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Arden Early Modern Drama Guides Series Editors: Andrew Hiscock, Bangor University, UK and Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research.
Hamlet: A Critical Reader
Othello: A Critical Reader
Edited by Ann Thompson, King's College London, UK & Neil Taylor, University of Roehampton, UK
Edited by Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery, USA
Hamlet remains the most-studied of all Shakespeare's great tragedies. This collection of newly-commissioned essays gives readers an overview of past critical views of the play as well as new writing about the play from today's leading scholars. The final chapter on learning and teaching resources is particularly useful as a guide for further study. UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 240 pages PB 9781472571373 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781472571380 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472571397 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472571403 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
This guide gives an overview of the play's critical and performance history, (including notable stage productions and film versions) a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play, as well as four new critical essays. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and productionrelated resources and a bibliography provide a basis for further research. UK August 2015 • US August 2015 • 296 pages PB 9781472520364 • £17.99 / $30.95 HB 9781472520371 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472520388 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472520395 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet: A Critical Reader Edited by Julia Lupton, University of California, Irvine, USA This volume analyses the play’s critical and performance history and recent criticism, and assembles a thoughtful group of essays that unpick the play’s key dilemmas, exploring its ongoing centrality to Shakespearean performance and criticism across the world. The guide also contains a chapter on the key resources available, and discusses the ways in which they can be used in the classroom. UK January 2016 • US January 2016 • 296 pages PB 9781472589262 • £18.99 / $29.95 HB 9781474216364 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474216388 • £18.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781474216371 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides 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. “The series promises to be wonderfully useful not only as a glimpse back at what has already been done but also as an inspiration for new work.” Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University, USA
Shakespeare and Ecocritical Theory Gabriel Egan, Loughborough University, UK Combining the latest scientific and philosophical understanding of humankind's place in the world with interpretative methods derived from other politically inflected literary criticism, ecocriticism is providing new insights into literary works both ancient and modern. With case-study analyses of the tragedies, comedies, histories and the late romances, this book is a wide-ranging introduction to reading Shakespeare in light of contemporary ecocritical theory. UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 208 pages PB 9781441199300 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441145529 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441178244 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781441142528 Series: Shakespeare and Theory Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
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Shakespeare and Economic Theory David Hawkes, Arizona State University, USA This book shows how concepts and concerns that were until recently considered purely economic affected the entire range of sixteenth and seventeenth century life. Shakespeare and Economic Theory traces economic literary criticism to its cultural and historical roots, and discusses its main practitioners. Providing new readings of plays including Timon of Athens, King Lear, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest, David Hawkes shows how it can reveal previously unappreciated qualities of Shakespeare’s work. UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 240 pages PB 9781472576972 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781472576989 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472576996 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472577009 Series: Shakespeare and Theory Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Psychoanalytic Theory Carolyn Brown, University of San Francisco, USA This book surveys the psychoanalytic theorists who have had the most impact on Shakespeare studies, clearly explaining the fundamental concepts of their theories, providing concise definitions of key terminology, describing the inception and evolution of different schools of psychoanalysis, and discussing the relationship of psychoanalytic theory (especially in Shakespeare) to other critical theories. UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 240 pages PB 9781472503237 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781472503244 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781474216128 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781474216135 Series: Shakespeare and Theory Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
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