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Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama
Essays on Race, Culture and the Elite
Edited by Arthur L. Little, Jr., UCLA, USA This edited collection examines how Shakespeare’s early modern stage turned the English masses into 'white people' and how white people, especially from the 19th century onward, used Shakespeare to rationalize and aestheticize the privileges granted them as white people The volume explores the relationship between Shakespeare and whiteness in the early modern past, the role of Shakespeare in whitenation-making, and the function of white Shakespeare and white Shakespeareans in the academy It argues that early modern English theatre was crucial to the development of whiteness as an embodied identity and that this legacy continues to shape Shakespeare’s reception
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 352 pages • 4 bw illus PB 9781350285668 • £2199 / $2995 • HB 9781350283640 • £6500 / $9000 ePub 9781350283657 • £1979 / $2747 ePdf 9781350283664 • £1979 / $2747 The Arden Shakespeare
Creating Space for Shakespeare
Working with Marginalised Communities
Rowan Mackenzie, Independent scholar and theatre practitioner, UK How can performing Shakespeare's works offer opportunities for reflection, transformation and dialogue regarding social justice and the challenge of perceived limitations? This book explores a diverse range of projects from across the globe, many of which the author has facilitated or been directly involved with, including those with incarcerated people, people with mental health issues, learning disabilities and who have experienced homelessness As this book evidences, Shakespeare can be used to alter the spatial constraints of people who feel imprisoned, whether literally or metaphorically, enabling them to speak to be heard
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 272 pages • 25 bw illus HB 9781350272651 • £8000 / $11000 ePub 9781350272668 • £7200 / $10029 ePdf 9781350272729 • £7200 / $10029 Series: Shakespeare and Social Justice • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory
Sujata Iyengar, University of Georgia, USA This volume reconsiders the theory and practice of adapting Shakespeare. Each chapter identifies and discusses a different metaphor that critics and cultural producers use to describe the processes and products of adaptation, and takes as a case study a different Shakespeare play and adaptations of it in different generic and intermedial contexts, including film, theatrical productions, novels, and digital media Each chapter seasons its theoretical discussions with a lively sprinkling of allusions to Shakespeare – ranging from fan-fiction, TikTok, and tea-towels, to quartos, operas, and fine art.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 224 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781350073579 • £2499 / $3495 • HB 9781350073586 • £7500 / $10000 ePub 9781350073593 • £2249 / $3159 ePdf 9781350073609 • £2249 / $3159 Series: Shakespeare and Theory • The Arden Shakespeare
Materializing the East in Early Modern English Drama
Edited by Aisha Hussain, University of Salford, UK & Murat Ögütcü, Munzur University, Turkey This book re-examines the (mis)representation of the East on the early modern English stage, broadening our understanding of early modern theatrical productions beyond Shakespeare and the European continent It traces the origin of conventional depictions of the East to university dramas and explores how they influenced the commercial stage Chapters uncover how representations of the East were communicated through stage architecture, costumes and performance effects It also puts neglected plays, including The Battle of Alcazar, The Historie of Orlando Furioso and Leo the Armenian, in conversation with more frequently studied texts such as The Tempest and The Island Princess.
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 272 pages • 14 bw illus HB 9781350300453 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350300460 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350300477 • £7650 / $10578 Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama • The Arden Shakespeare
Global Shakespeare Inverted
David Schalkwyk, Queen Mary, University of London, UK; Silvia Bigliazzi, Verona University, Italy & Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Recontextualizing Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West
Familiar Strangers
Edited by Varsha Panjwani, New York University, London, UK & Koel Chatterjee, Trinity Laban, UK This collection builds on preliminary work of mapping what Shakespeare has done for Indian cinema by discussing how Indian cinematic adaptations are revitalizing and can reinvigorate the broader landscape of Shakespeare research, performance and pedagogy in the West Featuring case studies, essays and conversation pieces by scholars and practitioners, this book marks a discursive shift in the way Shakespeare on Indian screen is predominantly theorised and offers an alternative methodology for examining non-Anglophone cinematic Shakespeares as a whole
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 304 pages • 9 bw illus HB 9781350168657 • £7500 / $10000 ePub 9781350168664 • £6750 / $9342 ePdf 9781350168671 • £6750 / $9342 Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Others in 21stcentury European Performance
The Merchant of Venice and Othello
Edited by Boika Sokolova, University of Notre Dame in London, UK & Janice Valls-Russell, University Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France The Merchant of Venice and Othello are the two Shakespeare plays which serve as touchstones for contemporary understandings of 'the stranger' and 'the other' This ground-breaking collection explores the dissemination of the two plays throughout Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries, tracing how interpretations have reflected changing conditions and attitudes locally and nationally Featuring case studies of productions in different countries and contributions from stage directors
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 312 pages PB 9781350260795 • £2899 / $3995 Previously published in HB 9781350125957 ePub 9781350125964 • £7200 / $10029 ePdf 9781350125971 • £7200 / $10029 Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted • The Arden Shakespeare
The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion
Bradley J. Irish, Arizona State University, USA This book argues that Shakespeare’s plays are animated by language associated with the emotion of disgust—language that the playwright consistently invokes to explore physical and symbolic boundaries Each chapter considers a different kind of disgust elicitor to demonstrate the broad workings and effects of such language throughout Shakespeare’s works It reveals how language associated with food, animals, or disease, among other subjects, provided Shakespeare with a poetic vocabulary to interrogate important thematic matters concerning the violation and preservation of boundaries
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 288 pages HB 9781350213982 • £7500 / $10000 ePub 9781350214002 • £6750 / $9342 ePdf 9781350214019 • £6750 / $9342 The Arden Shakespeare
Early Modern Liveness
Mediating Presence in Text, Stage and Screen
Edited by Danielle Rosvally, University at Buffalo, USA & Donovan Sherman, Seton Hall University, USA This collection extends discussions of ‘liveness’ to works from the 16th and 17th centuries, both in their initial incarnations and contemporary adaptations It uses ‘liveness’ to consider how early modern theatre – including non-Western and non-traditional performance practices – employed embodiment, materiality, temporality and perception to impress on its audience a sensation of presence The volume covers topics from material textual studies, to early modern rehearsal methods, to the legacy of Shakespearean performance in global theatrical repertoires Productions and adaptations discussed include the RSC’s The Winter’s Tale, the National Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet (2021), Kit Monkman’s Macbeth and Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 240 pages • 18 bw illus HB 9781350318472 • £8000 / $11000 ePub 9781350318489 • £7200 / $10029 ePdf 9781350318496 • £7200 / $10029 The Arden Shakespeare
The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks
The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
Perspectives on Culture, Performance and Identity
Edited by Michelle M. Dowd, University of Alabama, USA & Tom Rutter, University of Sheffield, UK This collection offers a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on drama and society in Shakespeare's England, mapping the variety of approaches to the context and work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries Chapters explore early modern drama through a range of cultural contexts and approaches, from material culture and emotion studies to early modern race work and new directions in gender and sexuality studies The volume also includes a new chronology of early modern drama, a survey of resources, and an annotated bibliography
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 432 pages • 6 bw illus HB 9781350161856 • £13000 / $17500 ePub 9781350161863 • £11700 / $16212 ePdf 9781350161870 • £11700 / $16212 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks • The Arden Shakespeare Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA This is the first book devoted to a consideration of how Shakespeare explores the concept of forgetting and how forgetting functions in performance A wide-ranging study of how Shakespeare dramatizes forgetting, it offers close readings of Shakespeare's plays and considers too what we forget while watching the plays in performance, what Shakespeare forgot and what we forget about Shakespeare The book touches on an equally broad range of forgetting theory from antiquity through to the present day, of forgetting in recent novels and films, and on dozens of productions across the history of Shakespeare on stage and film.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 264 pages PB 9781350211537 • £2899 / $3995 Previously published in HB 9781350211490 ePub 9781350211506 • £6750 / $9342 ePdf 9781350211513 • £6750 / $9342 The Arden Shakespeare
King Lear
Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition
Edited by Kevin J. Donovan, Middle Tennessee State University, USA This volume documents the reception and interpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear by critics, editors and general readers from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries Following an introduction which provides an historical account of the play’s critical reception from the earliest times to the present day, the volume presents a selection of original documents, together with contextual head notes and biographical sketches of the authors The extracts follow a chronological order to give a synoptic overview of criticism on the play, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 496 pages HB 9781350128415 • £15000 / $20000 ePub 9781350128422 • £13500 / $18685 ePdf 9781350128439 • £13500 / $18685 Series: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition • The Arden Shakespeare
Edited by Lukas Erne, University of Geneva, Switzerland This is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and textual studies by an international team of leading scholars It contains chapters on all the major areas of current research, notably the Shakespeare manuscripts; the printed text and paratext in Shakespeare’s early playbooks and poetry books; Shakespeare’s early readers, users, and collectors; the constitution and evolution of the Shakespeare canon from the 16th to the 21st century; and the modern editorial reproduction of Shakespeare Further resources equip readers for their own research
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 408 pages • 25 bw illus PB 9781350225190 • £3499 / $4795 Previously published in HB 9781350080638 ePub 9781350080645 • £11700 / $16212 ePdf 9781350080652 • £11700 / $16212 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks • The Arden Shakespeare
