Drama, Performance & Literary Studies Catalogue 2016-2017

Drama, Performance & Literary Studies

2016-17

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Contents Drama and Performance Studies

Literary Studies

Theatre Studies......................................................2

Literary Theory..................................................... 33

Performance and Technique........................................6

Contemporary Literature......................................... 38

Performance Studies................................................9

Modernism.......................................................... 41

Theatre Makers.......................................................9

Comparative Literature........................................... 45

Modern Drama - Play Anthologies............................... 10

North American Literature....................................... 48

Modern Drama - Plays for Young People........................ 12

German Literature................................................. 52

Modern Drama - Student Guides................................. 13

Religion and Literature........................................... 53

Modern Drama - Modern Plays................................... 15

Environmental Literature......................................... 54

Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama ............ 27

Genre Fiction....................................................... 56 Children's Literature............................................... 57 Literary Biography................................................. 58 Writing............................................................... 58

Major Reference Works

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Index................................................................. 62 Representatives, Agents and Distributors...................... 67 Editorial Contacts.................................................. 68

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Reader in Comedy

Theatre Criticism

An Anthology of Theory and Criticism

Changing Landscapes

Edited by Magda Romanska, Emerson College, Boston, USA & Alan Ackerman, University of Toronto, Canada

Edited by Duška Radosavljevic, Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, University of Kent, UK

This unique anthology presents the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of comic theory, highlighting the relationships between comedy, politics, economics, philosophy, religion, and other arts and genres. Students of literature and theatre will find this collection an invaluable and accessible guide to writing from Plato and Aristotle through to the 21st century.

UK November 2016 • US December 2016 • 392 pages PB 9781474247887 • £24.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781474247894 • £75.00 / $128.00 Individual eBook 9781474247900 • £24.99 / $30.99 Library eBook 9781474247917 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

A Philosophy of Comedy on Stage and Screen You Have to be There Shaun May, University of Kent, UK Drawing on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Shaun May presents a witty and erudite exploration of the phenomenon of comedy, suggesting that there is something distinctive about human beings which grounds our ability to make and comprehend jokes. Guiding the reader through a range of examples, including the films of Charlie Chaplin, the stand-up of Francesca Martinez, the TV show Family Guy and Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, he demonstrates that in order to get the joke you have to 'be there'.

UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 224 pages PB 9781350004511 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781472580436 Individual eBook 9781472580450 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781472580467 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

The Contemporary Political Play Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure Sarah Grochala, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK What does it mean for a play to be political in the 21st century? While political drama is still often thought of as adhering to a Shavian model in which social issues are presented through a dialectical structure, Sarah Grochala argues that the different political structures of contemporary Britain give rise to formally inventive dramaturgies that are no less 'serious' than their Shavian forebears.

Through analysing the experimental work of playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Simon Stephens, Anthony Neilson, debbie tucker green and Mark Ravenhill, the volume offers a set of new principles for understanding how a play functions politically.

UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 288 pages PB 9781472588463 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472588470 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472588487 • £18.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781472588494 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

In this collection of essays, academics and critics trace the history of theatre criticism from its early beginnings in the 19th-century and the growth of the newspaper industry to its position in our present-day internet-dominated world. The recent rise in self-appointed theatre critics and bloggers is challenging the conservative profile of the professional critic and changing the focus of discussion around live performance. While often received with suspicion from mainstream newspaper critics, this new generation of bloggers is providing interesting intellectual and ideological perspectives on a wellestablished field.

UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 352 pages PB 9781472577092 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472578648 • £60.00 / $86.00 Individual eBook 9781472577115 • £16.99 / $20.99 Library eBook 9781472577108 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

The Story of Drama Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice from the Greeks to the Present Gary Day, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK Tracing the history of tragedy and comedy from their earliest beginnings to the present, this book offers readers an exceptional study of the development of both genres, grounded in analysis of landmark plays from each period. It argues that sacrifice is central to both genres and explores how the meanings of sacrifice change over time, but never quite disappear. For students of literature and drama it provides both a companion to over two millennia of drama organised by period, and an understanding of how sacrifice can offer a through-line running from antiquity to today's reality TV and the blockbuster movie.

UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 248 pages PB 9781408183120 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781408184158 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781408183533 • £18.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781408184882 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

British Theatre Companies: 19651979 CAST, The People Show, Portable Theatre, Pip Simmons Theatre Group, Welfare State International, 7:84 Theatre Companies John Bull, University of Reading, UK 1965–1979 in this three-volume series covers the period often accepted as the ‘golden age’ of British Fringe companies. It considers the birth and performance history of key companies, drawing extensively on the Arts Council of Great Britain archives for the first time to help trace these histories. It provides a survey of the political and cultural context, and of the variety of theatre companies from the period, followed by detailed case studies of six of the major companies: CAST, The People Show, Portable Theatre, Pip Simmons Theatre Group, Welfare State International, and 7:84 Theatre Companies.

UK December 2016 • US December 2016 • 320 pages PB 9781408175439 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781408175446 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781408175453 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781408175460 Series: British Theatre Companies: From Fringe to Mainstream • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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Series Editors: Mark Taylor-Batty, Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, UK, Enoch Brater, The University of Michigan, USA Methuen Drama Engage offers original reflections about key practitioners, movements and genres in the fields of modern theatre and performance. Each volume seeks to challenge mainstream critical thought through the introduction of original and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Theatre of Real People

Beat Drama

Diverse Encounters at Berlin’s Hebbel am Ufer and Beyond

Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl' Generation

Ulrike Garde, Macquarie University, Australia & Meg Mumford, University of New South Wales, Australia

Edited by Deborah Geis, DePauw University, USA

Garde and Mumford’s book provides the first in-depth analysis of how innovative forms of this theatre present and invite encounters between participants from diverse backgrounds through a study of the work arising from Germany's award-winning Hebbel-am-Ufer theatre in Berlin. In so doing, it opens up the work of an important European theatre and illuminates a distinct and prevalent mode of performance.

This volume, the first of its kind, gathers essays about the exciting work in drama and performance by and about the Beat Generation, ranging from the well-known Beat figures such as Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs, to the "Afro-Beats" - LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Bob Kaufman, and others. It offers original studies of the women Beats Di Prima, Bunny Lang - as well as groups like the Living Theater who in this era first challenged the literal and physical boundaries of the performance space itself.

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Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre Performing Literature Frances Babbage, University of Sheffield, UK This study explores the fascination of novels, short stories, children's books and autobiographies for theatre makers and examines what 'becomes' of such texts when these are filtered into contemporary practice that includes physical theatre, multimedia performance, puppetry, immersive and site-specific performance, and live art.

Setting out a series of fresh critical perspectives on the theory of adaptation in theatre-making, each chapter examines the characteristic features, restrictions and potency presented by the source material, before tracing the ways that they have been played out in recent performance projects.

UK July 2017 • US July 2017 • 272 pages HB 9781472530523 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781472527233 • £64.99 / $84.99 Library eBook 9781472534163 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Theatre in the Dark Edited by Adam Alston, University of Surrey, UK & Martin Welton, Queen Mary University of London, UK This edited collection of essays explores how theatre works in the dark, examining performances that blur the boundary between stage and auditorium by turning out the lights. It offers fresh insights into the significance of seeing and listening in darkness to some of this new century’s most exciting and innovative theatre artists, including Sound & Fury, Lundahl & Seitl, Chris Goode, David Rosenberg and Glen Neath. Theatre in the Dark responds to the rising tide of experimentation in dark theatre aesthetics, bringing together, for the first time, leading and emerging practitioners and researchers.

UK May 2017 • US May 2017 • 288 pages • 12 bw illus HB 9781474251181 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474251198 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781474251204 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Drama and Digital Arts Cultures David Cameron, Rebecca Wotzko & Michael Anderson, University of Sydney, Australia This volume is a critical guide to the new forms of playful exploration, co-creativity, and improvised performance made possible by digital networked media. Drawing on international examples from games, education, online media, technologyenabled performance and the creative industries, it uses the elements of applied drama to frame our understanding of digital cultures.

UK April 2017 • US April 2017 • 304 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9781472592200 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472592194 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472592217 • £18.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781472592224 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Authenticity in Contemporary Theatre and Performance Make it Real Daniel Schulze, University of Wurzburg, Germany This study analyses the ‘culture of authenticity’ as it relates to theatre and establishes a theoretical framework for analysis. The study examines three types of performances that exemplify this structure of feeling: intimate theatre seen in Forced Entertainment productions such as Quizoola!, as well as one-on-one performances, such as Oentroerend Goed’s Internal; immersive theatres as illustrated by Punchdrunk’s shows The Masque of the Red Death and The Drowned Man; and documentary theatre, through various examples such as Robin Soan’s Talking to Terrorists and Edmund Burke’s Black Watch.

UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 288 pages HB 9781350000964 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781350000971 • £64.99 / $79.99 Library eBook 9781350000988 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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Critical Companions Series Editors: Patrick Lonergan, University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland and Kevin J. Wetmore, Loyola Marymount University, USA Ranging across the 20th and 21st centuries, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series covers playwrights, theatre makers, movements and periods of international theatre and performance. Drawing on original research each volume provides a critical survey and analysis of a body of work by one author, giving attention to both text and performance.

Disability Theatre and Modern Drama

British Musical Theatre since 1950

Recasting Modernism

Robert Gordon, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, Olaf Jubin, Regent's University London, UK & Millie Taylor, University of Winchester, UK

Kirsty Johnston, University of British Columbia, Canada Brecht’s silent Kattrin or the disability performance lessons of his Peachum; Tennessee Williams' limping Laura Wingfield; Samuel Beckett's blind Hamm and his legless parents - all attest to disability's critical place in modern drama. This Critical Companion explores how disability performance studies and disability theatre practice seek to provoke new debate about the place of disability in these works. The book traces the local and international processes and tensions at play in disability theatre, and offers a critical investigation of the challenges disability theatre aesthetics pose to mainstream and traditional practice and critique.

UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 240 pages PB 9781408184783 • £21.99 / $37.95 • HB 9781408184493 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472510358 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781472506382 Series: Critical Companions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Verse Drama in England, 19002015 Art, Modernity and the National Stage Irene Morra, Cardiff University, UK This is the first full-length critical survey of dominant trends in the writing, theorization, and national reception of modern and contemporary English verse drama. Offering case-studies of well-known verse dramatists alongside explorations of less-discussed writers within the form, dramatists analysed include T. S. Eliot, Gordon Bottomley, Charles Williams, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Ronald Duncan, Christopher Fry, John Arden, Anne Ridler, Tony Harrison, Ted Hughes, and Caryl Churchill.

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 304 pages PB 9781472580139 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472580146 • £60.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472580153 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781472580160 Series: Critical Companions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

A Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical Elizabeth L. Wollman, Baruch College, New York City, USA Elizabeth L. Wollman traces the history and development of the industry and art form in America with a particular focus on its artistic and commercial development in New York City from the early 20th century to the present. Supplementary essays by other leading scholars provide a sharp focus on the productions that best exemplify each of the cultural collisions that helped shape the stage musical.

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This is the first book to discuss musical theatre’s post-war developments from the perspective of British – as opposed to American – popular culture. Introductory chapters analyse the way British musicals have responded to social change, and the forms of popular theatre and music from which they have developed. A key feature of the book is its close readings of twelve key works, from Salad Days (1954) and Oliver! (1960) to global smash hits such as Les Misérables (1985) and The Phantom of the Opera (1986) and beyond, including the latest critical and box-office success Matilda (2011).

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The Theatre of Anthony Neilson Trish Reid, Kingston University, London, UK This volume provides the first full-length study of both Neilson’s plays and his innovative rehearsal methodology. As well as providing a detailed account of each play Trish Reid includes an extensive new interview with Neilson and with many of his key collaborators. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to develop a better understanding of one of British theatre’s most original artists on stage and in the rehearsal room.

UK May 2017 • US May 2017 • 272 pages HB 9781472570307 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781472570314 • £64.99 / $84.99 Library eBook 9781472570321 Series: Critical Companions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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Series Editors: Michael Balfour, Griffith University, Australia and Sheila Preston, University of East London, UK The Applied Theatre series brings together leading international scholars that engage with and advance the field. Volumes offer a theoretical framework and introductory survey of the field addressed, combined with a range of case studies illustrating and critically engaging with practice.

Applied Theatre: Facilitation Pedagogies, Practices, Resilience Sheila Preston, University of East London, UK This is the first publication that directly explores the facilitator’s role within a range of socially engaged theatre and community theatre settings.

It offers a new theoretical framework for understanding critical facilitation in contemporary dilemmatic spaces and features a range of writings and provocations by international practitioners and experienced facilitators working in the field.

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 272 pages PB 9781472576934 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472576927 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472576941 • £18.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781472576958 Series: Applied Theatre • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Staging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland Edited by Trish McTighe, University of Reading, UK & David Tucker, University of Chester, UK Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials and re-examining familiar narratives, this volume traces the history of Beckett’s drama at Dublin’s Abbey and Gate Theatres as well as bringing to light little-known productions such as those performed in the Irish language, Druid Theatre Company’s productions, and those of Dublin’s Focus Theatre. Leading scholars in Beckett studies and in Irish and renowned dramatic interpreters of Beckett’s work explore Beckett’s drama within the context of Irish creative theatrical practice and heritage, and point towards the legacies that follow in its wake.

UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 288 pages HB 9781474240550 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474240567 • £64.99 / $79.99 Library eBook 9781474240574 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Beckett's Creatures Art of Failure after the Holocaust Joseph Anderton, University of Nottingham, UK In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to 'fail better'. But what might it mean to be a 'creature' or 'creaturely' in Beckett's world?

In the first full-length study of the concept of the creature in Beckett's prose and drama, this book traces the suspended lives and melancholic existences of Beckett's ignorant and impotent creatures to assess the extent to which political value marks the divide between human and inhuman.

UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 264 pages HB 9781474234535 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474234542 • £64.99 / $79.99 Library eBook 9781474234559 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing Edited by Veronica Baxter, University of Cape Town, South Africa & Katharine E. Low, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK

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This is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Including case studies and interviews from international practitioners, it reflects the diversity of practices across the world and in particular differences between work in the northern and southern hemispheres.

UK January 2017 • US January 2017 • 288 pages • 10 b/w illus PB 9781472584571 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472584564 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472584588 • £18.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781472584595 Series: Applied Theatre • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Staging Beckett in Great Britain Edited by David Tucker, University of Chester, UK & Trish McTighe, University of Reading, UK Uniquely placing performance history at the centre of its analyses, this volume examines Beckett’s drama as it has been staged in Great Britain, bringing to light a wide range of untold histories and in turn illuminating six decades of drama in Britain.

With contributions from experts in Beckett studies and UK drama including S.E. Gontarski, David Pattie, Mark TaylorBatty and Sos Eltis, the volume offers an exceptional understanding of Beckett’s reception on the UK stage and his impact on UK theatre practices.

UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 288 pages HB 9781474240178 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474240185 • £64.99 / $79.99 Library eBook 9781474240192 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy Auteurship and Directorial Visions Edited by George Rodosthenous, University of Leeds, UK This volume provides a wide-ranging analysis of the role of the director in shaping adaptations of Greek tragedy for the stage today. Through its focus on a wide range of international productions by Katie Mitchell, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Peter Sellars, Rimini Protokol, Jan Fabre, Robert Wilson, Tadashi Suzuki, Yukio Ninagawa, Ariane Mnouchkine, Peter Stein, Dimitris Papaioannou, Wole Soyinka and Richard Schechner, among others, it offers readers a detailed study of the ways directors have responded to the original texts, refashioning them for different audiences, contexts and purposes.

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The Late Work of Sam Shepard Shannon Blake Skelton, Kansas State University, USA Hailed by critics during the 1980s as the decade’s 'Great American Playwright', Sam Shepard has since continued to produce work in a wide array of media including short prose, films, plays, performances and screenplays. This is the first volume to consider Shepard's later work and career in detail. It ranges across all his work produced since the late 1980s, beginning with his directorial debut Far North, taking in stage plays including States of Shock, The God of Hell and Kicking a Dead Horse, as well as analysing his work in films, including Hamlet, Black Hawk Down, and Brothers.

UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 272 pages HB 9781474234726 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474234733 • £64.99 / $79.99 Library eBook 9781474234740 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

In Place of a Show What Happens Inside Theatres When Nothing Is Happening Augusto Corrieri, Independent scholar A compellingly written and accessible account of the Western theatre building, In Place of a Show focuses on four theatre buildings from around the world: theatres stripped of their primary purpose, lying empty, preserved as museums, or demolished. Through a playful combination of first-person narratives, scholarly research and visual documents, Augusto Corrieri investigates how to approach these spaces when the human element is no longer the primary focus of attention: what happens inside disused theatres? How do these buildings endure and transform through time? In short, what do theatres do?

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Playing Scared A History and Memoir of Stage Fright

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Sara Solovitch A thoughtful journey into the myriad causes of stage fright and the diverse ways to overcome it.

Stage fright is one of the human psyche’s deepest fears. Surveys in the United States repeatedly rank public speaking as one of the top fears, affecting up to 74 percent of people. Laurence Olivier learned to adapt to it, as have actors Salma Hayek and Hugh Grant. Musicians such as Paul McCartney and Adele have battled it and learned to cope. Playing Scared is Sara Solovitch’s journey into the myriad causes of stage fright and the ways we can overcome it. Using her own experience as inspiration, Sara has written a thoughtful and insightful cultural history of performance anxiety and a tribute to pursuing personal growth at any age.

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Essential Contacts for Stage, Screen and Radio Edited by Lloyd Trott, RADA, UK 'An essential tool for all actors' - Christine Payne, Equity Actors and Performers Yearbook is an established and respected directory that enables actors to find work in stage, screen and radio.

It is the only directory to provide detailed information for each listing and specific advice on how to approach companies and individuals, saving hours of further research. From agents and casting directors to producing theatres, showreel companies and photographers, Actors and Performers Yearbook editorially selects only the most relevant and reputable contacts for the actor.

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 512 pages PB 9781474283939 • £14.99 / $25.95 Individual eBook 9781474283953 • £14.99 / $17.99 Library eBook 9781474283922 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

A Director's Guide to Stanislavsky's Active Analysis Including the Formative Essay on Active Analysis by Maria Knebel James Thomas, Professor, Wayne State University, USA A Director's Guide to Stanislavsky's Active Analysis describes the innovative rehearsal method Stanislavsky formulated in his final years. By uniting ‘mental analysis’ and ‘études’, Active Analysis puts an end to the problem of mind-body dualism and formalized text memorization central to traditional rehearsal methods. The book has two parts: Part One guides the reader through the entire process of Active Analysis, while Part Two features the first English translation of Maria Knebel’s foundational article about Active Analysis. Ideal for directors seeking new techniques, and actors looking to enhance their creative involvement in the play process.

UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 192 pages PB 9781474256599 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474256582 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474256605 • £18.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781474256629 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Script Analysis for Theatre Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production Robert Knopf, University at Buffalo/SUNY, USA Script Analysis for Theatre equips theatre students and emerging theatre artists with a shared language to analyze play scripts, communicate about them, and collaborate with others on stage productions.

It offers a practical approach, grounded in case studies of a range of the most studied plays. Based largely on concepts derived from Stanislavski's system of acting and method acting, the book focuses on action - what characters do to each other in specific circumstances, times, and places - as the engine of every play.

Readers will develop the real-life skills professional theatre artists use to design, rehearse, and produce plays.

UK February 2017 • US March 2017 • 224 pages PB 9781408184301 • £21.99 / $37.95 • HB 9781408183823 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781408185186 • £21.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408185308 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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The Actor’s Workbook A Practical Guide to Training, Rehearsing and Devising + Video Alex Clifton, RADA, UK The Actor's Workbook is an essential workbook for actors, actors in training and teachers of acting and drama. The workbook and video provide a clear, step-by-step guide to learning techniques in acting, and are are based on the practices of Stanislavski and his recent theatrical descendants including Hagen, Meisner, Chekhov and others.

Student-centred exercises offer in-class and pre-class exercises, educational frameworks, teaching-tips, suggested texts through which to apply the work, follow-up exercises and suggestions for further reading. The Actor's Workbook includes video of the author teaching the exercises, with professional actors demonstrating the techniques to be learned.

UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 384 pages PB 9781472530042 • £21.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781472531803 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781472523266 Series: Performance Books • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

New Monologues for Women New Monologues for Men Edited by Geoffrey Colman, Central School of Speech and Drama, UK Features forty monologues for men from plays recently published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

The monologues are selected by the editor, Geoffrey Colman, on account of their suitability and relevance to drama school students and recent graduates entering the profession. Each monologue is preceded by an introductory paragraph by the editor, outlining the setting, character type, and point in the plot. This collection includes audition speeches from works by Steven Berkoff, Nathaniel Martello-White, Mark Ravenhill, James Graham, Roy Williams and Kate Tempest and is complemented with suggestions for staging, performance decisions and points of significance in the text.

UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 112 pages PB 9781472573476 • £12.99 / $22.95 Individual eBook 9781472573506 • £12.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472573490 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Edited by Geoffrey Colman, Central School of Speech and Drama, UK Including audition speeches from recent plays by Caroline Horton, Carmel Winters, Simon Stephens, Lucy Prebble and Rory Mullarkey, this collection is curated by Geoffrey Colman, choosing speeches for their suitability and relevance to drama school students and early-career professionals.

Each monologue is preceded by an introductory paragraph, by the editor, outlining the setting, character type, and point in the plot.

Suggestions are offered for staging, performance decisions and points of significance in the text, drawing on decisions made in professional production. This collection is the go-to resource for auditioning actors with an insatiable appetite for new, original and excellent material.

UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 120 pages PB 9781472573513 • £12.99 / $22.95 Individual eBook 9781472573544 • £12.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472573537 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Men

Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Women

Edited by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway, Black British Theatre Specialist, Theatre Director, Teacher/ Facilitator, Audience Development Officer and Writer, UK

Edited by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway, Black British Theatre Specialist, Theatre Director, Teacher/ Facilitator, Audience Development Officer and Writer, UK

Featuring audition speeches from works by Lolita Chakrabarti, Bola Agbaje, Vinay Patel, Ishy Din and Marcus Gardley, this collection offers a valuable resource aimed specifically at male actors of Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern origin, whether in drama schools or already working in the profession. Edited by the former manager of the Black Theatre Archive at the National Theatre, London, Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway, the collection is categorized by age, allowing actors to home in on the most suitable speech as quickly as possible.

Includes an introduction by playwright-director Kwame Kwei-Armah.

Edited by the former manager of the Black Theatre Archive at the National Theatre, London, Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway, this collection responds to the lack of resources available for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern actors, both in drama schools and in the profession.

This is the first collection aimed specifically at that growing market need and features monologues gleaned from a broad range of plays by critically acclaimed playwrights from throughout the world including from works by Sudha Bhuchar, Cush Jumbo, Katori Hall, Lynn Nottage and Sabrina Mahfouz, as well as an introduction by actor-playwright Lolita Chakrabarti.

UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 184 pages PB 9781474229135 • £12.99 / $22.95 Individual eBook 9781474229142 • £12.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781474229159 Series: Audition Speeches • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Mastering the Shakespeare Audition A Quick Guide to Performance Success Donna Soto-Morettini, Freelance, UK Success in auditions – drama school or for professional jobs – often relies on a well-delivered classical monologue. Mastering the Shakespeare Audition makes it easy for actors to analyse and master their chosen monologue in time for an upcoming audition.

Following a unique quick-start plan of reading and exercises, actors will be shown how to perform with confidence. Each section provides a set of exercises, detailing the time necessary to read and complete them. At the end of each section there is also a set of extended exercises for those with more time to spare.

UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 232 pages PB 9781474266857 • £17.99 / $25.95 Individual eBook 9781474266864 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781474266871 Series: Performance Books • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Music Entrepreneurship Allan Dumbreck, Senior Lecturer & Gayle McPherson, Professor of Events and Cultural Policy, both University of the West of Scotland, UK The music industries hinge on entrepreneurship.

The recent, rapid convergence of media and the parallel ongoing evolution of music businesses have again seen the focus shift to independent companies and individual entrepreneurs. But it’s not an easy territory to navigate. Music Entrepreneurship features an analysis of the changing landscape of the music industries and the value of the entrepreneur within them through a series of focused chapters and case studies. Alongside contributions from key academics across the globe, expert contributors from across the industry highlight successful entrepreneurs and offers practical help to the reader trying to navigate the business.

UK December 2015 • US January 2016 • 336 pages PB 9781472525406 • £16.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781472530974 • £16.99 / $20.99 Library eBook 9781472531100 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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The Art of Songwriting Andrew West, Professor and Head of Postgraduate Studies at Leeds College of Music, UK Collating the best-available expertise with fresh ideas about the industry, Andrew West equips the reader with what every productive songwriter needs to know: how to write communicative songs that express meaning and convey individuality; how to develop songs into records; how the writer can function as a marketer and seller of original work; how domestic and international markets operate; and how to act and interact meaningfully within the culture of those market. Armed with this knowledge, the songwriter is able to engage creatively and financially to make the most of their potential.

UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 272 pages PB 9781472527813 • £16.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781472524409 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781472528117 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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The Context and Processes of Digital Curation and Archiving Edited by Toni Sant, University of Hull, Scarborough, UK This is a much-needed anthology of writings about the process of documenting performance and other aspects of performance documentation management written by archivists, artists, curators, scholars, and digital preservation specialists. It focuses not on questions of liveness or the artistic qualities of documents, but rather on the professional approaches to recovering, preserving and disseminating knowledge of live performance. Through its four-part structure, the volume introduces readers to important writings by international practitioners and scholars from eight different countries on: Documenting Performance in a Digital Curation Context; Ways of Documenting; From Documents to Documenting, and Documenting Bodies in Motion.

UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 352 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781472588173 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472588180 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472588197 • £18.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781472588203 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Clowning as Social Performance in Colombia Ridicule and Resistance Barnaby King, Edge Hill University, UK Drawing on five years of co-performative ethnography by the author, this volume brings to light the emergence of new kinds of clowning in everyday life in Colombia, focusing particularly on the pervasive presence of clowns in the urban landscape of Bogotá. In doing so it affords a fresh and updated perspective on what clowning is as well as what it does in the 21st century. Featuring descriptions of more than 24 distinct clown performers, Barnaby King provides an engaging and lively account of the performative moment in which clowning transpires, analyzing the techniques and processes at work.

UK December 2016 • US December 2016 • 296 pages HB 9781474249270 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474249287 • £64.99 / $79.99 Library eBook 9781474249294 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

My Life In Art Constantin Stanislavski In My Life in Art Stanislavski recalls his theatrical career, from his early experiences in Rubinstein's Russian Musical Society to his final triumphs with Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theatre. His vivid accounts of his own most famous productions including 'The Seagull' and 'Uncle Vanya' are interspersed with anecdotes of the famous - of Kommisarjevksy, Tolstoy, Gorky, and of the Moscow visit of Isadora Duncan and Gordon Craig.

UK October 2016 • 488 pages PB 9781474299657 • £16.99 Individual eBook 9781474299794 • £16.99 Library eBook 9781474299800 Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic World English (excluding USA/Canada)

Theatre Makers The Theatre Makers series celebrates and draws together the work of many of the most seminal theatre makers. They provide an unprecedented insight into the philosophies and methods of the practitioners that have shaped – and continue to define – what theatre is today.

Simon Stephens: A Working Diary Simon Stephens 2014 was a year which featured an extraordinary number of world premieres from Simon Stephens, a West End and Broadway transfer of one of his plays, and his getting some of the most interesting commissions in today’s theatre. In an exceptionally honest account, Simon Stephens opens up to readers, through daily diary entries throughout the year, his working practices; inner-most thoughts; philosophy on theatre, the arts and politics; and his feelings and reactions to specific projects on which he has worked and practitioners with whom he has worked.

UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 312 pages PB 9781474251419 • £16.99 / $25.95 Individual eBook 9781474251433 • £14.99 / $17.99 Library eBook 9781474251457 Series: Theatre Makers • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago In Their Own Words John Mayer, Chair of Theatre Department, California State University, Stanislaus in Turlock, California, US

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This is the first book to chronicle this iconic theatre company, offering an account of its early years and development, its work, and the methodologies that have made it one of the most influential ensemble theatres today. Through extensive, in-depth interviews conducted by the author with ensemble members, this book reveals the story of Steppenwolf's miraculous rise from basement to Broadway and beyond. Interviewees include co-founders Jeff Perry, Gary Sinise and Terry Kinney, along a myriad of ensemble, staff, board members and others.

UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 280 pages PB 9781474239455 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474239448 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781474239479 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781474239462 Series: Theatre Makers • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Joan's Book The Autobiography of Joan Littlewood Joan Littlewood This autobiography offers an unparalleled firsthand account of Joan Littlewood's extraordinary life and career, from illegitimate child in southeast London to one of the most influential directors and practitioners of the 20th century. It is published here in Methuen Drama's Theatre Makers series with a new introduction by Philip Hedley CBE, previously Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Stratford East and Assistant Director to Joan Littlewood.

UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 600 pages PB 9781474233224 • £24.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781474233262 • £75.00 / $128.00 Individual eBook 9781474233248 • £24.99 / $30.99 Library eBook 9781474233231 Series: Theatre Makers • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti

McDowall Plays: 1

Book of Interventions in the Flow of Things

Brilliant Adventures; Captain Amazing; Talk Show; Pomona

Bertolt Brecht

Alistair McDowall

Edited and translated by Antony Tatlow, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Published for the first time in English, Brecht’s Me-Ti tells of the ‘Master Me-Ti’ and his wisdom. Composed of short stories, aphorisms and anecdotal sketches, it is Brecht's compendium of Chinese philosophy and commentary on contemporary political events and people. Often light and humorous in tone, the work is central to an understanding of Brecht's critical reflections on Marxist dialectics and his orientally informed fascination with flow and flux, change and the non-eternal which informs much of his writing.

Readers will find themselves both fascinated and beguiled by the reflections and wisdom it offers.

UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 200 pages PB 9781472579164 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472579171 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472579188 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781472579195 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Brecht On Film & Radio Bertolt Brecht Edited and translated by Marc Silberman, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA Newly available in the Americas, this book includes all of Brecht's theoretical writing about film, radio, broadcasting and the new media written between 1919 and 1956 as well as all of his important screenplays produced during the 1920s and 1930s. Screenplays written during this time include an early sound-film adaptation of The Threepenny Opera, and a collaboration with Fritz Lang, Hangmen Also Die. Brecht's writings on the new media document his fascination with it from Weimar Germany to Hollywood and the movie industry.

Marc Silberman's full editorial commentary sets Brecht's ideas in the context of his other work.

UK March 2001 • US June 2016 • 256 pages PB 9780413727602 • £17.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781408169872 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781408171288 Series: Diaries, Letters and Essays • Methuen Drama World English

This is the first collection from groundbreaking playwright Alistair McDowall. Having won a Judges Award at the Bruntwood Prize in 2011 and been shortlisted for the Writers' Guild Best Play Award in 2013, McDowall is one of the most exciting playwrights of this generation. The anthology features the play that brought him to people's attention, Brilliant Adventures, up to his latest major play, Pomona, that received ecstatic reviews and hailed him as one of the most important playwrights of this generation. It also includes two previously unpublished plays, an introduction by the author, and a foreword by Simon Stephens.

UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 448 pages PB 9781350007420 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350007437 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781350007451 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781350007444 Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Lustgarten Plays: 1 A Day At the Racists; If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep; Black Jesus; Shrapnel: 34 Fragments of a Massacre; Kingmakers; The Insurgents Anders Lustgarten The first play collection from Anders Lustgarten, "perhaps Britain's most visible and visibly engaged political playwright" (Time Out London), containing plays from the start of his career up to 2015. The volume includes an introduction by the playwright alongside the plays A Day At the Racists; If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep; Black Jesus; and Shrapnel; as well as the previously unpublished The Insurgents; and Kingmakers.

UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 360 pages PB 9781350005938 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350005945 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781350005969 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781350005952 Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Butler Plays 2 Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art Katharine Cockin, University of Hull, UK This new biography explores the extraordinary life of Edith Craig (1869-1947), her prolific work in the theatre and her political endeavours. As director and founder of the Pioneer Players, Craig supported the production of women’s suffrage drama, and was a pioneer of theatre aimed at social reform. Introducing London audiences to expressionist and feminist drama from Nikolai Evreinov to Susan Glaspell, she captured the imagination of Virginia Woolf, and influenced a generation of actors. Katharine Cockin’s meticulously researched and wide-ranging biography, released for the seventieth anniversary of Craig’s death, provides a timely reappraisal of Craig's life and work.

Airbag; I'll Be the Devil; Faces in the Crowd; Juicy Fruits; 69; Do It! Leo Butler Butler Plays: Two brings together a selection of Leo Butler's work, currently both published and previously unpublished, covering the years 2007 to 2013. It showcases his incredible variety in style and tone, and brings together some of his best-loved works, including I'll Be The Devil and Faces in the Crowd, alongside some of his lesser known pieces such as Juicy Fruits, Airbag and 69. Butler is a writer of fierce imagination and never shies away from taboo subjects.

UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 368 pages PB 9781350006287 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350006294 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781350006317 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781350006300 Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

UK January 2017 • US January 2017 • 320 pages • 6 b&w illus PB 9781472570611 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472570628 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472570635 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781472570642 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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HighTide Plays: 1

Blood Brothers; Our Day Out - The Musical; Shirley Valentine; John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert

Ditch; peddling; The Big Meal; Lampedusa

Willy Russell A new collection of plays from Willy Russell, one of Britain's best-loved dramatists, features the smash hits Blood Brothers, Our Day Out: The Musical and Shirley Valentine as well as the previously unpublished John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert.

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 368 pages PB 9781474230049 • £17.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781474230063 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781474230056 Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Beth Steel, Harry Melling, Dan LeFranc & Anders Lustgarten HighTide Theatre Festival was founded in 2006 and has since become one of the most prolific homes of new writing. It has been described by the Telegraph as "one of the little gems of the artistic calendar in Britain" and by the Daily Mail as "famous for championing emerging playwrights and contemporary theatre". This anniversary volume brings together four of the key plays that have come out of its programme - Ditch by Beth Steel; peddling by Harry Melling; The Big Meal by Dan LeFranc and Lampedusa by Anders Lustgarten.

UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 312 pages PB 9781350001961 • £12.99 / $22.95 Individual eBook 9781350001985 • £12.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781350001978 Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Contemporary Plays from Iraq A Cradle; A Strange Bird on Our Roof; Cartoon Dreams; Ishtar in Baghdad; Me, Torture, and Your Love; Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad; Summer Rain; The Takeover; The Widow Edited by James Al-Shamma, Assistant Professor of Theatre, Belmont University, US Translated by A. Al-Azraki & James Al-Shamma, Assistant Professor of Theatre, Belmont University, US A ground-breaking collection of Middle Eastern drama translated into English for the very first time. With works from both established and emerging male and female playwrights, written in country and in exile, this volume offers current Iraqi perspectives on a war and occupation that have significantly impacted the Middle East and the rest of the world.

Islam in Performance Contemporary Plays from South Asia Edited by Ashis Sengupta, Professor of English, University of North Bengal, India

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Willy Russell Plays: 2

Islam in Performance brings together six contemporary plays from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan that highlight the political performance of Islam in South Asia, especially since the 1947 partition of the subcontinent. The plays invite comparison with one another, engaging with the issue from perspectives of the three countries concerned. The volume is edited and introduced by Ashis Sengupta.

UK March 2017 • US May 2017 • 384 pages PB 9781474250702 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474250719 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474250733 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781474250726 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Plays for Young People An excellent selection of single plays and anthologies aimed at young people to perform. The series features the highest-quality work by established playwrights, which is age-appropriate and organised into age bands to help teachers and youth theatre leaders select the most suitable work for their group.

Adventures in the Skin Trade

My Father, Odysseus

Dylan Thomas

Timberlake Wertenbaker

Samuel Bennett leaves his home in South Wales to pursue a career in London. Setting out with an attitude of reckless, nihilistic purpose, he encounters a nightmarish city with an assortment of bizarre characters and an embarrassing first sexual experience. Join Samuel as he meanders through this dreamlike world, all with a beer bottle stuck on his little finger. Dylan Thomas’s gloriously surreal coming-of-age and unfinished novel is given new life on the stage by acclaimed writer Lucy Gough.

Telemachus’ father left long ago to fight a war.

He doesn’t remember him. Now the man of the house, he must step up to defend his father’s legacy and protect his mother from the suitors that lounge around the court. This timeless Greek myth has been reinvented by playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker to create a modern, rich and powerful new work about a son searching for his father and a father searching for himself that is, at the same time, an exploration of masculinity and the effects of war.

UK July 2015 • US August 2015 • 80 pages PB 9781474269513 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474269537 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474269520 Series: Plays for Young People • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

UK March 2016 • US April 2016 • 64 pages PB 9781350007505 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350007529 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350007512 Series: Plays for Young People • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won't Die Mark Wheeller The words of the title are the last ones spoken by seventeen-year-old Daniel Spargo Mabbs to his mother. Last January, Daniel's parents thought he was going to a friend’s house. He actually attended an illegal rave and later died after taking MDMA. That fateful evening is told through the words of his school friends and family in a fast-paced, tragic, vibrant piece of verbatim theatre.

I Love You, Mum, I Promise I Won't Die was commissioned by the charity set up in Daniel’s memory to raise awareness about the danger of party drugs.

UK April 2017 • US April 2017 • 80 pages PB 9781350011281 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350011304 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350011298 Series: Plays for Young People • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

National Theatre Connections Monologues

Connections 500 Blackout; Eclipse; What Are They Like?; Bassett; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Gargantua; Children of Killers; Take Away; It Snows; The Musicians; Citizenship; Bedbug Snoo Wilson, Simon Armitage, Jackie Kay, Patrick Marber, Mark Ravenhill, Bryony Lavery, Frantic assembly, Davey Anderson, James Graham, Katori Hall, Carl Grose, Stacey Gregg & Lucinda Coxon Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from twenty-one years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays. Featuring work by some of the most prolific playwrights of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and together in one volume, the anthology offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study.

UK February 2016 • US March 2016 • 752 pages PB 9781474284134 • £17.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781474284141 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781474284158 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Speeches for Young Actors Edited by Anthony Banks, Director, UK A collection of monologues for young people.

The monologues feature alongside a general introduction by the editor, Anthony Banks; individual studies of each monologue with the editor’s suggested points for discussion; a brief commentary about the play from which the speech is taken, as well as flagging potential performance decisions and offering up dramaturgical suggestions.

Each page features one monologue, plus the individual commentary and some background to the play. Also includes a foreword by the actor Matt Smith.

UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 208 pages PB 9781472573100 • £14.99 / $25.95 Individual eBook 9781472573131 • £14.99 / $17.99 Library eBook 9781472573124 Series: Play Anthologies • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Specifically geared to the needs of GCSE students, GCSE Student Editions include the full text of each play with on-page annotations, plus an introduction and accompanying material that aims to help the GCSE student in their understanding of the play. GCSE Student Guides are invaluable accompaniments, complementing the study of any contemporary play at GCSE level and featuring helpful overviews of each play, as well as a discussion of context, themes, characters, dramatic techniques, critical reception, related work and a glossary of dramatic terms.

Blood Brothers GCSE Student Edition

Blood Brothers GCSE Student Guide

Willy Russell

Ros Merkin, Senior Lecturer, Department of Drama, Liverpool John Moores University

Edited by Jacqueline Bolton, University of Lincoln, UK Blood Brothers was first performed at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1983 and subsequently transferred to the Lyric Theatre, London. It was revived in London's West End in 1988 for a long-running production and opened on Broadway in 1993. The commentary and notes by Ros Merkin in this GCSE Student Edition look at the play through the lens of twentyfirst century theatre, examining its context, themes, characters and language, and in a way that's ideally suited to the GCSE student.

UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 136 pages PB 9781474229920 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474229944 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474229937 Series: GCSE Student Editions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

A Taste of Honey GCSE Student Edition Shelagh Delaney Edited by Kate Whittaker, Lecturer in Drama at Birmingham City University, UK Shelagh Delaney’s modern classic A Taste of Honey is a comic and poignant exploration of class, feminism, race, sexual orientation and optimism in post-war Britain. Fifty years after its hit premiere, working-class Lancashire lass Jo’s story continues to engage new generations of audiences. Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Student Editions provide in-depth explanatory material alongside the play texts frequently studied at Key Stage 4.

UK June 2016 • 136 pages PB 9781474229678 • £9.99 Individual eBook 9781474229692 • £9.99 Library eBook 9781474229685 Series: GCSE Student Editions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Commonwealth/UK/Open Market

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time GCSE Student Edition Simon Stephens Edited by Jacqueline Bolton, University of Lincoln, UK Simon Stephens's adaptation of Mark Haddon's bestselling, award-winning novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time offers a richly theatrical exploration of this touching and bleakly humorous tale. It is published here as a GCSE Student Edition featuring commentary and notes by Jacqueline Bolton, which consider the play's themes, context, characters, dramatic style and critical reception, all written with the GCSE reader in mind.

Designed to be both accessible and comprehensive, this GCSE Student Guide provides an extended narrative on the content, structure, context, tone and themes of Willy Russell's 1983 play-with-music, Blood Brothers. The play was premiered at Liverpool Playhouse before transferring to London, where it enjoyed a long-running production in the West End. The Student Guide is ideally pitched at GCSE readers in its analysis of and investigation into the play.

UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 120 pages PB 9781474229982 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474230025 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474230018 Series: GCSE Student Guides • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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A Taste of Honey GCSE Student Guide Kate Whittaker, Lecturer in Drama at Birmingham City University, UK Shelagh Delaney’s modern classic A Taste of Honey is a comic and poignant exploration of class, feminism, race, sexual orientation and optimism in post-war Britain. Fifty years after its hit premiere, working-class Lancashire lass Jo’s story continues to engage new generations of audiences. This GCSE Student Guide of the play offers a critical commentary with extensive, clearly labelled analyses on themes, characters and context. It features sections on dramatic technique, critical reception, related works and fascinating behindthe-scenes interviews with theatre practitioners.

UK June 2016 • 112 pages PB 9781474229715 • £9.99 Individual eBook 9781474229739 • £9.99 Library eBook 9781474229722 Series: GCSE Student Guides • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Commonwealth/UK/Open Market

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time GCSE Student Guide Jacqueline Bolton, University of Lincoln, UK This GCSE Student Guide sets out to explore the most significant and relevant aspects of Simon Stephens's adaptation, the dramatic techniques behind the play, the major themes, characterisation and context, all the while drawing on the views and experiences of critics, actors and directors who have worked on and studied the play.

UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 120 pages PB 9781474240598 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474240611 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474240604 Series: GCSE Student Guides • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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An Inspector Calls GCSE Student Guide Philip Roberts, Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies in the University of Leeds, UK An English theatre classic, J. B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls is as much about today as it is about the 20th century. On a night in 1912, Inspector Goole’s unexpected arrival at the Birling family’s home turns a dinner party into a murder investigation with some shattering conclusions. This GCSE Student Guide of the play offers a critical commentary with extensive, clearly labelled analyses on themes, characters and context. It features sections on dramatic technique, critical reception, related works, fascinating behind-thescenes interviews with playwrights, directors or actors, and a helpful glossary of dramatic terms.

UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 120 pages PB 9781474233637 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474233651 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474233644 Series: GCSE Student Guides • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

DNA GCSE Student Guide Maggie Inchley, Lecturer in Performance at Queen Mary, University of London, UK Dennis Kelly’s play, DNA, centres on friendship, morality and responsibility in odd circumstances.

When a group of young friends are faced with a terrible accident, they deliberately make the wrong choices to cover it up and find themselves in an unusually binding friendship where no one will own up to what they’ve done. Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Student Guides conveniently gather indispensable resources and tips for successful understanding and writing all in one place, preparing students to approach their exams with confidence.

UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 128 pages PB 9781474232548 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474232579 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474232555 Series: GCSE Student Guides • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Journey's End GCSE Student Guide Andrew Maunder, Reader in Victorian Studies at the University of Hertfordshire, UK R. C. Sherriff’s Journey’s End focuses on the experience of soldiers in WW1 and the conditions in which they fought and died through a socially diverse regiment of English soldiers hiding in trenches in France. Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Guides conveniently gather indispensable resources and tips for successful understanding and writing all in one place, preparing students to approach their exams with confidence. Key features include a critical commentary of the play with extensive, clearly labelled analyses on themes, characters and context.

UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 128 pages PB 9781474232289 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474232302 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474232296 Series: GCSE Student Guides • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Student Editions The Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Student Editions are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoires.

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Punk Rock Simon Stephens Edited by Catherine Love William Carlisle has the world at his feet, but its weight on his shoulders. He is intelligent, articulate and f***ed. In the library of a grammar school, William and his fellow sixth-formers are preparing for their mock A-Levels while navigating the pressures of teenage life. They are educated and aspirational young people, but step-by-step, the dislocation, disjunction and latent aggression is revealed. Punk Rock premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith on 3 September 2009 in a co-production between Lyric Hammersmith and the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. It is published here as a Student Edition featuring commentary and notes

by Catherine Love.

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 176 pages PB 9781474229357 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474229371 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474229364 Series: Student Editions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose Edited by Stephen Price Reginald Rose uses the jury-room setting to develop a complex drama about democracy and individualism. In the 1950s, these themes were informed by anxieties in the US about communism and McCarthyism, and relations between races and generations, but the play's subsequent appeal derives from the continuing relevance of the broader questions it raises. This landmark play remains as intriguing and powerful as ever, and this marks the first critical edition of Reginald Rose's 1964 play, Twelve Angry Men, featuring commentary and notes by Steven Price.

UK December 2016 • US December 2016 • 128 pages PB 9781474232326 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474232340 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474232333 Series: Student Editions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

The Ride Down Mt. Morgan Arthur Miller Edited by Toby Zinman Published here as a Student Edition, Arthur Miller’s The Ride Down Mount Morgan tells the story of Lyman Felt who is hospitalised after a serious car crash. After his accident, two women claiming to be his wife meet by his side. Caught in a web of lies between two families looking for an explanation, Lyman’s reasons for his deceitfulness shed new light on old memories and replace deception with the unavoidable, aching truth. Betrayal and bigamy, crisis and reconciliation are just some of the themes probed by Arthur Miller in his 1991 play.

UK January 2017 • 128 pages PB 9781474256544 • £9.99 • HB 9781474288491 • £30.00 Series: Student Editions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English (excluding USA/Canada)

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Cock

The Effect

Mike Bartlett

Lucy Prebble

Mike Bartlett’s metrosexual play about love and longing provides us with questions of who we are and who we want to be. John’s refusal to fix his identity disturbs and disrupts the lives of those around him in this contemporary tale of sex without nudity and struggle without violence. Mike Bartlett's punchy story takes a playful, candid look at one man's sexuality and the difficulties that arise when you realise you have a choice. Cock premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 13 November 2009. It is published in the Modern Classics series, featuring an introduction by Mark O'Thomas.

The Effect is a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of attraction and love, however, Tristan and Connie manage to throw the trial off-course, much to the frustration of the clinicians involved. This funny, moving and perhaps surprisingly human play explores questions of sanity, neurology and the limits of medicine, alongside ideas of fate, loyalty and the inevitability of physical attraction. This Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Miriam Gillinson.

UK January 2017 • US January 2017 • 120 pages PB 9781474229630 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474229654 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474229647 Series: Modern Classics • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 104 pages PB 9781474272018 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474272032 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474272025 Series: Modern Classics • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Modern Plays The 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.

After Independence

American Beauty Shop

May Sumbwanyambe

Dana Lynn Formby

Africa is changing. Country by country, step by step.

But for Guy and Kathleen, life on their Zimbabwean ranch goes on, just as it has since their ancestors first claimed this land. Until a man from the new government arrives with a smile and a purchase order – but there’s more than just land at stake. A game of cat and mouse begins, with the heritage of an entire nation to play for. As truths are revealed and moralities questioned, After Independence asks are things ever more than simply black and white?

UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 80 pages PB 9781350007970 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350007963 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350007956 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

The Angry Brigade James Graham Against a backdrop of Tory cuts, high unemployment and the deregulated economy of 1970s Britain, a young urban guerrilla group mobilises: The Angry Brigade. Their targets: MPs, embassies, police, pageant queens. A world of order is shattered by anarchy and the rules have changed. An uprising has begun. No one is exempt. As a special police squad hunt the home-grown terrorists whose identities shocked the nation, James Graham's heart-stopping thriller lures us into a frenzied world that looks much like our own.

UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 128 pages PB 9781474266765 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474266789 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474266772 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

It’s hard to pull yourself up by your bootstraps in this economy—Sue should know. It’s harder when you’ve got kids, even whip-smart, talented ones like Judy. Sue has big dreams for both her basement beauty shop and her daughter, who’s anxiously waiting for a letter from Berkeley that could change her life. Armed with tough love, combative humor and an uncompromising work ethic, Sue is struggling to balance her own livelihood and Judy’s future. A heartfelt play about the true cost of dreams, American Beauty Shop received its world premiere at Chicago Dramatists in April 2016.

UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 104 pages PB 9781474293570 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474293594 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474293587 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Any Means Necessary Kefi Chadwick

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When Mel meets Dave at a protest, she believes she has met her kindred spirit. But is he who he appears to be? An emotionally compelling drama that explores love, betrayal, secrets and lies and exposes the brutality of a police policy that used any means necessary to undermine political protest.

Based on a true story, Any Means Necessary centres on the events surrounding a group of environmental activists and the 2011 court case that charged them with trespass at Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station. This play received its world premiere at Nottingham Playhouse on 5 February 2016.

UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 112 pages PB 9781350002296 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350002319 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350002302 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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The Argument

Barbarians

William Boyd

Barrie Keeffe

In nine taut scenes, acclaimed author William Boyd explores what it is to argue with those we love - and those we should love. He looks at our propensity to judge others and our power to hurt.

Alongside this, he shows how it can sometimes be the superficial problems in a relationship that keep it going. Both bleak and funny in its tone, The Argument offers a Strindberg-like take on human dynamics and received its world premiere at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs.

UK March 2016 • US March 2016 • 72 pages PB 9781474236508 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474236539 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474236522 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Blue/Orange Joe Penhall Christopher has been confined to a psychiatric ward for a month. He wants out. The problem is he still thinks oranges are blue. His doctor, convinced he needs help, wants to section him.

The senior consultant thinks it’s all a question of culture. And besides, it costs taxpayer money to keep Christopher in care. Race, ethics, sanity and prejudice collide in Joe Penhall’s exquisitely sharp 'state-of-thenation' classic. Blue/Orange was first performed at the Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, in April 2000. This edition has been published to coincide with the Young Vic's revival production in 2016.

UK May 2016 • US June 2016 • 128 pages PB 9781350011953 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350011977 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350011960 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

It’s 1977. Youth unemployment is at an all-time high and the pound is at an all-time low. Paul, Jan and Louis are bored, broke and demoralized by the hand that they’ve been dealt. How will these young lads fair with the odds stacked against them? How will they cope? Cut off from society with no-where to turn, the play resonates with a modern audience who will no doubt recognize the disaffected youth of 1970’s Britain.

Barrie Keeffe’s tragically dark play crackles with tension throughout, building to a twisted and dramatic end.

UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 128 pages PB 9781474282253 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474282260 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474282277 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Boy Leo Butler Liam wanders through the city, repeatedly encountering people, but continually feeling disconnected and alienated. In this vivid and troubled story of an isolated young man, playwright Leo Butler casts a sharp eye over the city and picks someone for us to follow. Boy received its world premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, on 5 April 2016.

UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 152 pages PB 9781350004672 • £10.99 / $18.95 Individual eBook 9781350004696 • £10.99 / $12.99 Library eBook 9781350004689 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

The Broke 'n' Beat Collective The Brink At 27, History teacher Nick is on the edge. A hidden secret lies under the Brink. Nick can’t get it out of his mind. A series of visions force Nick to investigate what lies beneath. Nick’s girlfriend doesn’t understand. Neither do his fellow teachers.

Frustrated, he confides in a Year 10 student but can she be expected to have all the answers? The Brink is an arch but affecting parable for the times we live in. This edition was published to coincide with the play’s world premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in April 2016.

The Broke ‘n’ Beat Collective is a unique mash up of hip-hop, theatre and puppetry which brings together four amazing artists: beat-boxer Hobbit, b-boy LoGisTics, singer/rapper Elektric and puppeteer Mohsen to form The Broke ‘n’ Beat Collective. Written by Keith Saha, playwright and the co-artistic director of 20 Stories High, and Sue Buckmaster, the Artistic Director of Theatre-Rites, The Broke ‘n’ Beat Collective is a unique theatrical experience filled with gripping tales, transfixing poetry and hip-hop puppetry. Funny and moving, it is a raw and moving play that explores the hardships faced by young people in the UK today.

UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 88 pages PB 9781350001336 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350001343 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350001350 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

UK February 2016 • US March 2016 • 96 pages PB 9781474299718 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474299725 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474299732 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Close to the Enemy

The Shining City

Stephen Poliakoff

James Phillips

Close To The Enemy is a six-part television series by acclaimed writer and director Stephen Poliakoff, mostly set in a bomb-damaged London hotel in the aftermath of the Second World War. It was first screened in Autumn 2016 on BBC2. The drama follows intelligence officer Captain Callum Ferguson whose last task for the Army is to ensure that a captured German scientist, Dieter, starts working for the British RAF on urgently developing the jet engine.

Camelot: The Shining City is a modern retelling of the myth of King Arthur, by awardwinning playwright James Phillips. Developed in collaboration with Slung Low, specialists in spectacular theatrical experiences, and Sheffield People's Theatre, Camelot: The Shining City is written for a company of over 150 actors, bringing the medieval story to breathtaking life.

UK July 2015 • US July 2015 • 88 pages PB 9781474272742 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474272759 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474272766 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

The Comedy About A Bank Robbery Henry Lewis, Henry Shields & Jonathan Sayer One enormous diamond. Six incompetent crooks.

And a snoozing security guard. What could possibly go right? Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre, creators of the Olivier Award-winning Best New Comedy The Play That Goes Wrong and Peter Pan Goes Wrong, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is the latest adventure in mishap, mistimed exists and entrances, and disaster unfolding in front of the audience's eyes. The play received its world premiere at the Criterion Theatre, London, on 31 March 2016.

UK May 2016 • US June 2016 • 104 pages PB 9781350001206 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350001220 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350001213 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

UK November 2016 • US November 2016 • 496 pages PB 9781350016002 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350016040 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781350016026 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781350016019 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Confusions Alan Ayckbourn From a devoted and isolated mother, to her unfaithful travelling salesman husband, through a solicitous waiter to well-heeled diners and an utterly shambolic garden fete, human frailty is laid bare as one hilarious situation after another unfolds. Each of the plays connects to the next through one of its characters until the final one is reached when four people sit alone on park benches. From high farce to poignant observation; the laughs, however dark, keep coming. This new edition was published to coincide with the first ever revival of the play, staged at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in July 2015.

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UK July 2015 • 120 pages PB 9781474270847 • £9.99 Individual eBook 9781474270854 • £9.99 Library eBook 9781474270861 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English (excluding USA)

The Damned United Cyprus Avenue David Ireland Eric Miller is a Belfast Loyalist. He believes his five-week-old granddaughter is Gerry Adams. His family keep telling him to stop living in the past and fighting old battles that nobody cares about anymore, but his cultural heritage is under siege.

He must act. David Ireland’s black comedy takes one man’s identity crisis to the limits as he uncovers the modern day complexity of Ulster Loyalism.

UK February 2016 • US March 2016 • 104 pages PB 9781474298216 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474298223 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474298209 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

David Peace 1974. Brian Clough tries to redeem his managerial career and reputation by winning the European Cup with his new team, Leeds United - the team he has openly despised for years, the team he hates and that hates him. Don Revie’s Leeds. This is a stage adaptation from David Peace’s ingenious and muchlauded novel, which takes you inside the tortured mind of a genius slamming up against his limits and brings to life the beauty and brutality of football, the working man’s ballet. It received its world premiere at the West Yorkshire Playhouse on 3 March 2016.

UK March 2016 • US March 2016 • 88 pages PB 9781350005136 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350005150 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350005143 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Dea

Decades

Edward Bond

Leo Butler

Edward Bond takes from the Greek and Jacobean drama the fundamental classical problems of the family and war to vividly picture our collapsing society. The war is raging, Dea, a heroine, has committed a terrible act and has been exiled. When she meets someone from her past, she is forcefully confronted by the broken society that drove her to commit her crimes. From the UK's greatest and most influential living playwright comes Dea, which received its world premiere at Sutton Theatre on 24 May 2016.

UK May 2016 • US June 2016 • 104 pages PB 9781350016286 • £10.99 / $18.95 Individual eBook 9781350016309 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350016293 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

The Devil's Passion or Easter in Hell A divine comedy in one act

UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 144 pages PB 9781350015920 • £10.99 / $18.95 Individual eBook 9781350015944 • £10.99 / $12.99 Library eBook 9781350015937 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Dublin Oldschool Emmet Kirwan, Playwright, Ireland

Satan is on a mission to harness the ways of the dangerous extremist preacher Jesus. Jesus' radical teachings and popularity have the potential to wreak havoc in the Middle East. This is exactly the sort of man the government warn us of, again and again. This clever and evocative passion play from the devil's perspective considers Jesus' relevance to contemporary issues, and retells the story of Christ's life from the perspective of the enemy. The Devil's Passion received its world premiere in June 2015 at St James's, Piccadilly.

Winner of the Stewart Parker Trust Major Bursary Award 2014, Dublin Oldschool is a chemically enhanced trip through the Dublin streets as brothers Jason and Daniel meet up again for the first time in years. Over a lost weekend they reconnect and reminisce over tunes, trips, their history and their city. Two brothers living on the edge, perhaps they have more in common than they think, but how long can this buzz last? This programme text edition was published to coincide with the revival of the play at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, on 11 January 2016.

UK March 2016 • US April 2016 • 72 pages PB 9781350005341 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350005365 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350005358 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

UK January 2016 • US February 2016 • 80 pages PB 9781474290753 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474290746 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474290739 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Justin Butcher

First Light Mark Hayhurst July 1916. Albert Ingham and Alfred Longshaw are in a trench in France. These young soldiers from a battalion of the Manchester Pals are about to take part in one of the most savage assaults in the history of human warfare: The Battle of the Somme. Mark Hayhurst’s play is a gripping thriller that exposes the impact of the First World War on soldiers and their families. It received its world premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre on 10 June 2016.

UK June 2016 • US July 2016 • 120 pages PB 9781350012462 • £10.99 / $18.95 Individual eBook 9781350012448 • £10.99 / $12.99 Library eBook 9781350012431 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Modern life isn't easy and it never has been.

This explosive play by Leo Butler transports us through time, looking at what happens when the next generation begin to find their feet in an ever-changing world. Through a kaleidoscope of characters, we see tensions rocket and values crumble, exposing the best and worst of what it means to be human. This epic roller coaster of a play combines euphoria and despair as different generations of young people ask the same question: where do we go from here? Decades received its world premiere at Ovalhouse, London, on 7 June 2016.

Fracked!

Or: Please Don't Use the F-Word Alistair Beaton Deerland Energy's plans to drill for shale gas in the pretty village of Fenstock are going well. The only slight snag is a ragged band of protesters, reluctantly led by retired academic Elizabeth Blackwood. Surely she's just another 'mad old biddy', as she's characterised by ruthless PR guru Joe Boxberg. This new razor-sharp black comedy by Alistair Beaton takes a timely look at the conflicted core of planetary energy and earthly power. It received its premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre on 8 July 2016.

UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 112 pages PB 9781350012134 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350012158 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350012141 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Giving

Theresa Ikoko

Hannah Patterson

Girls tells the plight of three of the girls abducted by terrorists in northern Nigeria. It conveys their plight, their dislocation and isolation, their sense of helplessness as the outside world gives up any hope of finding them, and of their own sense of sisterliness in spite of everything. Into an increasingly fraught and bleak situation, Ikoko weaves moments of hope, of humour, and of youthfulness, found in these girls who have lost their families and suddenly forced to become women overnight. Girls was shortlisted for the 2015 Verity Bargate Award and won the 2015 Alfred Fagon Award.

Laura has been commissioned to write an exclusive profile of businesswoman extraordinaire Mary Greene, who has recently become a leading philanthropist. But as Laura digs deeper into Mary’s charitable motivations, she discovers a much more interesting angle. Does the rationale for – and the morality of – philanthropic giving matter less than the outcome? Giving asks whether giving to charity can ever truly be altruistic and who actually gains the most - the recipient, the donor or the broker? It received its premiere at Hampstead Downstairs on 12 May 2016.

UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 96 pages PB 9781350005099 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350005112 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350005105 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

UK May 2016 • US June 2016 • 112 pages PB 9781350012189 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350012202 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350012196 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald A masterful adaptation of Fitzgerald's seminal work, The Great Gatsby stages the American Jazz Age with bravura storytelling and canny theatricality.

Recreating the sights, sounds and feel of America’s ‘Roaring Twenties’ as seen through the eyes of Nick Carraway, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is a brilliant evocation of a society obsessed with wealth and status.

UK September 2015 • 96 pages PB 9781474275118 • £9.99 Individual eBook 9781474275125 • £9.99 Library eBook 9781474275132 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English (excluding USA)

Hamlet: Who's There?

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William Shakespeare Adapted by Kelly Hunter Hamlet: Who’s There is a tightly written highly theatrical adaptation of Shakespeare’s great play.

Reimagining the action to take place over the course of one night, the play can be produced to last ninety minutes for a small cast of six actors.

Featuring much of the original language and the famous soliloquies of Shakespeare’s original play, this adaptation is ideal for people seeking a version of the tragedy to be played across a shorter timeframe or by a smaller cast.

UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 80 pages PB 9781350006386 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350006393 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350006379 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Happy to Help Michael Ross A destitute farmer sells his land to the supermarket chain that drove him out of business. Fifteen years later and a bustling branch stands on the same spot. Managing director Tony arrives to work undercover at the store for a week. Branch manager Vicky is determined to work him harder than he’d like. Shelf-stacker Josh dreams of escape. Union organiser Elliot dreams of Josh. By Friday, nothing will ever be the same for them again. Happy to Help is an acerbic satire about how Britain has become a nation of shop assistants.

UK June 2016 • US July 2016 • 96 pages PB 9781350009653 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350009660 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350009677 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Harrogate Al Smith Harrogate tells the story of a father struggling to confront his obsessions head-on without destroying his family. It is a play about how we perform versions of ourselves depending on what company we keep, and how we project onto others versions of the people we want to see, rather than accepting who stands in front of us. The play is a triptych about obsession, repression and lust.

UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 96 pages PB 9781474265942 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474265966 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474265959 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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How to Keep an Alien

The Invisible Hand

A Story about Falling in Love and Proving It to the Government

Ayad Akhtar

Sonya Kelly How to Keep an Alien is a funny and tender autobiographical tale in which Irish Sonya and Australian Kate meet and fall in love, but Kate’s visa is up and she must leave the country. Together they must find a way to prove to the Department of Immigration that they have the right to live together in Ireland. The paper trail takes them on an odyssey from Offaly to the Queensland Bush. It’s a tricky business that takes an Olympian will and the heart of a whale, but above all else, paperwork.

UK July 2015 • US August 2015 • 64 pages PB 9781474263245 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474263252 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474263269 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

I See You Mongiwekhaya Post-Apartheid South Africa, after dark. Ben meets Skinn for a night out. But the party is interrupted by the police. Ben, a young student who doesn’t know his own history, is accused of a crime he didn’t commit. And Officer Buthelezi, a former freedom fighter, can’t let it go. Based on a real encounter.

UK February 2016 • US March 2016 • 96 pages PB 9781474288118 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474288125 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474288101 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

American banker Nick Bright knows that his freedom comes at a price. Confined to a cell within the depths of rural Pakistan, every second counts. Who will decide his fate? His captors, or the whims of the market? Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Ayad Akhtar has written an intense, fast-moving political thriller, which lays bare the raw, unfettered power of global finance. The Invisible Hand received its world premiere at the New York Theatre Workshop on 8 December 2014 and its UK premiere at the Tricycle Theatre, London, on 12 May 2016.

UK May 2016 • 112 pages PB 9781350013506 • £9.99 Individual eBook 9781350013520 • £9.99 Library eBook 9781350013513 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English (excluding USA/Canada)

Karagula Philip Ridley Philip Ridley's play evokes a world where Prom Night is a matter of life or death, where weapons are grown and trained like pets, and where a chosen few are hearing a voice. A voice that speaks of ... Karagula. This extraordinary, form-shattering Karagula is a play of epic proportions. Written in a fractured timescale, it explores our constant need to find meaning. Karagula received its world premiere on 10 June 2016 at The Styx, London.

UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 192 pages PB 9781350016101 • £12.99 / $22.95 Individual eBook 9781350016118 • £12.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781350016125 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Kill Floor Abe Koogler A small town. Today. Following a long incarceration, Andy returns to her hometown to restart her life.

After securing a job at the local slaughterhouse, the challenges of reentry unfold as she reconnects with her teenage son, B, a staunch vegetarian with a life he's unwilling to share with his mother. Writer Abe Koogler has written a funny, surprising and moving search for connection in modern America. Kill Floor received its world premiere at New York's LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater in October 2015 and played at American Theatre Company, Chicago, from March 2016.

UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 88 pages PB 9781474294560 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474294577 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474294553 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Liberian Girl Diana Nneka Atuona Set during the early years of the First Liberian Civil War (1989 – 1996), this startling debut play

by Diana Nneka Atuona tells the story of fourteenyear-old Martha who flees her country, disguised as a boy, when it’s invaded by rebels. Exposed to the violence of this brutal and seemingly misguided conflict, both as victim and perpetrator, Martha’s experience of the First Liberian Civil War is one of excessive cruelty and, in particular, abuse against female prisoners of war. Liberian Girl received its world premiere at the Royal Court Upstairs, London in December 2014.

UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 96 pages PB 9781474276542 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474276566 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474276559 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Maggie's Plan

Sandra Tsing Loh

Rebecca Miller

In ancient times, tribal women went alone to caves during menopause. Today, the 50 million menopausal women in America turn to cheery self-help books. As for Loh and her female friends, they are determined not to go quietly into their sixth decade, but instead opt for a desert festival of debauchery and half-nude stoners. Based on her acclaimed memoir of the same title that Booklist calls "hilarious, comforting and enlightening", Loh's play is a hilarious, provocative, often moving consideration of what it is to be a woman in a society that values and reveres youth.

UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 64 pages PB 9781474293273 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474293297 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474293280 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Maggie's Plan, based on an unpublished novel by Karen Rinaldi, is both an affectionate send-up of highbrow academic culture and a treatise on modern self-realization. Rebecca Miller exhibits her characteristic sensitivity to female experience, but with a playfulness given freer rein than ever before in her work. The film premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 2015 to excellent reviews and received its official US premiere in May 2016.

UK June 2016 • US May 2016 • 144 pages PB 9781350005822 • £11.99 / $20.95 • HB 9781350005877 • £40.00 / $68.00 Individual eBook 9781350005853 • £11.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781350005839 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

My Mother Said I Never Should The Man Who Had All The Luck Arthur Miller Everything David Beeves touches turns to gold.

He has a beautiful home and a loving wife, loyal friends and a thriving business. But as those around him trip and fall, David struggles to understand his fate. What if his Midas touch, like the flip of a coin or the pull of the tide, is nothing more than good luck? The Man Who Had All the Luck was Miller’s first play to be produced, premiering in New York in 1944. Searching, philosophical and vehemently political, it initiates many of the themes which would go on to preoccupy Miller's life's work.

UK September 2015 • 120 pages PB 9781474270359 • £9.99 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English (excluding Canada/Mexico/USA)

Charlotte Keatley Charlotte Keatley’s 1987 award-winning play is a moving exploration of the relationships between mothers and daughters, and the consequences of breaking the most sacred taboo of motherhood.

My Mother Said I Never Should is about the choices we make which determine the course of our lives and how it is never too late to change. This edition was published to coincide with the revival of the play at the St James Theatre, London, in 2016, starring Maureen Lipman and Katie Brayben.

UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 112 pages PB 9781350010178 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350010208 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350010222 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

My Name is Saoirse

My People

Eva O'Connor

Caradoc Evans

1987: Johnny Logan has just won the Eurovision, mobile phones are about to be invented, and in Limerick, Saoirse O’Brien is sick of her best friend calling her a frigid. Soon after agreeing to a night of drinking with the lads in Wilson’s Pub, she discovers her pregnancy, and is forced to set out on a journey that leads her miles away from home, and the carefree adolescence she knew. My Name is Saoirse was first performed in 2014, before being revived at the 2015 Edinburgh International Fringe Festival.

UK October 2015 • US November 2015 • 48 pages PB 9781474286138 • £8.99 / $15.95 Individual eBook 9781474286145 • £8.99 Library eBook 9781474286121 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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The Madwoman in the Volvo

A stage adaptation of one of the most celebrated and controversial short-story collections in the history of Anglo-Welsh literature. Originally published in 1915, the searing stories of My People – darkly comic, poignant, with flashes of savagery – exposed the hypocrisy and avarice nestling sideby-side in a Nonconformist community in the rural West Wales of the early 1900s. First produced in the centenary year of the publication of the original collection, this radical reimagining makes us question whether the events depicted in these remarkable stories are consigned to the past, or can we discern uncomfortable parallels in our modern life?

UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 96 pages PB 9781474286497 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474286503 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474286480 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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The Night Watch Sarah Waters It's the late 1940s. Calm has returned to London and five people are recovering from the chaos of war.

In scenes set in a quiet dating agency, a bombedout church and a prison cell, the stories of these five lives begin to intertwine and we uncover the desire and regret that has bound them together.

Hattie Naylor has created a thrilling and theatrically inventive adaptation of a Sarah Waters's acclaimed novel, which was premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, on 16 May 2016.

UK May 2016 • US June 2016 • 112 pages PB 9781350014060 • £10.99 / $18.95 Individual eBook 9781350014084 • £10.99 / $12.99 Library eBook 9781350014077 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Octagon Kristiana Rae Colón After Wall Street and Tahrir Square, after ISIS and the NSA, after Ferguson and Eric Garner: here come the poets. In a downtown poetry slam with a place on the team to be won, eight young poets prepare to do battle. But backstage it’s all kicking off with love triangles, families to feed and wounds to rip open. And in the end, is it about winning – or finding the words that need to be said? Octagon received its world premiere at the Arcola Theatre, London, on 16 September 2015.

UK September 2015 • US October 2015 • 160 pages PB 9781474275422 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474275446 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474275439 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Nine Lives and Come To Where I'm From Zodwa Nyoni In Nine Lives, Ishmael has been outed, along with his lover David. He has sought sanctuary in the UK, but is this evidence enough? As Ishmael waits to hear his fate, he encounters new friends, and enemies, all the while looking for a place to call home again. Zodwa Nyoni threads together humour and humanity to tell the real personal story behind asylum headlines. It is paired here with Nyoni's earlier monologue, commissioned by Paines Plough for their "Come To Where I'm From" programme.

UK July 2015 • US August 2015 • 64 pages PB 9781474274401 • £8.99 / $15.95 Individual eBook 9781474274425 • £8.99 / $10.99 Library eBook 9781474274418 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

The Oresteia Aeschylus Adapted by Rory Mullarkey The original trilogy, comprising Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and Eumenides, is distilled into one thrilling three-act play in this magnificent translation by award-winning playwright Rory Mullarkey. The curse of the House of Atreus, passing from generation to generation, is one of the great myths of Western literature. In the hands of Aeschylus, the story enacts the final victory of reason and justice over superstition and barbarity. It is the first great masterpiece of classical drama.

UK August 2015 • US September 2015 • 120 pages PB 9781474274319 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474274326 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474274333 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Our Country's Good Timberlake Wertenbaker Observed by a lone, mystified Aboriginal Australian, the first convict ship arrives in Botany Bay, 1788, crammed with England’s outcasts. Three proposed public hangings incite an argument: how best to keep the criminals in line, the noose or a more civilised form of entertainment? Our Country’s Good (based on a true story) celebrates the redemptive power of art and it premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1988, winning the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award. This edition was published to coincide with a major revival production at the National Theatre in 2015.

UK August 2015 • 120 pages PB 9781474274449 • £9.99 Individual eBook 9781474274463 • £9.99 Library eBook 9781474274456 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK

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Overshadowed Eva O'Connor, Playwright, Ireland Imogene used to be sparkly, vivacious and outgoing.

She used to fancy lads, have curves and love chips.

Recently however she has become withdrawn, gaunt, obsessed with exercise. The reason? Caol, her new best friend, who’s cast a dark shadow over Imogene’s life. Invisible to everyone except Imogene, Caol will not rest until Imogene has been reduced both emotionally and physically to a shadow of her former self. Combining sharp writing and incredible physicality this piece aims to provoke compassion and debate around the subject of eating disorders, by separating the sufferer from the condition.

UK January 2016 • US January 2016 • 64 pages PB 9781474291088 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474291095 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474291071 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Petrification

Henry Lewis, Henry Shields & Jonathan Sayer

Zoe Cooper

The inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society set out to present Peter Pan, their most audacious production to date. Flying?

Pyrotechnics? Sharp hooks? What ensues is two acts of hysterical disaster. You'll laugh, they'll cry. Something so wrong has never been so right.

From the mischievous minds of the West End and Edinburgh hit The Play That Goes Wrong comes this highly original, chaos-filled re-telling of J.M. Barrie's much-loved classic. Peter Pan Goes Wrong received its world premiere at the Pleasance Theatre, London, on 10 December 2013 and transferred to the West End on 4 December 2015.

UK December 2015 • US December 2015 • 80 pages PB 9781474291651 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474291675 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474291668 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Simon and Sean’s dad is dead. Returning home from London, Simon is shocked to find Sean in a relationship with a man called Aidan. Sean is irritated by Simon’s new cosmopolitan ways. And Aidan? He just wants to be part of the family. This is a play for anyone who ever left home and come back to find everything changed. And for anyone who never went away in the first place. Petrification received its world premiere at Live Theatre, Newcastle, on 26 May 2016 before a UK tour.

UK May 2016 • US June 2016 • 112 pages PB 9781350014732 • £10.99 / $18.95 Individual eBook 9781350014749 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350014756 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Raz Pramkicker Sadie Hasler One day, in a café full of ‘yummy mummies’, Jude loses the plot and kicks a pram. Then gets arrested.

Then gets sent to anger management. Her younger sister Susie goes along for the ride and uses the opportunity to confess a secret. This funny and touching play premiered at the Brighton Fringe Festival, before a critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe, 2015. An unflinching look at what it means to be a modern woman, this programme text was published to coincide with a national tour in spring 2016.

UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 64 pages PB 9781474292535 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474292528 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474292511 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Jim Cartwright

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Peter Pan Goes Wrong

Meet Shane, one of the low-paid generation that lives for the weekend while still living at home.

Come on the raz with him and his boys as he hits the town for all it’s worth – tanned, buffed and blowing his wage packet: a weekend millionaire.

Tonight he’s in charge, living it large. On Monday, it’s back to the grind and he starts all over again. At turns bitingly funny and heartbreaking, celebrated playwright Jim Cartwright's Raz takes you on an illuminating rollercoaster of a night out in modern Britain.

UK August 2015 • US August 2015 • 48 pages PB 9781474275286 • £8.99 / $15.95 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Rotterdam The Robben Island Shakespeare Matthew Hahn, Lecturer, St Mary's University, UK In 2008 and 2010, Matthew Hahn conducted interviews with eight former political prisoners in South Africa. During the Apartheid years, a Complete Works of Shakespeare was smuggled around the prison on Robben Island. The book’s significance resides in the fact that its owner, Sonny Venkatratham, passed it to a number of his fellow political prisoners in the single cells, including Nelson Mandela, asking them to mark his favourite passage. Offering a vivid and startling account of the experience of these political prisoners during Apartheid, the play weaves Shakespeare's words together with the verbatim accounts of these men.

Jon Brittain It’s New Year in Rotterdam, and Alice has finally plucked up the courage to email her parents and tell them she’s gay. But before she can hit send, her girlfriend reveals that he has always identified as a man and now wants to start living as one. Now Alice must face a question she never thought she’d ask ... does this mean she's straight? A bittersweet comedy about gender, sexuality and being a long way from home.

UK October 2015 • US November 2015 • 120 pages PB 9781474284189 • £10.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474284172 • £10.99 / $12.99 Library eBook 9781474284165 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 112 pages PB 9781474283878 • £12.99 / $22.95 Individual eBook 9781474283892 • £12.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781474283885 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Scenes from 68* Years

The Session

Hannah Khalil

Andrew Muir

Scenes from 68 Years is a selection of intertwined vignettes telling the story of ordinary Palestinians at a very human level with mischievous humour. It offers snapshots of the routine of life in the shadow of occupation: we look into an Israeli household with a rebellious pro-Palestinian teenager, join a tediously long queue at an Israeli check point, and get swept into an absurd act of civil disobedience by Palestinian civilians in a desperate attempt to get worldwide media attention.

The play received its world premiere at the Arcola Theatre on 5 April 2016.

Lena meets Robbie. Girl meets Boy. Head over heels. Eyes only for each other. They don’t speak the same language, but they both know the language of love, and surely that’s enough for a while – until the unspeakable happens and the truth comes spewing out. As their marriage hurtles towards oblivion, Lena and Robbie desperately attempt to find a common language and save their shared history. The Session is a heartfelt play about how couples communicate, taking in twenty years of a relationship that is based on misunderstanding and crossed wires.

UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 96 pages PB 9781474298162 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474298186 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474298179 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 96 pages PB 9781474286848 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474286862 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474286855 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Song from Far Away Simon Stephens On a crisp winter day in New York, Willem gets the call. It’s Mum. Pauli’s died. Come back to Amsterdam. An unforgettable homecoming to an estranged family, a lost love, unsettling sex and an unexamined life. One of Stephens's most poetic plays to date, Song from Far Away received its UK premiere at the Young Vic, London, on 2 September 2015.

UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 48 pages PB 9781474277358 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474277372 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474277365 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Spindrift curious directive A mysterious, heart-breaking triptych, Spindrift traces the invisible waves orchestrating the boundaries of the natural world and examines family, endurance and the paths we choose.

Norfolk-based, and two-time Fringe First-winning, curious directive tell their story with trademark visual storytelling with 3D animation, video projection and motion capture technology. Spindrift is a life-affirming story for anyone who has sat on the shore and stared out to sea for hours on end.

UK May 2016 • US June 2016 • 96 pages PB 9781350011564 • £10.99 / $18.95 Individual eBook 9781350011571 • £10.99 / $12.99 Library eBook 9781350011557 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Sparks Simon Longman It’s raining in the Midlands. Again. It won’t stop.

Someone’s standing in it. They’re shivering. They’re cold. They’re waiting for someone they haven’t seen in a very long time. They’ve got a rucksack full of alcohol. And a fish. Sparks is a touching play about abandoned responsibilities, what we choose to remember and what we thought we’d forgotten.

UK November 2015 • US December 2015 • 112 pages PB 9781474284219 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474284226 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474284202 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie The Formation of Modern China Anders Lustgarten Anders Lustgarten's epic play covers the years 1949 when Chairman Mao founded the Communist Party of China to the present day when investors swoop in to make money off the land. Following a number of characters and generations through these years, it portrays the foundation of modern China. The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie, from award-winning playwright Anders Lustgarten, received its world premiere on at the Arcola Theatre, London, from 6 - 30 April 2016, and headlined the HighTide Festival in September 2016.

UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 128 pages PB 9781350004771 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350004795 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350004788 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Swing

Nikolai Erdman

Steve Blount, Peter Daly, Gavin Kostick & Janet Moran

Adapted by Suhayla El-Bushra An adaptation of Nikolai Erdman's classic Russian satire by British playwright Suhayla El-Bushra.

Things are getting tough for Sam. The pressure is building. It feels like there might be only one way out. But every ending is a beginning and there are plenty of people keen to capitalise on Sam’s momentous decision.

From corrupt local politicians to kids trying to raise the number of views of their online videos, everyone wants a piece of Sam’s demise.

It scarcely matters what Sam actually wants. Faced with the promise of immortality, what’s his life worth?

UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 112 pages PB 9781474292726 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474292733 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474292719 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

This Land Siân Owen Fracking. How far down do you own the land beneath your feet? How much does where you live inform the person you become? What happens when someone else comes along and stakes their claim?

For young couple Bea and Joseph this is a story of fracture: of fractured hearts, lives and lands. This Land digs down through the history – and the future – of a patch of earth and everything that has and will happen there. It is a vibrant, moving, and highly theatrical play about fracking and its impact on the British countryside and its people.

UK March 2016 • US March 2016 • 96 pages PB 9781350001381 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350001398 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350001374 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

An international hit from New York, Paris and Edinburgh, Swing is a comedy about dancing and music and love and not settling and feeling like an eejit and being brave and having doubts and trying your best and trying new things and thinking outside the box and seeing things clearly and living as well as you can and giving it a lash. With rock and roll music. It’ll make you want to dance.

UK March 2016 • US April 2016 • 80 pages PB 9781350002227 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350002210 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350002234 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Tina's Idea of Fun Sean P. Summers Tina can’t get through to her son. Stuck on the drink and tormented by her past, what will she do to get his attention? Paddy is a quiet man just looking for someone to talk to. He’s a Republican but he’ll shake his fist at anything these days. When Queen Elizabeth II makes her first visit to Ireland, Tina’s post-protest party brings out the worst in everyone. What lengths will people go to, to make a connection?

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The Suicide

UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 120 pages PB 9781350006850 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350006867 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350006843 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

The Unknown Soldier Ross Ericson

Torn Nathaniel Martello-White Generations of secrets have broken the Brook family. Siblings split-up, traded-off, treated differently. Angel, the youngest, has called a family meeting to sift through the wreckage. And she’s not leaving until they’ve confronted the truth about how and why her family failed her. Torn was published to coincide with its world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs on 7 September 2016.

UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 96 pages PB 9781474292634 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474292641 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474292627 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Jack stayed on when the guns fells silent, to search the battlefields for the boys that could not go home. And amongst the rusty wire and unexploded bombs, Jack is looking for something - looking for someone. He has a promise to keep and debt to repay, and now there is this strange request from the generals. A story of comradeship, betrayal and of promises broken and kept following the carnage of World War One. Written by the acclaimed writer of Casualties, the play received its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 before embarking on a UK tour.

UK May 2016 • US June 2016 • 48 pages PB 9781350012486 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350012509 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350012493 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Waste

We Wait in Joyful Hope

Harley Granville Barker

Brian Mullin

Backstage at a hung parliament, visionary Independent Henry Trebell is co-opted by the Tories to push through a controversial bill. Pursuing his cause with missionary zeal, he’s barely distracted by his brief affair with a married woman until she suffers a lethal backstreet abortion. Threatened by public scandal, the Establishment closes ranks and coolly seals the fate of an idealistic man. Famously banned by the censors in 1907, Harley Granville Barker’s controversial masterpiece exposes a cut-throat, cynical world of sex, sleaze and suicide amongst the political elite of Edwardian England. This edition was published for the National Theatre's 2015 revival.

UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 128 pages PB 9781474277396 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474277402 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474277419 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

With A Little Bit of Luck Sabrina Mahfouz London, 2001. Raves. Revision. Re-election. Nadia is swept up in one hot summer’s night of love that promises endless possibilities. Drinking, dancing, hope, ambition, lust, greed ... and decisions that will determine the rest of her life. Rhythmically underscored by a live mix of old-school UK Garage, Sabrina Mahfouz's With A Little Bit of Luck explores the legacy of a cultural movement that defined the hopes of a generation. It received its world premiere at the Latitude Festival 2015 and subsequently was produced as a tour by Paines Plough and Latitude from 13 April 2016.

UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 64 pages PB 9781350010932 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350010956 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350010949 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Sister Bernie D'Amato doesn't look like a nun. In an oversize Bob Marley T-shirt, she smokes pot, befriends local gangs and passes out condoms to the Ukrainian prostitutes who cruise around their New Jersey slum. When the women’s shelter Bernie runs comes under threat from a property developer, she vows to fight back. But as pressure mounts on the shelter to take their pay-out and close down, tensions start to mount in a community struggling to survive. We Wait In Joyful Hope is a funny and touching exploration of religion and capitalism in contemporary USA. UK May 2016 • US June 2016 • 112 pages PB 9781350011489 • £10.99 / $18.95 Individual eBook 9781350011496 • £10.99 / $12.99 Library eBook 9781350011472 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes Marcus Gardley This fresh take on Molière’s Tartuffe, set in a world of fast-food tycoons and megachurches is a wicked new comedy that rocks the foundations of trust, faith and redemption. Given just days to live, multi-millionaire Archibald Organdy rejects costly experimental treatment and opts to face his end surrounded by his loving family. However, things could be about to change. Arriving in Atlanta the flamboyant Archbishop Tardimus Toof, promises to absolve Archibald’s sins and heal his disease. But his family suspects there’s more to this healer than faith, virtue and snakeskin shoes.

UK October 2015 • US November 2015 • 96 pages PB 9781474280891 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474280907 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474280914 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

You For Me For You Mia Chung

Billions of miles from home, the lone research base on Pluto has lost contact with Earth. Unable to leave or send for help, the skeleton crew sit waiting. Waiting. Waiting long enough for time to start eating away at them. To lose all sense of it.

To start seeing things in the dark outside. Following his critically acclaimed Pomona, which transferred to the National Theatre, Alistair McDowall's play X premiered at the Royal Court on 30 March 2016 in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs.

As they attempt to flee the Best Nation in the World, North Korean sisters Minhee and Junhee are torn apart at the border. Each must race across time and space to be together again – navigating the perilous Land of the Free and the treacherous terrain of personal belief. You For Me For You was first presented in the US at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Washington D.C., in Autumn 2012 and received its UK premiere at London's Royal Court in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs on 3 December 2015.

UK March 2016 • US April 2016 • 176 pages PB 9781350004627 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781350004641 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781350004634 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

UK December 2015 • US January 2016 • 120 pages PB 9781474276740 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474276764 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781474276757 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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General editors: Richard Proudfoot, King’s College London, UK; Ann Thompson, King's College London, UK; David Scott Kastan, Yale University, USA; H.R. Woudhuysen, University of Oxford, UK Each Arden edition in the Third Series offers a modernized text with comprehensive commentary notes glossing meanings, discussing staging issues and explaining literary allusions, together with a lengthy, illustrated introduction by a leading scholar exploring the play's critical, theatrical and historical contexts.

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Hamlet

The Comedy of Errors

Revised Edition

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Edited by Kent Cartwright, University of Maryland, USA

Edited by Ann Thompson, King's College London, UK & Neil Taylor, Roehampton University, UK This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first publication. A timely update in the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare's death, the edition continues to offer students a comprehensive and current critical account of the play, alongside the most reliable and fully-annotated text available.

UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 688 pages • 21 bw illus PB 9781472518385 • £8.99 / $17.00 • HB 9781472518392 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781474273886 • £8.99 / $10.99 Library eBook 9781474273893 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Cymbeline William Shakespeare Edited by Valerie Wayne, University of Hawaii at Mano, USA This new Arden edition offers a fully illustrated lengthy critical Introduction exploring the play's critical and performance history, and examining it's themes of nationhood, innocence and sexuality. The play text is comprehensively annotated to aid understanding of its language, mythical and literary allusions, as well as staging issues and key themes. Appendices give a detailed account of the play's textual history as well as its rich use of music.

UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 440 pages PB 9781904271307 • £9.99 / $17.00 • HB 9781904271291 • £65.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781408151822 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781408151815 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s dexterous comedy of two twin masters and two twin servants continually mistaken for one another is both farce and more than farce. The Comedy of Errors examines the interplay between personal and commercial relationships, and the breakdown of social order that follows the disruption of identity. This new edition has a long, illustrated introduction exploring the play's performance and critical history, as well as its place in the comic tradition from Classical to modern times.

UK December 2016 • US December 2016 • 312 pages PB 9781904271246 • £9.99 / $17.00 • HB 9781904271239 • £65.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781408151907 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781408151891 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

King Henry IV Part 2 William Shakespeare Edited by James C. Bulman, Allegheny College, USA This complex history play is more troubled and troubling than King Henry IV Part 1, as it continues the story of King Henry’s decline and Hal’s reform.

Though Part 2 echoes the structure of the earlier play, it is a darker and more unsettling world, in which even Falstaff’s revelry is more tired and cynical, and the once-merry Hal sloughs off his tavern companions to become King Henry V. UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 576 pages • 26 bw illus PB 9781904271376 • £10.99 / $17.00 • HB 9781904271369 • £70.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781408151846 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781408151839 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

The Witch of Edmonton

King Lear: Language and Writing

John Ford, Thomas Dekker & William Rowley

Jean E. Howard, Columbia University, USA

Edited by Lucy Munro, King's College London, UK This new Arden Early Modern Drama edition of Dekker, Ford and Rowley's tragedy, includes a clear and authoritative text, detailed on-page commentary notes, a comprehensive, illustrated introduction and a bibliography of references and further reading.

UK December 2016 • US December 2016 • 296 pages PB 9781904271529 • £12.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781472503282 • £65.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781408140185 • £10.99 / $12.99 Library eBook 9781408140178 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

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This guide argues that King Lear's elemental power springs from its language, which is at once simple, relentless, and riddling, and from its full-blown double plot that multiplies unbearably both the follies and the pain of its protagonists. It also explores recent critical approaches to the play and its theatre history and includes practical ‘how to’ content on the study skills necessary to succeed as a critical thinker and writer.

UK July 2017 • US July 2017 • 192 pages PB 9781408182277 • £10.99 / $18.95 • HB 9781472518361 • £40.00 / $68.00 Individual eBook 9781408182291 • £10.99 / $12.99 Library eBook 9781408182284 Series: Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

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The Tempest on iPad

By Heuristic Shakespeare Enjoy, explore and understand Shakespeare’s The Tempest like never before

Shakespeare's Creative Legacies Artists, Writers, Performers, Readers Edited by Peter Holbrook, University of Queensland, Australia & Paul Edmondson, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK We justly celebrate Shakespeare as a creator of plays and poems, characters and ideas, words and worlds. But so too, in the four centuries since his death in 1616, have thinkers, writers, artists, and performers recreated him. Readers are invited to explore Shakespeare’s afterlife on stage and screen, in poetry, fiction, music, dance, and in cultural life and literary criticism. A series of essays combine with personal reflections from prominent contemporary practitioners of the arts.

UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 200 pages • 6 bw illus PB 9781474234481 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474234498 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474234504 • £18.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781474234511 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Othello's Secret The Cyprus Problem “I can imagine generations who will owe a lifelong love of Shakespeare to this astonishing app” – Stephen Fry

The Tempest, with Sir Ian McKellen as Prospero and Sir Derek Jacobi as Gonzalo, is a new app with the full text, essays and notes from the Arden Shakespeare edition of the play at its very heart.

• Come face-to-face with a cast of Shakespearean actors performing the play in a one-to-one relationship with you, the app user • Access the full Arden Shakespeare edition of The Tempest • Unlock a wealth of information with video explanations and discussions of characters and themes with Sir Ian McKellen and Professor Sir Jonathan Bate

“This is a Shakespeare app like no other.”

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R M Christofides, Huddersfield University, UK Othello's Secret uncovers the relationship between the play and the conflicts that have torn apart its Cypriot setting, providing a new and powerfully political reading. Exploring the domestic and military anxieties connected by Shakespeare, Christofides highlights the ways in which these issues resonate with current ideological and geographical divisions in Cyprus, divisions rooted in the 16th century struggles to control the island. Challenging the conventional view of Othello as a Venetian play, this book offers a fierce and personal example of how early modern literature can purposefully contribute to even the most complex geopolitical debates.

UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 136 pages PB 9781474212977 • £12.99 / $22.95 Individual eBook 9781474212984 • £12.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781474212991 Series: Shakespeare Now! • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage Gesture, Touch and the Spectacle of Dismemberment Farah Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare's Globe, London, UK This ground-breaking book uncovers the way Shakespeare draws upon the available literature and visual representations of the hand in his time to inform his work. An analysis of gesture, touch, skill and dismemberment in a range of Shakespeare's works, shows how the hand was perceived in Shakespeare’s time as an indicator of human agency, emotion, social and personal identity. This book is about how the hand and its activities are described and embedded in Shakespeare's texts and about its role on the Shakespearean stage: as part of the actor’s body, in the language as metaphor and as a morbid stage-prop.

UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 328 pages PB 9781474234269 • £19.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781474234276 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474234283 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781474234290 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

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Series Editors: Andrew Hiscock, Bangor University, UK and Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK These guides offer practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performative contexts 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.

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Edward II: A Critical Reader

Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader

Edited by Kirk Melnikoff, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Edited by Andrew James Hartley, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Edward II: A Critical Reader gives students, teachers and scholars alike an overview of the play’s reception both in the theatre and among artists and critics, from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 21st. The volume also offers a series of new perspectives on the play by leading experts in the field of early modern history and culture. Bolstered with a timeline tracking Marlowe’s life and work, an up-to-date bibliography and an extensive index, this collection is an ideal and definitive guide to Edward II. UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 256 pages PB 9781472584038 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472584045 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472584052 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781472584069 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

The Spanish Tragedy A Critical Reader Edited by Thomas Rist, University of Aberdeen, UK The Spanish Tragedy was the first 'revenge tragedy' on the English Renaissance stage: but for its influence, The Duchess of Malfi and Hamlet would not exist as they do. This companion analyses the performance and critical history of this major tragic drama, and surveys current thinking about the play. Including essays by Gordon Braden on Kyd and Seneca, Eric Griffin on early modern Europe’s emulation of imperial Spain, Tom Rutter on classical translation and Katharine Goodland on the influence of the Corpus Christi plays, the volume is supplemented by a guide to further resources for study and research.

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 320 pages PB 9781472528957 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472532756 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472522849 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781472527738 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

The White Devil: A Critical Reader Edited by Paul Frazer, University of Northumbria, UK & Adam Hansen, Northumbria University, UK The White Devil is one of the most violent and most fascinating plays in English theatrical history. It is also a notoriously challenging work; this volume offers a practical, accessible and thought-provoking guide to the play, surveying its major themes and critical reception. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play’s performance, beginning with its first staging in 1611 staging and ending with the RSC’s 2014 revival. Moving through to four new critical essays, it opens up cutting-edge perspectives on the work, and finishes with a practical guide to pedagogical approaches and resources.

UK November 2016 • US November 2016 • 312 pages PB 9781472587404 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472587398 • £65.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472587411 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781472587428 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

A practical, accessible and thought-provoking guide to this Roman tragedy, surveying its major themes and critical reception. It provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play’s performance, beginning with its earliest known staging in 1599, including an analysis of the 2013 film Caesar Must Die and an assessment of why the play is now coming back into vogue on stage. Four new critical essays open up cutting-edge perspectives on the work.Detailing web-based and production-related resources, and including an annotated bibliography of critical works, the guide will equip teachers and facilitate students’ understanding of this challenging play.

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The Revenger's Tragedy: A Critical Reader

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Edited by Brian Walsh, Yale University, USA The Revenger’s Tragedy is one of the most vital, important, and enduring tragedies of the Jacobean era, one of the few non-Shakespearean plays of that period that is still regularly revived on stage and taught in classrooms. The play is notable for its piercing insight into human depravity, its savage humour, and its florid theatricality. This collection of new essays offers students an invaluable overview of the play's critical and performance history as well as four critical essays offering a range of new perspectives.

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Shakespeare in the Theatre Series Editors: Bridget Escolme, University of London, UK, Farah Karim-Cooper, King’s College London, UK, Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA Each volume in the Shakespeare in the Theatre series examines a director or theatre company who has made a significant contribution to Shakespeare production and the aesthetic and socio-political contexts of their work.

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Nicholas Hytner

Shakespeare in the Theatre Mark Rylance at the Globe

Abigail Rokison-Woodall, The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK

Stephen Purcell, University of Warwick, UK

This is the first major study of Hytner's renowned work on Shakespeare and his tenure at the National Theatre, and features case studies of his major productions and interviews with Hytner. Abigail Rokison-Woodall explores Hytner’s own productions of Shakespeare’s plays within their respective socio-cultural contexts, examines his working practices and evaluates the impact of his artistic directorship on the centrality of Shakespeare within the repertoire of the National Theatre.

UK January 2017 • US January 2017 • 224 pages • 6 bw illus PB 9781472581600 • £16.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472581617 • £50.00 / $86.00 Individual eBook 9781472581624 • £16.99 / $20.99 Library eBook 9781472581631 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare in the Theatre: The American Shakespeare Center Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin College, USA A critical history and analysis of the first 25 years of the American Shakespeare Center, a groundbreaking theatre based on a reconstruction of the Blackfriars Theatre.

UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 240 pages PB 9781472584977 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472584984 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472584991 • £16.99 / $20.99 Library eBook 9781472585004 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

This book explores Shakespeare's Globe Theatre's first decade of productions under the pioneering leadership of Mark Rylance. Drawing upon interviews with key practitioners from the Globe and detailed case studies of notable productions, this book argues that the Rylance era was a ground-breaking and important period of recent theatre history.

UK June 2017 • US June 2017 • 224 pages • 6 bw illus PB 9781472581716 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472581723 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472581730 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781472581747 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre Thinking with the Body Evelyn Tribble, University of Otago, New Zealand Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory provides a clearly theorized history of ecofeminism, and the significance of its application to Shakespeare’s plays and poems today.

UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781472576026 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472576033 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472576040 • £18.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781472576057 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Theory Series Editor: Evelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA This series provides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical developments that have dominated Shakespeare studies since the advent of postmodernism, as well as those that are emerging at the present moment.

Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory

Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory

Neema Parvini, University of Surrey, UK

Jennifer Munroe, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA & Rebecca Laroche, University of Colorado, USA

Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory provides a comprehensive scholarly analysis of new historicism as a development in Shakespeare studies while asking fundamental questions about its status as literary theory and its continued usefulness as a method of approaching Shakespeare’s plays.

UK January 2017 • US January 2017 • 192 pages PB 9781474240987 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474240994 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781474241007 • £18.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781474241021 Series: Shakespeare and Theory • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

This volume engagingly establishes a history of ecofeminist scholarship relevant to early modern studies, and provides a clear overview of this rich field of philosophical enquiry. Through fresh, detailed readings of Shakespeare’s poetry and drama,it provides a wholly original study articulating the ways in which we can better understand the world of Shakespeare’s plays, and the relationships between men, women, animals, and plants that we see in them.

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Series Editor: Sandra Clark, Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK The Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries provide readers with a comprehensive guide to the topic under discussion, especially its contemporary meanings, and to its occurrence and significance in Shakespeare's works. Entries range from a few lines in length to mini-essays, providing the opportunity to explore an important literary or historical concept or idea in depth.

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Shakespeare's Plants and Gardens: A Dictionary Vivian Thomas, University of Warwick and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK & Nicki Faircloth, Independent Scholar "This latest work in the Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries series offers a fascinating and comprehensive resource for students and the interested general reader... An impressive work of scholarship and research." Around the Globe UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 432 pages PB 9781474273879 • £25.99 / $44.95 Previously published in HB 9781441143709 Individual eBook 9781472558572 • £25.99 / $31.99 Library eBook 9781472558589 Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and National Identity A Dictionary Christopher Ivic, Bath Spa University, UK National identity in the early modern period is a central topic of scholarly investigation; it is also a dominant topic in classroom instruction and discussion. More than any other early modern playwright, Shakespeare (especially his history plays) is at the heart of recent critical investigations into a host of relevant topics: borders, history, identity, land, memory, nation, place and space. This Dictionary works through Shakespeare's plays and the cultural moment in which they were produced to provide a rich and informative account of such topics.

Shakespeare and Visual Culture Armelle Sabatier, Paris II University, France Statues coming to life and lively portraits ready to breathe in Shakespeare? This new volume reassesses the key role played by visual culture in his drama and poetry by providing readers with an up-to-date guide to the main publications on the subject as well as offering a synthesis on the main literary and historical sources for inspiration.

While scrutinising the complex issue of image on an Elizabethan stage and exploring the codification of colours in Shakespeare’s poetry, this dictionary highlights the fierce rivalry between the poet, the dramatist and the visual artist.

UK November 2016 • US November 2016 • 312 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781472568052 • £100.00 / $172.00 Library eBook 9781472568069 Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Demonology

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A Dictionary Marion Gibson & Jo Ann Esra, both University of Exeter, UK This volume is a detailed, critical reference work examining all aspects of magic, good and evil, across Shakespeare's works. Topics covered include the representation of fairies, witches, ghosts, devils and spirits.

UK December 2016 • US December 2016 • 248 pages PB 9781474253956 • £25.99 / $44.95 Previously published in HB 9780826498342 Individual eBook 9781472500311 • £99.99 / $121.99 Library eBook 9781780936185 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

UK January 2017 • US January 2017 • 296 pages HB 9781472534347 • £100.00 / $172.00 Individual eBook 9781472534637 • £99.99 / $121.99 Library eBook 9781472525833 Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Universality: Here's Fine Revolution Kiernan Ryan, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Through close readings of a wide range of plays and poems, Kiernan Ryan's compelling polemic sets out to reclaim the idea of Shakespeare's timeless universality from reactionary and radical critics alike. Its argument is driven throughout by the belief that at this moment in history the need to recognise and activate the revolutionary potential of Shakespeare's drama is more urgent than ever.

UK April 2015 • US June 2015 • 160 pages PB 9781408183496 • £10.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472503251 • £10.99 / $12.99 Library eBook 9781472503268 Series: Shakespeare Now! • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Acts of Will Law, Testament and Properties of Performance Gary Watt, University of Warwick, UK Drawing on years of experience delivering rhetoric workshops for the Royal Shakespeare Company and as a prize-winning teacher of law, Gary Watt demonstrates how Shakespeare transformed lawyers’ manual book rhetoric into powerful drama through a stirring combination of word, metre, movement and physical stage material, producing a mode of performance that was truly testamentary in its power to engage the witnessing public.

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Queering the Shakespeare Film

Antipodal Shakespeare

Gender Trouble, Gay Spectatorship and Male Homoeroticism

Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916 - 2016

Anthony Guy Patricia, Concord University, West Virginia, USA This study critiques the various representations of the queer – broadly understood as that which is at odds with what has been deemed to be the normal, the legitimate, and the dominant, particularly – but not exclusively – as regards sexual matters, in the Shakespeare film. Analysing the work of directors such as Max Reinhardt, William Dieterle, George Cukor, Franco Zeffirelli, Trevor Nunn, Baz Luhrmann, Michael Hoffman, Michael Radford, Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier and Oliver Parker, the volume presents an alternative and complementary critical history of the Shakespeare film genre.

UK November 2016 • US November 2016 • 304 pages HB 9781474237031 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474237048 • £64.99 / $79.99 Library eBook 9781474237055 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Greece Edited by Alison Findlay, Lancaster University, UK & Vassiliki Markidou, University of Athens, Greece Inverting Jonson’s claim that Shakespeare had ‘small Latin and less Greek’, this book argues that there is actually more Greek and less Latin in a significant group of Shakespeare’s texts: a group whose generic hybridity exemplifies the hybridity of Greece in the early modern imagination. Focusing on Venus and Adonis, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love's Labour’s Lost, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens, King Lear, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and The Two Noble Kinsmen, the volume considers how Shakespeare’s use of Greek myth intersects with early modern perceptions of the country and its empire.

UK January 2017 • US January 2017 • 256 pages HB 9781474244251 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474244268 • £64.99 / $79.99 Library eBook 9781474244275 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Gordon McMullan, King's College London, UK, Philip Mead, University of Western Australia, Australia, Ailsa Grant Ferguson, Brighton University, UK, Mark Houhlahan, University of Waikato, New Zealand & Kate Flaherty, Australian National University, Australia Scholars from Britain, Australia and New Zealand reflect on the modes of commemoration of Shakespeare in and after the Tercentenary year, 1916, in two hemispheres, arguing that it was at this moment of remembering that ‘global Shakespeare’ first emerged in recognisable, if embryonic, form.

UK September 2017 • US September 2017 • 240 pages HB 9781474271431 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474271448 • £64.99 / $79.99 Library eBook 9781474271455 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Pictures Visual Culture in Drama Keir Elam, University of Bologna, Italy This is the first full-length study of the role of graphic and iconographic images in Shakespeare referencing performance history throughout.

Chapters examine plays in which pictures are brought on stage as part of the dramatic action (Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, among others); the embedding of images from the popular imagination in the action and discourse of the plays; the dialectic between optical and auditory illusion in the romance or late plays, or "how" the visual is "heard" in the theatre, and the question of perspective in the comedies, especially in Twelfth Night.

UK April 2017 • US April 2017 • 256 pages HB 9781408179758 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781408179772 • £64.00 Library eBook 9781408179765 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Costume Edited by Patricia Lennox, New York University, USA & Bella Mirabella, NYU Gallatin, USA This volume brings together varied essays by leading scholars that consider costume from literary, dramatic, design, performative and theatrical perspectives, as well as interviews with renowned theatre practitioners Jane Greenwood and Robert Morgan. It looks at the historical context of clothing in the plays, exploring topics such as royal self-fashioning and festive livery practices, as well as costume in performance. Drawing on documentary evidence in designers’ renderings, illustrations in periodicals, paintings, photographs, newspaper reviews and actors’ memoirs, the volume also explores costume designs in specific Shakespeare productions from the re-opening of the London theatres in 1660 to the present day.

UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 312 pages • 20 illus PB 9781350004474 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781472525079 Individual eBook 9781472532503 • £64.99 / $79.99 Library eBook 9781472532459 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

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Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis

Mary Klages, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Edited by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Lasse Home Kjaeldgaard, Lis Moller, Dan Ringgaard, Lilian Munk Rösing & Peter Simonsen

Bringing together Mary Klages’s bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory into one integrated, expanded and updated volume, this is an accessible and authoritative guide for anyone entering the often bewildering world of literary theory for the first time.

Literary Theory: The Complete Guide includes accessible chapters on all the major schools of theory from deconstruction and feminist theory through psychoanalytic criticism to Marxism and postcolonialism, as well as new chapters on ecocriticism and affect theory. The book includes reflection questions for class discussion and a glossary of key terms covered.

UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 288 pages PB 9781472592743 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472592750 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472592767 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781472592774 Bloomsbury Academic

What is "literature"? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment?

And how do we find meaning in a novel? This wideranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory.

Covering key definitions, literature's relationship to the world around it and the diverse forms of literature and criticism, the book includes a glossary of major critical schools and annotated further reading throughout.

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Literary Theory: The Complete Guide

UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 400 pages PB 9781474271967 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474271974 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474271981 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781474271998 Bloomsbury Academic World English

Viktor Shklovsky Studying the Novel Jeremy Hawthorn, Norwegian University of Technology Trondheim, Norway Now in its seventh edition, Studying the Novel is an authoritative introduction to the study of the novel. Updated throughout to reflect the profound impact of e-reading and digital resources on the contemporary study of literature, the book also now covers a wider range of international examples to reflect the growing field of world literature.

Studying the Novel also includes features to help readers navigate the book and find key information quickly, including chapter summaries, a comprehensive glossary of terms and an historical timeline, while annotated guides to further reading and discussion questions help students master the topics covered.

UK November 2016 • US November 2016 • 320 pages PB 9781472575111 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472575104 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472575128 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781472575135 Series: Studying... • Bloomsbury Academic

Macbeth, Macbeth Ewan Fernie, University of Birmingham, UK & Simon Palfrey, Brasenose College, University of Oxford, UK "Macbeth, Macbeth is as close as one can come to a quantum physics literary criticism – a reading which supplements the explicit text of a classic with the dense network of its "superposed" states, unmentioned presuppositions and implications. It is an analysis totally faithful to the original and at the same time totally contemporary. A miracle, an instant classic." Slavoj Žižek, International Director, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, UK An unprecedented collaboration between two leading Shakespeareans, Macbeth, Macbeth sparks a whole new world from the embers of Shakespeare's great tragedy.

UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 296 pages • 15 b/w illustrations PB 9781474235549 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474235556 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474235587 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781474235570 Series: Beyond Criticism • Bloomsbury Academic

A Reader Viktor Shklovsky Edited by Alexandra Berlina, University of Erfurt, Germany "An extraordinary revelation of the unbelievable life and work of the man who invented formalism.

A book to return to, again and again." David Bellos, Princeton University, USA One of the most significant literary critics of the last century, Viktor Shklovsky was a leading theorist and a founder of Formalism. This is the first book to collect crucial writings from across Shklovsky's career, serving as an entry point for first-time readers. It presents new translations of key texts as well as important work that has not appeared in English before. The theoretical writing is interspersed with excerpts from memoirs and letters that illuminate the essays.

UK December 2016 • US December 2016 • 416 pages PB 9781501310379 • £16.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781501310362 • £54.00 / $80.00 Individual eBook 9781501310386 • £16.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781501310409 Bloomsbury Academic

The Pathos of Distance Affects of the Moderns Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, USA "In these brilliant readings and explorations of terms for thought—aura, allegory, affect—we find texts, images and concepts opened up in entirely new ways." Laura Marcus, University of Oxford, UK Rabaté uses Nietzsche’s image of a "pathos of distance," the notion that certain values cannot originate in a community but are created by a few gifted and lofty individuals, as the basis for a wide-ranging investigation into modernism and ethics. He provides an original genealogy for the ethics of the modern, moving through figures such as Yeats, Woolf, Rilke, Apollinaire, Gide, Derrida, and Joyce in a fascinating critique of Nietzsche, Benjamin, affect theory, and the origins of the ethics of modernism.

UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 232 pages PB 9781501307997 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501308000 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501307980 • £19.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781501307973 Bloomsbury Academic

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Object Lessons Series Editors: Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans, USA Object Lessons is a series of concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Each book starts from a specific inspiration: a literary passage, a personal narrative, a technological innovation—and from that point explores the object of the title, gleaning lessons along the way.

Bread

Hair

Scott Cutler Shershow, University of California, Davis, USA

Scott Lowe, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, USA

Bread is an object that, throughout the myriad details of its manufacture and social existence, is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is also often a vehicle of social cohesion: from the homely image of "breaking bread together" to the mysteries of the Eucharist. But bread also commonly figures in social conflict — sometimes literally, in the "bread riots" that punctuate European history. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Bread tells the story of this ancient and everyday object.

UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 168 pages • 8 b/w illustrations PB 9781501307447 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781501307454 • £10.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781501307461 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic

Password Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK "An erudite and interesting amble through the history, philosophy, and psychology of passwords."

Bruce Schneier, Security Technologist Where does a password end and an identity begin?

In untangling the histories, cultural contexts and philosophies of the password, Martin Paul Eve explores how 'what we know' became 'who we are', revealing how the modern notion of identity has been shaped by the password. Password makes a timely and important contribution to our understanding of the words, phrases and special characters that determine our belonging and, often, our being.

UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 136 pages • 3 b/w illustrations PB 9781501314872 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781501314889 • £10.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781501314896 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic

Egg Nicole Walker, Northern Arizona University, USA Egg offers a series of short reflections on eggs as food, as metaphor and feminist symbol, and as cultural icons. Along the way we get a history of the edible egg: how every culture eats eggs, how dinosaurs made eggs, the politics behind cage-free eggs, the nutritional advice about cholesterol in eggs, and the ways eggs make a soufflé, a cake, a cheese puff rise. Walker also writes about eggs as art—eggs for tempura paintings in the Renaissance, Fabergé eggs, and Easter sugar eggs with little dioramas inside. Eggs are an ingredient of all kinds of creations, both edible and artistic. Every idea is a hatched one, every chicken born was once an egg, and how many eggs is a human female born with anyway?

UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 160 pages PB 9781501322853 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781501322860 • £10.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781501322877 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic

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"Unless you're a barber, this is the only book on hair you need to read." Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs Hair, a primary marker of our mammalian nature, is a remarkably powerful indicator of economic status, social standing, political orientation, religious affiliation, marital state, and cultural leanings, among other things. In untangling its myriad meanings, Scott Lowe reveals just how little we control our hair, no matter the style: each and every passer-by decides on its significance anew. From Hittites to hippies and Pentecostals to porn stars, Hair combs through a ubiquitous personal yet public object, a charged and carefully managed dead thing.

UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 152 pages PB 9781628922868 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781628928570 • £10.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781628922219 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic

Questionnaire Evan Kindley, Claremont McKenna College, USA "No less than a secret history of how we became a nation of oversharers." Hua Hsu, Vassar College, USA Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out at doctors’ offices and at job interviews, to express ourselves and to advance knowledge, to find love and to kill time. But where did they come from, and why have they proliferated? Questionnaire investigates the history of "the form as form," from the Victorian confession album to the BuzzFeed quiz.

By asking questions about the questions we ask ourselves, Kindley uncovers surprising connections between literature and science, psychology and business, and journalism and surveillance.

UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 168 pages PB 9781501314773 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781501314797 • £10.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781501314780 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic

Earth Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington University, USA & Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University, USA We know two contradictory things about the Earth: that it is a "blue marble" or "pale blue dot" that sails serenely through space, an object in solitude; and that it is the ground upon which we walk, think, and live—a sphere in motion that trembles with seismic activity and roars with fire, emanations from a core we cannot visit.

Through the collaboration of a literary humanist and a planetary scientist, this book examines the possibilities and the limitations of the Earth figured as an object that we can view from the outside but that retains its mysteries deep within.

UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 160 pages PB 9781501317910 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781501317927 • £10.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781501317934 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic

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Tree

Paul Josephson, Colby College, USA

Matthew Battles, Harvard University, USA

Traffic has filled the world, from livable, coastal Trondheim to gridlocked Moscow and St. Petersburg, from the narrow streets of Boston to the bottlenecked "beltways" that surround US cities and were intended to ease it. So accustomed were town fathers and mothers, city planners, and traffic engineers to accommodating the automobile, that they belatedly embraced traffic control as a solution to city safety problems including noise, pollution, and pedestrian injuries and fatalities, ignoring such inexpensive solutions as the bicycle. Paul Josephson's Traffic considers the history of traffic, and the political controversies that frame the belated technological efforts to calm it.

UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 160 pages PB 9781501329333 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781501329357 • £10.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781501329340 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic

Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with humanity, from antiquity to the Anthropocene. Trees tower over us and yet fade into background. Their lifespan outstrips ours, and yet their wisdom remains inscrutable, treasured up in the heartwood. They serve us in many ways—as keel, lodgepole, and execution site—and yet to become human, we had to come down from their limbs. Matthew Battles's Tree follows the tree's branches across art, poetry, and landscape, marking the edges of imagination with wildness and shadow.

UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 160 pages PB 9781628920512 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781628920536 • £10.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781628920543 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic

The Aesthetics of Care

Inventing Agency

On the Literary Treatment of Animals

Essays on the Literary and Philosophical Production of the Modern Subject

Josephine Donovan, University of Maine, USA "Drawing on years of work in literary criticism, eco-criticism, and feminist care ethics, Josephine Donovan provides an amazing and eloquent articulation of an 'Aesthetics of Care.'" Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat In this important new book from a pioneering scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she uses as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of animals in literature. The Aesthetics of Care offers both a guide to the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, including discussion of key literary critical terms, as well as interpretations of the specific treatment of animals handled by a wide range of authors.

UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 256 pages PB 9781501317200 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501317194 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501317217 • £19.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781501317224 Bloomsbury Academic

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Traffic

Edited by Claudia Brodsky, Princeton University, USA & Eloy LaBrada, University of Alberta, Canada Inventing Agency addresses some of the most central and pressing concerns in criticism, theory, and philosophy today. Writing on theories and fictions from Aristotle to Althusser and Fielding to Flaubert, the contributors to Inventing Agency explore the unprecedented productions of the subject as agent—of cognition, aesthetic experience and judgment, imagination and representation, and moral and political action—that together define the "revolution" in reflection that Kant called "the Age of Critique." This collection on the productions of the subject is vital reading for anyone engaged in thinking about where the categories of contemporary theory come from, and where they might lead next.

UK November 2016 • US November 2016 • 224 pages PB 9781501317132 • £18.99 / $27.95 • HB 9781501317149 • £90.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781501317156 • £18.99 / $24.99 Library eBook 9781501317163 Bloomsbury Academic

Violence Without God The Rhetorical Despair of TwentiethCentury Writers Joyce Wexler, Loyola University Chicago, USA "An accessible, engaging introduction to modern fiction in particular and to the modern period in general." Paul Armstrong, Brown University, USA As twentieth-century writers confronted the political violence of their time, they were overcome by rhetorical despair: how could violence be documented? Joyce Wexler argues that writers solved this aesthetic dilemma by inventing new forms that allowed writers to represent violence without imposing a specific meaning on events or claiming to explain them. Wexler’s investigation touches on some of the greatest writers of the century, among them Conrad, Eliot, Lawrence, Joyce, Günter Grass, Márquez, Rushdie, and Sebald.

UK December 2016 • US December 2016 • 176 pages PB 9781501325281 • £16.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781501325298 • £54.00 / $80.00 Individual eBook 9781501325311 • £16.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781501325304 Bloomsbury Academic

Critical Practice Theorists and Creativity Martin McQuillan, Kingston University, UK Martin McQuillan offers a critical interrogation of the idea of practice-led research. He goes beyond the recent vocabulary of research management to consider the more interesting question of the emergence of a cultural space in which philosophy, theory, history and practice are becoming indistinguishable.

McQuillan considers the work of a number of writers and thinkers who cross the divide between theoretical and creative practice and the longer tradition of 'theory-writing'. His aim is to elucidate the contemporary ramifications of a relationship that has been contested throughout the long history of philosophy, from Plato's dialogues to Derrida's 'Envois'.

UK July 2017 • US July 2017 • 160 pages PB 9781780930343 • £16.99 / $27.95 • HB 9781780930350 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781780931012 • £16.99 / $20.99 Library eBook 9781780931005 Series: The WISH List • Bloomsbury Academic

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Dead Theory Derrida, Death, and the Afterlife of Theory Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA What is the legacy of Theory after the deaths of so many of its leading lights, from Jacques Derrida to Roland Barthes? Bringing together reflections by leading contemporary scholars, Dead Theory explores the afterlives of the work of the great theorists and the current state of Theory today. Considering the work of thinkers such as Derrida, Deleuze, and Levinas, the book explores the ways in which Theory has long been haunted by death and how it might endure for the future.

UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 256 pages HB 9781474274357 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474274364 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781474274371 Bloomsbury Academic

Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination Spinoza, Blake, Hugo, Joyce Patrick McGee, Louisiana State University, USA "[A] brilliant, pathbreaking work. Clear, wellargued, profound: this is an exciting thoughtexperiment, a book to shift the debates on literature’s power." Enda Duffy, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Patrick McGee explores the democratic thought of Spinoza and its relation to William Blake, Victor Hugo, and James Joyce.

These visionaries articulate a concept of power founded on social cooperation, equality based on the difference between any individual and the intellectual power of society as a whole, thought that operates between individuals, and infinite truth.

UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 280 pages HB 9781501320057 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501320064 • £80.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781501320071 Bloomsbury Academic

The Slow Philosophy of J. M. Coetzee Jan Wilm, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany In The Slow Philosophy of J.M. Coetzee Jan Wilm analyses Coetzee’s singular aesthetic style which, he argues, provokes the reader to read his works slowly. Drawing on fresh archival material, this is the first study of its kind to explore Coetzee’s writing process as already slow; as a program of seemingly relentless revision which brings forth his uniquely dense and crystalline style. The book includes close readings of Coetzee's popular and lesser known work, including Disgrace, Waiting for the Barbarians, Elizabeth Costello, Life and Times of Michael K and Slow Man. UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 264 pages HB 9781474256452 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474256469 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781474256476 Bloomsbury Academic

Detaining Time Temporal Resistance in Literature from Shakespeare to McEwan Eric P. Levy, University of British Columbia, Canada In Detaining Time Eric P. Levy considers the representation of time in terms of its reconstitution or reconceptualization in literature. Focusing on the nature, consequences and resolution of the resistance to temporal passage depicted in a several great literary works Levy offers detailed close readings while also contributing to the ongoing philosophical discussion of time.

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 288 pages HB 9781474292047 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474292054 • £64.99 / $79.99 Library eBook 9781474292061 Bloomsbury Academic

The Afterlives of Roland Barthes Neil Badmington, Cardiff University, UK

Homosexuality and Literature: 1890-1930 Jeffrey Meyers Although artists are nowadays able to be openly gay and to address homosexuality explicitly in their work, this book argues that it was the harsh climate of 1890-1930 that produced the most outstanding explorations of homosexuality. To support his argument, Meyers illuminates the character and creative process of a range of authors of the period, including Wilde, Gide, Proust, E.M. Forster and T.E. Lawrence, and analyses the sexual problems that were sublimated and transcended in their art. This will be of equal interest to students and scholars studying literature as well as gender studies.

Roland Barthes was one of the most important cultural critics of the post-war era. Since his death in 1980, new writings have continued to be discovered and published. The Afterlives of Roland Barthes is the first book to revisit and reassess Barthes’ thought in light of these posthumously published writings. Covering work such as Barthes’ Mourning Diary, the notes for his projected Vita Nova and many writings yet to be translated into English, Neil Badmington reveals a very different Barthes of today than the figure familiar from the writings published in his lifetime.

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 176 pages HB 9781474297455 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474297462 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781474297479 Bloomsbury Academic

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Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics

Cassandra Falke, University of Tromsø, Norway

Claire O’Callaghan, Brunel University, UK

"To write on phenomenology and literature requires an author who reads with exacting delicacy and who construes demanding philosophy with a high level of clarity. Cassandra Falke is just this person." Kevin Hart, University of Virginia, USA This book accepts Jean-Luc Marion’s argument that love matters for who we are more than anything—more than cognition and more than being itself. Cassandra Falke shows how reading can strengthen our capacity to love by giving us practice in love´s habits—attention, empathy, and a willingness to be overwhelmed.

UK November 2016 • US November 2016 • 176 pages HB 9781628926484 • £66.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781628926507 • £67.99 / $89.99 Library eBook 9781628926491 Bloomsbury Academic

The Fetish Literature, Cinema, Visual Art Massimo Fusillo, University of L'Aquila, Italy This book identifies a series of patterns of object fetishism that combine historical perspective with a theoretical underpinning, including patterns of seduction, the object as a site for memorial, and the trope of the animation of the inanimate.

Modernism highlights on the other hand a more latent and opposite component: the fascination with the alterity of matter, which awakens thorny gnoseological questions, variously developed by Proust, Woolf, Joyce, Barnes, and Mann. Finally, postmodernism focuses on the icons of mass media, ranging from DeLillo’s epic, maximalist fresco Underworld, to Zadie Smith’s reflections on autographs and Palahniuk’s representations of porn objects, from pop art to commodity sculpture.

UK September 2017 • US September 2017 • 224 pages HB 9781501312359 • £74.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501312373 • £80.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781501312380 Bloomsbury Academic World English

Rethinking Joseph Conrad’s Concepts of Community Strange Fraternity Kaoru Yamamoto, University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan Rethinking Joseph Conrad’s Concepts of Community uses Conrad’s phrase ‘strange fraternity’ from The Rover as a starting point for an exploration of the concept of community in his writing, including his neglected vignettes and later stories. Drawing on the work of continental thinkers including Jacques Derrida, ean-Luc Nancy and Hannah Arendt Yamamoto offers original readings of Heart of Darkness, The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', The Rover and Suspense and the short stories "The Secret Sharer", "The Warrior’s Soul" and "The Duel". Working at the intersection between literature and philosophy this is unique and interdisciplinary engagement with Conrad’s work.

Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics uniquely brings together feminist and queer theoretical perspectives on gender and sexuality through close textual analysis of the novels of Sarah Waters.

It explores the ways in which the representation of gender and sexual figures, plots and motifs in her writings play out contemporary feminist and queer-theory debates. This timely study examines topics ranging from heterosexuality, homosexuality, masculinities, femininities, sex, pornography, and the cultural effects of othering and domination across her work.

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The Phenomenology of Love and Reading

UK January 2017 • US January 2017 • 240 pages HB 9781474271516 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474271547 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781474271530 Bloomsbury Academic

Literary Cynics Borges, Beckett, Coetzee Arthur Rose, University of Leeds, UK Arthur Rose reconsiders what words like cynicism and cosmopolitanism mean for Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee and rethinks how they test the limits of a merely cynical cosmopolitanism. Literary Cynics covers classic, lesser known, and archival texts by the three writers, including Waiting for Godot, Molloy, Catastrophe, Elizabeth Costello, Life & Times of Michael K, Youth, 'Funes the Memorious' and 'Kafka and His Precursors'.

UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 240 pages HB 9781474258647 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474258661 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781474258678 Bloomsbury Academic

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism Gender and Selfhood, Politics and Nation Russell Goulbourne, King's College London, UK & David Higgins, University of Leeds, UK Bringing together leading scholars from the USA, Britain and Europe, this is the first substantial study of the seminal influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau – the great philosopher of the French Revolution – on British Romanticism. Reconsidering Rousseau’s connection to canonical Romantic authors such as Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism also explores his impact on Romantic-period nature writing, women’s poetry, political discourse, and the Anti-Jacobin novel and the transnational contexts of British literary culture.

UK May 2017 • US May 2017 • 256 pages HB 9781474250665 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474250672 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781474250689 Bloomsbury Academic

UK May 2017 • US May 2017 • 224 pages HB 9781474250023 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474250030 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781474250047 Bloomsbury Academic World English

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature

Russian Irrationalism from Pushkin to Brodsky

Joseph Tabbi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Seven Essays in Literature and Thought

Bringing together leading scholars and artists from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature is the first authoritative reference handbook to the field, from hyperfiction to multi-media poetry and narrative-driven games. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book explores the foundational theories of the field, contemporary artistic practices, debates and controversies surrounding such key concepts as canonicity, world systems, narrative and the digital humanities, and new media contexts of contemporary electronic literature.

UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 464 pages HB 9781474230254 • £100.00 / $172.00 Individual eBook 9781474230261 • £99.99 / $121.99 Library eBook 9781474230278 Bloomsbury Academic

Olga Tabachnikova, University of Central Lancashire, and University of Bath, UK "Olga Tabachnikova moves gracefully through a huge range of sources and comes up with original insights. An important and enjoyable book."

Robert Chandler, award-winning translator of Russian literature Bridging the gap between intellectual cultures, Olga Tabachnikova discusses such fundamental irrationalist themes as language and the linguistic underpinning of culture, the power of illusion in national consciousness, the cultural roots of humour, as well as the relevance of various individual writers and philosophers from Pushkin to Brodsky to the construction of Russian irrationalism.

UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 288 pages PB 9781501324741 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781441171207 Individual eBook 9781441102584 • £25.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781441109958 Bloomsbury Academic

Cities at the End of the World Using Utopian and Dystopian Stories to Reflect Critically on our Political Beliefs, Communities, and Ways of Life David J. Lorenzo In this book, questions about human nature, social organization, rationality, wealth, resources, and political power and its use are examined through classic utopian and dystopian texts. Selected stories from Morris, Orwell, More, Bellamy, Neville and Zamyatin are used as a form of political philosophy to generate questions about fundamental economic, political, and social problems, human nature and the notion of the good life.

UK March 2016 • US January 2016 • 240 pages PB 9781501317705 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781441141552 Individual eBook 9781441142566 • £26.99 / $35.99 Library eBook 9781441144232 Bloomsbury Academic

Writing the 9/11 Decade Reportage and the Evolution of the Novel

How Bad Writing Destroyed the World Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis Adam Weiner, Wellesley College, USA Adam Weiner reveals the surprising connections between the 2008-2009 financial crisis and a relatively unknown 19th-century Russian author. A congressional investigation placed the blame for the financial crisis on Alan Greenspan and his deregulatory policies—his attempts, to put Ayn Rand’s Objectivism into practice. Though developed most famously in Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, Objectivism sprouted from the Rational Egoism of Nikolai Chernyshevsky’s What Is to be Done? (1863), an influential Russian novel decried by the likes of Dostoevsky and Nabokov for its destructive radical ethics. How Bad Writing Destroyed the World combines literary and intellectual history to uncover the danger of hawking "the virtues of selfishness," even in fiction.

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 264 pages PB 9781501313110 • £13.99 / $19.95 Individual eBook 9781501313127 • £12.99 / $16.99 Library eBook 9781501313134 Bloomsbury Academic

Charlie Lee-Potter, University of Oxford, UK "A compelling account of how we tell a story that has changed the age in which we live." Roger Mosey, former Head of BBC Television News Beginning with the sometimes mawkish literary journalism that emerged in the days after the attacks, Writing the 9/11 Decade traces the evolution—in writers such as Ian McEwan, Paul Auster, and Nadeem Aslam—of new literary methods of subsuming the disaster, while attempting to stand apart from it. It includes interviews with novelists such as Richard Ford and Kamila Shamsie, as well as the only long-form interview granted by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, himself a 9/11 survivor.

UK November 2016 • US November 2016 • 264 pages • 8 b&w illustrations PB 9781501313202 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501313196 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781501313219 • £19.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781501313226 Bloomsbury Academic

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Women's Experimental Writing Negative Aesthetics and Feminist Critique Ellen E. Berry, Bowling Green State University, USA Women's Experimental Writing considers six contemporary authors who use experimental methods and negative modes of critique in their fiction and feminism. The authors covered are Valerie Solanas, Kathy Acker, Theresa Cha, Chantel Chawaf, Jeanette Winterson, and Lynda Barry. Berry argues that the radical aesthetic practices they employ are central to the emergence of contemporary Western feminisms. The volume rectifies a critical neglect of contemporary experimental writing by women, especially in politicized forms, within the still-emerging postmodern canon.

UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 184 pages HB 9781474226400 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474226417 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781474226424 Bloomsbury Academic

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J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus

The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry

The Ethics of Ideas and Things

Reference, Trauma, and History

Edited by Anthony Uhlmann, Western Sydney University, Australia & Jennifer Rutherford, University of Adelaide, Australia

Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva, Brooklyn College, USA

J. M. Coetzee’s productivity and invention has not slowed with old age. The Childhood of Jesus, published in 2013, was met with a puzzled reception, as critics struggled to come to terms with its odd setting and structure, its seemingly flat tone, and the strange affectless interactions of its characters. J.M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus is at the forefront of an exciting process of critical engagement with this novel, which has begun to uncover its rich dialogue with philosophy, theology, mathematics, politics, and questions of meaning.

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"A fascinating and genuinely original book!"

Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University, USA Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva argues that contemporary postmodern poetry acts as testimony to deep, overwhelming trauma. Through a comparative analysis of late 20th-century Russian and American poetry, Lutzkanova-Vassileva demonstrates that these poetries reflect both traumatic cultural and political upheaval as well as the impact of contemporary media, which have assailed the mind with far more signals than it can register, digest and furnish with semantic weight.

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Gestures of Testimony

Falling After 9/11

Torture, Trauma, and Affect in Literature

Crisis in American Art and Literature

Michael Richardson, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Aimee Pozorski, Central Connecticut State University, USA

"An insightful, sometimes wrenching analysis of representations of torture. An important contribution to ethics, aesthetics, and human rights." James Dawes, Macalester College, USA Bringing the vibrant field of affect theory to bear on theories of torture and power, Gestures of Testimony adopts an interdisciplinary approach to show how testimony founded in affect can bear witness to torture. Grounded in provocative readings of fiction by George Orwell, Franz Kafka, Arthur Koestler, Anne Michaels and Janette Turner Hospital, poems by Guantanamo detainees, memoirs of interrogators and detainees, contemporary films, and the infamous Torture Memos of the Bush Administration, Richardson’s analysis traverses politics, law and cinema to re-think literary testimony.

UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 232 pages • 12 b/w illustrations HB 9781501315800 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781501315817 • £73.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781501315824 Bloomsbury Academic

"In this tightly focused study, Aimee Pozorski draws out the links between trauma, aesthetics and memory, and tracks how the censored image of the falling man continues to haunt the American imagination." Times Literary Supplement From the perspective of trauma theory, Aimee Pozorski investigates the connections between violence, trauma, and aesthetics by exploring post-9/11 figures of falling in such exemplary American texts as Don DeLillo's Falling Man, Diane Seuss's "Falling Man," Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Frédéric Briegbeder's Windows on the World, and Richard Drew's famous photograph of the man falling from the World Trade Center.

UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 176 pages • 1 bw illus PB 9781501319631 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781441122414 Individual eBook 9781628924428 • £25.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781628925005 Bloomsbury Academic

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Series Editors: Gayle Rogers, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Sean Latham, University of Tulsa, USA New Modernisms introduces, explores and extends the major topics and debates at the forefront of contemporary Modernist Studies. Surveying new engagements with such topics as race, sexuality, technology and material culture and supported with authoritative further reading guides to the key works in contemporary scholarship, these books are essential guides for serious students and scholars of modernism.

Modernism's Print Cultures Faye Hammill, University of Strathclyde, UK & Mark Hussey, Pace University, USA The print culture of the early 20th century has become a major area of interest in contemporary modernist studies. Modernism’s Print Cultures surveys the explosion of scholarship in this field.

The book explores such topics as: · Periodical publishing – from ‘little magazines’ to glossy publications such as Vanity Fair · Modernist publishing – small presses, typography, illustration and book design · Distribution - the book trade, libraries, book clubs and cafes Including accounts of archival material available online, guides to further reading and new trends in the field, this is an essential guide to the study of modernist literature.

UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 232 pages PB 9781472573254 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472573261 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472573278 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781472573285 Series: New Modernisms • Bloomsbury Academic

Ezra Pound in the Present Essays on Pound's Contemporaneity Edited by Paul Stasi, University of Albany, SUNY, USA & Josephine Park, University of Pennsylvania, USA "The outstanding scholars reunited in this collection have cut paths in the wilderness so that we may follow. We owe them gratitude." Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh, UK Was Ezra Pound the first theorist of world literature? What, if anything, would he find to value in today's economic and aesthetic discourses? Ezra Pound in the Present collects new essays by prominent scholars of modernist poetics to engage the relevance of Pound’s work for our times, testing whether his literature was, as he hoped it would be, "news that stays news."

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 272 pages • 5 b/w illustrations HB 9781501307713 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781501307720 • £73.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781501307737 Bloomsbury Academic

Modernism, Science, and Technology Mark S. Morrisson, Penn State University, USA From quantum physics and genetics to psychology and the social sciences, from the development of atomic weapons to the growing mass media of film and radio, Modernism, Science, and Technology surveys the scientific contexts of writers from H.G. Wells and Gertrude Stein to James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

Introducing key concepts from science studies and their implications for the study of modernist literature, the book includes a timeline of key developments and guides to further reading.

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New Modernisms

UK November 2016 • US November 2016 • 192 pages • 4 b/w illustrations PB 9781474233422 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474233415 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781474233439 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781474233446 Series: New Modernisms • Bloomsbury Academic

Modernism, War, and Violence Marina MacKay, University of Oxford, UK The modernist period was an era of world war and violent revolution. Covering a wide range of authors from Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy to Elizabeth Bowen and Samuel Beckett, this book situates modernism’s literary achievements in their contexts of historical violence. Ranging from the colonial conflicts of the late 19th century to the world wars and the civil wars in between, and concluding with the institutionalization of modernism in the Cold War, Modernism, War, and Violence offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field for students and scholars at all levels.

UK May 2017 • US May 2017 • 224 pages PB 9781472590077 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472590060 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472590084 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781472590091 Series: New Modernisms • Bloomsbury Academic

Pentecostal Modernism: H.P. Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture Stephen Shapiro, University of Warwick, UK & Philip Barnard, University of Kansas, USA Bringing together new accounts of the pulp writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of American Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, Pentecostal Modernism challenges traditional histories of modernism as a secular avant-garde movement based in cities such as London or Paris.

Disrupting accounts that separate religion from progressive social movements and mass culture, Shapiro and Barnard construct a new modernism belonging to a history of new urban areas powered by the hopes and frustrations of populations seeking a better life.

UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 192 pages HB 9781474238731 • £50.00 / $86.00 Individual eBook 9781474238748 • £49.99 / $60.99 Library eBook 9781474238755 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

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Historicizing Modernism Series Editors: Matthew Feldman, Teesside University, UK; Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway Informed by archival research, and working beyond the usual European/American avant-garde 1900-1945 parameters the series reassesses established images of modernist writers by developing fresh views of intellectual backgrounds and working methods.

James Joyce and Catholicism

Literary Impressionism

The Apostate's Wake

Vision and Memory in Dorothy Richardson, Ford Madox Ford, H.D. and May Sinclair

Chrissie Van Mierlo, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK James Joyce and Catholicism is the first historicist study to explore the religious cultural contexts of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Drawing on letters, journals and archival materials, the book works its way through the novel’s major characters to analyse the ways in which the historical-religious background of early 20th-century Ireland intrude upon the text. Along the way, the book considers Joyce’s vexed relationship with the Catholic Church he was brought up in and the unique forms of Catholic culture that blossomed in Ireland at the turn of the century.

UK January 2017 • US January 2017 • 224 pages HB 9781472585943 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472585950 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781472585967 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Samuel Beckett's German Diaries 1936-1937 Mark Nixon, University of Reading, UK

Literary Impressionism charts the modernist crisis of vision and the way that literary impressionists such as Dorothy Richardson, Ford Madox Ford, H.D., and May Sinclair used new concepts of memory in order to bridge the gap between perception and representation.

Exploring the fiction of these four major writers as well as their journalism, manifesto writings, letters and diaries from the archives, Rebecca Bowler charts the progression of modernism’s literary aesthetics and the changing role of memory within it.

UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 256 pages HB 9781474269056 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474269063 • £64.99 / $79.99 Library eBook 9781474269070 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

The Late Cantos of Ezra Pound Composition, Revision, Dissemination Michael Kindellan, University of Bayreuth, Germany

With Beckett's six diary notebooks as the central point of focus, Mark Nixon draws on unpublished manuscripts, notebooks, correspondence, reading notes from the 1930s to reflect on both Beckett's creative evolution prior to 1936 and the direction his writing took after his return to Dublin in April 1937. Nixon's study is crucial to our understanding of the emergence of Beckett as a radical writer in the post-war years.

Drawing extensively on material from the archives, Ezra Pound’s Late Cantos explores the textual history of Pound’s later verses Section: Rock-Drill (1955) and Thrones (1959). Drawing on unpublished letters, draft manuscripts and critical essays this book recounts the history of the composition, revision and dissemination of these notoriously difficult verses to shed new light on their significance to Pound’s wider project.

UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 272 pages PB 9781472523143 • £18.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781441152589 Individual eBook 9781441180995 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441162915 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

UK April 2017 • US April 2017 • 224 pages • 20bw HB 9781474258746 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474258753 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781474258760 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Samuel Beckett and Cinema Anthony Paraskeva, University of Roehampton, UK Drawing on substantial archival material, Samuel Beckett and Cinema is the first book to examine comprehensively the full extent of Beckett's engagement with cinema and its influence on his work for stage and screen. Examining his writing on second wave modernist cinema, including the work of directors such as Eisenstein, Godard, Griffith and Bresson as well as performers such as Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo, the book reveals film art to be central to Beckett's modernist aesthetic.

UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 224 pages HB 9781472524980 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472533234 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781472527370 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

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Rebecca Bowler, University of Sheffield, UK

John McGahern and Modernism Richard Robinson, University of Swansea, UK An original contribution to Irish studies, John McGahern and Modernism includes close readings of Amongst Women and Memoir alongside comparative readings of Tóibín, Joyce and Trevor. It surveys existing scholarly evaluations and sifts through critical assessments of McGahern's writing, centring him in a theoretical framework of 'European' thought. Robinson's study tackles the argument between tradition and modernity in McGahern's work, freeing the writer from out-dated descriptions of an elegist for a vanishing way of life and portraying him as dramatic dramatist of the tension between ritual and change.

UK December 2016 • US December 2016 • 256 pages HB 9781441125781 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781623562595 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781350000919 Bloomsbury Academic

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Series Editors: Paul Ardoin, the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA; S.E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA; Laci Mattison, Florida State University, USA The aim of each volume in Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism is to understand a philosophical thinker more fully through literary and cultural modernism and consequently to understand literary modernism better through a key philosophical figure.

Understanding Rancière, Understanding Modernism Edited by Patrick M. Bray, Ohio State University, USA Jacques Rancière has become one of the most influential voices in literary, art historical, and film criticism. His work reexamines the divisions that have defined our understanding of modernity, such as art and politics, representation and abstraction, and literature and philosophy. Working across these divisions, he engages the historical roots of modernism in the nineteenth century. The contributors to Understanding Rancière, Understanding Modernism engage with the multiplicity of Rancière’s thought through close readings of his texts, comparative readings with other philosophers, and an engagement with modernist works of art and literature.

UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 288 pages HB 9781501311383 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501311390 • £80.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781501311376 Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism Edited by Anat Matar, Tel Aviv University, Israel In the last half-century Ludwig Wittgenstein's relevance beyond analytic philosophy has been widely acknowledged. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus was published in 1922 alongside Joyce’s Ulysses, Eliot’s The Waste Land, and other seminal works. By the end of the 1920s, Wittgenstein started questioning his Tractatus, eventually adopting a rich philosophical language. If the gist of modernism involves attention to the way form expresses content, then Wittgenstein’s "ear-opening" works deliver it most precisely. This volume shows Wittgenstein’s work is closely linked to the modernist Geist that prevailed during his lifetime.

UK January 2017 • US January 2017 • 272 pages HB 9781501302435 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501302442 • £80.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781501302459 Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Understanding James, Understanding Modernism Edited by David H. Evans, Dalhousie University, Canada Psychologist, philosopher, teacher, writer—William James stood closer than any other thinker to the center of the confluence of intellectual and artistic forces that defined the culture of modernism. The outstanding feature of this volume lies in its intent to investigate James’s influence on both American and International Modernism. It provides, on the one hand, a multifaceted introduction to students of history, philosophy, and culture, and on the other, a compendium of some of the most up-to-date thinking on this central figure. The contributors explore James’s most essential texts as well as his influence on contemporary writers, artists, and thinkers. The final section is a glossary of James’s key terms.

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Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism

UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 272 pages HB 9781501302749 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501302756 • £80.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781501302763 Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism Edited by David Scott, Coppin State University, USA This volume shows, on the one hand, that literature and the arts play a fundamental structural role in Foucault’s works, while, on the other hand, it shifts to the foreground what it presumes to be motivating Foucault: the interrogation of the problem of modernism.

It presents as many paths as possible for establishing links between Foucault’s thought to aesthetic problems related to those specific works, methods, and styles designated "modernist." An invaluable resource for students and scholars in the field of literature and philosophy, this book will also be of interest to those in media studies, art history, French intellectual history, and critical theory.

UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 288 pages HB 9781628927702 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781628927719 • £80.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781628927726 Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism Edited by Paul Ardoin, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA, S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA & Laci Mattison, Florida State University, USA "This compendium ... has already become invaluable for me. The full power of Deleuze’s mind shines here splendidly." Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, USA This volume acknowledges Deleuze's profound impact on a century of art and thought, offering new readings that illuminate the context of his work, either by reading one of his texts against or in the context of his entire body of work or by challenging Deleuze's readings of others.

UK March 2016 • US March 2016 • 304 pages PB 9781501325038 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781623563493 Individual eBook 9781623565305 • £25.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781623560683 Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

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The Beckett Manuscript Project Series Editors: Dirk Van Hulle, University of Antwerp, Belgium; Mark Nixon, University of Reading, UK The Beckett Manuscript Project traces the complete textual history of the works of Samuel Beckett, from his earliest stories to his major works for the stage and his television and radio work. Find a detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts online at the Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project at www.beckettarchive.org

The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape'/'La derniere bande'

The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Malone Dies'/'Malone meurt'

Dirk Van Hulle, University of Antwerp, Belgium

The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Malone Dies'/'Malone meurt' is a comprehensive reference guide to the history of the text of the second part of Beckett's trilogy, first published in French in 1951. The book includes:

First performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1958, Krapp's Last Tape has since become widely celebrated as one of Samuel Beckett's most important and powerful plays.

The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape'/'La dernière bande' is a comprehensive reference guide to the history of the text.

The book includes: a complete descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, including French and English texts, alternative drafts and notebook pages and a critical reconstruction of the history of the text.

UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 272 pages PB 9781472534231 • £30.00 / $52.00 Series: The Beckett Manuscript Project • Bloomsbury Academic World English (excluding Benelux)

Dirk Van Hulle, University of Antwerp, Belgium

A complete descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, including French and English texts, alternative drafts and notebook pages; A critical reconstruction of the history of the history of the text, from its genesis through the process of composition to its full publication history.

UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 160 pages PB 9781472523440 • £30.00 / $52.00 Series: The Beckett Manuscript Project • Bloomsbury Academic World English (excluding Benelux)

Modernist Archives Series Editors: Matthew Feldman, Teeside University, UK; Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway From letters, journals, and notebooks to unpublished or out of print works, unfamiliar but important writings in translation and forgotten articles, Bloomsbury's Modernist Archives series makes available to researchers at all levels historical archival material that casts modernist literature and culture in often radical new lights.

Ezra Pound's and Olga Rudge's The Blue Spill

Unpublished Writings of David Jones

A Manuscript Critical Edition

On Politics and Christian Modernism

Ezra Pound & Olga Rudge

David Jones

Edited by Mark Byron, University of Sydney, Australia & Sophia Barnes, University of Sydney, Australia

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Edited by Thomas Berenato, University of Virginia, USA, Anne Price-Owen, University of Wales, Trinity St. David, UK & Kathleen Henderson Staudt, University of Maryland, USA

Written during the Italian winter of 1930, The Blue Spill is an unfinished detective novel by Ezra Pound – the leading figure of modernist poetry in the 20th century – and his long-time companion Olga Rudge. Published for the first time in this authoritative critical edition, the novel reflects Pound’s voracious reading of popular fiction as it echoes and parodies such writers as Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and P.G. Wodehouse. Based on the original manuscripts, this critical edition includes annotation and textual commentary throughout and supporting chapters from leading Pound scholars on the contexts of the novel.

This book makes available for the first time a number of previously unpublished writings by the modernist poet and painter David Jones that cast new light not only on Jones’s own writing but on the political, religious and cultural engagements of British modernism.

Annotated throughout, with substantial commentaries exploring the historical and critical contexts of each text, the book includes Jones’s controversial writings on Hitler and the rise of fascism in the 1930s, his writings on Gerard Manley Hopkins and the transcript of an unpublished interview with Jones himself.

UK May 2017 • US May 2017 • 320 pages HB 9781474281058 • £100.00 / $172.00 Individual eBook 9781474281065 • £99.99 / $121.99 Library eBook 9781474281072 Series: Modernist Archives • Bloomsbury Academic World English

UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 288 pages HB 9781474274135 • £100.00 / $172.00 Individual eBook 9781474274142 • £99.99 / $121.99 Library eBook 9781474274159 Series: Modernist Archives • Bloomsbury Academic World English

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Literatures, Cultures, Translation

An Anthology

Series Editors: Brian James Baer, Kent State University, USA Michelle Woods, the State University of New York, New Paltz, USA

Edited by Willard Bohn, Illinois State University, USA Founded by André Breton in 1924, Surrealism sought to examine the unconscious realm by means of the written and/or spoken word. By stretching language to its limits and beyond, the Surrealists transformed it into an instrument for exploring the human psyche. The poets in this collection come not only from France, where Surrealism was invented, but also from Spain, Belgium, Egypt, Martinique, Mauritius, Mexico, Chile, and Peru. Equipped with a critical introduction and a brief bibliography, this anthology will appeal to anyone interested in modern poetry.

UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 288 pages PB 9781441153142 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781441199775 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441174550 • £19.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781441113948 Bloomsbury Academic World English

Worrying A Literary and Cultural History Francis O'Gorman, University of Leeds, UK "Subtle, exploratory, completely original." John Carey, The Sunday Times "An engagingly personal quest to find out 'what worry means, both for good and bad.'" Catherine Morris, Times Literary Supplement "A witty, philosophical meditation on the meaning of worry ..." Liz Hoggard, The Independent "This winning little book made me root for and, yes, worry a little for its author." Joe Moran, The Guardian

Literatures, Cultures, Translation presents a new line books that engage central issues in translation studies such as history, politics and gender in and of literary translation, as well as opening new avenues for study. Volumes are written for students and scholars of translation studies, both those who are studying practical aspects such as interpreting and translation as well as those who are engaging with theory, history, reception studies, and the cultural implications of translation.

Interpreting in Nazi Concentration Camps

C omparative L iterature

Surrealist Poetry

Edited by Michaela Wolf, University of Graz, Austria "Wide-ranging and innovative, looking at both the interpreting work during the war and its post-war repercussions, this book is a must for all students and scholars of translation and interpreting."

Edwin Gentzler, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA This significant new study is concerned with the role of interpreting in Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners were of 30 to 40 different nationalities. It examines the role of interpreting in the wider context of shaping life in concentration camps while also looking at how knowledge of languages, and accordingly, certain communication skills, contributed to the survival of concentration camp inmates and of the interpreting person.

UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 248 pages PB 9781501313257 • £23.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781501313264 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501313271 • £22.99 / $30.99 Library eBook 9781501313288 Series: Literatures, Cultures, Translation • Bloomsbury Academic

"[An] affectionate tribute to low-level fretting ... " The Economist UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 200 pages PB 9781501320323 • £9.99 / $14.95 Previously published in HB 9781441151292 Individual eBook 9781441181282 • £13.99 / $17.99 Library eBook 9781441143600 Bloomsbury Academic

The Invention of Monolingualism David Gramling, University of Arizona, USA "An extraordinary and illuminating book. ...

Original, brilliantly presented, provocative, and extremely timely, it is likely to be a blockbuster with its far sighted argument—a little in the vein of Michel Foucault's The Order of Things in terms of scope and boldness." Claire Kramsch, University of California, Berkeley, USA "Every now and then a book comes along which is simply compelling with its breadth and depth of argument, its dazzling examples and its sheer boldness of vision. This is one of the most important books to be written on languages, monolingualism and multilingualism I have read." Alison Phipps, University of Glasgow, UK

Exorcising Translation Toward an Intercivilizational Turn Douglas Robinson, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Douglas Robinson identifies Eurocentrism in translation studies as what Sakai Naoki calls a "civilizational spell." Exorcising Translation tracks two translation histories. In the first, moving from Friedrich Nietzsche to Harold Bloom, we find ourselves caught, trapped, cursed, haunted by the spell. In the second, focused on English translations and translators of Chinese literature, Robinson explores accusations against American translators not only for their inadequate (or even totally absent) knowledge of Chinese and Daoism, but for their Americanness, their trappedness in individualistic and secular Western thought.

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Literatures as World Literature Series Editor: Thomas Oliver Beebee, Penn State University, USA Literatures as World Literature takes a novel approach to world literature by analyzing specific constellations—according to language, nation, form, or theme—of literary texts and authors in their worldliterary dimensions.

Crime Fiction as World Literature Edited by David Damrosch, Harvard University, USA, Theo D'haen, KU Leuven, Belgium & Louise Nilsson, Uppsala University, Sweden This is the first book to treat crime fiction in its full global and plurilingual dimensions, taking the genre seriously as a participant in the international sphere of world literature and examining its role in our literary heritage and consumer society. In a wideranging panorama of the genre, 21 critics discuss crime fiction from Bulgaria, China, Israel, Mexico, Scandinavia, Kenya, Catalonia, Tibet, and elsewhere.

UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 272 pages PB 9781501319334 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501319327 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501319341 • £19.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781501319358 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Roberto Bolaño as World Literature Edited by Nicholas Birns, College of New Rochelle, USA & Juan E. De Castro, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, USA Roberto Bolaño as World Literature provides an introduction to the Chilean novelist that highlights his connections with classic and contemporary masters of world literature and his investigation of topics of international interest, such as the rise of right wing and neofascist movements during the last decades of the 20th century.

UK January 2017 • US January 2017 • 224 pages HB 9781501316067 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781501316074 • £73.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781501316081 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Danish Literature as World Literature Edited by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen & Dan Ringgaard, both Aarhus University, Denmark Danish Literature as World Literature introduces key figures from 800 years of Danish literature and their impact on world literature. Included are chapters devoted to post-1945 literature on beat and systemic poetry, literature from and about Greenland, and the Scandinavia noir vogue that includes both crime fiction and cinema.

UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 224 pages HB 9781501310010 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781501310027 • £73.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781501310034 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

British Fictions of the Sixties The Making of the Swinging Decade Sebastian Groes, Roehampton University, UK British Fictions of the Sixties focuses on the major socio-political changes that marked the sixties in relationship to the development of literature over the decade. This book is the first critical study to acknowledge that the 1960s can only be understood if, next to its contemporary socio-political history, its fictions and mythologies are acknowledged as a vital constituent in the understanding of the decade. Sebastian Groes offers a re-examination of canonical writers such as Iris Murdoch, Angela Carter, Muriel Spark and John Fowles and avant-garde writers including Ann Quinn, Bridget Brophy, Eva Figes, Christine Brooke-Rose, and J. G. Ballard.

UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 216 pages HB 9780826495570 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441117069 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781441176165 Bloomsbury Academic

The Fall Out of Redemption Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy Joseph Acquisto, University of Vermont, USA "Provides compelling insights into esthetics and ethics, despair and transcendence, nihilism and survival. Original and truly interdisciplinary."

Edward K. Kaplan, Brandeis University, USA Through a series of readings that put literary and critical writers from the last 150 years in dialogue, Acquisto shows how these authors struggle to articulate both the metaphysical and esthetic consequences of attempting to move beyond a logic of salvation.

He expands metaphysical and esthetic concerns to account also for the ethics inherent in the refusal of the logic of salvation, an ethics which emerges from a certain kind of nihilism.

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 232 pages PB 9781501326455 • £26.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781628926521 Individual eBook 9781628926538 • £73.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781628926545 Bloomsbury Academic

Baudelaire's Media Aesthetics The Gaze of the Flâneur and 19thCentury Media Marit Grøtta, University of Oslo, Norway "Grøtta is as comfortable dissecting four lines of a Baudelaire prose poem as she is discerning broad shifts in critical approaches to media. … The book offers unfailingly interesting micro-histories of the various dispositives under scrutiny, and the debate that emerges is always inclusive and informed." Times Literary Supplement A thorough study of the role of newspapers, photography, and precinematic devices in Baudelaire’s writings, presenting Baudelaire as a poet in a media-saturated environment. Combining detailed research with contemporary theory, this book opens up new perspectives on Baudelaire’s writings, the figure of the flâneur, and modernist aesthetics.

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Modernist Women’s Literature and Photography Lorraine Sim, Western Sydney University, Australia "Blending close assessments of modern women’s literary texts and photographs with a rigorous engagement with everyday life theory, Sim digs deeply into the materiality of the ordinary so that pavements and storefronts, or shawls and boots, reveal the ways in which the 'ordinary matters.' Beautifully written and carefully researched, this work pushes the field of everyday life studies into vital new territory by positioning modern women writers and photographers in their rightful place as theorists of the everyday." Barbara Green, University of Notre Dame, USA UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 248 pages • 42 b/w illustrations HB 9781501314308 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501314339 • £80.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781501314322 Bloomsbury Academic

The Reception of Alfred Tennyson in Europe Edited by Leonee Ormond, King's College, London, UK Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been considered a particularly British writer in part as his official post as Poet Laureate inevitably committed him to a certain amount of patriotic writing. This volume focuses on his impact on the continent, presenting a major scholarly analysis of Tennyson's wider reception in different areas of Europe. It considers reader and critical responses and explores the effect of his poetry upon contemporary and later writers, as well as his influence upon illustrators, painters and musicians.

UK November 2016 • US November 2016 • 416 pages HB 9781441114198 • £150.00 / $240.00 Individual eBook 9781350012530 • £149.99 / $183.99 Library eBook 9781350012523 Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe • Bloomsbury Academic

You Could Look It Up The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature Edited by Jenni Adams, formerly University of Sheffield, UK With chapters written by leading scholars in the field, The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature is a comprehensive reference resource including a wealth of critical material on a diverse range of topics within the literary study of Holocaust writing. The volume includes a substantial section detailing new and emergent trends within the literary study of the Holocaust, a concise glossary of major critical terminology, and an annotated bibliography of relevant research material.

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 352 pages • 2 halftone illus PB 9781474296311 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781441129086 Individual eBook 9781472587442 • £109.99 / $134.99 Library eBook 9781441118097 Series: Bloomsbury Companions • Bloomsbury Academic

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The Reception of Isaac Newton in Europe Edited by Scott Mandelbrote, Peterhouse, Cambridge, UK & Helmut Pulte, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany The writings and example of Isaac Newton transformed understandings of the practice and meaning of the sciences across Europe in the century or so following the publication of the Principia in 1687.

The essays in these volumes consider the impact of Newton's ideas from three distinct but interlocking perspectives: their reception in particular geographical areas and language communities; their importance for particular fields of intellectual and practical endeavour, and their influence on other thinkers who, in turn, shaped Newton's intellectual legacy.

UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 1194 pages HB 9780826479709 • £325.00 / $558.00 Individual eBook 9781441143914 • £324.99 / $397.99 Library eBook 9781441198808 Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe • Bloomsbury Academic

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You Could Look It Up chronicles the captivating stories behind these great works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. From the earliest known compendium of laws in ancient Babylon and The Domesday Book to Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language and Google, Jack Lynch illuminates the human stories and accomplishment behind each, as well as its enduring impact on civilisation.

UK April 2016 • US February 2016 • 464 pages • 1 x 16 page color insert PB 9780802777935 • £10.99 / $17.00 • HB 9780802777522 • £25.00 / $30.00 Individual eBook 9780802777942 • £14.99 / $19.99 Bloomsbury Press

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Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction Series Editor: Sarah Graham, University of Leicester, UK Written by leading scholars in the field, each book presents a range of original interpretations of three key texts by a contemporary North American writer showing how the same novel may be interpreted in a number of different ways.

Leslie Marmon Silko

Alice Munro

Ceremony, Almanac of the Dead, Gardens in the Dunes

'Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage', 'Runaway', 'Dear Life'

Edited by David L. Moore, University of Montana, USA

Robert Thacker, St. Lawrence University, USA

A major American writer at the turn of this millennium, Leslie Marmon Silko has also been one of the most powerful voices in the flowering of Native American literature since the publication of her 1977 novel Ceremony. With chapters written by leading scholars of Native American literature, this guide explores Silko's major novels Ceremony, Almanac of the Dead and Gardens in the Dunes as an entryway into the full body of her work that includes poetry, essays, short fiction, film, photography, and other visual artwork.

UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 264 pages PB 9781472523662 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472524515 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472523129 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781472530608 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction • Bloomsbury Academic

UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 272 pages PB 9781474230988 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474230995 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781474231008 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781474231015 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction • Bloomsbury Academic

The American Biographical Novel

Mark Twain and Youth

Michael Lackey, University of Minnesota, USA

Studies in His Life and Writings

"An important book on the rise of the biographical novel from Georg Lukács's disparagement of the genre in the 1930s to its current prominence."

Gavin Cologne-Brookes, Bath Spa University, UK

Edited by Kevin Mac Donnell, Independent Scholar & R. Kent Rasmussen, Independent Scholar

The American Biographical Novel charts the shifts in intellectual history that made the biographical novel both acceptable to the literary establishment and popular with the general reading public. More specifically, it clarifies the origin and evolution of this genre of fiction, specifies the kind of “truth” it communicates, provides a framework for identifying how this genre uniquely engages the political, and demonstrates how it gives readers new access to history.

Mark Twain's writings about children and the theme of youth are central to his popularity. This collection makes his work even more accessible to the modern reader by fully exploring the broader theme of youth in all his major writings and his life. The contributors offer new perspectives on key issues in Twain’s work such as his relationships with his own children, slavery, aging, his siblings, gender roles, the marketing and reception of his works, the teaching of Twain’s works in schools and screen adaptations of his works for children.

UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 288 pages • 4 b/w illustrations PB 9781628926330 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781628926347 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781628926354 • £19.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781628926361 Bloomsbury Academic

UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 344 pages • 12 b/w illustrations PB 9781474225380 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474223126 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474223119 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781474223133 Bloomsbury Academic

Jonathan Franzen

9/11

The Comedy of Rage

Topics in Contemporary North American Literature

Philip Weinstein, Swarthmore College, USA "A careful and convincing argument ... Fluent and immersive, Weinstein’s criticism will interest not only scholars but also writers. Strongly recommended." Library Journal Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first critical biography of one of today’s most important novelists. Drawing on unpublished emails and both published and private interviews, Philip Weinstein conveys the feel and heft of Franzen’s voice as he ponders the purposes and problems of his life and art, from his earliest fiction to his most recent novel, Purity.

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 248 pages PB 9781501325557 • £11.99 / $16.95 Previously published in HB 9781501307171 Individual eBook 9781501307188 • £16.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781501307195 Bloomsbury Academic

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The awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form.

This book explores Munro’s work from a full range of critical perspectives, focusing on three of her most popular published collections: With chapters written by leading critics of Munro’s work, the short story form and contemporary Canadian writing, this book explores such themes as sex, love and marriage, gender and humor as well as her approaches to narrative form and autobiography.

Edited by Catherine Morley, University of Leicester, UK 9/11: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature is a guide to literary responses to the attacks and their aftermath. The book covers key works by Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen and Art Spiegelman and includes annotated guides to further reading, making this an essential guide for students and readers of contemporary American literature.

UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 224 pages PB 9781472569684 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472569707 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472569691 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781472569677 Series: Bloomsbury Topics in Contemporary North American Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

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Henry Miller

Edited by Louise Jillett, Western Sydney University, Australia

Edited by James M. Decker, Illinois Central College, USA & Indrek Männiste, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia

"An essential addition to a rich body of criticism, and a tremendous contribution to our understanding of one of the most important authors of our time." Steven Frye, California State University, Bakersfield, USA Cormac McCarthy’s work is attracting increasing interest from scholars in a range of disciplines within the humanities and beyond, from political philosophy to linguistics, musicology to the sciences.

This volume contributes to this developing research, investigating the way McCarthy’s writings speak to other works of American literature, border literature, international literature and other forms of comparative literature.

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 264 pages HB 9781501319112 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501319129 • £80.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781501319143 Bloomsbury Academic

Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community Narratives of Salvation Jesús Blanco Hidalga, Independent Scholar, Spain Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community analyzes each of Franzen's five novels to reveal an interior logic animating his work. Jesús Blanco Hidalga discovers the concepts, typical of romance narratives, of salvation and redemption running throughout Franzen's fiction. These salvation narratives are in turn used for self-legitimization—not only by the characters, by the writer himself.

Hidalga further re-assesses Franzen's use of realism and explores each novel within its cultural and political context. Combining critical rigor with interpretative boldness, Hidalga offers a solid theoretical approach to a major contemporary author.

UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 256 pages HB 9781501319839 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501319846 • £80.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781501319853 Bloomsbury Academic

Not Born Digital Poetics, Print Literacy, New Media Daniel Morris, Purdue University, USA "One of the best studies to date of what happens to poetry and the poetic in our ‘new media age.'"

Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University, USA Not Born Digital addresses from multiple perspectives – ethical, historical, psychological, conceptual, aesthetic – the vexing problems and sublime potential of disseminating lyrics, the ancient form of transmission and preservation of the human voice, in an environment in which e-poetry and digitalized poetics pose a crisis (understood as opportunity and threat) to traditional page poetry.

UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 264 pages • 4 b/w illustrations HB 9781501316708 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781501316715 • £73.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781501316722 Bloomsbury Academic

New Perspectives

"Provides in-depth analysis on themes in Miller's writing, bringing a fresh approach with recent scholarship trends." 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies For many years Miller was not a fashionable writer for literary studies. In fact, there exist only three collections of essays concerning Henry Miller’s oeuvre. Since these books appeared, a new generation of international Miller scholars has emerged, one that is re-energizing critical readings of this important American Modernist.

Henry Miller: New Perspectives presents new essays on carefully chosen themes within Miller and his intellectual heritage to form the most authoritative collection ever published on this author.

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 256 pages • 7 bw illus PB 9781501326462 • £26.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781628921236 Individual eBook 9781628921250 • £73.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781628921267 Bloomsbury Academic

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Cormac McCarthy’s Borders and Landscapes

Subject of the Event Reagency in the American Novel after 2000 Sebastian Huber, Fresenius University, Germany "A fresh and exciting intervention in philosophical literary criticism." Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Subject of the Event analyzes five critically acclaimed novels of the new millennium—Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), Jess Walter’s The Zero (2006), Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only Revolutions (2006), Paul Beatty’s Slumberland (2008) and Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day (2006)—and argues that they create different ‘subjects of the event’ that are empowered with ‘reagency’. The ‘subject of the event’ and its empowerment, what this book calls ‘reagency,’ implies that subjects only evolve out of their confrontation with the revolutionary impetus that events propel.

UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 328 pages HB 9781501317125 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501317095 • £80.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781501317101 Bloomsbury Academic

David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form David Hering, University of Liverpool, UK "An exhilarating read for fans and scholars alike, David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form represents the most significant step forward in Wallace studies for at least a decade." Adam Kelly, University of York, UK Incorporating extensive analysis of Wallace's drafts, notes and letters, and taking account of the rapidly expanding field of Wallace scholarship, David Hering argues that the form of Wallace’s fiction is always inextricably bound up within an ongoing conflict between the monologic and the dialogic. The final chapter offers an unprecedentedly detailed analysis of the troubled, decade-long construction of the work that became The Pale King.

UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 216 pages • 1 b/w illustration HB 9781628920550 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781628920574 • £73.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781628920581 Bloomsbury Academic

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Global Wallace

Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens

David Foster Wallace and World Literature

Edited by Bart Eeckhout, University of Antwerp, Belgium & Lisa Goldfarb, NYU Gallatin, USA

Lucas Thompson, University of Sydney, Australia David Foster Wallace is invariably seen as an emphatically American figure. Lucas Thompson challenges this consensus, arguing that Wallace’s various engagements with global texts are central to his literary practice and to his critique of US culture. Global Wallace reveals Wallace’s substantial debts to such unexpected figures as Jamaica Kincaid, Julio Cortázar, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Peter Weiss, and JW von Goethe, among many others. It expands the geographical coordinates of Wallace’s work to reconceptualize contemporary American fiction as being embedded within a global exchange of texts and ideas.

UK December 2016 • US December 2016 • 240 pages HB 9781501320668 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781501320675 • £73.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781501320682 Series: David Foster Wallace Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

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"A landmark work of scholarly and editorial imagination. Probing, often dazzling, and clearly transformative, this book will appeal to anyone interested in Stevens." Maureen McLane, New York

As Wallace Stevens begins to serve as a major reference point for poets and critics alike, the time has come to investigate poetry and poetics after him. As individual cases are explored, the contributors to this volume further re-engage with the vexed notion of influence, examining the often controversial links between earlier and later poems and poets.

UK November 2016 • US November 2016 • 240 pages • 2 b/w illustrations HB 9781501313486 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781501313493 • £73.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781501313509 Bloomsbury Academic

Kerouac

Melville’s Philosophies

Language, Poetics, and Territory

Edited by Branka Arsic, Columbia University, USA & K. L. Evans, Cornell University, USA

Hassan Melehy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA "A groundbreaking analysis of Kerouac's vexed relationship to his Québécois ancestry and his experience of exile from his own history." Timothy Hampton, University of California at Berkeley, USA Of the more than twenty-five biographies of Kerouac, few have seriously examined his relationship to the French language and the reason for his bilingualism, the Québec Diaspora. Hassan Melehy explores how Kerouac’s poetics of exile involves meditations on moving between territories and languages. He shows that, far from being a naive pursuit, Kerouac’s writing practice not only responded but also contributed to some of the major aesthetic and philosophical currents of the twentieth century in which notions such as otherness and nomadism took shape.

UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 272 pages HB 9781501314346 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501314353 • £80.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781501314360 Bloomsbury Academic

This volume departs from long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled.

Its contributors do not apply philosophy to Melville in order to detect just how much of it he knew or understood, but rather try to hear the philosophical arguments themselves that Melville never stopped articulating and reformulating. What emerges is a Melville who is materialistically oriented in a radical way, who thinks about life forms not just in the context of contemporary sciences but also ontologically.

UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 256 pages HB 9781501321016 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501321023 • £80.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781501321030 Bloomsbury Academic

States of Trial Manhood in Philip Roth’s Post-War America

Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75 Maggie McKinley, Harper College, USA "A ground-breaking study that situates nuanced readings of American fiction of the post-war period in the context of the relationship between masculinity and violence. McKinley writes with clarity and elegance, and her book will be invaluable to students and scholars of twentieth-century fiction and gender studies."

David Brauner, University of Reading, UK Explores the intersections of violence, masculinity, and racial and ethnic tension in America as depicted in the fiction of Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, James Baldwin, and Philip Roth.

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 216 pages PB 9781501326479 • £26.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781628924817 Individual eBook 9781628924916 • £73.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781628924909 Bloomsbury Academic

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Ann Basu, Birkbeck, University of London, UK "Deftly weaves close reading with interpretations provided from critical theorists ... [within a] subtle and convincing theoretical frame." U.S. Studies Online Ann Basu explores Roth’s vision of a turbulent post-war America personified in trial-racked Jewish American men. Roth's works show how the "stories of old," which molded American self-making, have produced disorderly and disruptive counter-stories, playing themselves out in Jewish men marked by spots and stains where their constitutional integrity has been infringed. Roth's novels reveal that a culture equals its debates and allow us to see Americans as ongoing experiments, always being tested.

UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 200 pages PB 9781501320422 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781623562960 Individual eBook 9781623568313 • £25.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781623562434 Bloomsbury Academic

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American Tantalus Horizons, Happiness, and the Impossible Pursuits of US Literature and Culture

A Philosophical Analysis of Contemporary American Literature

Andrew Warnes, University of Leeds, UK "A compelling re-examination of numerous American writers." Times Literary Supplement

Allard den Dulk, Amsterdam University College, the Netherlands "Required reading for anyone who wants to understand 21st-century American fiction and who can stomach a thrilling ride." Diederik Oostdijk, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands The novels of Wallace, Eggers and Foer are increasingly regarded as representing a new trend, an ‘aesthetic sea change’ in contemporary American fiction. By viewing the novels in light of the existentialist philosophies of Kierkegaard, Sartre, Wittgenstein and Camus, den Dulk shows that the connection between these works lies in their shared philosophical dimension.

UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 320 pages PB 9781501322679 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781628923315 Individual eBook 9781628923339 • £25.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781628923346 Bloomsbury Academic

American Tantalus argues that tantalization—the unique desire we feel for objects that lie within reach yet withdraw from our attempts to touch them—dominates much of U.S. fiction.

The yearning to touch alienated or virginal objects runs throughout novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton, as unreachable destinations and untouched commodities tantalize, inviting gestures of inquiry from which they then recoil. This focus, while lodging tantalization at the very heart of American myth, holds profound implications for understanding modernity and the cultural genesis of the commodity as a form.

UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 208 pages • 9 bw illus PB 9781501319624 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781623561079 Individual eBook 9781628920017 • £25.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781623568108 Bloomsbury Academic

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G erman L iterature

New Directions in German Studies Series Editor: Imke Meyer, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA The series taps into the 'Germanistik' tradition and its growth into German Studies, incorporating interdisciplinary approaches to the analysis of the rich intellectual and cultural histories of the German-speaking countries

Thomas Mann in English

German Aesthetics

A Study in Literary Translation

Fundamental Concepts from Baumgarten to Adorno

David Horton, Saarland University, Germany "A major contribution to the field. Henceforth anyone who wants to comment on translation of Mann must first read and digest this book."

Modern Language Review "This book’s scholarship, clarity, wealth of detail, and insight into translating one of the most difficult of authors should give all translators pause." Burton Pike, Translation Review UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 264 pages PB 9781501318702 • £19.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781441167989 Individual eBook 9781441166807 • £73.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781441182777 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Edited by J. D. Mininger, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania & Jason Michael Peck, University of Rochester, USA Organized with the understanding that aesthetic concepts are often highly contested intellectual territory, and that the usage and meanings of terms often shift within historical, cultural, and political debates, this volume brings together scholars of German literature, philosophy, film studies, musicology, and history to provide informative and creative interpretations of German aesthetics.

UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 288 pages PB 9781501321474 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501321481 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501321504 • £19.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781501321498 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

The Poet as Phenomenologist Rilke and the New Poems Luke Fischer, Independent Scholar, Australia "A fresh reading of Rilke as a poet who evokes the world we are in and belong to, rather than are alienated from and trying to escape." Times Literary Supplement The Poet as Phenomenologist opens up new perspectives on the relation between Rilke’s poetry and phenomenological philosophy, illustrating the ways in which poetry can offer an exceptional response to the philosophical problem of dualism. Drawing on the work of Husserl, Heidegger and MerleauPonty, Luke Fischer demonstrates the continuity between Rilke and phenomenology while arguing that poetry, in this case, provides the most adequate response to a philosophical problem.

UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 352 pages PB 9781501326035 • £19.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781628925449 • £80.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781628925456 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Goethe's Families of the Heart Susan E. Gustafson, University of Rochester, USA "Truly novel in its approach and refreshing for its ecumenical breadth. This is a courageous, life-affirming book that does not shy away from addressing the topics of commitment and the connections of the heart." Alice Kuzniar, University of Waterloo, Canada The questions Goethe’s plays and novels pose are often modern and challenging: Do social conventions, family expectations, and legal mandates matter? Gustafson’s close analysis shows that Goethe rejected loveless relationships and accepted and promoted all relationships formed through spontaneous affinities and love (including heterosexual, same-sex, bisexual, group, parental, and adoptive).

UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 208 pages HB 9781501315763 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501315770 • £80.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781501315787 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

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Roma Voices in the GermanSpeaking World Lorely French, Pacific University, USA "Provides a remarkable account of the transformation in the literature of Germanspeaking Roma that has occurred as a response to the atrocities of the Holocaust." Paola Toninato, University of Warwick, UK With a basis in theories of intersectionality, subalternity, and cultural hybridity, Roma Voices in the German-Speaking World analyzes autobiographies, folktales, and novels by Roma, thereby promoting a better understanding of the multifaceted and multifarious cultures alive today in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 296 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781501326493 • £19.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781501302794 Individual eBook 9781501302800 • £83.99 / $111.99 Library eBook 9781501302817 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Figures of Natality Reading the Political in the Age of Goethe Joseph D. O’Neil, University of Kentucky, USA Figures of Natality reads metaphors and narratives of birth in the age of Goethe (1770-1832) as indicators of the new, the unexpected, and the revolutionary. Joseph O’Neil argues that Goethe, Schiller, and Kleist see birth as challenging paradigms of Romanticism as well as of Enlightenment, resisting the assimilation of the political to economics, science, or morality.

Alongside this geopolitical evolution, the ways of representing the political change, too, moving from the new as revolutionary eruption to economic metaphors of birth.

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Visualizing Jewish Narrative

Michael G. Brennan, University of Leeds, UK

Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels

In his attitude toward religion, George Orwell has been characterised variously as an agnostic, humanist, secular saint or even Christian atheist.

Drawing on the full range of his writings - from major works such as Keep the Aspidistra Flying, 1984 and Down and Out in Paris and London to his shorter journalism and private letters and journals - George Orwell and Religion is a major reassessment of Orwell's life-long engagement with religion. Exploring Orwell's life and work, Michael Brennan illuminates for the first time how this profound engagement with religion informed the intensely humanitarian spirit of his writings.

UK November 2016 • US November 2016 • 208 pages PB 9781472530738 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472531940 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472533081 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781472523600 Bloomsbury Academic

Forgiveness in Victorian Literature Grammar, Narrative, and Community Richard Hughes Gibson, Wheaton College, USA Forgiveness in Victorian Literature examines how eminent writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Oscar Wilde wrestled with the religious and social meanings of forgiveness in an age of theological controversy and increasing pluralism in ethical matters. Illuminated by contemporary philosophical and theological investigations of forgiveness, this book also suggests that Victorian literature offers new perspectives on the ongoing debate about the possibility and potency of forgiving.

UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 184 pages PB 9781350003750 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781780937113 Individual eBook 9781474222204 • £49.99 / $60.99 Library eBook 9781474222198 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Derek Parker Royal, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Examining a wide range of comics and graphic novels – including works by creators such as Will Eisner, Leela Corman, Neil Gaiman, Art Spiegelman, Sarah Glidden and Joe Sacco – this book explores how comics writers and artists have tackled major issues of Jewish identity. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars in contemporary comic book studies, Visualizing Jewish Narrative also includes a foreword by Danny Fingeroth (former editor of the Spiderman line and author of Superman on the Couch) and an afterword by Arie Kaplan.

UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 312 pages • 47 b/w illustrations HB 9781474248792 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474248808 • £64.99 / $79.99 Library eBook 9781474248815 Bloomsbury Academic

R eligion and L iterature

George Orwell and Religion

Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth Brett Ashley Kaplan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA "Kaplan’s exceptional historical insight enables her to discern in the politics of Roth’s novels the manifold ways in which the contemporary Jew may experience moral ambivalence. Kaplan’s book will change the way that readers think about Roth and the Jews." Debra Shostak, The College of Wooster, USA It is impossible to think about Jewish victimization without thinking about the Holocaust, and it is impossible to think about the taboo question of Jewish perpetration without thinking about Israel. Brett Ashley Kaplan uses Roth's novels as springboards to illuminate these problems of victimization and perpetration.

UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 216 pages • 3 halftones PB 9781501324734 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781623562946 Individual eBook 9781628925036 • £25.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781628925043 Bloomsbury Academic

Reading the Abrahamic Faiths Rethinking Religion and Literature Edited by Emma Mason, University of Warwick, UK

Christina Rossetti and the Bible Waiting with the Saints

"This illuminating collection of essays by a group of distinguished international scholars focuses on the intimate connection between religion, literature, and faith. Collectively, the essays aim to innovate new strategies for exploring the significance of the religious and the secular, as these animating phenomena are brought to consciousness through literary works ... Summing Up: Recommended." CHOICE

"By means of scrupulous and admirable research, Ludlow places Rossetti in a long tradition of religious thinkers who seek to make sacred devotion an intimately human practice ... Her book is a goldmine for scholars who seek deep knowledge of Rossetti and the Bible." Times Literary Supplement

Rethinking religion and literature in a series of chapters by leading international scholars, Reading the Abrahamic Faiths opens up a dialogue between Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Post-Secular literary cultures.

Through theologically-engaged close readings of her poetry and devotional prose, this book explores how Christina Rossetti draws on the Bible and encourages her Victorian readers to respond to its radical message of grace.

UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 312 pages PB 9781350003743 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781472509505 Individual eBook 9781472509932 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781472509246 Bloomsbury Academic

UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 272 pages PB 9781350003729 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781472512321 Individual eBook 9781472510952 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781472514769 Bloomsbury Academic

Elizabeth Ludlow, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

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E nvironmental L iterature

Environmental Cultures Series Editors: Greg Garrard, University of British Columbia at Okanagan, Canada; Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University, UK Environmental Cultures makes available to students and scholars at all levels the latest cutting-edge research on the diverse ways in which culture has responded to the age of environmental crisis. Publishing ambitious and innovative literary ecocriticism that crosses disciplines, national boundaries and media, books in the series explore and test the challenges of ecocriticism to conventional forms of cultural study.

Literature as Cultural Ecology

Cities and Wetlands

Sustainable Texts

The Return of the Repressed in Nature and Culture

Hubert Zapf, University of Augsburg, Germany "Hubert Zapf brings his vast knowledge of world literature and literary theory to bear on many of the central concerns of environmental textual studies." Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, USA Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination and critique to challenge and transform cultural narratives of humanity’s relationship to nature. Literature as Cultural Ecology explores works by such writers as Herman Melville, Toni Morrison and Edgar Allen Poe.

From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris, many of the world’s great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments.

Developing a ground-breaking mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of cities in North America, Europe and Australia, Rod Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture.

UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 312 pages HB 9781474274654 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474274661 • £64.99 / $79.99 Library eBook 9781474274678 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 288 pages HB 9781474269827 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474269834 • £64.99 / $79.99 Library eBook 9781474269841 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

Nerd Ecology Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture Anthony Lioi, Juilliard School, New York, USA

The New Poetics of Climate Change Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World Matthew Griffiths, Independent Scholar, UK

"This aptly smart, witty, and quirky study poses Geektopia as a place where black, queer, nerds become interplanetary tricksters; where Dante, Darwin and classical philososophy meet Star Trek; where Pynchon, postmodern aesthetics and The Matrix find themselves in a (digital) wildlife refuge; and where Buffy the Vampire Slayer fights for environmental justice... Lioi’s book is fresh, riveting, surprising, invaluable—POW!" Stacy Alaimo, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Matthew Griffiths demonstrates the ways in which modernism’s radical reinvigorations of literary form represents an engagement with key intellectual questions that we still need to address if we are to comprehend the scale of climate change. Through an examination of modernist poets and their influence on contemporary poets such as Michael Symmons Roberts and Jorie Graham, Griffiths explores how modernist modes help us describe and engage with the terrifying dynamics of a warming world and offer a poetics of our climate.

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 240 pages HB 9781472567635 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472567642 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781472567659 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic World English

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This Contentious Storm

Bodies of Water

An Ecocritical and Performance History of King Lear

Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology

Jennifer Mae Hamilton, New York University, Sydney, Australia From providential apocalypticism to climate change, this ground-breaking ecocritical study traces the performance history of the storm scene in Shakespeare's King Lear to explore our shifting, fraught and deeply ideological relationship with stormy weather across time. This Contentious Storm illustrates how the storm has been read as a sign of the cosmological, psychological, neurological, emotional, political, feminine, heroic and chaotic at different points in history.

UK January 2017 • US January 2017 • 224 pages HB 9781474289047 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474289054 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781474289061 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

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Rod Giblett, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Astrida Neimanis, University of Sydney, Australia Water is the element that, more than any other, ties human beings in to the world around them.

Exploring the cultural and philosophical implications of this fact, Bodies of Water draws on the work of such thinkers as Luce Irigaray, Maurice MerleauPonty and Gilles Deleuze to develop an innovative new mode of posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands our bodies as being fundamentally part of the natural world and not separate from or privileged to it.

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Rethinking Place in Contemporary Literature Jos Smith, University of Exeter, UK Drawing on original interviews with authors, archival research, and the latest scholarly work in the fields of literary geographies, critical localism and archipelagic criticism, The New Nature Writing covers the work of such writers as Robert MacFarland, Richard Mabey and Alice Oswald. Examining the ways in which these writers have engaged with a wide range of different environments, from the edgelands to island spaces, Jos Smith reveals how they recreate a resourceful and dynamic sense of localism in rebellion against the homogenising growth of ‘clone town Britain’.

UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 224 pages HB 9781474275019 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474275026 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781474275033 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

London in Contemporary British Fiction The City Beyond the City Edited by Nick Hubble, Brunel University, London, UK & Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK Contemporary writers such as Peter Ackroyd, J.G. Ballard, John King, Ian McEwan, Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Zadie Smith have been registering the changes to the social and cultural London landscape for years. This volume brings together their vivid representations of the capital.

Uniting the readings are themes such as relationship between the country and the city; the capacity of satirical forms to encompass the 'real London'; spatio-temporal transformations and emergences; the relationship between multiculturalism and universalism; the underground as the spatial equivalent of London's unconsciousness and the suburbs as the frontier of the future.

UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 232 pages HB 9781441190192 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781623560614 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781441191472 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the City • Bloomsbury Academic

Civil Rights and the Environment in AfricanAmerican Literature, 1895-1941 John Claborn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature is the first book to explore the centrality of environmental problems to writing from the civil rights movement in the early decades of the century. Bringing ecocritical perspectives to bear on the work of such important writers as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, the writers of the Harlem Renaissance and Depression-era African American writing, the book brings to light a vital new perspective on ecocriticism and modern American literary history.

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E nvironmental L iterature

The New Nature Writing

Brooklyn Fictions The Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age James Peacock, Keele University, UK Vast and diverse, Brooklyn is often portrayed in literature as a place of traditional community values and face-to-face relations, distinct from anonymous, capital-driven Manhattan. Brooklyn Fictions discovers what such representations of the New York borough can teach us about diversity and the individual, the local and the global. Combining analysis of popular texts such as Sister Souljah’s The Coldest Winter Ever with canonical novels such as Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude, this book uses Brooklyn as a case study for an exploration of the complex relationship between romantic ideals of community and global economic forces.

UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 272 pages • 6 halftone illus PB 9781350003736 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781441132536 Individual eBook 9781472590763 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781472590756 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the City • Bloomsbury Academic

reflective teaching InspIrIng EducatIon through InnovatIon

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This collection is a real tour de force ” TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION 9781441197559 | £24.99/$39.95

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G enre F iction

21st Century Genre Fiction Series Editor: Katy Shaw, University of Brighton, UK This series provides exciting and accessible introductions to new genres in twenty-first-century fiction, exploring the history and uses of each genre to date.

Scandinavian Crime Fiction

Apocalyptic Fiction

Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, University College London, UK

Andrew Tate, Lancaster University, UK

With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy, Henning Mankell's Wallander books and TV series such as The Killing.

Exploring a wide range of texts, from the works of Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy and David Mitchell to young adult novels such as Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games series, this is the first critical introduction to contemporary apocalyptic fiction. Exploring the cultural and political contexts of these writings and their echoes in popular media, Apocalyptic Fiction also examines how 21st-century apocalyptic texts looks back to earlier dystopian writers such as Mary Shelley and J.G. Ballard.

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UK January 2017 • US January 2017 • 208 pages PB 9781474233507 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474233514 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781474233521 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781474233538 Series: 21st Century Genre Fiction • Bloomsbury Academic

Biographical Fiction

Science Fiction Criticism

A Reader

An Anthology of Essential Writings

Edited by Michael Lackey, University of Minnesota, USA

Rob Latham, Independent Scholar, USA

"This up-to-the-minute volume, the only one of its kind, features major writers and critics and is sure to be a key point of reference for scholars and students of biographical fiction." James L. W. West III, Pennsylvania State University, USA In recent years, the biographical novel has become a dominant literary form: J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, and Julia Alvarez are just a few luminaries who have published biographical novels.

In Biographical Fiction, some of the finest scholars and writers of biofiction clarify what led to the rise of this genre, reflect on its nature and form, and specify what it is uniquely capable of doing.

UK November 2016 • US November 2016 • 480 pages PB 9781501318009 • £22.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781501317996 • £86.00 / $130.00 Individual eBook 9781501318016 • / $34.95 Library eBook 9781501318030 Bloomsbury Academic

The War of the Worlds From H. G. Wells to Orson Welles, Jeff Wayne, Steven Spielberg and Beyond Peter J. Beck, Kingston University, UK "Accessible, authoritative and engaging: this is an unmissable traveller’s guide to the World of H.G. Wells’s War." Stephen Baxter, Author and President of the British Science Fiction Association This is a complete biography of the life – and the afterlives – of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. Examining the initial serialisations in US newspapers, Peter Beck goes on to consider Orson Welles’s 1938 radio adaptation, film adaptations from George Pal to Steven Spielberg, Jeff Wayne’s rock opera and the numerous other reworkings.

UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 408 pages • 26 b/w illustrations PB 9781474229876 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474229883 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474229890 • £17.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781474229906 Bloomsbury Academic

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Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre.

As well as writings by leading writers and critics, from J.G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick and Joanna Russ to Fredric Jameson, Susan Sontag and Donna Haraway, Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings also features annotated guides to further reading on the topic and a comprehensive glossary of critical terms help students master the genre and pursue their own studies.

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Post-Millennial Gothic Comedy, Romance and the Rise of 'Happy Gothic' Catherine Spooner, Lancaster University, UK Surveying the Gothic in contemporary literature and culture, Post-Millennial Gothic argues that contemporary Gothic is often romantic, funny and celebratory. Reading a wide range of popular texts, from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series through Tim Burton's Gothic film adaptations of Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland and Dark Shadows, to the appearance of Gothic in fashion, advertising and television, Catherine Spooner argues that conventional academic and media accounts of Gothic culture have overlooked this celebratory strain of 'Happy Gothic'.

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Good Girl Messages How Young Women Were Misled by Their Favorite Books Deborah O'Keefe

Karen Coats, Illinois State University, USA From Hans Christian Andersen and Dr Seuss to Disney and Harry Potter, this is a comprehensive introduction to studying the infinitely varied worlds of literature for children and young adults.

The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature covers: key genres from fiction and fairy tale to non-fiction, picture books and graphic novels; psychological and educational approaches to childhood and development; practical guidance on research and critical writing; film, TV and media. "Extending Your Study" sections at the end of each chapter gives advice on further reading, writing and discussion as well as case studies from writers and teachers.

UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 400 pages PB 9781472575531 • £24.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781472575548 • £75.00 / $128.00 Individual eBook 9781472575555 • £24.99 / $30.99 Library eBook 9781472575562 Bloomsbury Academic

For much of the 20th century, books for children encouraged girls to be weak, submissive, and fearful. Using a wide variety of books, O’Keefe illustrates the typical behaviour of fictional girls – many of whom were passive and immobile while others were actually invalids. The discussion is interlaced with moments from the author’s own childhood that suggest how her developing self interacted with these stories. Good Girl Messages also includes a discussion of books read by boys, who were depicted as purposeful, daring, and dominating. This title will be of interest for student and scholars studying literature.

C h ildren ' s L iterature

The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature

UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 224 pages HB 9781474286831 • £75.00 / $128.00 Library eBook 9781474286824 Series: Cultural Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections • Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children’s Literature Series Editor: Lisa Sainsbury, Roehampton University, UK Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children’s Literature seeks to expand the range and quality of research in children’s literature through publishing innovative monographs by leading and rising scholars in the field. With an emphasis on cross and inter-disciplinary studies, this series takes literary approaches as a starting point, drawing on the particular capacity for children’s literature to open out into other disciplines.

Literature's Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealisation

From Tongue to Text: A New Theory of Children's Poetry

Louise Joy, University of Cambridge, UK

Debbie Pullinger, University of Cambridge, UK

Literature’s Children offers a new way of thinking about how literature for children functions. Through close readings of a range of ‘Golden Age’ novels for children which continue to shape our understanding of what children’s literature entails, including The Railway Children, The Hobbit, and mid-20th-century series fiction, the book demonstrates how the child critic resists the processes of idealisation at work in such texts.

UK May 2017 • US May 2017 • 224 pages HB 9781472577191 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472577207 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781472577214 Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

From nursery rhymes to works by contemporary writers, poetry is a powerful genre of children’s literature that is often neglected by literary criticism. In From Tongue to Text, Debbie Pullinger develops a new theoretical framework for the study of children’s poetry. Examining Romantic constructions of childhood, Walter Ong’s theory of orality and literacy and contemporary cognitive approaches to brain development, the book positions poetry as a form that sits in the borderlands between orality and literacy that children themselves must learn to navigate. The book includes close readings of works by poets such as Carol Ann Duffy and Michael Rosen.

UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 256 pages HB 9781474222327 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474222334 • £59.99 / $72.99 Library eBook 9781474222341 Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

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L iterary B iograp h y / W riting

Guilty Thing

Nabokov in America

A Life of Thomas De Quincey

On the Road to Lolita

Frances Wilson

Robert Roper

Thomas De Quincey – opium-eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger – is embedded in our culture. Modelling his character on Coleridge and his sensibility on Wordsworth, De Quincey took over the poet’s former cottage in Grasmere and turned it into an opium den. Here, increasingly detached from the world, he nurtured his growing hatred of his former idols and his obsession with murder as one of the fine arts. In this spectacular new biography, Frances Wilson tells the riches-torags story of a figure of dizzying complexity and dazzling originality, whose rackety life was lived on the run.

UK January 2017 • 416 pages • BW images throughout PB 9781408840139 • £9.99 Previously published in HB 9781408839775 Individual eBook 9781408839768 • £21.99 Bloomsbury Paperbacks World English (excluding USA/Canada)

Beryl Bainbridge Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography Brendan King Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the best-loved and most recognisable novelists of her generation.

But underneath her public image as a quirky eccentric was a complex and sometimes traumatic private life that she rarely talked about and which was often only hinted at in her novels. Brendan King has drawn on a trove of Bainbridge’s previously unpublished letters and diaries to reveal the real woman behind the popular image. In the process, his frank portrait tells the story of a life that is every bit as dramatic and compelling as her perfectly crafted fictions.

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The author of the beloved Lolita and Pale Fire, born to an eminent Russian family, might seem quintessentially European. But Vladimir Nabokov, who moved to America fleeing the Nazis, came to think of his time in the States as the richest of his life, and some of his best work, including Lolita, was inspired by his life there.In Nabokov in America, Robert Roper fills out this period in the writer’s life with charm and insight. His illuminating book explores in a very original way the rich learning and the Romantic mind behind some of Nabokov’s most beloved books.

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Ackerman, Alan ..................................... 2 Acquisto, Joseph ..................................46 Actor’s Workbook, The............................. 7 Actors and Performers Yearbook 2017........... 7 Adams, Jenni ......................................47 Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre........... 3 Adventures in the Skin Trade....................12 Aeschylus............................................22 Aesthetics of Care, The...........................35 After Independence...............................15 Afterlives of Roland Barthes, The..............36 Akhtar, Ayad ........................................20 Al-Shamma, James ................................11 Alice Munro.........................................48 Alston, Adam ........................................ 3 American Beauty Shop............................15 American Biographical Novel, The..............48 American Tantalus.................................51 An Inspector Calls GCSE Student Guide........14 Anderson, Davey ..................................12

Baudelaire’s Media Aesthetics...................46 Baxter, Veronica .................................... 5 Beat Drama.......................................... 3 Beaton, Alistair ....................................18 Beck, Peter J. .....................................56 Beckett’s Creatures................................ 5 Berenato, Thomas .................................44 Berlina, Alexandra ................................33 Berry, Ellen E. .....................................38

Camelot.............................................17 Cameron, David .................................... 3 Cartwright, Jim ....................................23 Cartwright, Kent ..................................27 Chadwick, Kefi .....................................15 Christina Rossetti and the Bible................53 Christofides, R.M. .................................28 Chung, Mia .........................................26 Cities and Wetlands...............................54 Cities at the End of the World..................38

Bertolt Brecht’s Me-ti.............................10

Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895-1941......55

Beryl Bainbridge...................................58

Claborn, John ......................................55

Biographical Fiction...............................56

Clark, Michael Dean ..............................59

Birch, Brad .........................................16

Clifton, Alex ......................................... 7

Birns, Nicholas .....................................46

Close to the Enemy................................17

Blood Brothers GCSE Student Edition..........13

Clowning as Social Performance in Colombia.......................................... 9

Blood Brothers GCSE Student Guide............13 Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature, The....................................47

Coats, Karen .......................................57

Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature, The....................................38

Cockin, Katharine .................................10

Cock..................................................15 Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome ...........................34

Anderton, Joseph .................................. 5

Bloomsbury Introduction to Children’s and Young Adult Literature, The................57

Angry Brigade, The................................15

Blount, Steve ......................................25

Antipodal Shakespeare............................32

Blue/Orange........................................16

Any Means Necessary..............................15

Bodies of Water....................................54

Apocalyptic Fiction................................56

Bohn, Willard ......................................45

Applied Theatre: Facilitation..................... 5

Bolton, Jacqueline ................................13

Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing............................................ 5

Bond, Edward ......................................18

Ardoin, Paul ........................................43

Boy...................................................16

Argument, The.....................................16

Boyd, William ......................................16

Armitage, Simon ..................................12

Bray, Patrick M. ....................................43

Arsic, Branka .......................................50

Bread................................................34

Art of Songwriting, The............................ 8

Brecht On Film & Radio...........................10

Atuona, Diana Nneka .............................20

Brecht, Bertolt ....................................10

Cormac McCarthy’s Borders and Landscapes..........................................49

Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Men................................ 8

Brennan, Michael G. ..............................53

Corrieri, Augusto ................................... 6

Anderson, Michael ................................. 3

Bowler, Rebecca ...................................42

Cohen, Robert .....................................58 Colman, Geoffrey .................................. 7 Colón, Kristiana Rae ..............................22 Comedy About A Bank Robbery, The............17 Comedy of Errors, The............................27 Composition, Creative Writing Studies, and the Digital Humanities......................59 Confusions.......................................... 17 Connections 500....................................12 Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy...5 Contemporary Plays from Iraq...................11 Contemporary Political Play, The................ 2 Cooper, Zoe ........................................23

Brink, The...........................................16

Coxon, Lucinda ....................................12

British Fictions of the Sixties....................46 British Musical Theatre since 1950.............. 4

Creating Compelling Characters for Film, TV, Theatre and Radio............................58

British Theatre Companies: 1965-1979.......... 2

Creative Writing Innovations....................59

Authenticity in Contemporary Theatre and Performance.................................... 3

Brittain, Jon .......................................23

Crime Fiction as World Literature..............46

Brodsky, Claudia ...................................35

Ayckbourn, Alan ...................................17

Broke ‘n’ Beat Collective, The..................16

Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical, A............................................ 4

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Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Women........................................... 8

Babbage, Frances .................................. 3 Badmington, Neil ..................................36 Balme, Christopher B. ............................60 Banks, Anthony ....................................12 Barbarians..........................................16 Barnard, Philip .....................................41 Barnes, Sophia .....................................44

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Critical Practice....................................35 Cultural History of Theatre, A...................60 curious directive...................................24 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time GCSE Student Edition, The........13 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time GCSE Student Guide, The..........13

Butler, Leo ............................... 10, 16, 18

Cutler Shershow, Scott ...........................34

Byron, Mark ........................................44

Cymbeline...........................................27 Cyprus Avenue......................................17

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Eve, Martin Paul ...................................34

Gregg, Stacey .....................................12

Daly, Peter .........................................25

Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer....................................51

Griffiths, Matthew ................................54 Grochala, Sarah .................................... 2

Exorcising Translation.............................45

Groes, Sebastian ..................................46

Ezra Pound in the Present........................41

Grose, Carl .........................................12

Ezra Pound’s and Olga Rudge’s The Blue Spill............................................44

Grøtta, Marit .......................................46

Davis, Tracy C. .....................................60

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Faircloth, Nicki ....................................31

De Castro, Juan E. ................................46

Falke, Cassandra ..................................37

Dea...................................................18

Fall Out of Redemption, The....................46

Dead Theory........................................36

Falling After 9/11.................................40

Decades..............................................18

Ferguson, Ailsa Grant .............................32

Decades of Contemporary British Fiction......60

Fernie, Ewan .......................................33

Decades of Modern American Drama: Playwriting from the 1930s to 2009............60

Fetish, The..........................................37

Decker, James M. .................................49

Findlay, Alison .....................................32

Dekker, Thomas ...................................27

First Light...........................................18

Delaney, Shelagh ..................................13

Fischer, Luke .......................................52

den Dulk, Allard ...................................51

Fitzgerald, F. Scott ................................19

Detaining Time.....................................36

Flaherty, Kate ......................................32

Devil’s Passion or Easter in Hell, The..........18

Ford, John ..........................................27

D'haen, Theo........................................46

Forgiveness in Victorian Literature.............53

Di Leo, Jeffrey R. .................................36

Formby, Dana Lynn ................................15

Director’s Guide to Stanislavsky’s Active Analysis, A........................................... 7

Fracked!.............................................18

Disability Theatre and Modern Drama.......... 4

Frazer, Paul ........................................29

DNA GCSE Student Guide.........................14

French, Lorely .....................................52

Documenting Performance........................ 9

Figures of Natality.................................52

Frantic assembly...................................12

Donovan, Josephine ..............................35

From Tongue to Text: A New Theory of Children’s Poetry..................................57

Drama and Digital Arts Cultures................. 3

Fusillo, Massimo ...................................37

Dublin Oldschool...................................18

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Hahn, Matthew ....................................23 Hair..................................................34 Hall, Katori .........................................12 Hamilton, Jennifer Mae ..........................54 Hamlet...............................................27 Hamlet: Who’s There?.............................19 Hammill, Faye .....................................41 Hand on the Shakespearean Stage, The........28 Hansen, Adam .....................................29 Happy to Help......................................19 Harrogate...........................................19 Hartley, Andrew James ...........................29 Hasler, Sadie .......................................23 Hawthorn, Jeremy ................................33 Hayhurst, Mark ....................................18 Henderson Staudt, Kathleen ....................44 Henry Miller........................................49 Hergenrader, Trent ................................59 Hering, David ......................................49 Hidalga, Jesús Blanco ............................49 Higgins, David .....................................37 HighTide Plays: 1..................................11 Hodge-Dallaway, Simeilia ......................... 8

Garde, Ulrike ....................................... 3

Holbrook, Peter ...................................28

Gardley, Marcus ...................................26

Homosexuality and Literature: 1890-1930....36

Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare’s Theatre..............................................30

Geis, Deborah ....................................... 3

Horton, David ......................................52

George Orwell and Religion......................53

Earth.................................................34

Houhlahan, Mark ..................................32

German Aesthetics................................52

Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art............10

How Bad Writing Destroyed the World.........38

Gestures of Testimony............................40

Edmondson, Paul ..................................28

How to Keep an Alien.............................20

Giblett, Rod ........................................54

Edmundson, Mark .................................59

Howard, Jean E. ...................................27

Gibson, Marion .....................................31

Edward II: A Critical Reader.....................29

Hubble, Nick .................................. 55, 60

Gibson, Richard Hughes ..........................53

Eeckhout, Bart .....................................50

Huber, Sebastian ..................................49

Girls..................................................19

Effect, The..........................................15

Hunter, Kelly .......................................19

Giving................................................19

Egg...................................................34

Hussey, Mark .......................................41

Global Wallace.....................................50

El-Bushra, Suhayla ................................25

Goethe’s Families of the Heart..................52

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Goldfarb, Lisa ......................................50

Elkins-Tanton, Linda T. ...........................34

Gontarski, S. E. ....................................43

Environmental and Nature Writing.............58

Good Girl Messages................................57

Erdman, Nikolai ...................................25

Gordon, Robert ..................................... 4

Ericson, Ross .......................................25

Goulbourne, Russell ..............................37

Esra, Jo Ann ........................................31

Graham, James ............................... 12, 15

Evans, Caradoc ....................................21

Gramling, David ...................................45

Evans, David H. ....................................43

Granville-Barker, Harley..........................26

Evans, K. L. ........................................50

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Lavery, Bryony .....................................12

Maunder, Andrew ..................................14

Islam in Performance.............................11

Lee-Potter, Charlie ................................38

May, Shaun .......................................... 2

Ivic, Christopher ..................................31

LeFranc, Dan ......................................11

Mayer, John ......................................... 9

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McDowall Plays: 1..................................10

Leslie Marmon Silko...............................48

McDowall, Alistair ............................ 10, 26

J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus.......40 James Joyce and Catholicism....................42 Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism........................................37

McGee, Patrick ....................................36

Lewis, Henry .................................. 17, 23

McKinley, Maggie ..................................50

Liberian Girl........................................20

McMullan, Gordon .................................32

Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth..................................................53

Lioi, Anthony .......................................54

McPherson, Gayle .................................. 8

Listgarten, Julia ...................................60

McQuillan, Martin .................................35

Jillett, Louise ......................................49

Literary Cynics.....................................37

McTighe, Trish ...................................... 5

Joan’s Book.......................................... 9

Literary Impressionism...........................42

Mead, Philip ........................................32

John McGahern and Modernism.................42

Literary Theory: The Complete Guide.........33

Melehy, Hassan ....................................50

Johnston, Kirsty .................................... 4

Literature as Cultural Ecology...................54

Melling, Harry ......................................11

Jonathan Franzen..................................48

Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis..............................................33

Melnikoff, Kirk .....................................29

Literature’s Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealisation.......................57

Menzer, Paul .......................................30

Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community..........................................49 Jones, David........................................44 Josephson, Paul ...................................35 Journey’s End GCSE Student Guide.............14 Joy, Louise .........................................57 Jubin, Olaf .......................................... 4 Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader.................29

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Littlewood, Joan ................................... 9 Loh, Sandra Tsing ..................................21 London in Contemporary British Fiction.......55 Longman, Simon ...................................24 Lorenzo, David J. .................................38 Love, Catherine ...................................14 Low, Katharine E. .................................. 5

Melville’s Philosophies............................50 Merkin, Ros .........................................13 Meyers, Jeffrey ....................................36 Miller, Arthur .................................. 14, 21 Miller, Rebecca ....................................21 Mininger, J. D. .....................................52 Mirabella, Bella ....................................32 Modernism, Science, and Technology...........41 Modernism, War, and Violence...................41

Kaplan, Brett Ashley ..............................53

Lowe, Scott ........................................34

Karagula.............................................20

Ludlow, Elizabeth .................................53

Karim-Cooper, Farah ..............................28

Lustgarten Plays: 1................................10

Kay, Jackie .........................................12

Lustgarten, Anders ...................... 10, 11, 24

Keatley, Charlotte .................................21

Lutzkanova-Vassileva, Albena ...................40

Keeffe, Barrie ......................................16

Lynch, Jack .........................................47

Kelly, Sonya ........................................20

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Mac Donnell, Kevin ................................48

Morris, Daniel ......................................49

Kerouac..............................................50 Khalil, Hannah .....................................24 Kill Floor............................................20 Kindellan, Michael ................................42 Kindley, Evan .......................................34

Modernism’s Print Cultures......................41 Moller, Lis ..........................................33 Mongiwekhaya......................................20 Moore, David L. ....................................48 Moran, Janet .......................................25 Morley, Catherine .................................48

Macbeth, Macbeth.................................33

Morrisson, Mark S. ................................41

MacKay, Marina ....................................41

Muir, Andrew .......................................24

Madwoman in the Volvo, The....................21

Mullarkey, Rory ....................................22

Maggie’s Plan.......................................21

Mullin, Brian .......................................26

Mahfouz, Sabrina ..................................26

Mumford, Meg ...................................... 3

Making of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’/’La derniere bande’, The.................44

Munro, Lucy ........................................27

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