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Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama
King Lear: Language and Writing
Jean E. Howard, Columbia University, USA This guide argues that King Lear's elemental power springs from its language, which is at once simple, relentless, and riddling, and from its full-blown double plot that multiplies unbearably both the follies and the pain of its protagonists. It also explores recent critical approaches to the play and its theatre history and includes practical ‘how to’ content on the study skills necessary to succeed as a critical thinker and writer.
UK February 2022 • US March 2022 • 144 pages PB 9781408182277 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781472518361 • £50.00 / $68.00 ePub 9781408182291 • £15.29 / $21.97 ePdf 9781408182284 • £15.29 / $21.97 Series: Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing • The Arden Shakespeare 'Scorns and Mislike' in Shakespeare's Plays
B. J. Sokol, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK How are various forms of prejudice portrayed in the works of Shakespeare and to what extent does Shakespeare differ from his contemporaries in their portrayal? What can we learn about Shakespeare's times and our own through a close reading of prejudice depicted in his plays? Through detailed analysis of his plays, comparison with the works of other Elizabethan writers and a consideration of Shakespeare's social environment, the study provides an appreciation of how Shakespeare represents prejudice against education, the arts, peace, ‘strangers’ or outsiders, and sexual love.
UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 320 pages • 3 bw illus HB 9781350168398 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350168404 • £72.00 / $100.29 ePdf 9781350168411 • £72.00 / $100.29 The Arden Shakespeare
Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama
Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK; Douglas Bruster, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Interruptions in Early Modern English Drama
Michael M. Wagoner, United States Naval Academy, USA This is the first full-length study to analyse interruption as a dramatic form in the works of William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and John Fletcher. Through close analysis of dialogue and punctuation, stage directions, such as exists, entrances and music, and conventions of plot in early modern play texts, Michael Wagoner reveals how interruptions are integral to shaping characterisation, building interiority and indicative of aspects of authorial style. From the Ghost’s appearance in Hamlet to Celia’s frightful speech in Volpone, interruptions are an overlooked linguistic and dramatic form that delineates the balance of power with a scene.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 304 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350238312 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350238329 • £72.00 / $100.29 ePdf 9781350238336 • £72.00 / $100.29 Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama • The Arden Shakespeare
Staging Britain's Past
Pre-Roman Britain in Early Modern Drama
Kim Gilchrist, Cardiff University, UK The first study of the early modern performance of Britain's pre-Roman history. Shakespeare’s contemporaries were discovering that the Trojan exile Brute and his descendants, once widely believed as proof of glorious ancient origins, were a mischievous medieval invention. Offering a comprehensive account of the extraordinary theatrical tradition that emerged from these Brutan histories and the reasons for that tradition’s disappearance, this study gathers all known evidence of the plays, pageants and masques portraying Britain’s ancient rulers, from Gorboduc’s powerful invocation of history to Cymbeline’s elegiac erosion of all notions of historical truth.
Money and Magic in Early Modern Drama
Edited by David Hawkes, Arizona State University, USA This volume considers three ideological forces in early modern England: money, magic and the theatre. The invisible nature of money’s power struck many contemporaries as magical and contributed to the hysteria behind witch-hunts. Theatre, simultaneously, emerged as a medium well-suited to representing the powers of magic. Part One considers an array of figures ranging from Plautus through John Lyly to Christopher Marlowe, while remaining focused on the nexus of money and magic. Part Two concentrates on Shakespeare, whose diagnosis of the relations between finance, witchcraft and the stage is explored in Timon of Athens, The Tempest and A Winter’s Tale.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 224 pages HB 9781350247048 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350247055 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350247062 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama • The Arden Shakespeare
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 296 pages • 3 bw illus PB 9781350232822 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350163348 ePub 9781350163355 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350163362 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble
Fiona Ritchie, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Siblings Sarah Siddons (1755-1831) and John Philip Kemble (1757-1823) were the most famous British actors of the late-18th and early-19th centuries and were known for their work with Shakespeare. This book examines their careers on the London stage, and considers their work together (including performances of King John, Coriolanus and Macbeth). The actors’ careers were also marked by political upheaval and two major Shakespeare scandals: the staging of Vortigern (a fake Shakespearean play) in 1796 and the Old Price Riots of 1809 (during which the audience challenged Siddons’s and Kemble’s perceived attempts to control Shakespeare).
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 240 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9781350352421 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350073289 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350073296 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350073302 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare
Hamlet: The State of Play
Edited by Sonia Massai, King's College London, UK & Lucy Munro, King's College London, UK This collection brings together essays exploring the play from a variety of different angles: drawing on contemporary approaches to gender, sexuality, race, the history of emotions, memory, visual and material cultures, performativity, theories and histories of place, and textual studies. They offer fresh approaches to literary and cultural analysis, offer accessible introductions to some current ways of exploring the relationship between the three early texts, and present analysis of some important recent responses to Hamlet on screen and stage, together with a set of approaches to the study of adaptation.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350232747 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350117723 ePub 9781350117730 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350117747 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: Arden Shakespeare The State of Play • The Arden Shakespeare
The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks
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 place in the early modern book trade; Shakespeare’s early readers, users, and collectors; the constitution and evolution of the Shakespeare canon from the 16th to the 21st century; Shakespeare’s editors from the 18th 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 • £34.99 / $47.95 Previously published in HB 9781350080638 ePub 9781350080645 • £117.00 / $162.12 ePdf 9781350080652 • £117.00 / $162.12 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks • The Arden Shakespeare
Arden Shakespeare The State of Play
Ann Thompson, King's College London, UK; Lena Cowen Orlin, Georgetown University, USA
The Taming of the Shrew: The State of Play
Edited by Jennifer Flaherty, Georgia College, USA & Heather C. Easterling, Gonzaga University, USA The Taming of the Shrew has puzzled, entertained and angered audiences, and it has been reinvented many times throughout its controversial history. Offering a focused overview of key emerging ideas and discourses surrounding Shakespeare’s problematic comedy, the volume reveals and debates how contemporary readings and adaptions of the play have sought to reconsider and resolve the play’s contentious handling of gender, power and identity.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 272 pages • 3 bw illus PB 9781350217768 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350138193 ePub 9781350138209 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350138216 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: Arden Shakespeare The State of Play • The Arden Shakespeare
Edited by Peter Kirwan, University of Nottingham, UK & Kathryn Prince, University of Ottawa, Canada This is an authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and performance studies. It contains chapters on the key methods and questions surrounding the performance event, the audience and the archive. A central section of essays considers new approaches to space, bodies and language, work on the technologies of remediation and original practices, consideration of fandoms and the cultural capital invested in Shakespeare, and political and ethical interventions in performance practice. A curated section offers short pieces by theatre professionals on what they see as the key areas and challenges for researchers to explore.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 416 pages • 3 bw illus PB 9781350225169 • £39.99 / $54.95 Previously published in HB 9781350080676 ePub 9781350080690 • £117.00 / $162.12 ePdf 9781350080683 • £117.00 / $162.12 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks • The Arden Shakespeare
