The Arden Shakespeare imprint: 185 books
by Nicki Faircloth, Vivian Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Shakespeare lived when knowledge of plants and their uses was a given, but also at a time of unique interest in plants and gardens.His lifetime saw the beginning of scientific interest in plants, the first large-scale plant introductions from outside the country since Roman times, and the beginning...
Shakespeare's Pictures
Visual Objects in the Drama
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Shakespeare's Pictures is the first full-length study of visual objects in Shakespearean drama. In several plays (Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night, among others) pictures are brought on stage - in the form of portraits or other images - as part of the dramatic action. Shakespeare's...
Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre
Thinking with the Body
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors?Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body examines the 'toolkit' of the early modern player and suggests new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and...
by Professor Marianne Novy
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first played by boys? This book shows how many kinds of feminist theory help analyze the dynamics of Shakespeare's...
Shakespeare's Insults
A Pragmatic Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Why are certain words used as insults in Shakespeare's world and what do these words do and say? Shakespeare's plays abound with insults which are more often merely cited than thoroughly studied, quotation prevailing over exploration. The purpose of this richly detailed dictionary is to go beyond...
by Professor John Drakakis, Dr Dale Townshend
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
ARDEN RENAISSANCE DRAMA GUIDES offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars provide invaluable insights into the text by presenting a range of critical...
Antipodal Shakespeare
Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916 - 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Despite a recent surge of critical interest in the Shakespeare Tercentenary, a great deal has been forgotten about this key moment in the history of the place of Shakespeare in national and global culture – much more than has been remembered. This book offers new archival discoveries about, and...
Queering the Shakespeare Film
Gender Trouble, Gay Spectatorship and Male Homoeroticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
A range of mainstream and independent English language film productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice take centre stage in Queering the Shakespeare Film. This study critiques the various representations of the queer – broadly understood...
A Year of Shakespeare
Re-living the World Shakespeare Festival
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
A Year of Shakespeare gives a uniquely expert and exciting overview of the largest Shakespeare celebration the world has ever known: the World Shakespeare Festival 2012. This is the only book to describe and analyse each of the Festival's 73 productions in well-informed,lively reviews by eminent and...
The Shakespeare Hut
A Story of Memory, Performance and Identity, 1916-1923
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
This book tells the forgotten story of the Shakespeare Hut, a vast, mock-Tudor building for New Zealand Anzac soldiers visiting London on leave from the front lines. Constructed in Bloomsbury in 1916, the Hut was to be the only built memorial to mark Shakespeare's Tercentenary in the midst of war....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Shakespeare: Actors and Audiences brings together the voices of those who make productions of Shakespeare come to life. It shines a spotlight on the relationship between actors and audiences and explores the interplay that makes each performance unique. We know much about theatre in Shakespeare's...
Shakespeare in the Global South
Stories of Oceans Crossed in Contemporary Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare's plays have brought into sharp focus the legacies of slavery, racism and colonial dispossession that still haunt the global South. Looking sideways across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to nontraditional centres of Shakespeare practice, Shakespeare in the Global...
Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
Text and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Where does Shakespeare fit into the drama of his day? Getting to know the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries offers an insight into Elizabethan and Jacobean preoccupations and the theatrical climate of the early modern period. This book provides an essential overview of some major dramatic works...
Marx and Freud
Great Shakespeareans: Volume X
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
This volume looks at Marx and Freud, who, though not 'Shakespeareans' in the usual academic or theatrical sense, were both deeply informed by Shakespeare's writings, and have both had enormous influence on the understanding and reception of Shakespeare. The first section of this volume consists of...