Shakespeare imprint: 191 books

Troilus and Cressida

Third Series, Revised Edition

by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015

A revised edition of this intriguing and complex play, updated to cover recent critical thinking and stage history. Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy often labelled a "problem" play because of its apparent blend of genres and its difficult themes. Set in the Trojan Wars it tells a story...

King Henry IV Part 2

Third Series

by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016

More troubled and troubling than King Henry IV Part 1, the play continues the story of King Henry's decline and Hal's reform. Though Part 2 echoes the structure of the earlier play, it is a darker and more unsettling world, in which even Falstaff's revelry is more tired and cynical, and the once-merry...

Titus Andronicus

Revised Edition

by Professor, Sir Jonathan Bate
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018

Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful in his lifetime. Subsequent generations have struggled with its bold confrontation of violence but in the 20th and 21st centuries the play has chimed with audiences again, perhaps because of its simultaneously...

Playing Indoors

Staging Early Modern Drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

by Will Tosh
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018

What have we discovered about performance practice in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse since the opening of the intimate candlelit theatre at Shakespeare's Globe? Playing Indoors reveals the results of a two-year study into the performance of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in this unique theatre, drawing...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017

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...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. This major project offers an unprecedented scholarly analysis of the contribution made...

Tragic Cognition in Shakespeare's Othello

Beyond the Neural Sublime

by Professor Paul Cefalu
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015

Paul Cefalu argues that Shakespearean characters raise timely questions about the relationship between cognition and consciousness and often defy our assumptions about "normal†? cognition. The book will appeal to scholars and students interested in both the virtues and limitations of cognitive literary criticism.
by Bridget Escolme
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. It argues that the ways in which today's popular and theatrical cultures judge how much is too much can distort our understanding of early modern drama and theatre....

Performing Hamlet

Actors in the Modern Age

by Jonathan Croall
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018

Hamlet is arguably the most famous play on the planet, and the greatest of all Shakespeare's works. Its rich story and complex leading role have provoked intense debate and myriad interpretations. To play such a uniquely multi-faceted character as Hamlet represents the supreme challenge for...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014

Great Shakespeareans presents a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. This major project offers an unprecedented scholarly analysis of the contribution...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014

Great Shakespeareans presents a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. This major project offers an unprecedented scholarly analysis of the contribution...

Essential Shakespeare

The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation

by Dr. Pamela Bickley, Dr. Jenny Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013

An introductory critical study for first year undergraduates which bridges the gap between A Level and university study. The book offers an accessible overview of key critical perspectives, early modern contexts, and methods of close reading, as well as screen and stage performances spanning several...
by Genevieve Love, Professor Tanya Pollard, Professor Lisa Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018

What work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre? Through a consideration of a range of plays, including Doctor Faustus and Richard III, Genevieve Love argues that the figure of the physically disabled prosthetic body in early modern English theatre mediates a set of related...
by Dr. Farah Karim Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019

Shakespeare's and Peele's Titus Andronicus has had a theatrical and a critical revival in the last fifteen years; the critical revival was perhaps prompted by Jonathan Bate's Arden edition of the play and its revision of the traditional critical account that it is an immature work and overly sensationalistic...
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