Shakespeare imprint: 191 books

Much Ado About Nothing

Revised Edition

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

Much Ado About Nothing presents a battle of the sexes in more ways than one: as both a lightning-fast skirmish of wits between two famously disputatious lovers, and a near-deadly conflict built on conventions of gender and male rivalry. Claire McEachern's new introduction brings this best-seller...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018

This volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking 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...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017

What do 'stage directions' do in early modern drama? Who or what are they directing: action on the stage, or imagination via the page? Is the label 'stage direction' helpful or misleading? Do these 'directions' provide evidence of Renaissance playhouse practice? What happens when we put them at the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014

The second set of volumes in the eighteen-volume series Great Shakespeareans, covering the work of nineteen key figures who influenced the global understanding of Shakespeare

The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama

An Introduction with Primary Sources

by Dr. Brinda Charry
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017

The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama is a single critical and contextual resource forstudents embarking on an in-depth exploration of early modern drama, providing both critical insight and accessible contextual information. This companion equips students with the information needed to situate the...
by Indira Ghose
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017

Much Ado About Nothing presents a world of glittering surfaces and exquisite social performances. The language of the play sparkles with a fireworks of wit and dazzling bouts of repartee, most memorably in the "merry war" of words between the reluctant lovers, Benedick and Beatrice. A closer...

Emerson, Melville, James, Berryman

Great Shakespeareans: Volume VIII

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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

A comprehensive analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by major American writers and poets.

English Renaissance Tragedy

Ideas of Freedom

by Dr Peter Holbrook
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015

This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or "heritage†? reasons. The book considers the way in which tragedy in general, and English Renaissance...

Macready, Booth, Terry, Irving

Great Shakespeareans: Volume VI

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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014

A comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by figures in Victorian theatre.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014

The Tempest contains sublime poetry and catchy songs, magic and low comedy, while it tackles important contemporary concerns: education, power politics, the effects of colonization, and technology. In this guide, Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan open up new ways into one of Shakespeare's most popular, malleable and controversial plays.

Bradley, Greg, Folger

Great Shakespeareans: Volume IX

by Cary DiPietro
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

A comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by Bradley, Greg and Folger.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016

Uniquely, this guide analyses the play's critical and performance history and recent criticism, as well as including five essays offering radically new paths for contemporary interpretation. The subject matter of these essays is rich and diverse, ranging across the play's philosophical identification...

The Spanish Tragedy

A Critical Reader

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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016

The Spanish Tragedy was the first 'revenge tragedy' on the English Renaissance stage: but for its influence, major dramas including The Revenger's Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi and even Hamlet would not exist as they do. It is thus a key text for the study of Renaissance drama and normally appears...
by Prof. Dympna Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015

This lively and informative guide reveals Hamlet as marking a turning point in Shakespeare's use of language and dramatic form as well as addressing the key problem at the play's core: Hamlet's inaction. It also looks at recent critical approaches to the play and its theatre history, including the recent David Tennant / RSC Hamlet on both stage and TV screen.
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