SHAKESPEARE STUDIES
SHAKESPEARE STUDIES Arden Early Modern Drama Guides Macbeth
Richard III
A Critical Reader
A Critical Reader
Edited by John Drakakis
Edited by Annaliese Connolly
Introducing key themes and the history of the play's performance and critical reception, this is a comprehensive guide to Macbeth by leading international scholars.
Assembled by leading scholars, this guide provides a comprehensive survey of major issues in the contemporary study of the play. Throughout the book survey chapters explore such issues as the play's critical reception from Dr Johnson to postmodern readings in the 21st century; the performance history of the play; key themes in current scholarship; and Richard III on film.
JOHN DRAKAKIS is Professor of English Studies at the University of Stirling, UK. UK July 2013 / US September 2013 352 Pages • 198 x 129mm • 7.8 x 5 inches PB 9780567432278 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9780567640796 • £55.00 / $100.00 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
ANNALIESE CONNOLLY is Senior Lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. UK October 2013 / US December 2013 224 Pages • 216 x 138mm • 8.5 x 5.5 inches PB 9781472504968 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441168252 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Twelfth Night A Critical Reader
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare
Edited by Alison Findlay & Liz Oakley-Brown
This is Living Art
Throughout this contemporary study of the play, chapters explore such issues as the play's critical reception from John Manningham's account of one of its first performances to major current commentators like Stephen Greenblatt; the performance history of the play, from Shakespeare's day to the present and key themes in current scholarship, from issues of gender and sexuality to the study of comedy and song.
Josie Billington
ALISON FINDLAY is Professor of Renaissance Drama at the Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Lancaster, UK. LIZ OAKLEY-BROWN is Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Writing at the Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Lancaster, UK. UK November 2013 / US January 2014 224 Pages • 216 x 138mm • 8.5 x 5.5 inches PB 9781472503299 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441128782 • £55.00 / $100.00 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare, 'Othello' and Domestic Tragedy
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Sean Benson This is the first book to explore the ways in which Shakespeare exploits the conventions of the genre of domestic tragedy in Othello. Benson argues that just as Hamlet employs and adapts the conventions of revenge tragedy, so Othello can only be fully understood in terms of its exploitation of the tropes and conventions of domestic tragedy.
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An examination of the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning that connects her creative disposition, mind, and mode to Shakespeare. Through close attention to original manuscript material, Billington argues that Barrett Browning's fast, fine and excitedly vigorous and agile imaginative intelligence is Shakespearean, both in its power, and in the creative drive and dynamic to which it gives rise. JOSIE BILLINGTON teaches in the School of English, University of Liverpool, UK. UK May 2013 / US July 2013 160 Pages • 234 x 156mm • 9.2 x 6.1 inches • 10 illus PB 9781472510969 • £16.99 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
Shakespeare's Demonology A Dictionary Marion Gibson & Jo Ann Esra This volume in the long-running and acclaimed Shakespeare Dictionary series is a detailed, critical reference work examining all aspects of magic, good and evil, across Shakespeare's works. Topics covered include the representation of fairies, witches, ghosts, devils and spirits.
SEAN BENSON is Associate Professor of English at the University of Dubuque, USA.
MARION GIBSON is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, UK. JO ANN ESRA is a Doctoral student at the University of Exeter, UK.
UK April 2013 / US April 2013 192 Pages • 234 x 156mm • 9.2 x 6.1 inches PB 9781472508874 • £18.99 / $29.95 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
UK December 2013 / US January 2014 480 Pages • 234 x 156mm • 9.2 x 6.1 inches HB 9780826498342 • £150.00 / $295.00 Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
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