Shakespeare 2014

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Shakespeare Criticism

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THE NEW CA MBR IDGE SH AK ESPEA R E

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 provides lively, instructive access to Shakespeare’s works without over-simplifying them.

Rediscover Shakespeare with Cambridge, as we launch new eBook versions of our stunning New Cambridge Shakespeare series. You can now enjoy reading all Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets and poems on your eReader device or computer.

You can read more about The New Cambridge Shakespeare, look inside the texts, and request an inspection copy by visiting www.cambridge.org/ncs

The Tempest Second Edition

Updated edition of The Tempest includes a thoroughly revised introduction and reading list.

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As You Like It Second Edition

Edited by Michael Hattaway

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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

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

Second Edition

Edited by Russell Fraser, revised and updated by Alexander Leggatt 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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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 tragicomedy. Her Introduction also engages fully with the play’s continuing popularity in the theatre.

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Coriolanus

Antony and Cleopatra

Second Edition

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Edited by Lee Bliss, revised and updated by Bridget Escolme

Edited by David Bevington

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.

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.

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Cymbeline Edited by Martin Butler, recently updated This new edition of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline foregrounds the elements of romance, tragicomedy and Jacobean stagecraft which together shape the play; it also acknowledges the postmodern indeterminacy of the play’s key moments. Martin Butler presents a refreshingly unsentimental reading of the heroine, Innogen.

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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.”

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The Second Part of King Henry IV Second Edition

Edited by Giorgio Melchiori, revised and updated by Adam Hansen 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.

Julius Caesar Second Edition

Edited by Marvin Spevack, revised and updated by Marga Munkelt 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 King 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.

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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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King Henry VIII Edited by John Margeson

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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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The Second Part of King Henry VI

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.

978-0-521-29692-2 * $17.99

King John Edited by L. A. Beaurline 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.

978-0-521-29387-7 * $17.99

Edited by Michael Hattaway This 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.

978-0-521-37704-1 * $17.99

The Third Part of King Henry VI Edited by Michael Hattaway 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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The Tragedy of King Lear Second Edition

Edited by Jay L. Halio For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Professor Halio has added a new introductory section on recent stage, film, and critical interpretations of the play. He gives a comprehensive account of Shakespeare’s sources and the literary, political and folkloric influences at work in the play; a detailed reading of the action; and a substantial stage history of major productions. Professor Halio chooses the Folio as the text for this edition. He explains the differences between the quarto and Folio versions and alerts the reader to the rival claims of the quarto by means of a sampling of parallel passages in the Introduction and by an appendix which contains annotated passages unique to the quarto. An updated reading list completes the edition.

978-0-521-61263-0 * $17.99

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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 re-historicising 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

Measure for Measure

Second Edition

Edited by Janis Lull

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Second Edition

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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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.

978-0-521-67078-4 * $17.99

The Merchant of Venice Second Edition

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Edited by M. M. Mahood, revised and updated by Charles Edelman

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.

978-0-521-29431-7 * $17.99

Macbeth

The Merchant of Venice has been performed more often than any other comedy by Shakespeare. Molly Mahood pays special attention to the expectations of the play’s first audience, and to our modern experience of seeing and hearing the play.

In a substantial new addition to the Introduction, Charles Edelman focuses on the play’s sexual politics and recent scholarship devoted to the position of Jews in Shakespeare’s time. He surveys the international scope and diversity of theatrical interpretations of The Merchant in the 1980s and 1990s and their different ways of tackling the troubling figure of Shylock.

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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

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Second Edition

Edited by David Crane

Edited by Norman Sanders, revised and updated by Scott McMillin

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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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, together with a description of performances of the play on stage, film and television.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Pericles

Edited by R. A. Foakes

Edited by Doreen DelVecchio and Antony Hammond

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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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, instead showing the play to be a unified aesthetic experience.

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The Poems Second Edition

Edited by John Roe

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

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Romeo and Juliet Second Edition

Edited by G. Blakemore Evans, revised and updated

by Thomas Moisan 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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David Lindley has thoroughly revised the introduction and reading list to take account of the latest directions in criticism and performance. Including a new section on casting in recent productions, Lindley’s introduction explores the complex questions this raises about colonisation, racial and gender stereotypes, and the nature of the theatrical experience.

“The best edition on the market and the paperback is a snip.”

The Sonnets

Studies in Theatre and Performance

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Edited by G. Blakemore Evans, with an introduction

by Stephen Orgel

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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 line-by-line commentary.

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The Taming of the Shrew Second Edition

Timon of Athens Edited by Karl Klein 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 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.

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

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Titus Andronicus Second Edition

Edited by Alan Hughes This updated edition of Titus Andronicus includes a section on recent stage, film and critical interpretations by Sue HallSmith. 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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The Tempest Second Edition

Edited by David Lindley

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The Tempest is one of the most suggestive, yet most elusive of all Shakespeare’s plays, and has provoked a wide range of critical interpretations. It is a magical romance, yet deeply and problematically embedded in seventeenth-century debates about authority and power. In this updated edition,

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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 lovequest 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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Troilus and Cressida

The Two Noble Kinsmen

Edited by Anthony B. Dawson

Edited by Robert Kean and Patricia Tatspaugh

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.

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.

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Twelfth Night

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The Winter’s Tale

Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno, revised and updated

by Penny Gay

Edited by Susan Snyder and Deborah T. Curren-Aquino

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.

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s most varied, theatrically self-conscious, and emotionally wideranging 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.

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The New Cambridge Shakespeare 41 Volume Set

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All 41 titles in the New Cambridge Shakespeare series are now available in a set for library or individual purchase.

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Highlights Shakespeare’s Possible Worlds Simon Palfrey Simon Palfrey offers a new way of understanding Shakespeare’s playworlds. Going right to the heart of early modern popular drama, both how it works and why it matters, this book’s piercing close readings discover the multiplying life in Shakespeare’s language, scenes, and characters as never before.

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Shakespeare and the Digital World Redefining Scholarship and Practice Edited by Christie Carson and Peter Kirwan

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This collection critically assesses the opportunities and pitfalls presented by recent digital advances in Shakespeare studies. Featuring contributions from archivists, scholars, teachers, publishers, arts practitioners and digital innovators, this collection is relevant to those interested in the digital humanities as well as to Shakespeare scholars and enthusiasts.

978-1-107-66078-6 * Paperback * $29.99 * June 2014 978-1-107-06436-2 * Hardback * $80.00

Tales from Shakespeare Creative Collisions Graham Holderness Tales from Shakespeare takes an innovative and engaging look at Shakespeare through a fusion of creative and critical writing. Using four specific examples, Holderness explores the ‘collisions’ between Shakespeare and contemporary concerns. This book is of vital interest to students, scholars and enthusiasts of Shakespeare, literary criticism, and creative writing.

978-1-107-07129-2 * Hardback * $39.99 * July 2014

Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist

First published in 2003, Erne’s groundbreaking study argues that Shakespeare wrote his plays not only with audiences but also with readers in mind. This second edition includes a substantial, 10,000-word preface that reviews and intervenes in the controversy that the book has triggered.

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Shakespeare and the Book Trade Lukas Erne Shakespeare and the Book Trade follows on from Lukas Erne’s Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist to examine the publication, constitution, dissemination and reception of Shakespeare’s printed plays and poems in his own time and to argue that their popularity in the book trade has been greatly underestimated.

“Erne presents some surprising and compelling statistics about Shakespeare’s role in the literary marketplace...”

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Shakespeare Beyond Doubt Evidence, Argument, Controversy Edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? The authorship question has been much treated in works of fiction, film and television, provoking interest all over the world. The book explores the issues surrounding the debate in the light of biographical, textual and bibliographical evidence to bring fresh perspectives on an intriguing cultural phenomenon.

“This excellent collection, edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells, assumes that it is possible to engage with the doubters in an honest, honourable, and constructive dialogue. The book features a rich array of nineteen essays, with an afterword by James Shapiro...”

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Student Resources The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy Second Edition

Edited by Claire McEachern This updated Companion has been fully revised to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship. With an extensively overhauled bibliography, it also includes four new chapters by leading scholars, discussing Shakespearean form, Shakespeare and philosophy, Shakespeare’s tragedies in performance, and Shakespeare and religion.

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“I hope this book will find its way onto the shelves of many a Shakespeare enthusiast and into the satchels of many a student. For undergraduates, cramming for the next seminar or tutorial, Emma Smith’s guide will, I suspect, become a trusted and valued friend, something you can turn to with a cup of coffee and read on the way to class. For its size and the range of information it offers, I cannot think of a better example of its kind.”

Around the Globe Magazine 978-0-521-14972-3 * Paperback * $18.99 978-0-521-19523-2 * Hardback * $55.00

Spenser’s Images of Life C.S. Lewis

The Cambridge Introduction to Early Modern Drama, 1576–1642 Julie Sanders Engaging and stimulating, this Introduction provides a fresh vista of the theatrical landscape in the early modern era.

Through special focus on commercial playhouses and their repertoires, the book revisits familiar territory from different angles and opens up new areas of investigation alongside the canonical and the known.

This book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death. It approaches The Faerie Queene as a majestic pageant of the universe and nature, and argues that conventional views must be modified if the poem is to be fully enjoyed and understood.

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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

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C.S. Lewis

The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide

This entertaining and learned volume contains book reviews, lectures and hard-to-find articles from the late C. S. Lewis, whose constant aim was to show the twentieth-century reader how to read and how to understand old books and manuscripts.

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.

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Edited by Walter Hooper

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Shakespeare Criticism Reviewing Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Stage Traffic

Journalism and Performance from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre

Paul Prescott

Janet Clare

Ranging from Garrick’s Macbeth in the 1740s to the World Shakespeare Festival in 2012, this is an engaging account of the ways in which theatre critics have responded to Shakespearean performance. Prescott provides new interpretive methods and case studies of great interest to students of Shakespeare, theatre and media studies.

Shakespeare’s Stage Traffic re-visions and re-situates Shakespeare’s dramaturgy within the flourishing theatrical trade of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Challenging the traditional notion of Shakespeare as originator, each chapter examines particular plays demonstrating how throughout his career Shakespeare adapted, imitated and borrowed from the work of others.

“Reviews of theatre performances are often regarded as transitory and of little weight. In this critically astute study, Paul Prescott rescues them from oblivion.

The result is a book of genuine intellectual and social significance which makes an original and valuable contribution to cultural history.”

Stanley Wells, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust 978-1-107-02149-5 * Hardback * $95.00

Shakespeare Performance Studies 10

William B. Worthen Considering three well-known recent performances of Shakespeare at length, Worthen suggests how they provide a commentary on important areas of concern in the humanities, and what Shakespeare performance tells us about contemporary Shakespeare. This book is of interest to scholars and advanced students of Shakespeare, and of performance studies.

978-1-107-05595-7 * Hardback * $95.00 * July 2014

Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics Edited by John D. Cox and Patrick Gray Looking at Shakespeare’s depictions of moral deliberation and individual choice in light of Renaissance debates about ethics, this collection illuminates Shakespeare’s engagement with the most pressing moral questions of his time. It is of great interest to scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance studies, and the history of ethics.

978-1-107-04003-8 * Hardback * $99.00

Shakespeare Beyond English A Global Experiment Edited by Susan Bennett and Christie Carson The Globe to Globe Festival, held at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2012, was an extraordinary cultural experiment offering the opportunity to see Shakespeare’s plays performed in many languages. This collection of exclusive reviews and discussions from world wide scholars and theatre professionals explores what it means to perform Shakespeare in translation.

978-1-107-04055-7 * Hardback * $80.00 978-1-107-67469-1 * Paperback * $27.99

Shakespeare Survey 67 Shakespeare’s Collaborative Work 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 67 is Shakespeare’s Collaborative Work. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at http://www.cambridge.org/ online/shakespearesurvey.

978-1-107-07154-4 * Hardback * $130.00 * October 2014

978-1-107-07193-3 * Hardback * $95.00 * August 2014

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The Shakespearean Archive Experiments in New Media from the Renaissance to Postmodernity Alan Galey Galey explores how Shakespeare texts became material for new media experiments. Looking historically at the archive, the book, photography, sound and information, as well as theories of information and computing, this book is of interest to scholars of the digital humanities, Shakespeare studies, and media history.

978-1-107-04064-9 * Hardback * $99.00 * August 2014

Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance 1550–1700 Susan Wiseman Wiseman explores the transformations of fantastic creatures including werewolves and wild children in English Renaissance writing. Analysing a variety of texts, from Shakespeare’s The Tempest to court records, Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance argues that the seventeenth century is marked by concentration on the potential of the human to change or be changed.

978-1-107-04165-3 * Hardback * $95.00 * May 2014

Moving Shakespeare Indoors Performance and Repertoire in the Jacobean Playhouse Edited by Andrew Gurr and Farah Karim-Cooper The year 2014 witnesses the opening of the Sam Wanamaker Theatre, based on seventeenth-century designs. This volume considers the effects that more intimate staging, lighting and music had on performance and repertory. It will find a substantial readership among scholars of Shakespeare and Jacobean theatre history.

978-1-107-04063-2 * Hardback * $95.00

Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare’s England David B. Goldstein David B. Goldstein argues for a new understanding of Shakespeare and early modern English writing from the perspective of communal eating. Taking up issues of ecology, gender, book history, philosophy, religious pluralism, colonialism and material culture, this book ultimately forces us to rethink our own relationship to food.

978-1-107-03906-3 * Hardback * $99.00

Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama Jeremy Lopez Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama provides the first-ever history of the canon of Renaissance drama as it has evolved since the eighteenth century. Containing dozens of short, provocative readings of unfamiliar plays, this book will benefit professors and postgraduate researchers who seek a broader sense of the period’s dazzling array of forms.

“By moving beyond a Shakespeare-based repertoire, Lopez is taking a look at which plays were considered better than others, what kind of criteria were used in the making of those judgements, and especially how the works selected to exemplify the early modern era might change.”

Amy Arden, Folger Magazine 978-1-107-03057-2 * Hardback * $90.00

Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton Christopher Warley Why study Renaissance literature? Through detailed readings of six canonical works, including Paradise Lost and Hamlet, this book shows that literary criticism is uniquely able to describe social class. Warley’s accessible interpretations also offer exciting new directions for the role of criticism in the contemporary, post-industrial world.

978-1-107-05292-5 * Hardback * $90.00

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A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse

Christopher Marlowe in Context

The Queen’s Servants at the Red Bull Theatre (c.1605–1619)

This collection sets Marlowe’s plays and poems in their historical context, exploring his world and his wider cultural influence. Chapters by the most exciting critics writing on approaches to Marlowe’s writings discuss both major and lesser-known works. Topics include history and politics, religion, modern film adaptations and Marlowe and Shakespeare.

Eva Griffith This unique and colourful history tells the story of Thomas Heywood’s playing company, the Queen’s Servants, and their playhouse, The Red Bull. Eva Griffith makes use of extensive research to set the playhouse in the context of Jacobean London, offering new insights into the development of drama during Shakespeare’s age.

978-1-107-04188-2 * Hardback * $99.00

Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590–1674 Lucy Munro Lucy Munro presents a wide-ranging study of literary style, exploring the conscious use of archaic language by poets and dramatists including Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton. The book provides innovative ways of reading linguistic and poetic style, and assessing early modern attitudes towards the past.

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Ben Jonson in Context Edited by Julie Sanders In this book, established and emergent Jonson scholars react to major advances in thinking about the writer and his canon of works. Generously illustrated throughout, the first part of the volume considers Jonson’s career from biographical, critical, and performance-based angles; the second looks at cultural and historical contexts.

“Ben Johnson in Context contains thirty-eight essays that dynamically engage with the works of Jonson in relation to his life, but more especially the material culture of his times [...] The volume ends with a useful further reading list...the short-essay format works successfully, making the experience of reading the book through something of a pleasant and informative addiction.”

Johann Gregory

Edited by Emily C. Bartels and Emma Smith

978-1-107-01625-5 * Hardback * $110.00

Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre Richard Preiss Richard Preiss presents a lively and provocative study of how the early modern stage clown defined — and changed — theatrical experience. Recovering the interactive entertainments with which comedians including Richard Tarlton, Will Kemp and Robert Armin engaged audiences, he draws new conclusions about how early modern theatre negotiated its own textuality.

978-1-107-03657-4 * Hardback * $95.00

Environmental Degradation in Jacobean Drama Bruce Boehrer Environmental Degradation in Jacobean Drama provides the first general history of the Shakespearean stage to focus primarily on ecological issues. Bruce Boehrer discusses the work of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Fletcher, Dekker and Heywood, exploring the strategies by which they made sense of radical ecological change in their drama.

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Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature

Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 2 Volume Set

Hannah Crawforth

A unique reference source of English drama to 1642, which gathers texts drawn from preliminaries and end matters in early modern English playbooks. With multiple indices and a finding list, this book provides a comprehensive overview of seminal texts which have never before been fully transcribed, annotated and cross-referenced.

How did authors such as Jonson, Donne and Milton think about the past lives of the words they used? Drawing together early modern literature and linguistics, Crawforth argues that the history of English as it was studied in the period radically underpins the writing of its greatest poets.

978-1-107-04176-9 * Hardback * $95.00

Medieval Shakespeare Pasts and Presents Edited by Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper and Peter Holland Before Shakespeare is our contemporary he is the contemporary of late-medieval European culture, selfconsciously regenerating and transforming earlier ideas of history, art, poetry and the stage. This book gives readers the opportunity to appreciate both Shakespeare and his period from the perspectives of the traditions that fostered and surrounded him.

978-1-107-01627-9 * Hardback * $99.00

Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage Mary Floyd-Wilson In this study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores early modern occult beliefs and their relation to women and scientific knowledge in Renaissance drama, focusing on Twelfth Night, Arden of Faversham, A Warning for Fair Women, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Changeling and The Duchess of Malfi.

Edited Thomas L. Berger and Sonia Massai

978-0-521-85184-8 * Hardback * $250.00

Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England Allison P. Hobgood How were early modern playgoers emotionally moved by theatre performances, and how did their reactions in turn influence the stage? Through detailed case studies of canonical plays by Shakespeare, Jonson and others, Allison P. Hobgood tells a new story of emotional encounters between playgoers and the Renaissance stage.

978-1-107-04128-8 * Hardback * $95.00

Screening Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare Pascale Aebischer Pascale Aebischer’s accessible and groundbreaking study examines film adaptations of early modern plays that challenge the values and conventions of mainstream cinematic Shakespeare. It explains how digital technologies, in the hands of independent filmmakers, internet users and scholar-practitioners, have helped to transform the canon of early modern drama on screen.

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Shakespearean Sensations Experiencing Literature in Early Modern England Edited by Katharine A. Craik and Tanya Pollard This lively and accessible collection of essays explores the ways Shakespeare and his contemporaries imagined literature’s impact on audiences’ bodies, minds and emotions. Readers and theatregoers have always sought out literature for its emotional power, and this book shows how seriously early modern writers took their relationships with their audiences.

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Spenser’s International Style David Scott Wilson-Okamura Why did Edmund Spenser write his epic, The Faerie Queene, in stanzas instead of a classical meter or blank verse? Is there, as centuries of readers have remarked, something lyrical about Spenser’s epic style, and if so, why? David Scott WilsonOkamura addresses these questions in a broader, European context.

978-1-107-03820-2 * Hardback * $95.00

The Shakespearean Stage Space Mariko Ichikawa

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In The Shakespearean Stage Space, Mariko Ichikawa explores the original staging of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries to build a new picture of the theatrical artistry of the Renaissance stage. It will offer scholars, students and actors a new way to analyse and interpret early modern plays.

978-1-107-02035-1 * Hardback * $95.00

The Model of Poesy Edited by Gavin Alexander This recently discovered treatise on poetics from 1599, the end of the most revolutionary decade in English literary history, includes discussions of the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Gavin Alexander’s groundbreaking edition, with introduction and commentary, makes William Scott’s powerful work newly available to students and scholars of English Renaissance literature.

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Shakespeare and Cambridge School Shakespeare. * Audio, images and text combined in one app. * Full search with highlighting and filtering. * Choose the level of enhancement you want – from none to full. * Word clouds and theme graphs pull out important

quotations and key themes in the play. * Read character summaries and see relationships visualized,

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C A M B R I D G E L I B R A RY C O L L E C T I O N The Cambridge Library Collection is the premier imprint for reissues of out-of-copyright scholarly books. It provides top-quality resources for researchers, students and enthusiasts seeking important works from the past.

Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers A Play, as it is Acted at the TheatreRoyal in Drury-Lane, Written Originally by W. Shakespeare Edited by Lewis Theobald

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Published in 1728, this play is widely accepted as the only surviving version of Shakespeare and Fletcher’s play Cardenio.

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Portraits of Shakespeare, The Life of Sir John and On the Sonnets of Falstaff With a Biography of the Knight Shakespeare James Boaden and Abraham Wivell A one-volume reissue of works, published 1824–7, examining portraits of Shakespeare, including an 1837 essay on his sonnets’ dedicatee.

978-1-108-06488-0 * Paperback * $56.00

from Authentic Sources

Robert Barnabas Brough and George Cruikshank A delightful 1858 fictional biography of that most colourful of Shakespeare’s characters, built around a series of inspired etchings.

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