Shakespeare

A Director’s Journey through the First Folio

Greg Doran This book charts the personal and professional journey of Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company since 2012 and "one of the great Shakespearians of his generation" (The Sunday Times) During his career, Doran has directed or produced all of the plays within Shakespeare's First Folio The book includes RSC images and each chapter looks at a different play, considering the choices made and weaving in both autobiographical detail and background on the RSC, as well as giving insights on collaborations with major theatre-makers.

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 344 pages • 32 colour illus HB 9781350330191 • £2500 / $3500 ePub 9781350330207 • £2250 / $3159 ePdf 9781350330214 • £2250 / $3159 Methuen Drama World English

William Shakespeare: A Brief Life

Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin College, USA One of the appealing dynamics of the Shakespeare myth is the contrast of his humble beginnings and his lofty achievements, persuading us that genius might blossom anywhere William Shakespeare: A Brief Life honours these myths, but also explores some of the mysteries: why Shakespeare left Stratford, who he ran with in London, why he put down his pen and at last came home again Ultimately, the book explores the compelling contrast between the mere 52 years Shakespeare lived, with the prolonged after lives of his work and his story

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 288 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9781350156753 • £1499 / $1995 • HB 9781350156746 • £4500 / $6100 ePub 9781350156777 • £1349 / $1922 ePdf 9781350156760 • £1349 / $1922 Series: Arden Insights • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke’s Company

Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Syracuse University, USA & Richard Schoch, Queen’s University Belfast, UK The first performance-based account of Restoration Shakespeare, this study reveals how under the leadership of Sir William Davenant, founder of the Duke’s Company, Restoration theatres performed Shakespeare's works in a radically new way The eBook editions of this work are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Queens University Belfast.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 232 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9781350273481 • £2899 / $3995 Previously published in HB 9781350130579 ePub 9781350130586 • £000 / $000 ePdf 9781350130593 • £000 / $000 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare

Liberating Shakespeare

Adaptation, Trauma and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences

Edited by Jennifer Flaherty, Georgia College, USA & Deborah Uman, Weber State University, USA

The collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital shaming. Violence against women. Racial slurs and injustice These are just some of the issues confronted in Liberating Shakespeare, which asks how Shakespeare can be used to address the traumas faced by many young people today Focusing on adaptations of Shakespeare's plays that empower young audiences by addressing issues of oppression, trauma and resistance, this collection showcases a variety of approaches to understanding, adapting and teaching Shakespeare's works It argues that YA Shakespeare represents the diverse concerns of today's youth and offers hope for an uncertain future

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 240 pages • 5 bw illus PB 9781350320253 • £2199 / $2995 • HB 9781350320260 • £6500 / $9000 ePub 9781350320277 • £1979 / $2747 ePdf 9781350320284 • £1979 / $2747 Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare

Global Shakespeare and Social Injustice

Towards a Transformative Encounter

Edited by Chris Thurman, Wits University, South Africa & Sandra Young, University of Cape Town, South Africa This collection probes the relationship between Shakespeare studies and the intractable forms of social injustice that infuse cultural, political and economic life Chapters help us to imagine what radical and transformative pedagogy, theatre-making and scholarship might look like The contributors both invoke and invert the paradigm of Global Shakespeare, building on the vital contributions of this scholarly field over the past few decades but also suggesting ways in which it cannot quite accommodate the various ‘global Shakespeares’ presented in the book

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 272 pages • 2 bw illus HB 9781350335097 • £8000 / $11000 ePub 9781350335103 • £7200 / $10029 ePdf 9781350335110 • £7200 / $10029 Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted • The Arden Shakespeare Performance and Pedagogy

Deanne Williams, York University, Canada This is the first study of the medieval and early modern girl actor, exploring the girl actor, along with girl singers, authors and translators, as a broad and coherent expression of 'girl culture' Contradicting previous scholarly assumptions about the early modern stage as male-dominated, this evidence reveals girls’ participation and role in shaping medieval religious drama, Tudor civic pageants and royal entries, Elizabethan country house entertainments, and Stuart court and household masques

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 336 pages • 40 bw illus HB 9781350343207 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350343214 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350343221 • £7650 / $10578 The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and the Challenge of the Contemporary

Performance, Politics and Aesthetics

Francesca Clare Rayner, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Francesca Clare Rayner highlights the diversity and experimentalism of contemporary performance practices in Portugal She references key debates within contemporary performance studies on intermediality, globalization and political participation and analyses their configurations within a Portuguese context These case studies represent clear alternatives to the market-driven view of the contemporary as the continual reproduction of the new and the topical for global consumers, recasting the contemporary instead as the site of tragedy and crisis in a Europe fragmented by years of economic austerity and political divisions around Brexit and ecological vacillation

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350269071 • £2899 / $3995 Previously published in HB 9781350182158 ePub 9781350182165 • £6750 / $9342 ePdf 9781350182172 • £6750 / $9342 The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Political Imagination

The Historicism of Setting

Philip Goldfarb Styrt, St. Ambrose University, USA This book argues that to better understand Shakespeare’s plays it is essential to look at the conceptions of the political societies available to him It offers us new readings of neglected critical moments in key plays by investigating the political contexts and cultures at work in Shakespeare's worlds Settings are a powerful component in Shakespeare’s worlds that not only function as physical locations, but are a mechanism through which he communicates the political and social orders of the plays

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 232 pages PB 9781350277878 • £2899 / $3995 Previously published in HB 9781350173972 ePub 9781350173996 • £6750 / $9342 ePdf 9781350174009 • £6750 / $9342 The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare / Text

Contemporary Readings in Textual Studies, Editing and Performance

Edited by Claire M. L. Bourne, Pennsylvania State University, USA Written by 20 leading experts on textual matters, each chapter challenges a single entrenched binary—such as book/theater, source/adaptation, text/paratext, canon/apocrypha, sense/nonsense, extant/ephemeral, material/digital, and original/copy—that has come to both define and limit the way we read, analyze, teach, perform, and edit Shakespeare today The chapters in Shakespeare / Text make strong cases for challenging received wisdom and offer new, portable methods of treating 'the text' (in its myriad instantiations) that will be useful to scholars, editors, theatre practitioners, teachers and librarians

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 464 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781350344556 • £3499 / $4795 Previously published in HB 9781350128149 ePub 9781350128156 • £10800 / $14975 ePdf 9781350128163 • £10800 / $14975 Series: Arden Shakespeare Intersections • The Arden Shakespeare