscape of the Mississippi Delta and St Louis; the first-hand witnessing of Black life in the South; homosexuality and outsider sympathy; and American conservatism and the 1950s family It offers an invigorating, contemporary take on Williams's seminal 1955 play and is ideal for teachers, lecturers and students

UK August 2023 • 168 pages

PB 9781350237988 • £9 99

ePub 9781350238008 • £8 99

ePdf 9781350237995 • £8 99

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

Edited by Daniel Ciba, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA

This revised Student Edition of Tennessee Williams's classic play includes an introduction by Daniel Ciba, which looks in particular at the play as a piece of realism or experimentalism and through the lens of Queer Identity It also discusses recent notable productions and adaptations of the play from across the world

UK August 2023 • 136 pages

PB 9781350108981 £8 99

ePub 9781350108998 £8 09

ePdf 9781350109001 £8 09

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Best of Enemies

James Graham

Winner of the 2022 Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play

1968 – a year of protest that divided America

As two men fight to become the next President, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F Buckley Jr , and the iconoclastic liberal Gore Vidal Little do they know they’re about to open up a new frontier in American politics, and transform television news forever…

An electric new play by James Graham (Quiz, Labour of Love), directed by Jeremy Herrin, inspired by the documentary by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon�

UK November 2022 US February 2023 112 pages

PB 9781350381261 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350381278 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350381285 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Conversations After Sex and Trade

Mark O'Halloran

Multiple award-winning Mark O’Halloran is one of Ireland’s most celebrated writers Two plays spanning 12 years of work come together in one published edition to coincide with the New York premiere in January 2023

Both Conversations after Sex and Trade speak to our vulnerability and innate need to communication and connection in an isolated world

UK January 2023 US March 2023 136 pages

PB 9781350398511 £11 99 / $15 95

ePub 9781350398535 £10 79 / $14 84

ePdf 9781350398528 • £10 79 / $14 84

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Cornelia Street

Simon Stephens & Mark Eitzel

In a back street in the West Village, Jacob Towney tries to save the restaurant that has been his home for longer than he can remember and release his daughter to the life he dreams she can have His place is a home for the odd ghosts of the village It is out of place and out of time and running out of luck

A new musical by Tony Award-winner Simon Stephens and acclaimed singer/songwriter Mark Eitzel

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 112 pages

PB 9781350401464 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350401488 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350401471 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Elephant

Anoushka Lucas

A piano came through the sky and landed in Lylah’s council flat, just for her. As she pours over the keys and sound floods into all the rooms, Lylah falls in love

Part gig, part piano lesson, part journey through Empire – Elephant is a powerful new play from Anoushka Lucas

UK October 2022

• US December 2022

PB 9781350381704

• £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350381711

ePdf 9781350381728

• £9 89 / $13 49

• £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

• 64 pages

Graceland

Ava Wong Davies

Nina meets Gabriel at an old friend’s barbecue, ketchup dribbling down her chin, face ruddy from too much beer He stands away from everyone else, beautiful and aloof Their stories couldn’t be more different, but they flirt, and then they fall in love Everything is perfect, until it isn’t Or maybe it never was Graceland is a new one-woman play from Ava Wong Davies, complicated in its depiction of love and harm in the familial and romantic relationships of protagonist Nina, a twenty-something British-Chinese woman living in London

UK February 2023

• US March 2023 • 72 pages

PB 9781350409279 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350409293 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350409286 £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

HAKAWATIS

Women of the Arabian Nights

Hannah Khalil

A tyrant revenges his wife’s infidelity by wedding, bedding and beheading a new bride every day Years later, only five brides-in-waiting remain...

This fearless new play examines the unifying power of storytelling as ancient tales are reclaimed, rewritten and reimagined by Globe Resident Writer, Hannah Khalil

UK December 2022

• US January 2023

PB 9781350381568 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350381575 £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350381582 £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

• 80 pages

If These Wigs Could Talk & Haunted

Tara Flynn & Panti Bliss

Two new hilarious confessional plays from giants of Irish comedy and politics exploring lives in contemporary Ireland

If These Wigs Could Talk meets Panti, a drag queen at fifty-three, after a lifetime of showbiz, shenanigans and making a show of herself, taking this moment to question what her purpose and place in the world is now

What happens when you hit the floor and lose all of your marbles? Ask Tara Flynn in Haunted: a fame-adjacent actor turned advocate for the campaign to Repeal Ireland’s Eighth Amendment

UK November 2022 • US December 2022 • 96 pages

PB 9781350383142 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350383166 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350383159 £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

In the Net

Misha Levkov

Laura and Anna, half-sisters, plan a grand net stretching across the skyline of North London to unite their community But not everyone’s convinced Meanwhile Hala, a Syrian refugee staying with the family, finds herself caught in a tangle of immigration red tape With time running out, drought spreading, and the authorities closing in, the net becomes their arena in the pursuit of justice, joy and safety Misha Levkov’s stunning debut interweaves its characters as delicately as the web they weave on stage This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Jermyn Street Theatre, January 2023

UK January 2023

• US February 2023

PB 9781350386594

• £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350386617

ePdf 9781350386600

• 104 pages

• £9 89 / $13 49

• £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

Pick N Mix

Kat Rose-Martin

When Olivia, Kim and Alisha all take a fancy to the same local lad, friendships and families are torn apart Lies are told, secrets are spilled and their lives are about to change forever Pick N Mix is a coming of age story of sisterhood, Sex Ed and sanitary pads A humorous and touching debut play from writer Kat Rose-Martin exploring female friendships, sexuality, and teen pregnancy for three working-class girls in Bradford

UK November 2022

PB 9781350381940

• US December 2022

• £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350381964

ePdf 9781350381957

• £9 89 / $13 49

• £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

• 88 pages

Sound of the Underground

Travis Alabanza & Debbie Hannan

Out to the electric night, where the base line jumps in the backstreet light and the beat goes round and round Legends of the London Queer club scene come out from under the gutter Expect punk, profanity and a fierce fight about workers’ rights written by Travis Alabanza and co-created and directed by Debbie Hannan Sound of the Underground spotlights London’s iconic underground club culture and questions what it means to get your money’s worth when it comes to art This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Royal Court, London, in January 2023

UK January 2023 US March 2023 96 pages

PB 9781350406230 £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350406254

ePdf 9781350406247

Series: Modern Plays

World English

Iphigenia in Splott

Gary Owen

Stumbling down the street drunk at 11.30am Effie is the kind of girl you avoid making eye contact with You think you know her, but maybe you don’t know half of it

Gary Owen’s critically acclaimed and powerful monodrama inspired by the Greek myth won the Best New Play at the UK Theatre Awards 2015

UK September 2022 US November 2022 88 pages

PB 9781350372610 £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350372627 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350372634 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Ruckus

Jenna Fincken

A loving relationship can be anything but In this one-woman thriller, Ruckus explores coercive control, an issue not widely recognised - yet its side effects kill up to three women every week in the UK Each moment of the play, seen through 28-yearold school teacher Lou's eyes, has been inspired by real women and real stories Acclaimed by critics and audiences, Ruckus was the 1st Finalist for the Popcorn New Writing Award 2022, shortlisted for The Filipa Bragança Award, and winner of a Lustrum Award during its original run at Edinburgh Fringe in August 2022

• US November 2022

UK October 2022

PB 9781350380172

• £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350380189 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350380196 £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

• 64 pages

The Dry House

Eugene O'Hare

Three Irish woman Booze, family, bravery A timely metaphor for Irish political situation, while also suggesting the possibility of hope at the end of years of appalling self-destruction

An uncompromising new Irish play from acclaimed writer and director Eugene O'Hare

• £9 89 / $13 49

• £9 89 / $13 49

• Methuen Drama

UK March 2023

• US May 2023 • 80 pages

PB 9781350406520 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350406544 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350406537 • £9 89 / $13 49

• Methuen Drama

Series: Modern Plays

World English

The New Musketeers

Dannie Harris, Matthew Howell, Jack Michael Stacey & Sean Turner

The World’s Greatest Swordsmen… are not in this play A major new family comedy set in the world of the Three Musketeers… sort of When the famous Musketeers are lost in a shipwreck on a routine mission across the channel, their hapless servants are left with no masters and an important mission to complete The New Musketeers features brilliant original music written by Dannie Harris, with terrible sword fighting and a hilarious cast of characters. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells, in December 2022

UK December 2022

• US January 2023 • 120 pages

PB 9781350386150 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350386174 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350386167 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Trouble in Butetown

Diana Nneka Atuona

In her illegal boarding house in Butetown, Cardiff, Gwyneth Mbanefo toils tirelessly to keep afloat.

It’s a port town during the war; home to souls from every corner of the globe When Nate, an African American GI, escapes his barracks and discovers this new world without segregation, can he find safe harbour? And with danger on every corner, who can he trust? A pressing new play from the Alfred Fagon award-winning playwright,

Diana Nneka Atuona

UK February 2023 • US March 2023 • 128 pages

PB 9781350386235 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350386259 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350386242 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

The Wanderers

Anna Ziegler

Esther and Schmuli are Orthodox Jews; Abe and Julia are high-profile celebrities. On the surface, the lives of these two couples couldn’t be more different... but are they?

Anna Ziegler’s funny, insightful, and mysterious new drama explores the hidden connections between seemingly disparate people, drawing audiences into an intriguing puzzle and a deeply sympathetic look at modern love

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 80 pages

PB 9781350398559 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350398573 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350398566 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Bubble

Kieran Hurley

What happens when a male lecturer calls a female student a slut? A provocative, dynamic and original play by award-winning writer Kieran Hurley, set entirely on Facebook and written in both text and emojis

Originally commissioned and developed as a stage play as part of The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s MA Classical and Contemporary Text Programme with support from the Playwrights’ Studio, this play was streamed by 195,000 people online and watched in 32 countries

UK December 2022

PB 9781350398382

• US January 2023

• £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350398405

• £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350398399 £9 89 / $13 49

• 48 pages

Series: Plays for Young People Methuen Drama

World English

Moonset

Maryam Hamidi

Fifteen-year-old Roxy is burning Lost somewhere between the bonfire of girlhood and the sharp edge of womanhood, she gathers her friends and begins meddling in witchcraft to search for answers Shadows are lurking, ready to swallow those she loves most in the world. As friendships fray, fire crackles and blood bubbles, the group unravel the bonds that unite and the secrets that surround them Maryam Hamidi's Moonset is a blazing, coming-of-age tale filled with love, rage and self-discovery, as four young women search for the power they were promised

UK February 2023 • US March 2023 • 112 pages

PB 9781350405196 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350405219 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350405202 £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Plays for Young People Methuen Drama

World English

The Big House Anthology: Diverse Plays for Diverse Casts

Phoenix Rising; Knife Edge; Bullet Tongue (Reloaded); The Ballad of Corona

V; Redemption

David Watson, Andy Day, Sonia Hale & James Meteyard

Edited by The Big House

A celebration of the last decade of work and play by a unique theatre company, featuring five original plays that offer a chance for stories with diverse casts to contribute to the canon of theatre's literature

This collection is perfect for students and young people looking for performance materials, or for plays that are centered around underrepresented POVs

UK June 2023

• US June 2023

PB 9781350359741

• 368 pages

• £24 99 / $34 95

ePub 9781350359758 • £22 49 / $31 04

ePdf 9781350359765 • £22 49 / $31 04

Methuen Drama

World English

A spotlight on plays and drama

Research findings show:

In 2019 assessments, 0% of English Literature students answered a question on a play by a Global Majority writer

In 2022 assessments, 90% of drama

set texts available at GCSE English

Literature and 96% at A Level are written by white playwrights

By 2025, GCSE and A Level English

Literature students in England and Wales will have the option to choose from 10 new modern plays by writers of colour

Change is coming. Be part of it.

Download the research report and find out more at Bloomsbury.com/ LitinColour

We’re supporting representative and inclusive drama experiences within the English curriculum

Arthur Miller Plays 4

The Golden Years; The Man Who Had All the Luck; I Can't Remember Anything;

Clara

Arthur Miller

This fourth anthology of Arthur Miller's work features two of his early plays: The Golden Years, a historical tragedy about Montezuma's destruction at the hands of Cortez, and The Man Who Had All the Luck, a fable about human freedom and individual responsibility It also features two of his later, shorter plays, I Can't Remember Anything and Clara, which were first presented on a double bill as Danger! Memory and highlight the dangers of remembering the past

UK February 2023 288 pages

PB 9781350335301 • £19 99

ePub 9781350335318 • £17 99

ePdf 9781350335325 • £17 99

Methuen Drama

Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Arthur Miller Plays 6

Broken Glass; Mr Peters' Connections; Resurrection Blues; Finishing the Picture

Arthur Miller

This final volume in Methuen Drama's acclaimed series of works by Arthur Miller, features one of his most acclaimed pieces: the semi-autobiographical Broken Glass (1994) which "balances private lives with public morality it is also an amazingly full-blooded piece, bursting with pain and passion " (Daily Telegraph)

This volume also contains two of Miller's final works: the cerebral Mr Peters' Connections (1998), which journeys through the suspended consciousness of an aging pilot, and Resurrection Blues (2002), a black comedy set in a South American banana republic, that satirises global politics and the predatory nature of a media-saturated culture

UK February 2023

• 312 pages

PB 9781350354425 £19 99

ePub 9781350354432 £17 99

ePdf 9781350354449 • £17 99

Methuen Drama

Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Anna Ziegler Plays Two

The Great Moment; Another Way Home; The Wanderers; Actually

Anna Ziegler

"[Her] dialogue bristles with smart, eloquent talk … Ms. Ziegler’s quietly lyrical language has a luminous beauty, and her talent for creating characters whose complicated depths are just visible on their surfaces is still more remarkable." – The New York Times

This second play collection from one of America's most successful theatre writers brings together four plays that offer differing perspectives on family and the human condition Each play has enjoyed successful productions in cities across America, cementing Ziegler's position as one of the world's most exciting contemporary dramatists

UK March 2023

• US March 2023

PB 9781350349681

Arthur Miller Plays 5

The Last Yankee; The Ride Down Mount Morgan; Almost Everybody Wins

Arthur Miller

This fifth volume of Arthur Miller's work contains two plays from the early 1990s: his highly acclaimed The Last Yankee (1993), which The Guardian called "a fine and moving play ... Like all Miller's best work, it effortlessly links private and public worlds by connecting personal desperation to insane American values"; and The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991), which explores themes of bigamy and betrayal, described as "searching, scorching, harsh but compassionate" (The Sunday Times) This volume also contains Almost Everybody Wins, the original version of the screenplay Arthur Miller wrote for Karel Reisz's film, 'Everybody Wins'.

UK February 2023 • 256 pages

PB 9781350354395 • £19 99

ePub 9781350354401 • £17 99

ePdf 9781350354418 £17 99

Methuen Drama

Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

My White Best Friend

Volume 2: North

Based on the original concept by playwright

Rachel De-Lahay and commissioned by Everyman & Playhouse theatres, Eclipse and the Royal Exchange, this follow-up volume to My White Best Friend (And Other Letters Left Unsaid) collects a series of 20 personal letters, monologues and writings by BIPOC writers from across the North of England

Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, sometimes political and full of fire, these letters explore the personal and political of the things we don’t dare say – even to those closest to us Contributors include: Yusra Warsama, Malika Booker and Jamal Gerald

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 224 pages

PB 9781350352032 • £15 99 / $21 95

ePub 9781350352056 • £14 39 / $20 24

ePdf 9781350352049 £14 39 / $20 24

Methuen Drama World English

Radio Plays

The Wasted Years; Crossing the River; The Prince of Africa; Writing Fiction; A Kind of Home: James Baldwin in Paris; Hotel Cristobel; A Long Way from Home; Dinner in the Village; Somewhere in England

• 224 pages

• £19 99 / $24 95

ePub 9781350349698

ePdf 9781350349704

Methuen Drama

World English

• £17 99 / $24 29

• £17 99 / $24 29

Caryl Phillips

Edited by Bénédicte Ledent, University of Liège, Belgium

Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation An award-winning author, he is best known for his fiction, his essays and his stage plays What is less commonly known is that he also wrote radio plays, nine of which were broadcast by the BBC between 1984 and 2016 Previously hidden away in Phillips’s archives, housed in the Beinecke Library at Yale University, this anthology is the first time they have been collected in one edition

UK January 2023 US February 2023 344 pages 5 bw illus

• £24 99 / $34 95 • HB 9781350300064

PB 9781350300057

ePub 9781350300095

ePdf 9781350300071

Methuen Drama

World English

• £22 49 / $31 04

• £22 49 / $31 04

• £75 00 / $100 00

Writing for Stage and Screen Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience

Sherry Kramer, Bennington College, USA

In this structured look at the way audience members progress through a work in real time, Sherry Kramer helps writers and artists discover how to make work that will mean more to their audiences By using examples drawn from plays, film, and streaming series, this study makes its concepts accessible to a range of artists who work in what Kramer terms 'timebound art ' The book also features exercises, developed with MFA writers in The Iowa Playwrights Workshop and The Michener Center for Writers, which provide entrance points to help artists consider and create their work

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages • 4 bw illus

PB 9781350338265 • £19 99 / $26 95 • HB 9781350338272 • £65 00 / $90 00

ePub 9781350338289 • £17 99 / $24 29

ePdf 9781350338296 • £17 99 / $24 29

Series: Introductions to Theatre Methuen Drama

Sites of Transformation

Applied and Socially Engaged

Scenography in Rural Landscapes

Louise Ann Wilson, Theatre maker, UK

In this book practitioner and scholar Louise Ann Wilson examines the expanding field of socially engaged scenography and promotes the development of scenography as an applied art form with transformative and therapeutic outcomes. It includes reflections on walking, autobiographical and landscape performance and art practices from Early Romanticism and the Land Art movement of the 1960s to present day Case studies include Fissure (2011), Ghost Bird (2012), The Gathering (2014), Warnscale (2015), Mulliontide (2016), Dorothy's Room (2018) and Women’s Walks to Remember (20182019) Each is illustrated and is supported by evidential material demonstrating the effects of the practice and research�

UK August 2023 US August 2023 248 pages 30 bw illus

PB 9781350282759 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350104440

ePub 9781350104457 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350104464 • £67 50 / $91 79

Series: Performance and Design • Methuen Drama

Rethinking Roland Barthes Through Performance A Desire for Neutral Dramaturgy

Edited by Harry Robert Wilson & Will Daddario

The first book to map the influence of Roland Barthes on performance through a series of reflections from internationally renowned performance-makers and contextualising essays from leading theatre and performance scholars across the world The contributions are framed through Barthes's notion of 'neutral dramaturgies' and cover the breadth of Barthes's work from his essay 'The Death of the Author' (1967), Mythologies (1972), Camera Lucida (1981) and A Lover's Discourse (1990) to his most recently published lecture courses

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350330849 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350330856 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350330863 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Thinking Through Theatre Methuen Drama

Applied Theatre: Ethics

Edited by Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta, University of Victoria, Canada & Monica Prendergast, University of Victoria, Canada

This book considers what it means for applied theatre practice to be conducted in an ethical way and examines how this affects the work done with communities and participants While Part One offers an overview of critical debates and the editors' reflections on their own practice, Part Two presents a range of international case studies that explore how the theories and issues are worked out in a variety of diverse practices These case studies include projects in Australia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the United Kingdom and Canada and involve participants of many ages, from children to seniors

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 296 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350288706 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350161320

ePub 9781350161337 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350161344 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Applied Theatre • Methuen Drama

Staging the End of the World Theatre in a Time of Climate Crisis

Brian Kulick, Columbia University, USA

This book is a brief history of the end of the world as seen through the eyes of theatre It examines a wide range of plays, from Euripides and Bhasa, to medieval mystery cycles, through Shakespeare, Pushkin, Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, and Samuel Beckett, to Caryl Churchill’s Far Away, Tony Kushner’s Slavs!, and Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play. Through analyzing these alongside contemporary thinkers, this study helps guide and galvanize the reader in grappling with the climate crisis

UK January 2023

• US January 2023

PB 9781350309951

• £19 99 / $26 95

ePub 9781350309920

• 280 pages

• HB 9781350309913

• £17 99 / $24 29

ePdf 9781350309937 £17 99 / $24 29

Methuen Drama

• £65 00 / $90 00

Livecasting in Twenty-FirstCentury British Theatre

NT Live and the Aesthetics of Spectacle, Materiality and Engagement

Heidi Lucja Liedke, University of KoblenzLandau, Germany

Taking a fresh approach to the study of live theatre broadcasting, this book focuses on NT Live a decade after its launch It embeds livecasting in its historical context, assesses its position in contemporary discourse, both in a pre- and post-pandemic moment, and points towards its future Navigating between an interdisciplinary range of 20th- and 21st-century theorists from the fields of cultural studies, theatre studies and performance philosophy, it combines analyses of recent NT Live shows including A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2019), Antony and Cleopatra (2018) and Small Island (2019), with auto-ethnographic accounts and insights from practitioners

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 256 pages • 20 bw illus

HB 9781350340961 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350340978

ePdf 9781350340985

Methuen Drama

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

Critical Companions

The Drama and Theatre of Annie Baker

Amy Muse, University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

In the first book-length study of Annie Baker, Amy Muse guides readers through her critically acclaimed plays and other work She illuminates their intellectual and ethical themes by contextualizing them with the other works of theatre, art, theology, and psychology that Baker read while writing Through close discussions of her plays, this book immerses readers in Baker’s attunement to everyday language, her themes of loneliness, desire, empathy, and storytelling, and her innovations with stage time Enriched by interviews and engaging essays by three scholars, this is a companionable guide that deepens the reader’s knowledge and appreciation of Baker’s dramatic invention

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

HB 9781350319974

Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts

The Staging of Illusion across Time and Cultures

Edited by Ann C. Hall, University of Louisville, USA & Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky, USA Ghosts haunt the stages of world drama, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the essays collected here examine their representation, dramatic function and what they may tell us about the belief systems of their original audiences and the conditions of theatrical production As illusions of illusions, they foreground many dramatic themes common to a wide variety of periods and cultures Contributors consider their appearance in works by Aeschylus, early modern dramatists, in traditional Japanese theatre, through to the work of 21st-century dramatists

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 256 pages • 9 bw illus

HB 9781350371699 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350371705 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350371712 • £76 50 / $103 94

Methuen Drama

Clive Barker and His Legacy Theatre Workshop and Theatre Games

Edited by Paul Fryer, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, UK & Nesta Jones, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, UK

UK September 2023 US September 2023 240 pages 8 bw

PB 9781350296169 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350128477

ePub 9781350128491 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350128484 • £67 50 / $91 79

Methuen Drama

The Theatre of Paula Vogel Practice, Pedagogy, and Influences

Lee Brewer Jones, Georgia State University, USA

This volume examines Paula Vogel as both a playwright and a professor, analyzing texts and early reviews of her major plays—including Indecent, Desdemona, How I Learned to Drive and The Baltimore Waltz—before turning attention to Vogel's influence upon other major playwrights, such as Sarah Ruhl and Lynn Nottage Enriched by essays from Ana Fernández-Caparrós and Amy Muse and an interview with Lynn Nottage, this is a vibrant exploration of Paula Vogel as a major American playwright

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 224 pages

HB 9781350251717 £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350251724 £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350251731

• £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Critical Companions

• Methuen Drama

• 232 pages

• £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350319981

• £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350319998 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Critical Companions Methuen Drama

Patrick Lonergan, University of Galway, Ireland & Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA

Affair of the Heart

British Theatre from 1992 to 2020

Michael Billington

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 344 pages

PB 9781350367258 • £16 99 / $22 95

Previously published in HB 9781350214774

ePub 9781350214798 £27 00 / $37 79

ePdf 9781350214781 £27 00 / $37 79

Methuen Drama

World English

Anxious Masculinity in the Drama of Arthur Miller and Beyond

Salesmen, Sluggers, and Big Daddies

Claire Gleitman, Ithaca College, USA

Examining the figure of the anxious male breadwinner as he is incarnated in Arthur Miller’s most celebrated plays, this study focuses on the gender dynamics of this figure and traces how he resurfaces in different guises throughout American drama from the 1950s to the present day It takes in the work of Tennessee Williams, Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson and Sam Shepard, through to the plays of Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel, and collaborators Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 240 pages

PB 9781350272972 • £24 99 / $34 95

Previously published in HB 9781350271111

ePub 9781350272989 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350272996 • £76 50 / $103 94

Methuen Drama

Modernists and the Theatre

The Drama of W B Yeats, Ezra Pound, D H Lawrence, James Joyce, T S Eliot and Virginia Woolf

James Moran, University of Nottingham, UK

Modernists and the Theatre is the first study to examine how theories of modernism intersect with those of the theatre within the works, philosophies and literary lives of six key modernist writers: W B Yeats, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, D H Lawrence, T S Eliot and Virginia Woolf Drawing on archive material and neglected documents, James Moran reveals how these figures interacted with theatre through playwriting, engaging in philosophical debates and participating in performances Moran uncovers how the playhouse became a space where highmodernists could explore a tension that fascinated them, and which motivated much of their wider thinking and literary work

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 256 pages

PB 9781350282438 • £24 99 / $34 95

Previously published in HB 9781350145498

ePub 9781350145504 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350145511 • £67 50 / $91 79

Methuen Drama

Romantic Comedy

Trevor R. Griffiths, London

A historical and critical exploration of one of the most durable genres of stage comedy from its beginnings to the present, centring on the British tradition Through a series of case studies including Twelfth Night, Susanna Centlivre’s A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer and Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey, the book explores and analyses the shapes that Romantic Comedy has assumed in the theatre from Greek New Comedy via Shakespeare to the present and charts the ways in which the form has been shaped by changing social norms�

UK September 2023 US September 2023 184 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350183414 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350183377

ePub 9781350183384 • £58 50 / $79 64

ePdf 9781350183391 • £58 50 / $79 64

Series: Forms of Drama • Methuen Drama

Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances

William C. Boles, Rollins College, USA & Anja Hartl, University of Konstanz, Germany

Performing the Queer Past

Public Possessions

Fintan Walsh, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

How do contemporary theatre and performance appear to be possessed by the queer past? This book explores how the queer past is invoked via strategies of channeling and haunting, working through and out, recollection and replay, commodification and reproduction, occupation and commemoration, intermedial recontextualisation and dissemination It focuses on an eclectic range of case studies – including Artangel, Dickie Beau, Jeremy O Harris, Karen Finley, Milo Rau, Rachel Mars, Split Britches and Travis Alabanza – and practices that encompass digital theatre, experimental performance, installation, live art and site-specific interventions

UK September 2023 US September 2023 256 pages 17 bw illus

• £85 00 / $115 00

HB 9781350297968

ePub 9781350297975

ePdf 9781350297982

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances

• Methuen Drama

Performing Left Populism Performance, Politics and the People

Edited by Théo Aiolfi, CY Cergy Paris University, France & Goran Petrovic Lotina, University of Warwick, UK

This interdisciplinary volume offers new insights into the connections between populism and performance Exploring the populist roots of a number of performances, the contributors to this study analyze the potentials and limits of the new forms of left populism Combining performance studies and political theory, it demonstrates how various performance practices give rise to populism, and offers both scholars and practitioners of performance a thought-provoking analysis of the ways in which performance can be viewed politically This vital study expands the debate about left populism towards more radical strategies of mobilization, collectivism and democratic politics

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9781350347045

• 5 bw illus

• 224 pages

• £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350347052

• £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350347069 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances Methuen Drama

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Topics in Musical Theatre

Hip-Hop in Musical Theatre

Nicole Hodges Persley, University of Kansas, USA

Offering insightful briefs on musical theatre productions that contain aesthetic, musical and embodied references to the global phenomenon of Hip-hop culture, this volume takes the reader through a virtual tour of hip-hop’ s influence on American musical theatre From early traces of hip-hop’s rap scene in musicals such as Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope (1973) and Broadway smash hits such as The Wiz (1978) to international juggernauts like Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton (2015), this introductory book decodes the sights and sounds of hip-hop culture within the sociocultural context in which the musicals are produced�

UK July 2023 US July 2023 96 pages

PB 9781350247963 £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350247987 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350247970 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Topics in Musical Theatre • Methuen Drama

Race in American Musical Theatre

Josephine Lee, University of Minnesota, USA

Designed as a concise and contemporary introduction to the topic of racial representation in American musical theatre production, engaging students and general readers with questions regarding how race has affected both the development and the continued popularity of American musical theatre production. In doing so, it highlights the difficulties that Black, Indigenous, and other theatre artists of color continue to face in commercial musical theatre production as well as the ways that they have challenged white dominance over the American musical stage

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 120 pages

PB 9781350248212 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350248236

ePdf 9781350248229

• £9 89 / $13 49

• £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Topics in Musical Theatre Methuen Drama

Doing the Time Warp Strange Temporalities and Musical Theatre

Sarah Taylor Ellis

Doing the Time Warp explores how song and dance – sites of aesthetic difference in the musical – can ‘warp’ time and enable marginalized and semi-marginalized fans to imagine different ways of being in the world

Through analysing musicals of stage and screen – ranging from Rent to Ragtime, Glee to Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music – Sarah Taylor Ellis investigates how alienated subjects find moments of coherence and connection in musical theatre’s imaginaries of song and dance

UK August 2023 US August 2023 288 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350333192 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350151703

ePub 9781350151710 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350151727 • £76 50 / $103 94

Methuen Drama

Queer Approaches in Musical Theatre

Ryan Donovan, The New School, USA

This book introduces readers to a facet of musicals often assumed but misunderstood: how queer approaches in musical theatre extend deeper than fabulosity Queerness in musicals challenges heteronormativity but sometimes simultaneously reinforces it This volume encompasses queerness beyond simply the familiar narrative of gay men’s over-representation in musical theatre Readers are introduced to the history of queerness in musicals as well as queer methods of how to study musicals Four case studies are organized around historical contexts, textual narratives, staging and production, and reception�

UK July 2023 US July 2023 136 pages

PB 9781350247628 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350247642 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350247635 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Topics in Musical Theatre • Methuen Drama

Out For Blood

A Cultural History of Carrie the Musical

Chris Adams

Featuring over 50 interviews with original cast members, creatives, crew and audience members, Out For Blood pieces together the surprising, hilarious and often-moving inside story of Carrie The Musical to discover how this ‘horror of a Broadway musical’ lived, died and was subsequently resurrected as a mainstream success story

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 240 pages

PB 9781350320536 • £21 99 / $29 95 • HB 9781350320543 • £65 00 / $90 00

ePub 9781350320567 • £19 79 / $26 99

ePdf 9781350320550 • £19 79 / $26 99

Methuen Drama

Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan

Legacy of the Silk Road

Laurel Victoria Gray, George Washington University, USA

The first comprehensive work in English on the 3 major regional styles of Uzbek women’s danceFerghana, Khiva and Bukhara - and their broader Silk Road cultural connections, from folklore roots to contemporary stage dance

The book surveys their remarkable development from earliest manifestations in ancient civilizations to their hidden life under Islam; and from liberation under Soviet power to a place of pride for Uzbek nationhood. Written by the first American dancer invited to study in Uzbekistan, this book offers insight into the once-hidden world of Uzbek women’s dance

UK November 2023 US November 2023 176 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350249479 • £16 99 / $22 95 • HB 9781350249516 • £50 00 / $68 00

ePub 9781350249493 • £15 29 / $21 59

ePdf 9781350249486 • £15 29 / $21 59

Series: Dance in the 21st Century • Bloomsbury Academic

Robert Gordon, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK & Emilio Méndez

The Improv Illusionist Using Object Work, Environment and Physicality in Performance

David Raitt, Freelance practitioner

A practical improv manual that dives deep into object work, environment and physicality in character and performance in relation to improvisation It asks why these skills are important, why bad habits develop over time, how to fix those bad habits and how to be more physical on stage The book features over 50 exercises to help improvisers develop their skills through solo and group work

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 240 pages

PB 9781350326378 • £17 99 / $24 95 • HB 9781350326385 • £55 00 / $75 00

ePub 9781350326392 • £16 19 / $22 94

ePdf 9781350326408 • £16 19 / $22 94

Methuen Drama

Speaking Shakespeare

Patsy Rodenburg, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK

Combining clear, practical and textual work with a thorough analysis of scene and speeches from a range of Shakespeare's plays, this is an essential and inspiring guide for anyone working with Shakespeare today

UK September 2023 US September 2023 464 pages

PB 9781350161658 £24 99 / $34 95

ePub 9781350161672 £22 49 / $31 04

ePdf 9781350161665 • £22 49 / $31 04

Methuen Drama

The Need for Words Voice and the Text

Patsy Rodenburg, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK

"Patsy is a gifted voice and speech coach. In The Need for Words she provides practical and imaginative means for getting to the heart of the text and making the necessity for the language to be strongly felt by audiences. I recommend it to anyone who needs to use words with clarity and passion." - Trevor Nunn

Patsy Rodenburg's landmark work focuses on the language of power, spoken in the worlds of politicians and company directors Language exercises provide readers with access to this new research, allowing them to master the language that drives the modern world

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 272 pages

PB 9781350290112 • £22 99 / $30 95

ePub 9781350290129 • £20 69 / $28 34

ePdf 9781350290136 £20 69 / $28 34

Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Bloomsbury Academic

Performer Training for Actors and Athletes

Frank Camilleri, University of Malta, Malta

What goes on in the body and mind of an endurance athlete at the limits of performance? How do they relate to the world around and prepare for the task ahead? From traditional and physical actors to runners, boxers and other sports practitioners, this is a book about performers: their bodies, trainings and experiences It interrogates what it means to prepare and train as a performer in the early C21st Offering a refreshing perspective on training in the cross-lighting of aesthetic and athletic processes, it focuses on the learning, mastery and creative adaptation of technique in performance

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 256 pages • 6 bw illus

HB 9781350347304 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350347311

• £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350347328 £76 50 / $103 94

Methuen Drama

World English

Collaborative Embodied Performance Ecologies of Skill

Edited by Kath Bicknell, Macquarie University, Australia & John Sutton, Macquarie University, Australia

This book brings together scholarship in performance studies, cognitive science, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, architecture, philosophy and sport science to ask how tightly knit collaboration works Short chapters fall into thematic clusters exploring complex ecologies of skill, collaborative learning and the microstructure of embodied coordination, followed by commentaries from leading scholars in performance studies and cognitive science The case studies equip performance makers, students and researchers with theoretical, methodological and practical inspiration to delve deeper into their own embodied practices and critical thinking

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350197756

• 10 bw illus

• 264 pages

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350197695

ePub 9781350197701

ePdf 9781350197718

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues

• Methuen Drama

A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity

Edited by Michael Ewans, University of Newcastle, Australia

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields within Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics of Greek and Roman comedy It largely centres on the surviving work of Aristophanes and Menander in Athens, and Plautus and Terence in Rome, but authors whose plays survive only in fragments are also discussed Ancient comedic performances and plays drew on a range of forms, including satire and fantasy, and were designed to entertain and amuse their audiences while also asking them to question issues of morality, privilege and class

UK November 2022

• US November 2022 • 248 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350000711 • £75 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350187580 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350187597

• £67 50 / $91 79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age

Edited by Andrew McConnell Stott, University of Southern California, USA

Drawing together scholars with a range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy It argues that it was shaped by cultural transformations including the emergence of the entertainment industry, the rise of the professional comedian, commentaries on the nature of comedy, and the development of printed jestbooks It satirized a rapidly-changing world and explored questions of gender, authority, identity, and commerce, amongst others This volume argues that the period saw a complex and contested mix of texts, performances, and concepts, providing a deep tradition that abides to this day

UK November 2022 • US November 2022

HB 9781350000735 • £75 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350187702 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350187719 £67 50 / $91 79

A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages

Edited by Martha Bayless, University of Oregon, USA

This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines medieval comedy, from the caustic morality of principled satire to the exuberant improprieties of many wildly popular tales of sex and trickery. The analysis includes the most influential authors of the age, such as Chaucer, Boccaccio, Juan Ruiz, and Hrothswitha of Gandersheim, as well as lesser-known works and genres, such as songs of insult, nonsense-texts, satirical church paintings, topical jokes, and obscene pilgrim badges It analyses most of the literatures of medieval Europe, including a discussion of the formal attitudes toward humor in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions

UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 232 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781350000728

• £75 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350187610 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350187634

• £67 50 / $91 79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited by Elizabeth Kraft, University of Georgia, USA

This volume highlights comedy in England with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France Discussions emphasize the period's stage comedy and acknowledge comic expression in various forms of print media including the emerging literary form we now know as the novel. Contributions from scholars reflect a wide variety of interests in the field of 18th-century studies, and the inclusion of a generous number of illustrations throughout demonstrates that the period's visual culture was also an important part of the Enlightenment comic landscape

UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 272 pages • 48 bw illus

HB 9781350000742 • £75 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350187740 • £67 50 / $91 79

• 256 pages • 46 bw illus

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire

Edited by Matthew Kaiser, University of California, Merced, USA

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theatre studies, this volume explores aesthetic, political, and ethical dimensions to comedy between 1800 and 1920 in the context of blackface minstrelsy, nonsense poetry, music hall and pantomime, comic almanacs and joke books, journalism, silent film, popular novels, and hygiene magazines, among other phenomena It also provides a detailed account of contentious debates among social Darwinists, psychoanalysts, and political philosophers about the meaning and significance of comedy and laughter to human life.

UK November 2022 • US November 2022

HB 9781350000759

• £75 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350187801 £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350187795 £67 50 / $91 79

• 272 pages • 43 bw illus

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

ePdf 9781350187726 • £67 50 / $91 79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Comedy in the Modern Age

Edited by Louise Peacock, De Montfort University, UK

The period covered by this volume was marked by an explosion of comic forms and creativity across a range of media It covers a range of examples from 1920 to the present day, including plays, film, television comedy, live comedy, and comedy on social media. It considers its role in entertainment and in provoking consideration of a range of social and political topics Drawing together contributions by scholars from a variety of fields, including theatre, film and television, sociology, and visual culture, this volume explores the range and diversity of comedic performance and comic forms in the modern age

UK November 2022

HB 9781350000766

• US November 2022 • 240 pages • 14 bw illus

• £75 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350187856 £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350187832 £67 50 / $91 79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

The RSC Shakespeare is an imprint of Bloomsbury, available via www.bloomsbury.com and through the Bloomsbury Academic sales team. RSC Shakespeare titles are not available in North America.

Shakespeare and Adaptation

Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Shakespeare’s Histories on Screen Adaptation, Race and Intersectionality

Jennie M. Votava, Allegheny College, USA

Linking early modern race scholarship and adaptation theory, this study examines how the adapted Shakespearean history play provides a site for constructing race as it intersects with other identity categories, such as gender, sexuality, class, disability, ethnicity and nation

It considers two 21st-century adaptations of the Henriad that intentionally engage contemporary identity politics through crossracial casting – the BBC miniseries, The Hollow Crown and Lennix, Quinn, and Thompson’s all-Black Henry IV conflation, the film H4, before reassessing the cultural implications of history adaptations with non-traditional casting practices from the 1990s - including My Private Idaho and Richard III.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 272 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350326644 £80 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350326651

ePdf 9781350326668

• £72 00 / $98 54

• £72 00 / $98 54

Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare

Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader

Edited by Peter Kirwan, Mary Baldwin University, USA & Duncan Salkeld, University of Chichester, UK

This is the first collection of essays specifically focused on Arden of Faversham It explores the ways this anonymous and canonically marginal play has been approached by scholars and theatre-makers, and also looks forward to its role and status in a less author-centred critical climate Focused research chapters propose new directions for exploring the play in the light of ecocriticism, genre studies, critical race studies and narratives of dispossession

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9781350270176

• 240 pages

• £80 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350270183

• £72 00 / $98 54

ePdf 9781350270190 • £72 00 / $98 54

Adapting Macbeth A Cultural History

William C. Carroll, Boston University, USA

Analyzing adaptations and tropes of interpretation of Macbeth since its first performance, this book argues that the centuries-long habit of ‘correcting’ Macbeth to fit a period’s political and aesthetic assumptions both misrepresents and domesticates the play’s strangeness, hybridity, and logical difficulties. The widearray of adaptations and appropriations considered range across elite and popular culture divides: from Sir William Davenant’s adaptation for the Restoration stage (1663–4), an early 18th century novel, The Secret History of Mackbeth and Verdi's Macbeth, through to 20th and 21st century adaptations for stage and screen, besides contemporary novelizations, comic books, young adult literature and commercial products

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 288 pages • 15 bw illus

PB 9781350288546 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350181397

ePub 9781350181403 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350181410 • £67 50 / $91 79

Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare

The Changeling: The State of Play

Edited by Gordon McMullan, King's College London, UK & Kelly Stage, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

This collection of 13 original essays on Middleton and Rowley’s unsettling revenge tragedy The Changeling represents key new directions in criticism and research The chapters fall into six groups focusing on questions of space, theology, collaboration, disability both mental and physical, and performance both early modern and contemporary: each represents an aspect of the state of the art in criticism of early modern drama and together they address central issues, notably tragedy, gender, and violence

• 10 bw illus

Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare

Early Modern German Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus and The Taming of the Shrew

Tito Andronico and Kunst über alle Künste, ein bös Weib gut zu machen in Translation

William Shakespeare

Edited by Lukas Erne, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Florence Hazrat, University of Sheffield, UK & Maria Shmygol, University of Leeds, UK

This book is a translation of German versions of Titus Andronicus and The Taming of the Shrew. The introductions place these versions in the German context, and offer insights into what we can learn about the original texts from these translations

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Swiss National Science Foundation.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350262430

• 472 pages

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350094758

ePub 9781350094765 • £0 00 / $0 00

ePdf 9781350094772

• £0 00 / $0 00

The Arden Shakespeare

• 10 bw illus

UK August 2023

• US August 2023 • 288 pages

PB 9781350288430 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350174382

ePub 9781350174399 • £72 00 / $98 54

ePdf 9781350235915 • £72 00 / $98 54

Series: Arden Shakespeare The State of Play • The Arden Shakespeare

Global Shakespeare Inverted

Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, David Schalkwyk & Silvia Bigliazzi, University of Verona, Italy

Reconstructing Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries

National Revival and Interwar Politics, 1870 – 1940

Edited by Nely Keinänen, University of Helsinki, Finland & Per Sivefors, Linnaeus University, Sweden

Examining the changing reception of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries between 1870 and 1940, this follow-up volume to Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries explores how translations and productions of Shakespeare were key to the independence movements of Finland, Norway and Iceland The second part explores how the role of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries was partly transformed in the 1920s and 1930s as a new social system emerged, and then as the rise of fascism meant that European politics cast a long shadow on the Nordic countries and substantially affected the reception of Shakespeare

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 272 pages • 5 bw illus

HB 9781350251250 £80 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350251267 £72 00 / $98 54

ePdf 9781350251274

• £72 00 / $98 54

Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume

'Period Dress' in Twenty-First-Century Performance

Ella Hawkins, University of Birmingham, UK

This book scrutinizes the popular practice of costuming Shakespeare’s plays in Elizabethan and Jacobean dress It considers why this traditional approach to design appeals to contemporary directors, designers and audiences, and how it has shaped the meaning of Shakespeare’s works

Ella Hawkins examines the minutiae of modern design as well as the widespread cultural movements that have produced our modern relationship with the period of Shakespeare’s lifetime

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 288 pages • 15 bw illus

PB 9781350234451 • £24 99 / $34 95

Previously published in HB 9781350234420

ePub 9781350234437 £72 00 / $98 54

ePdf 9781350234444 £72 00 / $98 54

The Arden Shakespeare

Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries

Shifting Centres and Peripheries in the Nineteenth Century

Edited by Nely Keinänen, University of Helsinki, Finland & Per Sivefors, Linnaeus University, Sweden

Charting the early dissemination of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries in the 19th century, the authors open up an area of global Shakespeare studies that has received little attention to date With case studies exploring the earliest translations of Hamlet into Danish; the first translation of Macbeth into Swedish; adaptations into Finnish; Kierkegaard’s re-working of King Lear, and the reception of the African-American actor Ira Aldridge’s performances in Stockholm, it intervenes in the current discussion of global Shakespeare and more recent concepts like ‘rhizome’, which challenge the notion of an Anglocentric model of ‘centre’ versus ‘periphery’

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 344 pages • 3 bw illus

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Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Queer Analytics

Distant Reading and Collaborative Intimacy in 'Love’s Martyr'

Don Rodrigues, Old Dominion University, USA

What led Shakespeare to write his most cryptic poem, “The Phoenix and Turtle”, published in Robert Chester’s enigmatic collection of verse, Love’s Martyr (1601)? Don Rodrigues critiques and revises traditional computational attribution studies by integrating the insights of queer theory to a study of Love's Martyr in which he presents, most radically, data that supports the once-outlandish theory that Shakespeare may have had a significant hand in editing works signed by Chester It articulates 'queer analytics' – an approach to literary analysis that joins the non-normative close reading of queer theory to the distant attention of computational literary studies

UK August 2023 US August 2023 296 pages 8 bw illus

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Series: Arden Shakespeare Studies in Language and Digital Methodologies • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare on European Festival Stages

Edited by Nicoleta Cinpoes, University of Worcester, UK, Florence March, University

Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France & Paul Prescott, University of Warwick, Coventry

Shakespeare on European Festival Stages is the first book to chart Shakespeare’s presence at European festivals and to examine the role these festivals play in European socio-cultural exchanges, while considering the impact festivals have on the production and circulation of staged Shakespeare This collection offers the most authoritative and informed accounts of a wide range of festivals hosted in 14 countries, including the Itaka Shakespeare Festival (Serbia), the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival (Poland), Shake-Nice! (France) and the Almago Festival (Spain)

UK July 2023

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