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Contents

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New Cambridge Shakespeare

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Explore Shakespeare iPad Apps

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Cambridge Student Guides to Shakespeare

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Shakespeare Criticism

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Cambridge Library Collection Shakespeare in Production

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Now refreshed and complete, The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to readers worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. Edited by an expert international team, the series presents critical editions in modern spelling of all Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets and poems.

The series provides lively, instructive access to these rich and complex works without over-simplifying them. For this task editors are chosen who combine scholarship and critical intelligence with proven communication skills as expert teachers who write with clarity and freedom from jargon.

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As You Like It Second Edition Edited by Michael Hattaway

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all’S well ThaT eNdS well

aS You Like iT

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

Shakespeare’s As You Like It can appear bright or sombre in performance: a feast of language and a delight for comic actors; or a risk-taking exploration of gender roles. This updated edition provides an account of what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous.

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The Comedy of Errors

All’s Well that Ends Well

Second Edition

Second Edition

Edited by T. S. Dorsch, revised and updated by Ros King

Edited by Russell Fraser, revised and updated by Alexander Leggatt

Ros King has provided a completely new Introduction, arguing that Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors cannot be regarded merely as a farcical romp based on a classical model, but belongs to the critically misunderstood genre of tragi-comedy. Her Introduction also engages fully with the play’s continuing popularity in the theatre.

For this updated edition of All’s Well that Ends Well, Alexander Leggatt has written a wholly new Introduction to one of Shakespeare’s most puzzling, ambiguous and demanding plays.

Leggatt’s interest in performance informs his thoughtful account of the play’s critical and theatrical fortunes to the end of the twentieth century.

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Coriolanus

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Antony and Cleopatra

Edited by Lee Bliss, revised and updated by Bridget Escolme

Second Edition Edited by David Bevington This edition is for the playgoer and the actor as well as the scholar.

David Bevington analyses the imaginative design and supreme poetry of this, one of Shakespeare’s most adventurously innovative tragedies. He offers a brilliant account of the political drama and Shakespeare’s handling of sources, especially Plutarch, and there is a lively discussion of staging options. For those approaching the play for the first time, the commentary is especially full and helpful, untangling many obscure words and phrases, and illuminating sexual puns. A new section surveys recent stage and critical interpretations.

Shakespeare’s Roman play Coriolanus was probably his last tragedy, and represents the playwright’s most searching exploration of the political life of a community. This annotated edition provides full explanatory notes, and a substantial introduction which has been updated to include the most recent criticism and productions of the play.

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Cymbeline Edited by Martin Butler, recently updated

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This edition of Cymbeline foregrounds the elements of romance, tragicomedy and Jacobean stagecraft which shape the play; it also acknowledges the postmodern indeterminacy of the play’s key moments. Martin Butler breaks with the legacy of the sentimental Victorian reading of the heroine, Innogen, and emphasizes the politics of 1610, especially questions of British union and nationhood. The play has been freshly edited from the text in the 1623 folio and offers a detailed commentary on linguistic and historical aspects of the text. There is also a full treatment of the play’s stage history from 1610 to the present day.

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Hamlet Second Edition Edited by Philip Edwards, revised and updated by Robert Hapgood This edition aims to bring the reader, playgoer and director of Hamlet into the closest possible contact with Shakespeare’s most famous and perplexing play. Edwards considers the possibility that Shakespeare made important alterations to Hamlet as it neared production, creating differences between the two early texts, quarto and folio. Edwards deals magisterially with the huge volume of commentary the play has provoked. Robert Hapgood brilliantly discusses recent stage, film and critical interpretation.

“The introduction and commentary reveal an author with a lively awareness of the importance of perceiving the play as a theatrical document.”

The Review of English Studies

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The Second Part of King Henry IV Second Edition Edited by Giorgio Melchiori , revised and updated by Adam Hansen

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Second Edition Edited by Marvin Spevack , revised and updated by Marga Munkelt

Melchiori offers a fresh approach to The Second Part of King Henry IV, which he sees as an unplanned sequel to the First Part, itself a ‘remake’ of an old non-Shakespearean play. This updated edition includes a new introductory section by Adam Hansen describing recent stage, film and critical interpretations.

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For this updated edition of Julius Caesar, Marga Munkelt has added a new section and new pictures to the Introduction, surveying stage and critical interpretations since the 1980s of Shakespeare’s most famous Roman play. The reading list has also been brought up to date.

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King Edward III Edited by Giorgio Melchiori Edward III is a major addition to the Shakespearean canon, and is published here for the first time in an authoritative edition of Shakespeare’s works. Melchiori claims that Shakespeare is the author of a significant part of the play, the extent of which is discussed in detail.

King Henry V Second Edition Edited by Andrew Gurr For this updated edition of Shakespeare’s most celebrated war play, Professor Gurr has added a new section to his introduction which considers recent critical and stage interpretations, especially concentrating on the ‘secret’ versus ‘official’ readings of the play. An updated reading list completes the edition.

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The First Part of King Henry IV Second Edition Edited by Herbert Weil and Judith Weil , revised and updated

by Katharine A. Craik This updated edition offers a strongly theatrical perspective on the origins of the play, and the history of its interpretation. The notes provide a thorough commentary on Shakespeare’s transformation of his sources, and suggest alternative stagings. A new introductory section by Katharine Craik describes recent stage, film and critical interpretations.

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The Third Part of King Henry VI Edited by Michael Hattaway

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The FirST parT oF kiNg heNry Vi

The Third parT of kiNg heNry Vi

kiNg heNry Viii

In The Third Part of King Henry VI, Shakespeare contrasts Henry VI with his rival Edward IV to present a picture of the perils of aristocratic factionalism.

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King Henry VIII Edited by John Margeson

The First Part of King Henry VI Edited by Michael Hattaway This, the first major edition for over twenty-five years, takes account of recent discoveries concerning Shakespeare’s early career. The First Part of King Henry VI, which gives us Shakespeare’s portrait of Joan of Arc, stands revealed both as a successful venture in its own exploratory style, and as a necessary account of key events in the Hundred Years War without which the Wars of the Roses, anatomised in the following two plays, cannot be understood.

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Professor Margeson considers and illustrates the stage history of the play, and gives a balanced account of the authorship controversy from the mid-nineteenth century. The Introduction considers the political and religious background of the play, its pageant-like structure and visual effects, and its varied ironies. The commentary is detailed but concise, explaining difficult passages and contemporary references, and suggesting how the play might have been staged in an Elizabethan theatre, or might still be staged for a modern audience.

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King John Edited by L. A. Beaurline

This 1991 edition of The Second Part of King Henry VI takes account of discoveries concerning Shakespeare’s early career, and pays particular attention to recent theatrical history, relating readings generated by modern performances to ideologically positioned accounts of the history and politics of Shakespeare’s age.

King John had a distinguished life on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century stage, but for most of this century the play has been undervalued. The Introduction in this edition presents the fullest account to date of the stage history, with accompanying illustrations to suggest the dramatic potential of the script. The appendix surveys the arguments about the dating of Shakespeare’s King John and the anonymous Troublesome Reign of King John and presents new evidence for the possibility that Shakespeare’s play was written first.

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The Second Part of King Henry VI Edited by Michael Hattaway

The Tragedy of King Lear Second Edition Edited by Jay L. Halio For this updated edition of King Lear, Professor Halio has added an introductory section on recent stage, film, and critical interpretations of the play. He gives a comprehensive account of Shakespeare’s sources and the literary and political influences at work in the play.

An updated reading list completes the edition.

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King Richard II Second Edition Edited by Andrew Gurr For this updated edition Gurr has added a new section to the Introduction in which he describes the growing interest in rehistoricising and repoliticising the play, surveys a number of important professional theatre productions and guides the reader through the scholarly criticism of recent years.

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King Richard III Second Edition Edited by Janis Lull

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King Richard III is one of Shakespeare’s most popular and frequently performed plays. Janis Lull’s introduction to this new edition, based on the First Folio, emphasises the play’s tragic themes and stresses the importance of women’s roles in the play. It also underscores the special relationship between Richard III and Macbeth. A thorough performance history of stage and film versions of Richard III shows how the text has been reshaped by directors and actors. This updated edition contains a new introductory section covering recent criticism and performances of this perennially popular play.

“Thorough, scholarly and continuously helpful.”

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Love’s Labour’s Lost Edited by William C. Carroll This new edition of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost presents a highly readable text of the play based on the first quarto of 1598. A thorough but concise critical commentary and a comprehensive introduction illuminate the significant elements of the play, its remarkable use of language, and its performance history.

Measure for Measure Second Edition Edited by Brian Gibbons , revised and updated by Angela Stock Brian Gibbons focuses on the unique tragi-comic experience of watching Measure for Measure, the intensity and excitement offered by its dramatic rhythm, the reversals and surprises which shock the audience even to the end. This updated edition contains a new introductory section by Angela Stock, which describes recent stage, film and critical interpretations, and an updated reading list.

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The Merchant of Venice Second Edition Edited by M. M. Mahood , revised and updated by Charles Edelman In a substantial new section, Charles Edelman focuses on the play’s sexual politics and recent scholarship on the position of Jews in Shakespeare’s time. He surveys the international scope of theatrical interpretations of The Merchant in the 1980s and 1990s and different ways of tackling the troubling figure of Shylock.

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Macbeth Second Edition Edited by A. R. Braunmuller The most extensively annotated edition of Macbeth currently available, this offers a thorough reconsideration of one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays. An accessible introduction studies the immediate theatrical and political contexts of Macbeth’s composition, especially the Gunpowder Plot and a contemporary account of an early performance at the Globe. A well-illustrated account of the play in performance examines several cinematic versions and a new introductory section on recent performances and adaptations brings the edition up-to-date.

“A superb tool for researchers and students involved in Shakespeare scholarship.”

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Much Ado about Nothing Second Edition Edited by F. H. Mares , revised and updated by Angela Stock

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For this updated edition Angela Stock has added a new section to the Introduction in which she reviews both romantic and darker, more cynical aspects of the play in the light of late twentieth-century stage, film and critical interpretations and the play’s interest in sexuality and misogyny, eavesdropping and deception.

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The Merry Wives of Windsor

Othello Second Edition

Second Edition

Edited by Norman Sanders , revised and updated by Scott McMillin

Edited by David Crane

Norman Sanders provides a full analysis of the textual problem and theories of transmission of Othello, and presents possible solutions to the stylistic and racial issues which face modern readers and spectators. For this updated edition, Scott McMillin has added a new section on the key events in both scholarship and theatre since the 1980s, including political, feminist and postcolonial treatments in various parts of the world. A detailed description of performances of the play on stage, film and television tackles the issue of black/white casting of the main characters.

Focusing on theatrical aspects of The Merry Wives of Windsor, this new edition includes a response to some current arguments about the dating of the play. Crane also brings the stage history of the play up-to-date, showing how recent productions contribute to our understanding of it.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Second Edition

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Pericles

Edited by R. A. Foakes A Midsummer Night’s Dream is perhaps Shakespeare’s most popular comedy. The introduction describes the two main traditions in the stage history, one emphasising charm and innocence, the other stressing darker suggestions of violence and sexuality, and relates them to similar traditions in critical interpretation, showing that both are necessary to a full understanding of the play. For this updated edition the editor has added a new section to the introduction which takes account of recent important professional theatre productions and scholarly criticism on the play.

“A fine example of judicious editorial writing.”

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Edited by Doreen DelVecchio and Antony Hammond Over the last two decades there has been a resurgence of theatrical interest in Shakespeare’s Pericles, which has been rescued from comparative neglect and is now frequently performed. The editors reject the current orthodoxies, that the text is seriously corrupt and that the play is of divided authorship. They show how the 1609 quarto has features in common with the first quarto of King Lear, now widely regarded as being based on Shakespeare’s manuscript.

Likewise they regard the arguments concerning divided authorship as unproven and misleading. Instead they show the play to be a unified aesthetic experience.

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The Poems Second Edition Edited by John Roe

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Venus and adonis, The rape of Lucrece, The phoenix and the Turtle, The passionate pilgrim, a Lover’s Complaint

This updated edition of Shakespeare’s poems contains a new introductory section on recent critical interpretations. Fully annotated, it includes all the poems which can be confidently assigned to Shakespeare, excluding the Sonnets. An updated reading list completes the edition.

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Romeo and Juliet Second Edition Edited by G. Blakemore Evans , revised and updated

by Thomas Moisan

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G. Blakemore Evans helps the reader to visualise the stage action of Romeo and Juliet, a vital element in the play’s significance and useful to students approaching it for the first time. The theatrical history of the play is accompanied by illustrations of notable productions from the eighteenth century onwards. A lucid commentary alerts the reader to the difficulties of language, thought and staging. For this updated edition Thomas Moisan has added a new introductory section which discusses important professional theatre productions and the large output of recent scholarly criticism on the play.

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The SONNeTS

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Timon of Athens

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The Sonnets

Karl Klein introduces Shakespeare’s late play as a complex exploration of a corrupt, moneyed society. He argues that evidence for other authors is inconclusive and shows the play to be neither tragedy, satire nor comedy, but a subtle and complete drama whose main characters contain elements of all three genres.

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Edited by G. Blakemore Evans , with an introduction

by Stephen Orgel For this edition, Stephen Orgel offers a warmly personal and original introduction to Shakespeare’s best-loved and most widely read poems. The edition retains the text of the Sonnets prepared by Gwynne Evans, together with his detailed notes on each, and a lineby-line commentary.

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Edited by Alan Hughes

The Taming of the Shrew Second Edition Edited by Ann Thompson This edition of one of Shakespeare’s most popular yet controversial plays considers its reception in the light of the hostility and embarrassment it often arouses, taking account of both scholarly defences and feminist criticism of the play. For this updated edition Ann Thompson has added new sections to the introduction which describe the ‘deeply problematic’ nature of debates about the play and its reception since the 1980s.

Titus Andronicus Second Edition

This updated edition of Titus Andronicus includes a section on recent stage, film and critical interpretations by Sue Hall-Smith. The text is based on the first quarto, supplemented by crucial additions and stage directions from the Folio. An updated reading list completes the edition.

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“A radically fresh and challenging view of the play.”

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The Tempest Edited by David Lindley The Tempest is one of the most suggestive, yet most elusive of Shakespeare’s plays. It is a magical romance, yet embedded in seventeenth-century debates about authority and power. David Lindley’s introduction and commentary refer to contemporary documents in attending to the implications of Prospero’s magic, his political and paternal ambitions, and the controversial issue of his ‘colonialist’ control of Caliban.

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona Second Edition 2012 Edited by Kurt Schlueter , revised and updated by Lucy Munro

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Professor Schlueter approaches this early comedy as a parody of two types of Renaissance educational fiction: the love-quest story and the test-of-friendship story. A thoroughly researched, illustrated stage history reveals changing conceptions of the play and this updated edition features a new introductory section on recent stage and critical interpretations.

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The Two Noble Kinsmen

Troilus and Cressida

Edited by Robert Kean and Patricia Tatspaugh

Edited by Anthony B. Dawson

With scholarly attention recently focusing on Shakespeare’s late plays, collaboration and sexuality, The Two Noble Kinsmen has become an essential script. Containing a detailed performance history and a lively introduction which surveys contemporary critical responses and addresses Shakespeare’s craftsmanship, this edition argues that the play can no longer be marginalized.

Troilus and Cressida, long considered one of Shakespeare’s most problematic plays, is both difficult and fascinating. In this edition, Dawson views the play from a performance perspective – both in the commentary as well as in the detailed section on stage history in the introduction.

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Twelfth Night

The Winter’s Tale

Second Edition

Edited by Susan Snyder and Deborah T. Curren-Aquino

Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno , revised and updated

by Penny Gay

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s most varied, theatrically self-conscious, and emotionally wide-ranging plays. This edition provides a newly edited text, a comprehensive introduction that takes into account current critical thinking, and a detailed commentary on the play’s language designed to make it easily accessible to contemporary readers.

For this updated edition of Twelfth Night, Penny Gay has written a wholly new introduction to this well-loved Shakespearean comedy.

She stresses the play’s theatricality, its elaborate linguistic games and its complex use of Ovidian myths. She analyses the play’s delicate balance between romance and realism and its exploration of gender, sexuality and identity. In examining the stage history, she indicates how contemporary critical theory could have much to offer 21st century directors and actors. An updated reading list completes the edition.

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The New Cambridge Shakespeare 41 Volume Set

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The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to readers worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series, edited by an expert international team, includes all Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets and poems, in modern spelling, annotated texts, presented in attractively designed volumes.

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Explore Shakespeare

with our new selection of apps for iPad Experience Shakespeare like never before with Explore Shakespeare, a new series of iPad apps from Cambridge University Press and Agant.

Engage with Shakespeare and learn to love the greatest writer in the English language.

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1 High quality Cambridge content from The New Cambridge Shakespeare and Cambridge School Shakespeare.

1 Audio, images and text combined in one app.

1 Full search with highlighting and filtering.

1 Choose the level of enhancement you want – from none to full.

1 Word clouds and theme graphs pull out important quotations and key themes in the play.

1 Read character summaries and see relationships visualized, discovering different views of the story.

1 Use extensive glossaries and notes to get beyond the words and reveal the subtleties of Shakespeare’s writing.

EXPLORE a play’s characters, themes and use of language.

EXPERIENCE a play, with photos, notes, activities and audio.

EXAMINE a play, diving deeper into meaning and context.

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STUDENT GUIDES

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists

The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide Emma Smith Perfect for students and theatregoers, this lively and authoritative guide contains key information on Shakespeare. Covering all of Shakespeare’s dramatic and poetic works in compact, alphabetical form, the book provides plot and character summaries, essential background context, information on major themes and descriptions of performance history.

Edited by Ton Hoenselaars While Shakespeare’s popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. This Companion introduces the distinctive drama of playwrights from Shakespeare’s time, including Kyd, Marlowe, Middleton, Jonson and Webster.

The book also covers Shakespeare as a collaborator and the difficult question of co-authorship.

“This admirably lucid and concise guide will both provide essential information and stimulate fresh thought about Shakespeare and his works.”

Stanley Wells

978-0-521-12874-2 • Paperback £19.99 978-0-521-76754-5 • Hardback £50.00

978-0-521-14972-3 • Paperback £10.99 978-0-521-19523-2 • Hardback £30.00

October 2012

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Recent highlights

How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text

Actors and Acting in Shakespeare’s Time

Eugene Giddens

John Astington

An invaluable introductory guide for students on how to engage with the original printed texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Perfect for courses, this is an up-to-date account of the first actors in the plays of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Jonson.

“The clarity and resourcefulness...[is] for not only students of English and Renaissance Drama, but students of all literatures” The Shakespeare Bookshop Newsletter 978-0-521-71397-9 • Paperback £17.99 978-0-521-88640-6 • Hardback £47.00 February 2011

The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s Poetry Michael Schoenfeldt An approachable and engaging guide to Shakespeare’s poetry, this volume provides students with ways to understand and appreciate the poems.

978-0-521-14077-5 • Paperback £16.99 978-0-521-19250-7 • Hardback £47.00 September 2010

The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Edited by Margreta de Grazia and Stanley Wells Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to the literary, historical, cultural and performative aspects of Shakespeare works.

“A fascinating chronicle of the ways in which Shakespeare – plays, poems, person - has been addressed over these years” Cahiers Élisabéthains

978-0-521-70507-3 • Paperback £13.99 978-0-521-87941-5 • Hardback £42.00

978-0-521-71393-1 • Paperback £18.99 978-0-521-88632-1 • Hardback £56.00

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Shakespeare criticism Environmental Degradation in Jacobean Drama Bruce Boehrer Bruce Boehrer’s book is the first general history of the Shakespearean stage to focus primarily on ecological issues.

978-1-107-02315-4 • Hardback c.£55.00 February 2013

Shakespearean Sensations Experiencing Literature in Early Modern England Katharine A. Craik and Tanya Pollard Shakespearean Sensations explores the ways Shakespeare and his contemporaries imagined literature affecting audiences’ bodies, minds and emotions.

978-1-107-02800-5 • Hardback c.£55.00 February 2013

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Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare Paul Werstine This book argues for editing Shakespeare’s plays in a new way, without pretending to distinguish authorial from theatrical versions.

978-1-107-02042-9 • Hardback c.£65.00 November 2012

The Shakespearean Stage Space Mariko Ichikawa The Shakespearean Stage Space explores the original staging of plays

by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in Renaissance playhouses.

Late Shakespeare, 1608–1613 Andrew J. Power and Rory Loughnane In Late Shakespeare, 1608–1613, leading international Shakespeare scholars provide a contextually informed approach to Shakespeare’s last seven plays.

978-1-107-01619-4 • Hardback c.£60.00 October 2012

Medieval Shakespeare Pasts and Presents Edited by Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper, Peter Holland This book gives readers the opportunity to appreciate Shakespeare from the perspectives of the late-medieval European traditions that surrounded him.

978-1-107-01627-9 • Hardback c. £55.00 March 2013

Shakespeare Survey 65 Edited by Peter Holland Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production which has published the best international scholarship in English since 1948. The theme for Volume 65 is ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at www.cambridge.org/online/shakespearesurvey.

978-1-107-02451-9 • Hardback c.£75.00 October 2012

978-1-107-02035-1 • Hardback c.£55.00 November 2012

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Documents of Performance in Early Modern England Tiffany Stern New in paperback Using fresh print and manuscript evidence, this book provides a new reading of playscripts in the Shakespearean period.

Review of the hardback: “… essential reading for theatre historians, critics and editors alike …”

Times Literary Supplement 978-1-107-65620-8 • Paperback £19.99 July 2012

Performing Early Modern Drama Today Edited by Pascale Aebischer and Kathryn Prince Recent performances of early modern plays are analysed in essays by practitioners and academics, featuring critical, pedagogical and practical approaches.

978-0-521-19335-1 • Hardback £60.00 October 2012

Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought David Armitage, Conal Condren and Andrew Fitzmaurice New in paperback Leading literary scholars and historians examine Shakespeare’s engagement with the characteristic questions of early modern political thought.

978-1-107-69250-3 • Paperback £19.99 July 2012

Shakespeare and World Cinema Mark Thornton Burnett This book explores the significance of Shakespeare in contemporary world cinema for the first time.

978-1-107-00331-6 • Hardback c.£60.00 October 2012

Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century Fiona Ritchie and Peter Sabor

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Examines Shakespeare’s influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.

978-0-521-89860-7 • Hardback £65.00

Problem Fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama Tom MacFaul Explores the central role of fathers in the plays of Shakespeare and a wide range of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.

April 2012

Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century Gail Marshall

978-1-107-02894-4 • Hardback c.£60.00

An illustrated collection of new essays with valuable reference material on the performance and reception of Shakespeare’s plays.

September 2012

978-0-521-51824-6 • Hardback £60.00 February 2012

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C a m b r i d g e L i b r a r y C o ll e c t i o n Originating in a unique collaboration between the world’s oldest publisher and the renowned Cambridge University Library, the Cambridge Library Collection makes important historical works accessible in new ways.

A Life of William Shakespeare

Stratford-on-Avon From the Earliest Times to the Death of Shakespeare

Sidney Lee

Sidney Lee, Illustrated by Edward Hull

A biography first published in 1898, and regarded for many years as the most reliable account of Shakespeare’s life.

978-1-108-04819-4 • Paperback £29.99 May 2012

Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers

This illustrated 1890 work draws on archival material to provide a history of Stratford up to the time of Shakespeare’s death.

978-1-108-04818-7 • Paperback £20.99 May 2012

A Play, as it is Acted at the TheatreRoyal in Drury-Lane, Written Originally by W. Shakespeare Edited by Lewis Theobald Published in 1728, this play is widely accepted as the only surviving version of Shakespeare and Fletcher’s play Cardenio.

978-1-108-01952-1 • Paperback £14.99 September 2012

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