Shakespeare

The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare Edited by Jonathan Bate, Arizona State University, USA & Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada, Reno, USA A stunning new edition of the bestselling Complete Works of Shakespeare from the Royal Shakespeare Company. Combining exemplary textual scholarship with beautiful design, this modern edition is based on the iconic 1623 First Folio: the version preferred by many actors and directors today. Featuring new colour photographs of a vibrant range of RSC productions, a foreword from RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran, updated introductions and new references to staging choices in over 100 RSC productions, this highly collectable edition presents Shakespeare’s plays as they were originally intended: as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed on stage.

UK April 2022 • 2552 pages • 40 colour and 20 bw illus HB 9781350319967 • £34.99 ePub 9781350320024 • £31.49 ePdf 9781350320031 • £31.49 Series: The RSC Shakespeare • The RSC Shakespeare World English (excluding Canada/USA)

The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare’s World

Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin, University of Montpellier III Paul Valery, France Exploring the complexity of Shakespearean insult, this book offers a rich analysis that shows how the playwright set abusive words at the heart of many of his plays. Focusing on the most memorable scenes of insult, abusive characters and insulting effects in the plays, this volume shifts how readers understand and read Shakespeare’s insults. Offering a theoretical panorama that allows the reader to grasp insult as a specific speech act, the volume explores the issues of verbal violence and verbal shields, and the importance of reception and interpretation in matters of insult.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781350055490 • £75.00 / $102.00 ePub 9781350055506 • £67.50 / $88.59 ePdf 9781350055513 • £67.50 / $88.59 The Arden Shakespeare

Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing

Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University, USA

The Winter’s Tale: Language and Writing

Mario DiGangi, Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA This book makes The Winter’s Tale accessible and exciting for you by providing expert guidance on understanding, interpreting and writing about Shakespeare’s language. It demonstrates that careful attention to Shakespeare’s complex dramatic language can clarify the structure and concerns of the play, as well as provide deep and satisfying engagement with the social, political and ethical questions Shakespeare raises. The book examines topics in the play, such as tragicomic genre; women’s assertion of social and political agency; obedience and resistance to rulers; the virtues and risks of festivity, and disputes over the proper forms of religious devotion.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 192 pages • 1 bw illus HB 9781350175549 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350175556 • £58.50 / $76.86 ePdf 9781350175563 • £58.50 / $76.86 Series: Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing • The Arden Shakespeare William Shakespeare Edited by Abigail Rokison-Woodall, The Shakespeare Institute, UK & Simon Russell Beale King Lear has ruled for many years. As age overtakes him, he divides his kingdom amongst his children. Misjudging their loyalty, he soon finds himself stripped of all the trappings of state, wealth and power that had defined him. Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play’s possibilities and meanings to actors and students.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 408 pages PB 9781350243620 • £7.99 / $10.95 ePub 9781350243644 • £7.19 / $10.41 ePdf 9781350243637 • £7.19 / $10.41 Series: Arden Performance Editions • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Reception Theory

Nigel Wood, Loughborough University, UK How do playtexts – especially in their Early Modern form – allow us to infer meanings? And if it is down to us to assess ourselves in our reading, is there a secure division between text and self? This study demonstrates how recent emphases on a reader’s role in the creation of meaning might allow us to contemplate Shakespeare’s work in fresh and often provocative ways, paying close attention to Early Modern modes of interaction in the playhouse alongside more recent assumptions that underlie spectating and performing.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 208 pages • 4 bw illus PB 9781350200906 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350112100 ePub 9781350112117 • £67.50 / $88.59 ePdf 9781350112124 • £67.50 / $88.59 Series: Shakespeare and Theory • The Arden Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Language and Writing

R.S. White, University of Western Australia, Australia This lively and informative guide to Shakespeare's popular comedy equips you with the critical skills to analyse its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich your own response to the play. An introduction considers when and how the play was written, its language and Shakespeare's use of the generic, literary and theatrical conventions at his disposal. It then moves to a detailed examination and analysis of the play, focusing on its literary, technical and historical intricacies; an account of the play's performance history and its critical reception completes the volume. Each chapter offers a 'Writing matters' section to assist your own writing about the play.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 232 pages PB 9781350103870 • £21.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781350103887 ePub 9781350103894 • £58.50 / $76.86 ePdf 9781350103900 • £58.50 / $76.86 Series: Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing • The Arden Shakespeare

British Black and Asian Shakespeareans

Integrating Shakespeare, 1966–2018

Jami Rogers, University of Warwick, UK This book tells the untold story of the contribution of Black and Asian performers to British Shakespearean productions from the 1960s to the 21st century. Drawing extensively on empirical evidence from the British Black and Asian Shakespeare Performance Database and interviews with performers, the book is the first to chronicle important productions that led to ground-breaking castings of Black and Asian actors in substantial Shakespearean roles. In doing so, the book paints a comprehensive picture of the challenges performers of colour faced in securing the right to work in classical theatre. It highlights the gains these actors have made and the challenges that are still faced.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350114883 • £23.99 / $32.95 • HB 9781350112926 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350112933 • £21.59 / $28.65 ePdf 9781350112940 • £21.59 / $28.65 The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Geek Culture

Edited by Andrew James Hartley, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA & Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA From sci-fi to graphic novels, from boy scouts to board games, from cult films to the cult of theatre, Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. This is the first edited volume to address both the many ways in which Shakespeare has entered into popular culture and more particularly the geekiness of Shakespeare scholarship itself. Working at the intersections of a wide range of fields – including fan studies and film analysis, cultural studies and fantasy/sci-fi theory – the authors demonstrate how the particularities of the connection between Shakespeare and geek culture generate new insights into the plays, poems and their larger cultural legacy in the 21st century.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 336 pages PB 9781350185616 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350107748 ePub 9781350107755 • £67.50 / $88.59 ePdf 9781350107762 • £67.50 / $88.59 The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Adaptation

Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Women and Indian Shakespeares

Edited by Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen's University Belfast, UK, Thea Buckley, Queen’s University Belfast, UK, Sangeeta Datta, Independent filmmaker & Rosa García-Periago, University of Murcia, Spain This collection of essays explores the multiple ways in which women are, and have been, engaged with Shakespeare in India from the 18th century to the present. Uncovering a unique history of women as creators of Shakespeare in an Indian milieu, it spotlights the ways in which women are figured in Indian Shakespeares – as resistant agents, marital seductresses, redemptive daughters, fetishized objects, victims of caste discrimination, conflicted spaces and global citizens.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 12 bw illus HB 9781350234321 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350234338 • £67.50 / $88.59 ePdf 9781350234345 • £67.50 / $88.59 Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare 'Period Dress' in Twenty-First-Century Performance

Ella Hawkins, University of Birmingham, UK This book scrutinizes the popular practice of costuming Shakespeare’s plays in Elizabethan and Jacobean dress. It considers why this traditional approach to design appeals to contemporary directors, designers and audiences, and how it has shaped the meaning of Shakespeare’s works in specific performance contexts. Ella Hawkins examines the minutiae of modern design – how seams are sewn, whence fabrics are sourced – as well as the widespread cultural movements that have produced our modern relationship with the period of Shakespeare’s lifetime. Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume reframes so-called ‘period’ costuming as a dynamic collection of practices capable of refashioning textual meanings, reflecting present-day political and societal shifts and confronting contemporary injustices.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9781350234420 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350234437 • £67.50 / $88.59 ePdf 9781350234444 • £67.50 / $88.59 The Arden Shakespeare

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation

Edited by Diana E. Henderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA & Stephen O'Neill, Maynooth University, Ireland This is the first comprehensive reference resource to explore the dynamics of adapted Shakespeare across a range of media forms. The volume maps the field of Shakespeare adaptation studies, identifying theories of adaptation, their application in practice, and the methodologies that underpin them. It investigates current research, but also indicates future lines of inquiry for students, researchers and practitioners. It offers practical resources, including an A-Z of key terms, a guide to research resources and an annotated bibliography.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 480 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350110304 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350110311 • £117.00 / $153.74 ePdf 9781350110328 • £117.00 / $153.74 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks • The Arden Shakespeare

Lockdown Shakespeare

New Evolutions in Performance and Adaptation

Edited by Gemma Kate Allred, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, Benjamin Broadribb, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK & Erin Sullivan, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK Theatre-makers turned to the Shakespearean canon repeatedly during 2020's global pandemic, just as they have over the centuries during times of crisis and historical significance. This edited collection offers the first in-depth academic analysis and sourcebook for 'lockdown Shakespeare', bringing together both established and new international voices from a range of disciplines. Combining Scholarly analysis with interviews with theatre makers and artists discussing their work, this is the definitive work on the evolution and adaptation of Shakespeare online during the COVID-19 pandemic.

UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 256 pages • 12 bw illus HB 9781350247802 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350247819 • £67.50 / $88.59 ePdf 9781350247826 • £67.50 / $88.59 Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare