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cRItIcAL coMPAnIons Decades of Modern British Playwriting Voices, Documents, New Interpretations Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama’s Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to 2009 in six volumes. Each volume features a critical analysis and reevaluation of the work of four/five key playwrights from that decade authored by a team of experts, together with an extensive commentary on the period.

Four/five scholars provide: • Detailed examinations of the playwrights’ work during the decade • An analysis of their plays • A study of other material such as early play drafts, interviews and the critical receptions, • An afterword reviewing what the writers went on to do • A summary evaluation of their contribution to British theatre from the perspective of the twenty-first century Series editors: Richard Boon, Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Drama and Music of the University of Hull, UK, and Philip Roberts, Emeritus Professor in the School of English of the University of Leeds, UK. 352pp • 216mmx135mm • Paperback • £16.99 / $27.95 each

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Modern British Playwriting: the 50s

Modern British Playwriting: the 60s

Modern British Playwriting: the 70s

David Pattie

Steve Nicholson

Chris Megson

UK: October 2012 US: December 2012

UK: October 2012 US: December 2012

UK: May 2012 US: July 2012

Sarah Bay-Cheng on T.S. Eliot David Pattie on Terence Rattigan Luc Gilleman on John Osborne John Bull on Arnold Wesker

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Steve Nicholson on Edward Bond Bill McDonnell on John Arden Jamie Andrews on Harold Pinter Frances Babbage on Alan Ayckbourn

David Pattie is Professor of Drama at the University of Chester.

Steve Nicholson is Director of Drama within the English Department at the University of Sheffield.

Paperback: 9781408129272 E-IND: 9781408159569 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

Paperback: 9781408129579 E-IND: 9781408157114 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

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Paola Botham on Caryl Churchill Chris Megson on David Hare Richard Boon on Howard Brenton Janelle Reinelt on David Edgar

Chris Megson is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has taught and published widely in the field of modern drama, and is editor of The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays.

Paperback: 9781408129388 E-IND: 9781408129395 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

Modern British Playwriting: the 80s

Modern British Playwriting: the 90s

Modern British Playwriting: 2000-2009

Jane Milling

Aleks Sierz

Dan Rebellato

UK: October 2012 US: December 2012

UK: May 2012 US: July 2012

Coming 2013

Sarah Goldingay on Howard Barker David Lane on Jim Cartwright Jane Milling on Sarah Daniels Sara Freeman on Timberlake Wertenbaker

Jane Milling is Senior Lecturer in the department of Drama at the University of Exeter.

Paperback: 9781408129593 E-IND: 9781408157107 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

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Catherine Rees on Sarah Kane Patricia Reid on Anthony Neilson Graham Saunders on Mark Ravenhill Aleks Sierz on Philip Ridley

Aleks Sierz is a freelance theatre reviewer and visiting Professor at Rose Bruford College He is the author of the seminal study of British playwriting of the 1990s, In Yer Face Theatre, and of Rewriting the Nation.

Paperback: 9781408129265 E-IND: 9781408157121 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

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Nadine Holdsworth on David Greig Jacqueline Bolton on Simon Stephens Dan Rebellato on Tim Crouch Michael Pearce on Roy Williams Lynette Goddard on debbie tucker green

Dan Rebellato is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Paperback: 9781408129265 E-IND: 9781408157121 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

cRItIcAL coMPAnIons seRIes The Plays of Samuel Beckett Katherine Weiss UK: October 2012 US: December 2012

Katherine Weiss’ admirably clear study of Beckett’s work provides the perfect companion, illuminating each play and Beckett’s vision, and investigating his experiments with the body, voice and technology.

It includes in-depth studies of the major works and features a series of essays by other scholars and practitioners offering different critical perspectives on Beckett in performance that will inform students’ own critical thinking. Together with a series of resources including a chronology, glossary of theoretical and technical terms and a list of further reading, this is ideal for all students and readers of Beckett’s work.

Katherine Weiss is Assistant Professor of Modern Drama in the Department of English, East Tennessee State University, USA. 272pp • 216mmx135mm Paperback: 9781408145579 • £14.99/$24.95 Hardback: 9781408157305 • £55.00/$100.00 E-IND: 9781408145593 • £14.99/$24.95 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

Also Available: Ten Ways of Thinking about Samuel Beckett Enoch Brater

The Theatre and Films of Martin McDonagh

Stephen Poliakoff on Stage and Screen

Patrick Lonergan

Robin Nelson

UK: February 2012 US: April 2012

UK: May 2012 US: July 2012

This is a highly readable and illuminating analysis of McDonagh’s career to date that will appeal to the legions of fans of his stage plays and the films Six Shooter and In Bruges.

Patrick Lonergan provides a detailed analysis of each of his plays and films, their original staging, critical reception, and the connections within and between the work. It includes an interview with Garry Hynes, artistic director of Druid Theatre Company, and offers four critical essays on key features of McDonagh’s work by leading international scholars: Joan Fitzpatrick Dean, Eamonn Jordan, Jose Lanters and Karen O’Brien.

Patrick Lonergan is a lecturer in English at National University of Ireland, Galway.

272pp • 216mmx135mm Paperback: 9781408136119 • £14.99/$24.95 Hardback: 9781408160596 • £55.00/$100.00 E-IND: 9781408136126 • £14.99/$24.95 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

Paperback: 9781408137222 • £16.99/$25.95

This book is the first to offer a comprehensive overview of Poliakoff’s work for stage and screen and a framework for its critical evaluation. Robin Nelson locates Poliakoff’s distinctive vision and fierce independence as a writer and director in both personal and public histories and against industry contexts. He charts Poliakoff’s ‘meteoric rise’ as a playwright, and his ‘second starburst’ in television drama since Shooting the Past (1999) which reaffirmed his reputation as a dramatist of distinction.

The book covers ‘issue dramas’, ‘quirky strong women’ and ‘histories/memories’ as well as Poliakoff’s early developing dramaturgy, and it examines in detail the later feature films and television dramas which have secured his reputation as our most distinctive television dramatist.

Robin Nelson is Visiting Professor at the University of London (CSSD) and Emeritus Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University.

272pp • 216mmx135mm Paperback: 9781408131084 • £14.99/$24.95 E-IND: 9781408145920 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

tHeAtRe ReFeRence Modern British Theatre in 100 Plays

Rewriting the Nation

Kate Dorney

Aleks Sierz

UK: September 2012 US: November 2012

UK: January 2011 US: March 2011

British Theatre Today

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights Edited by: Martin Middeke, Peter Paul Schnierer & Aleks Sierz UK: October 2011 US: December 2011

Published in collaboration with the V&A, Modern British Theatre in 100 Plays explores the best and most influential plays from 1945 to date. Fully illustrated with photos from the V&A’s collections, the book includes essays, review excerpts, plot summaries, extracts and insight into stage and costume designs.

Essays written by Kate Dorney, Curator of the V&A’s Contemporary Theatre Collections, explore trends by decade and discuss the plot, intent and impact of each play. There are also short pieces by high profile industry figures, including Trevor Nunn, Diana Rigg, Judi Dench and Timothy West.

Kate Dorney is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Performance at the Victoria & Albert Theatre Collections, London, UK. She is the author of The Changing Language of Modern English Drama 1945-2005.

192pp • 276mmx219mm Hardback: 9781408164808 • £25.00 E-IND: 9781408177921

“Sierz’s fluent, up-to-date new study is further proof that he is one of British theatre’s leading critics.”

Times Literary Supplement

This is an essential guide for anyone interested in the best new British stage plays to emerge in the new millennium. It provides an in-depth exploration of the industry and of the key plays and playwrights. It opens by defining what is meant by ‘new writing’ and providing a study of the leading theatres.

In the second part, Sierz provides a fascinating survey of the main issues that have characterized new plays in the first decade of the new century, such as foreign policy and war overseas, economic boom and bust, divided communities and questions of identity and race.

Aleks Sierz is a freelance theatre reviewer and visiting Professor at Rose Bruford College. He is the author of The Theatre of Martin Crimp.

288pp • 216mmx135mm Paperback: 9781408112380 • £16.99/$25.95 E-IND: 9781408145708 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

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The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights who have risen to prominence since the 1980s. Each essay features: • A biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright • A discussion of their most important plays • An analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of British theatre • A bibliography of texts and critical material Martin Middeke is Chair of English Literature at the University of Augsburg and Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg. Peter Paul Schnierer is Chair of English Literature at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Aleks Sierz is the author of The Theatre of Martin Crimp and Rewriting the Nation.

544pp • 216mmx135mm Paperback: 9781408122785 • £18.99/$24.95 E-IND: 9781408159675 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

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PeRFoRMAnce: tHeoRY & PRActIce Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Training for Performance

An Anthology of Play Texts 1966 - 2010

UK: May 2012 US: July 2012

A meta-disciplinary account

John Matthews

Edited by: Anna Furse

The Craft of Theatre: Seminars and Discussions in Brechtian Theatre Ekkehard Schall UK: February 2012 US: April 2012

UK: July 2012 US: September 2012

Theatre in Pieces is an innovative compilation of seven highly acclaimed productions by key practitioners of non-playwright-driven theatre. Each playtext is reproduced in full and accompanied by extensive notes from members of the original producing theatre. A substantial introduction by Anna Furse provides an overview of the works.

“Training for Performance is the first work of its kind; not in the sense that it addresses training for performance, but in that it invites a critical questioning of the imperatives and the rhetoric which govern academic and practical concerns for training alike.”

Anna Furse is an award-winning theatre director and is the director of the MA in Performance Making at Goldsmiths and the curator of the Performance Research Forum.

Training for Performance: a Meta-disciplinary Account is an innovative contribution to the field of work on contemporary actor and performer training.

416pp • 234mmx156mm Paperback: 9781408139967 • £24.99/$39.95 E-IND: 9781408139981 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

Dr Martin Welton, Queen Mary University of London

John Matthews teaches Theatre and Performance at the University of Plymouth.

320pp • 234mmx156mm Paperback: 9781408129173 • £24.99/$39.95 Hardback: 9781408129180 • £50.00/$75.00 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

The Craft of Theatre is a first-hand account by one of the greatest actors and directors of the Berliner Ensemble, whose work with the company spanned over forty years. It offers an unparalleled insight to working on Brecht’s texts and in some of the great Brechtian roles and will appeal to actors, directors and students of theatre.

Ekkehard Schall (1930-2005) was a German stage and screen actor/director who was closely associated with the work of Bertolt Brecht and a member of Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble theatre company.

224pp • 216mmx135mm Paperback: 9781408159897 • £16.99/$27.95 Hardback: 9781408100691 • £45.00/$65.00 E-IND: 9781408149294 • £16.99/$27.95 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

PeRFoRMAnce: ActInG, cAReeRs & AUDItIons Movement Training for Actors

Theatre Games, Story Theatre & Scene Study

Jackie Snow

In the Studio with Joyce Piven at the Piven Theatre Workshop

UK: May 2012 US: July 2012

Actors’ Yearbook 2012 Essential contacts for Stage, Screen and Radio

Simon Dunmore

Susan Applebaum

UK: September 2012

UK: August 2012 US: October 2012

“This book has strong appeal to movement teachers and students in a variety of theater departments.”

James Bundy, Dean, Yale School of Drama, US

Movement Training for Actors illustrates a broad spectrum of approaches and encourages the development of multiple skills. This musthave resource for actors consists of a practical masterclass on movement from the Head of Movement at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, complete with video examples on a DVD. The book provides a complete curriculum on movement training: from ‘pure movement’, to games, Grotowski, Alexander, ballet, yoga and Feldenkreis.

The author takes the reader through the practical steps, enabling the actor to master each technique and apply it to performance and character. The DVD contains video examples performed by acting students and a series of three mini masterclasses. A book to use as an aide memoir for technique, or as a textbook to base a movement course around.

A practical workbook on the creative process of acting and actor training from the point of view of Joyce and Byrne Piven, professional theatre artists who co-founded The Piven Theatre Workshop in 1971. There they developed a way of working that blends two major approaches to actor training – the improvisational method, and the “Stanislavski System”.

This book sets down their tried and tested approach which has evolved from over 40 years of work at at an acclaimed and important Chicago based theatrical training institution.

Susan Applebaum is a Theatre Instructor at Loyola University Chicago and is also on the faculty of the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston.

224pp • 216mmx138mm Paperback: 9781408173879 • £14.99/$24.95 E-IND: 9781408174555

Jackie Snow is former Head of Movement at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, teaches for the British American Drama Academy summer school and works with actors as a movement consultant on feature films.

224pp • 246mmx189mm Paperback: 9781408128572 • £24.99/$34.95 E-IND: 9781408157138

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“An essential tool for all actors.”

Christine Payne, Equity

Actors’ Yearbook is the leading contacts directory for actors finding work in stage, screen and radio.

It is the only directory to provide really detailed information on each contact, as well as specific advice on how companies and individuals like to be approached – saving hours of further internet research. From agents and casting directors to producing theatres, showreel companies and photographers, Actors’ Yearbook editorially selects only the most relevant (and reputable) contacts for the actor.

Simon Dunmore is a director with over forty years’ experience of employing actors and teaching them.

496pp • 210mmx148mm Paperback: 9781408145654 • £14.99 E-IND: 9781408145678 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

PeRFoRMAnce: ActInG, cAReeRs & AUDItIons The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide How to Make Your Show a Success UK: February 2012 US: April 2012

Mark Fisher is one of Scotland’s foremost commentators on the arts. Every August, he is one of the judges for the Scotsman Fringe Firsts and an advisor for the Carol Tambor Award.

Performing Live Comedy

A Resource for Aspiring Comedians

Chris Ritchie

Brian McKim & Traci Skene

Mark Fisher

The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide draws on the experiences of the festival’s leading figures, including Simon Stephens, Lyn Gardner, producer Guy Masterson, actor Siobhan Redmond and many more, to take you step by step through the process of making your show a success in the Scottish capital.

From choosing a venue to keeping on top of the budget, from sorting out accommodation to securing the best press coverage, from generating word of mouth to making the most of a hit, this unique practical guide for performers, directors and producers helps you get your show the audience it deserves.

Comedy Techniques:

UK: September 2012 US: November 2012

UK: August 2011

From improv to stand-up, and from satire to slapstick, here’s an essential guide on how to get yourself a cult following or mainstream success.

Covering a range of skills from writing your material to physical expressiveness, this comprehensive reference is designed for comedians in all mediastand-up clubs, theatre and TV sitcom, and political comment. This is a practical guide to the art of comedy.

Brian McKim and Traci Skene are writers, professional stand-up comics and the creators of the popular comedy blog SHECKYmagazine.com.

256pp • 210mmx160mm Paperback: 9781408151525 • £14.99 E-IND: 9781408159538 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

Performing Live Comedy is for anyone who has ever thought about getting up onstage and being funny or for those who have already started. It offers a breakdown of the process of live comedy and provides a basic toolbox for the student and aspirant comedian, covering all aspects of live comedy such as stand-up, music, double acts, ventriloquists and magicians. Gender, sexuality, ethnicity and disability are also covered in this book as well as ethical considerations on what we should or should not joke about. The book breaks down the entire process of live comedy from writing a simple one-liner to creating a complete act, from organising an open spot at the local comedy club to getting into the Edinburgh Festival and running your own venue.

Performing Live Comedy is full of advice and original interviews with comedians and writers currently involved in the comedy industry.

Chris Ritchie created the innovative Comedy: Writing & Performance degree at Southampton Solent University.

256pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408132524 • £9.99/$14.95 E-IND: 9781408136485 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

240pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408146439 • £14.99/$24.95 E-IND: 9781408147238 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

An Actor’s Guide to Getting Work

Musical Theatre Auditions and Casting

5th edition

A Performer’s Guide Viewed from Both Sides of the Audition Table

Simon Dunmore UK: February 2012 US: April 2012

Neil Rutherford

Mastering the Audition How to Perform Under Pressure

Donna Soto-Morettini UK: September 2012 US: November 2012

UK: July 2012 US: September 2012

“Essential reading for any young actor.”

Dame Maggie Smith

Now in its fifth edition, completely revised and updated, this practical, comprehensive guide contains invaluable information and advice to enable actors to succeed in the business. Written with honesty, humour and thoroughness, An Actor’s Guide to Getting Work draws on the author’s rich experience in the field to offer advice to both the novice and the seasoned performer. New material in this fifth edition includes what drama schools are looking for, approaching Shakespeare for audition, professional email etiquette, using the internet as a self-marketing tool, and many more useful checklists and updated insights into the profession.

Simon Dunmore is a director with over forty years’ experience of employing actors and teaching them.

256pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408145548 • £14.99/$24.95 E-IND: 9781408151747 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

“Neil’s encyclopedic knowledge of the profession, combined with his sense of fun, is invaluable, and his experience on both side of the casting desk make him uniquely qualified in his field.”

Christopher Luscombe, award-winning director

This book provides a unique perspective on the musical theatre audition process from the viewpoint of one of the most influential casting directors in the West End. It also contains contributions from some of the world’s leading directors and musical directors, including Sir Richard Eyre and Jerry Mitchell.

Originally an actor playing roles in London’s West End, Neil Rutherford worked in production at the English National Opera before becoming Head of Casting for the Ambassador Theatre Group.

208pp • 198mmx129mm

Paperback: 9781408160626 • £14.99/$24.95 E-IND: 9781408174838 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

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Drawing on some fascinating, cutting-edge research into how the brain copes and responds in high-stress situations, Mastering the Audition looks closely at the effects of fear, at our flawed ability to assess or really know ourselves, at what really drives us, and at what it really takes to master the audition experience.

Where other books advise you to ‘be confident’ and ‘be prepared’, Mastering the Audition tells you exactly HOW. Donna Soto-Morettini has been auditioning and training performers for over two decades. She also has extensive television experience, having worked as a Casting Director and Performance Coach for popular shows on the BBC and ITV. 240pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408160619 • £14.99/$24.95 E-IND: 9781408166192 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

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PeRFoRMAnce: VoIce Speaking with Skill

Voice and the Young Actor

A Skills Based Approach to Speech Training

A workbook and DVD

Dudley Knight

Rena Cook

UK: July 2012 US: September 2012

UK: January 2012 US: March 2012

Speaking with Skill marks a fundamental change in the pedagogy of speech training for actors and speakers.

It presents a skills-based approach to speech training and offers a wider range of techniques and a more integrated approach to speech actions and phonetic transcription than are found in other speech texts for theatre.

Speaking with Skill reintegrates speech training with the allied fields of linguistics and voice science and represents the first serious reexamination of the archaic standards and pedagogy that have dominated speech training for actors and other professional speakers in America. The method employed in this book is already and increasingly being used by instructors on major actor training programs in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK.

Voice and the Young Actor is written for the school actor, is inviting in format, language and illustration, and offers clear and inspiring instructions. A DVD features 85 mins and 28 filmed voice workshop exercises with the author and two students. These students log their reflections in the book on what they have learned throughout their training and there is space for the reader to do the same. A workbook in format, Voice and the Young Actor provides simple, interactive vocal exercises and shows young performers how to take voice work into acting.

Dudley Knight is Professor Emeritus of Drama at the University of California, Irvine.

Rena Cook is Head of Voice at the School of Drama, University of Oklahoma.

192pp • 216mmx138mm Paperback: 9781408156896 • £19.99/$29.95 E-IND: 9781408157152

224pp • 234mmx156mm Paperback: 9781408154601 • £19.99/$29.95 E-IND: 9781408157145

“Many teachers do not have access to intensive voice instruction. Rena’s book will fill that void. It is instructive, concise, easy to understand, and most importantly for the high school student, fun.”

Kim Moore, School Teacher, Colorado

tHeAtRe cRAFt Stage Lighting - the technicians’ guide

Directing – a Handbook for Emerging Theatre Directors

An On-the-Job Reference Tool with DVD Video Resources

Rob Swain

Skip Mort

UK: September 2011 US: November 2011

UK: October 2011 US: December 2011

“Impressive, on-the-job reference tool ... Its user friendly, well-illustrated ... a strong source of practical information for arts students of all levels. 5*” Teaching Drama

This is a practical guide to stage lighting covering equipment, lighting a performance space, special effects and lighting design. The information in each chapter is presented at three levels: • A quick start – basic information providing enough to get started • More info – more detailed knowledge • Extras! Extended technical information and data A DVD is included which uses video clips to illustrate the text, show the practical use of equipment, and shows examples of different lighting techniques and effects.

Skip Mort offers lighting services, training, support and workshops for school teachers, students and technicians.

368pp • 234mmx156mm Paperback: 9781408123577 • £24.99/$29.95 E-IND: 9781408153864 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

This practical guide for emerging theatre directors answers all the key questions from the very beginning of a director’s career to key stages in establishing your credentials and getting professionally recognized. It analyses the director’s role through relationships with the actors, author, designer, production manager and creative teams and provides vital advice for “on-the-job” situations where professional experience is invaluable. Each chapter includes these key features: • Introduces important theories, identifies practitioners and provides key reading to give an overview of historic and current practice • Interviews with leading practitioners and emerging directors • Suggested exercises to develop the director’s own approach and practical skills Rob Swain is a practising theatre director and the programme director of the MFA Theatre Directing at Birkbeck University.

336pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408127650 • £14.99/$22.95 E-IND: 9781408156629 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

scReenWRItInG Maverick Screenwriting

The Creative Screenwriter

A Manual for the Adventurous Screenwriter

Exercises to Expand Your Craft

Josh Golding

Craig Batty & Zara Waldeback

UK: April 2012 US: June 2012

UK: March 2012 US: May 2012

Maverick Screenwriting shows how to play with advanced narrative techniques - time, logic and reality – that change the way we look at the world.

It teaches:

“A manual for teachers and students seeking inspiring exercises to encourage discussion, and a handbook for professionals wanting to hone their craft.”

• The difference between plot-driven and conceptdriven films • How to play with time, reality and point-of-view in radical ways • How to emotionally connect with your audience • How to create a ‘Matrix’ that will hold your story together • How to push your concept to the limit – how to tell a story that expresses the unique way you look at the world.

Josh Golding has worked as a script consultant, producer and screenwriting teacher in Hollywood and Europe for over twenty years.

368pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408129074 • £14.99/$22.95 E-IND: 9781408154946 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

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Writer’s Forum

The film industry is seeking fresh screenwriting talent and increasingly sophisticated movie goers are demanding unique story concepts and experiences. Today’s writers don’t just need to be accomplished at their craft – they need to be highly creative. Creativity can be taught through regular writing practice and The Creative Screenwriter consists entirely of structured exercises to develop the writer’s skills.

Craig Batty is Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting at Bournemouth Media School. Zara Waldeback is a screenwriting teacher living in Sweden.

160pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408137192 • £9.99/$14.95 E-IND: 9781408155202 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

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PLAY coLLectIons The Methuen Drama Book of Post-Black Plays Edited by: Harry J. Elam, Jr and Douglas A. Jones, Jr

The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays

The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers

Edited by: Sarah Benson

UK: October 2012 US: December 2012

UK: January 2013 US: March 2013

Welcome Home Jacko; Chiaroscuro; Talking in Tongues; Sing Yer Heart Out ...; Fix Up; & Gone Too Far! Mustapha Matura, Jackie Kay, Winsome Pinnock, Roy Williams, Kwame KweiArmah & Bola Agbaje

‘Post-black’ refers to an emerging trend within black arts to find new and multiple expressions of blackness. The plays collected in this volume, written by the emerging stars of African American theatre, explore themes as varied as family and individuality, alienation and gentrification, and reconciliation and belonging. They demonstrate a wide-range of formal and structural innovations for the American theatre, and suggest that post-black aesthetics will be an important and formative contributor to American cultural production at the new millennium.

The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays is an anthology of six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights currently receiving critical acclaim in the States. It showcases work produced at a number of the leading theatres and charts something of the extraordinary range of current playwriting in America. It will be invaluable not only to readers and theatergoers in the U.S., but to those around the world seeking out new American plays and an insight into how U.S. playwrights are engaging with their current social and political environment.

Harry J. Elam, Jr. is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, the Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow for Undergraduate Education and Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University.

Douglas A. Jones , Jr. is the Cotsen Fellow in the Study of Race and Ethnicity in the Princeton Society of Fellows.

Sarah Benson is the artistic director of Soho Rep theatre in New York.

416pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408157015 • £16.99/$25.95 E-IND: 9781408157022

Edited by: Lynette Goddard UK: February 2011 US: April 2011

“A rich read – or source of performance ideas – for students and others.”

The Stage

The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day.

In doing so it charts the journey from specialist black theatre companies to the mainstream, including West End success, while providing a cultural and racial barometer for Britain during the last forty years.

Lynnette Goddard is a Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway.

496pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408131244 • £16.99/$27.95 E-IND: 9781408145715 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

512pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408173824 • £16.99/$27.95 E-IND: 9781408176559 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

Tennessee Williams: One Act Plays

National Theatre Connections 2012

Tennessee Williams

UK: March 2012 US: May 2012

UK: March 2012

This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups. Specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the Connections Festival 2012 involving 200 schools and youth theatre groups across the UK and Ireland, each play is accompanied by production notes and exercises.

“The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays.

Some of which are like firecrackers on a rope.”

Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams’ lesser-known one act plays reveal a tantalizing and fascinating perspective to one of the world’s most important playwrights. This collection gathers some of Williams’ most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas: ‘The Pretty Trap,’ a cheerful take on The Glass Menagerie, and ‘Interior: Panic,’ a precursor to A Streetcar Named Desire.

544pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408157244 • £14.99/$22.95 E-IND: 9781408160572

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is widely regarded as one of the 20th century’s most important writers, and was also one of its most successful and prolific.

304pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408164815 • £16.99

CONTEMPORARY DRAMATISTS

Bartlett Plays: 1

Bond Plays: 9

My Child; Contractions; Artefacts; Cock & Not Talking

Innocence; Window, Tune, Balancing Act Incomplete and Random Acts of & The Edge Kindness; Market Boy; The Knot of the Heart & The Stock Da’Wa

Mike Bartlett

Eldridge Plays: 2

Edward Bond

UK: October 2011 US: December 2011

UK: January 2011 US: March 2011

368pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408152164 £16.99/$25.95 E-IND: 9781408176412 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

288pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408160633 £16.99/$25.95 E-IND: 9781408177037 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

Ridley Plays: 1

Stephens Plays: 3

The Pitchfork Disney; The Fastest Clock in the Universe & Ghost from a Perfect Place

Harper Regan; Punk Rock; Marine Parade & On the Shore of the Wide World

David Eldridge

Philip Ridley

Simon Stephens

UK: February 2012 US: April 2012

UK: January 2012 US: March 2012

UK: February 2011 US: April 2011

464pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408164839 £16.99 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

288pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408142318 £16.99/$25.95 E-IND: 9781408142332 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

464pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408152195 £16.99/$25.95 E-IND: 9781408156407 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

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PLAYteXts: MetHUen DRAMA MoDeRn PLAYs The Methuen Drama Modern Plays series is world famous for containing the work of many of the finest contemporary playwrights. Established in 1959 with the publication of Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey, it remains a series synonymous with the very best in new writing for the stage.

Today it features over 500 titles and continues to grow alongside the staging of new work.

Institutional e-books: see your vendor

Becky Shaw

After the Accident

Lidless

Gina Gionfriddo

Julian Armitstead

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig

UK: January 2011 US: September 2011

UK: January 2011 US: September 2011

UK: March 2011

“It is dazzlingly written and studded with rapier-sharp lines.”

Winner of Amnesty International’s Protect the Human award, this play looks at restorative justice in the face of unimaginable tragedy.

Financial Times 96pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408147016 E-IND: 9781408156001 £9.99/$13.95

“Intelligent and impassioned.”

Dominic Maxwell, The Times 96pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408152881 E-IND: 9781408156414 £9.99

112pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408155332 E-IND: 9781408155356 £9.99/$14.95

The Knot of the Heart

The Boy on the Swing

Wastwater & T5

David Eldridge

Joe Harbot

Simon Stephens

UK: March 2011 US: September 2011

UK: March 2011 US: September 2011

UK: March 2011 US: September 2011

“David Eldridge’s moving new play...greatly heightens our understanding of the addictive personality...[a] compassionately inquring play.”

“Joe Harbot’s kooky comedy combines Kafkaesque bewilderment with the daftness of Douglas Adams.”

“You make one decision. It stays with you. It’s like the consequences of it get into your bones.”

Micheal Billington, The Guardian

Time Out 96pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408153802 E-IND: 9781408156322 £9.99/$13.95

96pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408154861 E-IND: 9781408154885 £9.99/$13.95

128pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408153314 E-IND: 9781408156018 £9.99/$13.95

The Usual Auntijies

Tender Napalm

Paven Virk

Philip Ridley

UK: May 2011 US: September 2011

UK: April 2011 US: September 2011

A bitter-sweet comic drama following elderly four South Asian women as they overcome an abused past.

“Philip Ridley’s extraordinary play...brilliantly juxtaposes the banal and the fantastical, the delicate and the brutal, the euphoric and the agonised.”

112pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408152171 E-IND: 9781408153987 £9.99/$13.95

Into Thy Hands

Silence

Jonathan Holmes

Filter & David Farr

UK: May 2011 US: March 2012

UK: May 2011 US: March 2012

“Jonathan Holmes explores the poet’s struggle to choose between the church and his carnal desires... A... mesmerising play.”

A devised play by innovative company Filter combines narrative impetus with astounding, original ideas.

The Stage 112pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408156520 E-IND: 9781408156537 £9.99/$14.95

80pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408156568 E-IND: 9781408156575 £9.99/$14.95

Iain Heggie UK: May 2011 US: March 2012

Two monologue plays written

by Scotland’s foremost comic playwright.

96pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408156445 E-IND: 9781408156452 £9.99/$14.95

Chicken Soup with Barley Arnold Wesker UK: June 2011 US: March 2012

“It reminds us of Wesker’s rare gift for generating strong emotion while encompassing big ideas.’’

Michael Billington, The Guardian 96pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408156605 E-IND: 9781408156612 £9.99/$14.95

Realism

Mongrel Island

For Once

Anthony Neilson

Ed Harris

Tim Price

UK: July 2011 US: March 2012

UK: July 2011 US: March 2012

UK: July 2011 US: March 2012

“Wildly inventive, always entertaining, and ultimately, rather moving too.”

A powerful and dreamlike comic play where madcap surreal humour meets everyday office life.

‘A gentle yet forensic examination of family crisis in a rural town… sharp-eyed writing, full of humanity and compassion.’

Dominic Maxwell, The Times 80pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408157183 E-IND: 9781408157190 £9.99/$14.95

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The Times 80pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408152874 E-IND: 9781408156384 £9.99/$14.95

King of Scotland & The Tobacco Merchant’s Lawyer

96pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408158708 E-IND: 9781408158692 £9.99/$14.95

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The Times 64pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408158722 E-IND: 9781408158715 £9.99/$14.95

PLAYteXts: MetHUen DRAMA MoDeRn PLAYs The Syndicate Eduardo De Filippo UK: July 2011 US: March 2012

De Filippo’s witty dark comedy set in 1960s Naples is a classic combination of pathos and farce.

112pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408156902 E-IND: 9781408156919 £9.99/$13.95

Ten Plagues &The Coronation of Poppea

One Thousand and One Nights

Mark Ravenhill

Hanan al-Shaykh & Tim Supple

UK: August 2011 US: March 2012

Two texts for modern music theatre by the seminally controversial playwright Mark Ravenhill.

96pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408160541 E-IND: 9781408160534 £9.99/$13.95

UK: August 2011 US: March 2012

A unique adaptation of the ancient tales returning to their true character: erotic, brutal, witty, poetic and complex.

256pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408159613 E-IND: 9781408159620 £9.99/$13.95

My City

Di and Viv and Rose

The Mountaintop

Stephen Poliakoff

Amelia Bullmore

Katori Hall

UK: August 2011 US: March 2012

UK: September 2011 US: March 2012

UK: September 2011 US: March 2012

“There is richness… of nostalgia, of a city haunted by its past, of confidence and hope and sadness.”

A heartwarming look at the enduring, life-long friendship of three women.

“Inventive and startlingly moving”

96pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408171219 E-IND: 9781408171233 £9.99/$13.95

Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play 2009.

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The Speckled People

How the World Began

Mike Bartlett

Hugo Hamilton

Catherine Trieschmann

UK: October 2011 US: March 2012

UK: October 2011 US: March 2012

UK: November 2011 US: March 2012

An epic look at faith, politics and leadership from the stellar playwright Mike Bartlett.

A warm, funny and heartfelt account of growing up with multicultural parents in 1950s Dublin.

“Faith and science collide in one small room, and sparks fly spectacularly.”

144pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408171912 E-IND: 9781408171936 £9.99/$13.95

96pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408171189 E-IND: 9781408171202 £9.99/$13.95

96pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408172315 E-IND: 9781408175002 £9.99/$13.95

The Westbridge

Salt, Root and Roe

Haunted Child

Rachel De-lahay

Tim Price

Joe Penhall

UK: November 2011 US: March 2012

UK: November 2011 US: March 2012

UK: December 2011 US: March 2012

Winner of the 2010 Alfred Fagon Award, this play depicts modern multicultural society: with tension, violence, friendship and love across racial and cultural differences.

A heart-wrenching tale of the bond between two elderly twins, this ethereally beautiful play is elegiac, graceful and deeply moving.

This chilling and unsettling play asks demanding questions about the things we believe and their consequences.

96pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408172032 E-IND: 9781408172063 £9.99/$13.95

112pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408159651 E-IND: 9781408159668 £9.99/$13.95

Fog

The Trial of Ubu

Shallow Slumber

Tash Fairbanks & Toby Wharton

Simon Stephens

Chris Lee

UK: January 2012 US: March 2012

UK: January 2012 US: March 2012

A satirical play which sees an amoral megalomaniac brought before an international tribunal.

An emotionally charged, tragic account of the relationship between a social worker and a troubled mother.

The Times 144pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408159637 E-IND: 9781408159644 £9.99/$13.95

96pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408172018 £9.99/$13.95

UK: January 2012 US: March 2012

“A thumping, emotionally fraught and brilliantly written play.”

The Stage 80pp • 198mmx129mm 9781408172391 E-IND: 9781408172407 £9.99/$13.95

96pp • 198mmx129mm 9781408172438 E-IND: 9781408172445 £9.99/$13.95

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The Times

80pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408147030 E-IND: 9781408174746 £9.99/$13.95

The Times

64pp • 198mmx129mm 9781408172674 E-IND: 9781408172681 £9.99/$13.95

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PLAYteXts: MetHUen DRAMA stUDent eDItIons Methuen Drama Student Editions are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoires.

As well as the complete text of the play itself, each volume contains: • A chronology of the playwright’s life and work • An introduction giving the background to the play • Commentary on themes, characters, language and style

• Notes on individual words and phrases in the text • Questions for further study • Bibliography and further reading.

Blue/Orange

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

A Raisin In The Sun

Blasted

Joe Penhall Edited by: Rachel Clements

Martin McDonagh Edited by: Catherine Rees

Lorraine Hansberry Edited by: Deirdre Osborne

Sarah Kane Edited by: Ken Urban

UK: October 2012 US: December 2012

UK: October 2012

UK: September 2011

An instant classic from its first performance in 1996, The Beauty Queen of Leenane established Martin McDonagh as the natural successor to Oscar Wilde and Joe Orton. The Oscar and Bafta-winning writer’s other films and plays include In Bruges and The Pillowman.

A Raisin in the Sun is a classic American play: a groundbreaking 1950s civil rights drama and has a strong claim to be the greatest play of the black American experience.

UK: June 2011 US: August 2011

A well-crafted and issue-lead play, Blue/ Orange is suitable for teaching and study including modules on political theatre, contemporary drama, race and madness.

Rachel Clements is currently finishing her PhD in Contemporary Theatre for Royal Holloway.

192pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408140918 £9.99/$13.95

Catherine Rees is a lecturer in Drama at Loughborough University.

160pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408173831 £9.99

Deirdre Osborne is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts for Goldsmiths, University of London.

208pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408140901 £9.99

In 1995 Sarah Kane’s first full-length play Blasted sent shockwaves throughout the theatrical world. Making front-page headlines, the play outraged critics with its depiction of rape, torture and violence in civil war.

Ken Urban is a playwright and director, and currently teaches theatre and playwrighting at Harvard University.

128pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408103852 E-IND: 9781408156391 £9.99/$13.95

Spring Awakening

A Servant to Two Masters

Broken Glass

After the Fall

Frank Wedekind Edited by: Charlotte Ryland

Carlo Goldoni & Lee Hall Edited by: Joseph Farrell

Arthur Miller Edited by: Alan Ackerman

Arthur Miller Edited by: Brenda Murphy

UK: February 2012 US: April 2012

UK: March 2011 US: May 2011

UK: March 2011

UK: January 2011

A Student Edition of Wedekind’s classic 1891 expressionist play about adolescent sexuality. This translation

by Edward Bond and Elisabeth Bond Pablé first brought the play to English audiences when it premiered at the National Theatre in 1974.

This Student Edition of Goldoni’s classic 18th Century play, A Servant to Two Masters, features expert and helpful annotation, ideal for anyone studying or performing the play. Lee Hall’s contemporary, faithful version is fastpaced, funny and idiomatic.

This Student Edition of Broken Glass features an extensive introduction by Alan Ackerman and provides a wideranging study of Kristallnacht, and of American and European responses to the Holocaust.

This Student Edition of After the Fall features an extensive introduction

by Brenda Murphy which includes a chronology of Miller’s life and times, a summary of the plot and commentary on the characters, themes and language.

Charlotte Ryland is Lecturer in German at the University of Oxford.

Joseph Farrell is a world-leading expert in Italian drama.

192pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408140895 E-IND: 9781408157169 £9.99/$13.95

176pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408131053 £8.99/$13.95

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Alan Ackerman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto and editor of the journal Modern Drama.

176pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408128848 £9.99

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Brenda Murphy is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Conneticut.

224pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408123126 £9.99

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A Memory of Two Mondays

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A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

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A Taste of Honey

Shelagh Delaney

Elaine Aston & Glenda Leeming

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A View from the Bridge

Arthur Miller

Steve Marino

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Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Dario Fo

Joseph Farrell

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After the Fall

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Brenda Murphy

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All My Sons

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Jean Anouilh

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Angie Varakis

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Blasted

Sarah Kane

Ken Urban

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Blood Brothers

Willy Russell

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Federico Garcia Lorca & Gwynne Edwards

Blue/Orange

Joe Penhall

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Broken Glass

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Alan Ackerman

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams

Philip Kolin

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Closer

Patrick Marber

Daniel Rosenthal

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Confusions

Alan Ayckbourn

Russell Whiteley

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Robert Butler

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Copenhagen

Michael Frayn

Death and the King’s Horseman

Wole Soyinka

Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller

Enoch Brater

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Gwynne Edwards

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Doña Rosita the Spinster

Federico Garcia Lorca

Dreams Of Anne Frank

Bernard Kops

Educating Rita

Willy Russell

Steve Lewis

Elektra

Euripides

J. Michael Walton & Marianne McDonald

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Fear and Misery of the Third Reich

Bertolt Brecht

Charlotte Ryland

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Non Worrall

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Ghosts

Henrik Ibsen

Glengarry Glen Ross

David Mamet

Hedda Gabler

Henrik Ibsen

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Lear

Edward Bond

Patricia Hern

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Life Of Galileo

Bertolt Brecht

Hugh Rorrison

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Loot

Joe Orton

Andrew Mayne

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Medea

Euripides

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Miss Julie

August Strindberg

David Thomas & Jo Taylor

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Mother Courage and Her Children

Bertolt Brecht

Hugh Rorrison

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My Mother Said I Never Should

Charlotte Keatley

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Oedipus the King/Oedipus Rex

Sophocles

Angie Varakis

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Joan Littlewood & Steve Lewis

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Oh What A Lovely War

Theatre Workshop

Oleanna

David Mamet

Our Country’s Good

Timberlake Wertenbaker

Bill Naismith

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David Davis

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Saved

Edward Bond

Serious Money

Caryl Churchill

Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance

John Arden

Glenda Leeming

Shopping And F***ing

Mark Ravenhill

Dan Rebellato

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Six Characters in Search of an Author

Luigi Pirandello

Joseph Farrell

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Spring Awakening

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Charlotte Ryland

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Sweet Bird of Youth

Tennessee Williams

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Martin McDonagh

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Bertolt Brecht

Hugh Rorrison

The Cherry Orchard

Anton Chekhov

Nick Worrall

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The Crucible

Arthur Miller

Susan Abbotson

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The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

Stephen Bottoms

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The Good Person Of Szechwan

Bertolt Brecht

Charlotte Ryland & Tom Kuhn

9781408100073

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The Government Inspector

Nikolai Gogol

Nick Worrall & Non Worrall

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The House Of Bernarda Alba

Federico Garcia Lorca

Gwynne Edwards

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

Patricia Hern & Glenda Leeming

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The Last Yankee

Arthur Miller

Katherine Egerton

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The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Martin McDonagh

Patrick Lonergan

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The Lonesome West

Martin McDonagh

Patrick Lonergan

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The Malcontent

John Marston

Simon Trussler & William Naismith

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The Memory Of Water

Shelagh Stephenson

Steve Lewis

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The Merchant

Arnold Wesker

Glenda Leeming

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The Playboy of the Western World

John Millington Synge

Nick Worrall

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The Price

Arthur Miller

Jane K. Dominik

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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Bertolt Brecht

Non Worrall

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The Seagull

Anton Chekhov

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The Three Sisters

Anton Chekhov

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The Threepenny Opera

Bertolt Brecht

Ralph Manheim & John Willett

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Bill Naismith & Nick Worrall

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Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

Uncle Vanya

Anton Chekhov

Yerma

Federico Garcia Lorca

Gwynne Edwards

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PLAYteXts: neW MeRMAIDs New Mermaids is a series of over 50 modernized and fully annotated classic plays, with an active programme of new editions.

New Mermaids are: • Edited and updated by experienced teachers who are internationally recognized as authorities in their field • Ideal for, and accessible to, actors, theatre-goers and students • Printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, with annotations below the text and a comprehensive introduction.

General Editors: Brian Gibbons, University of Münster; William C. Carroll, Boston University; Tiffany Stern, University College, University of Oxford

Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays

Thomas Middleton: Four Plays

Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two; The Jew of Malta; Edward II & Dr Faustus

Women Beware Women, The Changeling, The Roaring Girl & A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Christopher Marlowe Edited by: Brian Gibbons UK: July 2011 US: September 2011 624pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408149492 E-IND: 9781408151785 Institutional e-books: see your vendor £8.99/$19.95

The Rover

A Woman Killed With Kindness

New Edition Aphra Behn Edited by: Robyn Bolam

Thomas Middleton Edited by: William C. Carroll

UK: October 2012 US: December 2012

UK: August 2012 US: October 2012

176pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408152119 E-IND: 9781408166147 Institutional e-books: see your vendor £8.99/$14.95

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New Edition Thomas Heywood Edited by: Frances E. Dolan UK: September 2012 US: December 2012 128pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9780713677775 E-IND: 9781408144343 Institutional e-books: see your vendor £7.99/$14.95

Mrs Warren’s Profession Bernard Shaw Edited by: Brad Kent UK: November 2012 US: January 2012 208pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9780713679946 E-IND: 9781408145944 Institutional e-books: see your vendor £8.99/$14.95

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Brian Gibbons

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Roma Gill & Ros King

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Eastward Ho!

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James Ogden

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Anthony B. Dawson

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Ben Jonson

Elizabeth Cook

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William Wycherley

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Brian Gibbons

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David Crane

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Christopher Marlowe

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Lucy Munro

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Lucy Munro

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Karen Britland

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Christina Luckyj

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William C. Carroll

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Martin Wiggins

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Ben Jonson

Robert Watson

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Employs a variety of critical approaches to set the play in its literary, dramatic, social and historical contexts, and offers a thorough examination of performance aspects,including music, song and dance.

This companion sets Prometheus Bound in its historical context, explores its challenge to authority, and traces its reception from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.

The first comprehensive study of the relationship between Greek comedy and ancient literary criticism, offering an original and sophisticated reading of the works of Old Comedy.

A specially commissioned collection of papers covering widely read works, fragmentary plays and lost authors, giving a new perspective on the study of ancient comedy.

THE ardEn sHakEspEarE each Arden edition includes: • • • • • •

A full and concise introduction with illustrations, designed to engage and attract the reader A modernized, easy-to-read version of the text Thorough commentary on every page explaining the speech and action taking place Detailed explanations of unusual words and phrases Appendices, source notes and extracts giving a fully rounded understanding for students An index providing a pathway through the material.

General Editors: Richard Proudfoot, Emeritus Professor, King’s College London; Ann Thompson, King’s College London; David Scott Kastan, Yale University; H.R. Woudhuysen, University College London.

Associate General Editor: George Walton Williams, Emeritus Professor, Duke University.

Romeo and Juliet

Coriolanus

Edited by: René Weis

Edited by: Peter Holland

Third Series

UK: May 2012 US: July 2012

Third Series

UK: June 2012 US: August 2012

The Tempest

Revised Third Series Edition

Edited by: Alden T Vaughan & Virginia Mason Vaughan UK: August 2012 US: October 2012

This major new edition of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy of love argues that that play is ultimately Juliet’s. The play text is expertly edited and the on-page commentary notes discuss issues of staging, theme, meaning and Shakespeare’s use of his sources to give the reader deep and engaging insights into the play. René Weis discusses the play’s critical, stage and film history, including West Side Story and Baz Luhrmann’s seminal film Romeo + Juliet.

Peter Holland is a pre-eminent international scholar and his comprehensive introduction and commentary notes open up the language, themes and ideas in this complex yet richly rewarding play for the student and teacher. The play is discussed in its historical and critical contexts and its theatrical history is analysed too. This edition includes analysis of the 2012 Ralph Fiennes film of the play.

René Weis is Professor of English at University College London and a distinguished editor and biographer of Shakespeare.

Peter Holland is the McMeel Family Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He was Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon (1997-2002) and President of the Shakespeare Association of America (2007-8).

454pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781903436912 • £8.99/$13.95 Hardback: 9781903436905 • £65.00/$100.00 E-IND: 9781408151983 • £8.99/$13.95 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

464pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781904271284 • £8.99/$17.00 Hardback: 9781904271277 • £65.00/$100.00 E-IND: 9781408139134 • £8.99/$17.00 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

Sir Thomas More Third Series

Edited by: John Jowett UK: February 2011 US: April 2011

The Merchant Of Venice Third Series

Edited by: John Drakakis UK: February 2011 US: April 2011

This revision edition brings the Arden Third Series edition right up-to-date. A completely new section of the introduction discusses new thinking about Shakespeare’s sources for the play and examines his treatment of colonial themes, as well as covering key productions since this edition was first published in 1999. Most importantly it looks at Julie Taymor’s ground-breaking 2010 film starring Helen Mirren as “Prospera.”

416pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408133477 • £8.99/$13.95 Hardback: 9781408133484 • £65.00/$100.00 E-IND: 9781408139318 • £8.99/$13.95 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

Arden Shakespeare Complete Works Edited by: Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan & Richard Proudfoot UK: November 2011 US: January 2012

This edition of Sir Thomas More is the first to bring the play into the context of a major Shakespeare series, to provide a substantial critical analysis, and to offer a comprehensive modern stage history.

The introduction deals with issues such as the strange involvement of the anti-Catholic spy-hunter Anthony Munday as chief dramatist, the place of Sir Thomas More as a Catholic martyr in Protestant late Elizabethan culture, and the play’s representation of a multi-cultural London.

John Jowett is Chair of Shakespeare Studies at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He is a Series Editor of the Arden Early Modern Drama series.

544pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781904271482 • £16.99/$19.95 Hardback: 9781E90421475 • £65.00/$100.00 7-IND: 9781408139233 • £16.99/$19.95 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

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The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex figure of the money lender, Shylock. John Drakakis’ comprehensive introduction traces the stage history of the figure of the Jew and looks boldly at twentyfirst century issues surrounding it. He also explores other themes of the play such as father/daughter relations, the power of money and the forceful character of Portia.

John Drakakis is Professor of English Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland.

480pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781903436813 • £9.99/$17.00 Hardback: 9781903436806 • £65.00/$100.00 E-IND: 9781408152591 • £9.99/$17.00 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

This revised edition of the Arden Shakespeare Complete Works includes the full text of Double Falsehood, which was published in the Arden Third series to critical acclaim in 2010. The volume contains the texts of all Shakespeare’s plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden series. A general introduction gives the reader an overall view of Shakespeare’s work. Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within Shakespeare’s oeuvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers.

1392pp • 260x184mm Paperback: 9781408152010 • £18.99/$30.00 E-IND: 9781408170731 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

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A Midsummer Night's Dream *

Harold Brooks

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9781903436608

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All's Well That Ends Well * Antony and Cleopatra

G. K. Hunter

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9781903436233

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John Wilders

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9781904271000

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Antony and Cleopatra

John Wilders

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9781904271017

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As You Like It

Juliet Dusinberre

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9781904271222

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Coriolanus

Peter Holland

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9781904271277

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Coriolanus

Peter Holland

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9781904271284

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Cymbeline * Double Falsehood

J. M. Nosworthy

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9781903436028

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Brean Hammond

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9781903436769

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Double Falsehood

Brean Hammond

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9781903436776

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Hamlet

Ann Thompson & Neil Taylor

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9781904271321

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Hamlet

Ann Thompson & Neil Taylor

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9781904271338

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Hamlet: The Texts Of 1603 And 1623

Ann Thompson & Neil Taylor

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9781904271802

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Julius Caesar

David Daniell

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9781903436219

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Julius Caesar

David Daniell

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9781904271048

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King Henry IV Part 1

David Scott Kastan

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9781904271345

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King Henry IV Part 1

David Scott Kastan

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9781904271352

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A. R. Humphreys

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9781904271062

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T.W. Craik

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9781904271079

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King Henry V

T.W. Craik

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9781904271086

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King Henry VI Part 1

Edward Burns

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9781903436424

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King Henry VI Part 1

Edward Burns

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9781903436431

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King Henry VI Part 2

Ronald Knowles

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Eric Rasmussen & John D. Cox

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9781903436301

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Eric Rasmussen & John D. Cox

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9781903436318

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King Henry VIII

Gordon McMullan

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9781903436240

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King Henry VIII

Gordon McMullan

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9781903436257

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King John * King Lear

E.A.J. Honigmann

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9781903436097

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R.A. Foakes

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9781903436585

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King Lear

R.A. Foakes

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9781903436592

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King Richard II

Charles R. Forker

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9781903436325

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King Richard II

Charles R. Forker

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9781903436332

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King Richard III

James R. Siemon

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9781903436882

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King Richard III

James R. Siemon

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9781903436899

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Love's Labour's Lost

H. R. Woudhuysen

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9781903436196

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Love's Labour's Lost

H. R. Woudhuysen

Paperback

9781904271109

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Macbeth *

Kenneth Muir

Paperback

9781903436486

£8.99

$17.00

Measure For Measure * Much Ado About Nothing

J. W. Lever

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9781903436448

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Claire McEachern

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9781903436820

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Much Ado About Nothing

Claire McEachern

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9781903436837

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Othello

E.A.J. Honigmann

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9781903436455

£8.99

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Othello

E.A.J. Honigmann

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9781904271130

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Pericles

Suzanne Gossett

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9781903436844

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Pericles

Suzanne Gossett

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9781903436851

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Romeo and Juliet

Rene Weis

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9781903436905

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Romeo and Juliet

Rene Weis

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9781903436912

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Shakespeare's Poems

H. R. Woudhuysen & Katherine Duncan-Jones

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9781903436868

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Shakespeare's Poems

H. R. Woudhuysen & Katherine Duncan-Jones

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9781903436875

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

Katherine Duncan-Jones

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9781408017975

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

Katherine Duncan-Jones

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9781408124994

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Sir Thomas More

John Jowett

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9781904271475

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Sir Thomas More

John Jowett

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9781904271482

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The Comedy of Errors *

R.A. Foakes

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9780416474602

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The Comedy of Errors * The Merchant Of Venice

R.A. Foakes

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9781903436011

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John Drakakis

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9781903436806

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The Merchant Of Venice

John Drakakis

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9781903436813

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The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Giorgio Melchiori

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9781904271116

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The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Giorgio Melchiori

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9781904271123

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The Taming of The Shrew

Barbara Hodgdon

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9781903436929

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The Taming of The Shrew

Barbara Hodgdon

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9781903436936

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The Tempest

Alden T Vaughan & Virginia Mason Vaughan

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9781408133477

£8.99

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The Tempest

Alden T Vaughan & Virginia Mason Vaughan

Hardback

9781408133484

£65.00

$100.00

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

William Carroll

Hardback

9781903436943

£65.00

$100.00

The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen

William Carroll Lois Potter

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9781903436950 9781904271178

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The Two Noble Kinsmen

Lois Potter

Paperback

9781904271185

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The Winter's Tale

John Pitcher

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9781903436349

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The Winter's Tale

John Pitcher

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9781903436356

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Timon Of Athens

Anthony Dawson & Gretchen Minton

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9781903436967

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Timon Of Athens

Anthony Dawson & Gretchen Minton

Paperback

9781903436974

£8.99

$17.00

Titus Andronicus

Jonathan Bate

Paperback

9781903436059

£8.99

$17.00

Titus Andronicus

Jonathan Bate

Hardback

9781904271147

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$100.00

Troilus And Cressida

David Bevington

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9781903436691

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Troilus And Cressida

David Bevington

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9781903436707

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Twelfth Night

Keir Elam

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9781903436981

£65.00

$100.00

Twelfth Night

Keir Elam

Paperback

9781903436998

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Note: All books are Arden Third series editions, except those marked with *, which are Second series.

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Springboard Shakespeare Ben Crystal “Having Crystal as a companion through the stickier parts of Hamlet and Macbeth is like going to the theatre with an intelligent friend.” The Independent These accessible introductions offer a ‘springboard’ into Shakespeare’s plays, breaking down any fears or preconceptions and taking a hands-on, performance-based approach. Each book is structured in three parts, exploring things you need to know and think about before you see or study a play, while you see or read it, and ideas and questions to explore afterwards as you form your own critical view of the play. Each book includes a detailed glossary and a scene by scene analysis.

Ben Crystal’s most recent book Shakespeare on Toast was widely acclaimed. Crystal combines a genuine passion and understanding of Shakespeare with his experience as an actor, to give the reader a clear route to thinking about, understanding and enjoying each play.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Macbeth

Hamlet

King Lear

UK: September 2012 US: November 2012

UK: September 2012 US: November 2012

UK: September 2012 US: November 2012

UK: September 2012 US: November 2012

96pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408164631 • £5.99 / $9.95

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Arden Early Modern Drama accompanies and complements the Arden Shakespeare Third Series, offering editions of non-Shakespearean Renaissance and Restoration drama from the period 1500-1700. Modelled on the Third Series in appearance and style, Arden Early Modern Drama editions offer high-quality textual scholarship, together with an accessible, student-friendly introduction.

The Tragedy of Mariam

The Island Princess

‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore

Elizabeth Cary Edited by: Ramona Wray

John Fletcher Edited by: Clare McManus

John Ford Edited by: Sonia Massai

UK: August 2012 US: October 2012

UK: November 2012 US: January 2013

UK: October 2011 US: December 2011

The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary.

First published in 1613, it was the first work by a woman to be published under her real name. Never performed during Cary’s lifetime, and apparently never intended for performance, the Senecan revenge tragedy tells the story of Mariam, the second wife of Herod. The play exposes and explores the themes of sex, divorce, betrayal, murder, and Jewish society under Herod’s tyrannous rule.

Ramona Wray is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at Queen’s University, Belfast 296pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781904271598 • £12.99/$19.95 Hardback: 9781408129999 • £65.00/$100.00 E-IND: 9781408139370 • £12.99/$19.95 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

The Island Princess is a tragicomic romance set in the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Fletcher rewrites Shakespeare’s The Tempest through the encounter of Islam and Christianity and the fierce European competition for wealth at the farthest reaches of empire. The play also stages the degeneration of religious tolerance into fanaticism.

This ground-breaking edition explores the play in its gendered, political, social and religious contexts whilst also finding its resonances for a twenty-first century audience.

Clare McManus is Reader in English Literature, Roehampton University, London 296pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781904271536 • £12.99/$19.95 Hardback: 9781408130063 • £65.00/$100.00 E-IND: 9781408139356 • £12.99/$19.95 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

A fully modernized, annotated edition of ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Ford’s controversial tragedy of sibling incest and complex revenge plots. As with all Arden editions, detailed on-page commentary notes help the student understand and appreciate the play both in performance and as a many layered literary text.

Sonia Massai reveals the startling originality of the play, which is far more than a dark rewriting of Romeo and Juliet, and the reasons for its appeal to modern audiences.

Sonia Massai is Reader in Shakespeare Studies at King’s College, London.

288pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781904271505 • £9.99/$15.95 Hardback: 97811408129968 • £65.00/$100.00 E-IND: 9781408139264 • £9.99/$15.95 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

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Philaster

The Renegado

The Duchess of Malfi

Edited by: Douglas Bruster & Eric Rasmussen

By Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher Edited by: Suzanne Gossett

By Philip Massinger Edited by: Michael Neill

By John Webster Edited by: Leah Marcus

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Shakespeare Up Close Reading Early Modern Texts

Edited by: Russ McDonald, Nicholas D Nace & Travis D Williams

Marlowe’s Literary Scepticism Politic Religion and Post-Reformation Polemic

Chloe Kathleen Preedy UK: September 2012 US: December 2012

UK: August 2012 US: October 2012

This landmark collection of newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars, offers expert close readings of Shakespeare and other early modern authors. The book is an intervention into current critical methodology as well as an invaluable tool for all students of the literature of the period, exemplifying the possibilities of close reading in the hands of a range of gifted practitioners. Chapters cover a range of key texts from Shakespeare and other major writers of the period such as Milton, Donne, Jonson and Sidney.

Russ McDonald is Professor of English Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Nicholas D Nace is Assistant Professor at the State University of New York, Binghamton. Travis D Williams is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Rhode Island.

304pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408158784 • £14.99/$24.95 E-IND: 9781408172377 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

Marlowe’s Literary Scepticism re-evaluates the representation of religion in Christopher Marlowe’s plays and poems, demonstrating the extent to which his literary engagement with questions of belief was shaped by the virulent polemical debates that raged in post-Reformation Europe. Offering new readings of under-studied works such as the poetic translations and a fresh perspective on well-known plays such as Doctor Faustus, this book focuses on Marlowe’s depiction of the religious frauds denounced by his contemporaries. It identifies Marlowe as one of the earliest writers to acknowledge the practical value of religious hypocrisy, and and a pivotal figure in the history of scepticism.

Chloe Kathleen Preedy teaches at the University of York.

240pp • 198mmx129mm Hardback: 9781408164884 • £55.00/$100.00 E-IND: 9781408175798 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

Shakespeare’s Theatre and the Effects of Performance Edited by: Farah Karim Cooper & Tiffany Stern UK: September 2012 US: November 2012

How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects?

What materials were available to them and how did they impact on staging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences?

This landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addresses these and other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.

Farah Karim Cooper is Head of Research at Shakespeare’s Globe, London. Tiffany Stern is Beaverbrook and Bouverie Fellow and Tutor in English, University College, Oxford.

256pp • 198mmx129mm Hardback: 9781408146927 • £55.00/$100.00 E-IND: 9781408157053 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

Shakespeare And The Medieval World

Shakespeare: Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan

Doing Shakespeare

New in Paperback

1592-1623

Simon Palfrey

Helen Cooper

Katherine DuncanJones

UK: July 2011 US: September 2011

UK: August 2012 US: October 2012

Helen Cooper’s unique study examines how continuations of medieval culture into the early modern period, forged Shakespeare’s development as a dramatist and poet. Medieval culture pervaded his life and work.

Shakespeare and the Medieval World provides a panoramic overview that opens up new vistas within his work and uncovers the richness of his inheritance.

Helen Cooper is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge.

272pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408172322 • £18.99/$29.95 Hardback:9781904271789 • £55.00/$100.00 E-IND: 9781408138991• £18.99/$29.95 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

2nd edition

UK: March 2011 US: May 2011

“Shakespeare, in this analysis, is characterised as someone who had to assert his own position amid a fiercely hierarchical society…Duncan-Jones demonstrates that Shakespearean self-promotion was as much literary as social.”

Times Higher Education Supplement

An original and provocative study of the evolution of Shakespeare’s Image, building on the success of Duncan-Jones’ acclaimed biography, Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life. Taking a broadly chronological approach, she investigates Shakespeare’s changing reputation, as a man, an actor and a poet, both from his own viewpoint and from that of his contemporaries.

Katherine Duncan-Jones is a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.

320pp • 198mmx129mm Hardback: 9781408130148 • £55.00/$100.00 E-IND: 9781408139196 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

A thoroughly revised edition of the successful student text Doing Shakespeare, first published in 2005.

The book’s success lies in the close readings of speeches and scenes it gives students, demystifying the language of the plays and critical approaches to them.

This new edition introduces a new way of approaching Shakespeare’s text, through ideas of performance and the actor’s role and restructures the content to make it easier to navigate, with clear signposting throughout, guiding students to the content most useful to them.

Simon Palfrey is Fellow in English, Braesnose College, Oxford University.

372pp • 198mmx129mm Paperback: 9781408132142 • £12.99/$19.95 E-IND: 9781408139158 Institutional e-books: see your vendor

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Shakespeare Studies from Continuum Shakespeare Now!

Series Editors: Ewan Fernie, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK and Simon Palfrey, University of Oxford, UK. ‘An innovative new series . . . Series editors Simon Palfrey and Ewan Fernie have rejected the notion of business as usual in order to pursue a distinctive strategy that aims to put “cutting-edge scholarship” in front of a broad audience. With its insistent appeal to the contemporary, this is fresh Shakespeare for readers turned off by the prospect of dry-as-dust Scholarship’ Shakespeare Quarterly Shakespeare Now! is a series of short books that engage imaginatively and often provocatively with the possibilities of Shakespeare’s plays. It goes back to the source - the most living language imaginable - and recaptures the excitement, audacity and surprise of Shakespeare. It will return you to the plays with opened eyes.

Shakespeare and I Edited by William McKenzie and Theodora Papadopoulou

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‘These essays – frank, intensely personal, even confessional – in which eminent critics meditate on the deepest sources of their engagement with the dramatist add a new and profoundly revealing dimension to Shakespeare criticism.’ Professor Stanley Wells, CBE, Honorary President, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK Paperback - 9781441137180 - £19.99 / $34.95 Hardback – 9781441143716 - £65.00 / $120.00 E-IND: 9781441192004 - £19.19 / $29.63 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

UK January 2011 / US March 2011 - 128 pages

‘At once a touching autobiographical memoir and a reflection on Australian history and culture, The King and I is a meditation on the contemporary relevance of Shakespeare’s most searing tragedy.’ Stephen Greenblatt, Author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare Paperback - 9781441111647 - £14.99 / $24.95 Hardback – 9781441178688 - £45.00 / $120.00 E-IND: 9781441137951 - £11.19 / $16.91 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

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The Life in the Sonnets

By David Fuller UK February 2011 / US April 2011 - 128 pages

By Graham Holderness UK October 2011 / US December 2011 - 128 pages

‘Graham Holderness draws on wit and wordplay to flesh out a fiction more palatable than the po-faced fantasies of the scholarly biographers.

The nine Shakespeares on show here — writer, player, butcher boy, businessman, husband, friend, lover, Catholic and portrait — are each lovingly dissected before being painstakingly reassembled’ Times Higher Education Supplement Hardback - 9781441151858 - £18.99 / $27.95 E-IND: 9781441168467 - £19.19 / $29.63 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

Productions, Versions and Adaptations

Shakespeare NEW and Contemporary Theory:

By Peter Holbrook UK July 2012 / US January 2013 - 176 pages

By Abigail Rokison UK August 2012 / US November 2012 - 224 pages

The search to find engaging and inspiring ways to introduce children and young adults to Shakespeare has resulted in a wide variety of approaches to producing and adapting Shakespeare’s plays and the stories and characters at their heart.

This book explores the range of productions, versions, and adaptations of Shakespeare aimed particularly at children or young people.

This book introduces readers to the perspectives of English Renaissance tragedy by offering close readings of selected famous works by dramatists such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, Middleton and Ford.

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‘This is a passionate book: a book about passion in literature, passion for literature, and passion in critical writing… This book will deepen the reader’s engagement not just with Shakespeare’s sonnets but with all kinds of art – written, acoustic and visual – as Fuller shows us how to bring personal experience to bear on critical analysis.’ Laurie Maguire, Professor of English Literature at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK Paperback - 9781847064547 - £14.99 / $24.95 Hardback – 9781847064530 - £45.00 / $120.00 E-IND: 9781441130334 - £11.19 / $16.91 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

English Renaissance Tragedy in Context

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David Schalkwyk tells the ‘Robben Island Shakespeare’ story and explores the representation and experience of imprisonment in South African prison memoirs and Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Nine Lives of William Shakespeare

By Philippa Kelly

Shakespeare for Young People:

By David Schalkwyk UK December 2012 / US February 2013 - 128 pages

UK March 2012 / US May 2012 - 304 pages

The King and I

Hamlet’s Dreams

New Historicism and Cultural Materialism

Sha

By Neema Parvini

UK September 2012 / US November 2012 - 176 pages

This comprehensive guide introduces students to the key writers, texts and ideas of contemporary Shakespeare criticism and alternatives to new historicist and cultural materialist approaches suggested by a range of dissenters including evolutionary critics, historical formalists and advocates of ‘the new aestheticism’, and the more politically active presentists.

Paperback - 9781441193933 - £19.99 / $34.95 Hardback – 9781441111272 - £65.00 / $120.00 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

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Great Shakespeareans

Great Shakespeareans Set I Edited by Peter Holland and Adrian Poole

Series Editors: Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA and Adrian Poole, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK.

UK March 2011/ US May 2011 - 1120 pages - hardback 5 volumes - 9781441149237 - £375.00 / $700.00

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.

Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Malone – Volume 1

Emerson, Melville, James, Berryman – Volume 8

Edited by Claude Rawson

Edited by Peter Rawlings

UK June 2010 / US August 2010 - 256 pages hardback - 9780826420862 - £75.00 / $140.00 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

UK April 2011 / US June 2011 - 240 pages hardback - 9780826419408 - £75.00 / $140.00 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean – Volume 2

Bradley, Greg, Folger – Volume 9

Edited by Peter Holland UK June 2010 / US August 2010 - 240 pages hardback - 9780826471529 - £75.00 / $140.00 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

Voltaire, Goethe, Schlegel, Coleridge – Volume 3 Edited by Roger Paulin

UK June 2010 / US August 2010 - 224 pages hardback - 9780826431233 - £75.00 / $140.00 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats – Volume 4 Edited by Adrian Poole UK June 2010 / US August 2010 - 208 pages hardback - 9780826424365 - £75.00 / $140.00 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

Scott, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy – Volume 5 Edited by Adrian Poole UK April 2011 / US June 2011 - 224 pages hardback - 9780826435460 - £75.00 / $140.00 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

Macready, Booth, Terry, Irving – Volume 6 Edited by Richard Schoch UK March 2011 / US June 2011 - 224 pages hardback - 9780826442253 - £75.00 / $140.00 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

Volume I: Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Malone – edited by Claude Rawson Volume II: Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean – edited by Peter Holland Volume III: Goethe, Schlegel, Coleridge – edited by Roger Paulin Volume IV: Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats – edited by Adrian Poole

Great Shakespeareans Set II Edited by Adrian Poole and Peter Holland UK March 2012 / US May 2012 - 896 pages - hardback 4 volumes - 9781441160119 • £300.00 / $560.00

Edited by Cary DiPietro UK March 2011 / US June 2011 - 224 pages hardback - 9780826446114 - £75.00 / $140.00 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

Marx and Freud – Volume 10 Edited by Crystal Bartolovich, David Hillman and Jean E. Howard UK March 2012 / US May 2012 - 224 pages hardback – 9781441166647 - £75.00 / $140.00 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten – Volume 11 Edited by Daniel Albright

Volume V: Scott, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy – edited by Adrian Poole Volume VI: Macready, Booth, Irving, Terry – edited by Richard Schoch Volume VII: Jameson, Cowden Clarke, Kemble, Cushman – edited by Gail Marshall Volume VIII: James, Melville, Emerson, Berryman – edited by Peter Rawlings Volume IX: Bradley, Greg, Folger – edited by Cary DiPietro

UK March 2012 / US May 2012 - 224 pages hardback - 9781441179098 - £75.00 / $140.00 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

Great Shakespeareans Set III

Joyce, Eliot, Auden, Beckett – Volume 12

UK March 2012 / US May 2012 - 896 pages - hardback 4 volumes - 9781441160119 • £300.00 / $560.00 Special introductory price: UK £280 / US $520 Valid for 3 months after publication

Edited by Adrian Poole UK March 2012 / US May 2012 - 224 pages hardback - 9781441187437 - £75.00 / $140.00 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

Wilson Knight, Empson, Barber, Kott – Volume 13 Edited by Hugh Grady

UK March 2012 / US May 2012 - 224 pages hardback - 9780826446459 - £75.00 / $140.00 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

Jameson, Cowden Clarke, Kemble, Cushman – Volume 7

Edited by Adrian Poole and Peter Holland

Volume X: Marx and Freud – edited by David Hillman, Jean E. Howard and Crystal Bartolovich Volume XI: Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten – edited by Daniel Albright Volume XII: Joyce, Eliot, Auden, Beckett – edited by Adrian Poole Volume XIII: Wilson Knight, Empson, Barber, Kott – edited by Hugh Grady

Edited by Gail Marshall UK April 2011 / US June 2011 - 224 pages hardback - 978 0 8264 33862 • £75.00 / $140.00 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

Continuum Shakespeare Dictionaries Series Editor: Professor Sandra Clark, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Shakespeare and the Apocalypse:

Authoritative guides to major subject-areas covered by the poetry and plays. Each dictionary provides readers with a comprehensive guide to the topic under discussion, especially its contemporary meanings, and to its occurrence and significance in Shakespeare’s works.

Visions of Doom from Early Modern Tragedy to Popular Culture

By R.M. Christofides

akespeare Shakespeare’s Insults: A Pragmatic Dictionary

UK June 2012 / US August 2012 – 240 pages

A detailed analysis of how Shakespeare’s insults become integrated into his dramatic art and how they mirror Elizabethan society and culture.

Uncovering how religious iconography influenced the language of Shakespeare’s tragedies, this study locates that influence in popular culture today.

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By Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin

UK February 2014 / US April 2013 – 480 pages

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Continuum Drama Studies Continuum Renaissance Drama

Series Editors: Andrew Hiscock, University of Wales Bangor, UK and Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Continuum Renaissance Drama offers practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performative contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Each guide introduces the text’s critical and performance history but also provides students with an invaluable insight into the landscape of current scholarly research through a keynote essay on the state of the art and newly commissioned essays of fresh research from different critical perspectives.

The Jew of Malta:

NEW

A Critical Guide

The Alchemist:

NEW

A Critical Guide

Twelfth Night: A Critical Guide

NEW

Edited by Robert Logan

Edited by Helen Ostovich and Erin Julian

Edited by Alison Findlay and Liz Oakley-Brown

UK March 2013 / US May 2013 – 224 pages

UK January 2013 / US April 2013 – 208 pages

UK March 2013 / US May 2013 – 224 pages

New scholarly and critical perspectives on Marlowe’s controversial play The Jew of Malta.

Introducing the history of the play’s performance and reception plus major topics in current scholarship, this is a comprehensive guide to Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist.

Introducing key themes and the history of the play’s performance and critical reception, this is a comprehensive guide to Twelfth Night by leading international scholars.

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1 Henry IV:

King Lear:

A Critical Guide

A Critical Guide

Edited by Stephen Longstaffe

Edited by Andrew Hiscock and Lisa Hopkins

The Duchess of Malfi:

UK August 2011 / US October 2011 – 240 pages

UK June 2011 / US August 2011 – 256 pages

‘In a chain of ingeniously linked essays, this book reveals how the play poses questions about multiculturalism, role play, history, generational conflict, and the control of the media that are as pressing today as in 1597.’ Richard Wilson, Professor in English Literature, Cardiff University, UK

‘This volume provides “all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” about the challenging experience of King Lear. The coverage is compendious, the research up-to-date, and the essays rich with fresh insights.’ R. S. White, Professor of English, University of Western Australia, Australia

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A Critical Guide Edited by Christina Luckyj UK April 2011 / US June 2011 – 224 pages

‘The essays in the volume furnish detailed investigations of historical contexts and illuminating readings of the play while guiding the reader toward other relevant scholarship. I will certainly have it to hand the next time I teach The Duchess.’ Professor Elizabeth Hanson, Queen’s University, Canada Paperback – 9780826441249 - £16.99 / $29.95 Hardback – 9780826443274 - £50.00 / $90.00 E-IND: 9781441117687 - £16.79 / $24.33 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

Women Beware Women:

Volpone:

A Critical Guide

A Critical Guide

Edited by Andrew Hiscock

Edited by Matthew Steggle

UK February 2011 / US April 2011 – 224 pages

UK January 2011 / US March 2011 – 214 pages

‘This comprehensive collection of essays, beginning with Andrew Hiscock’s historical account of Women Beware Women, combines fresh research, provocative new interpretations and a useful account of performances of one of Middleton’s most powerful plays. Such established scholars as Helen Wilcox, Robert C. Evans and Coppelia Kahn join new voices for pioneering work on a major English playwright.’ Arthur F. Kinney, Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History and Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amhers, USA

‘Volpone: A Critical Guide offers the most wide-ranging and thought-provoking overview of Jonson’s comedy ever assembled. It considers the play both as a literary text and as a performance piece, covering its history on the stage and in critical commentary, and so illuminating the current state of scholarship on this most provocative and ambiguous of plays… It will be of value to scholars, teachers and students alike.

Future study of Volpone starts here.’ Richard Dutton, Humanities Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of English, Ohio State University, USA

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Censoring Translation: Censorship, Theatre, and the Politics of Translation

By Michelle Woods UK June 2012 / US April 2012 – 208 pages

‘Censoring Translation, by Michelle Woods, offers an insightful, provocative, and often amusing investigation of the translation of Vaclav’s Havel’s plays into English. Woods’s sophisticated treatment of the subject moves far beyond the question of overt repression, offering a more complex understanding of censorial power, one that recognizes the enormous influence of market forces, gender, and Cold War politics— on both sides of the Iron Curtain—in shaping the selection of texts for translation, the choice of a translator, and the overall translation approach taken.’ - Brian James Baer, Professor of Russian and Translation Studies, Kent State University, Founding Editor of Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS) Paperback – 9781441100573 - £17.99 / $29.95 Hardback – 9781441185853 - £55.00 / $100.00 E-IND: 9781441116987 - £14.99 / $29.95 Institutional EBooks: see your vendor

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