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  • The Winter's Tale

    A Critical Reader

    Edited by Dr Peter Kirwan, Todd Borlik ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    An international group of scholars reappraise The Winter's Tale through a series of research essays covering performance history, critical history, and new interpretations.Navigating the play's fluctuating genre conventions, onstage spectacle and leaps across time, scholars consider how eco-materiality, radical hospitality, childhood, gender, and critical race studies shape contemporary ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader

    by Professor Lisa Hopkins, Dr Andrew Hiscock ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This Critical Reader presents the first collection of essays specifically focused upon Arden of Faversham. It highlights the way in which this important play from the early 1590s stands at several different critical intersections.Focused research chapters ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Shakespeare’s Audiences

    Edited by Matteo Pangallo, Peter Kirwan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    Shakespeare wrote for a theater in which the audience was understood to be, and at times invited to be, active and participatory. How have Shakespeare’s audiences, from the sixteenth century to the present, responded to that invitation? In what ways have consumers across different cultural contexts, periods, and platforms engaged with the performance of Shakespeare’s plays? What are some of the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance

    Edited by Dr Peter Kirwan, Kathryn Prince ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks
    The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and performance studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on the key methods and questions surrounding the performance event, the audience, and the archive – the primary sources on which performance studies draws. It identifies ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Shakespeare in the Theatre: Cheek by Jowl

    by Dr Peter Kirwan ...
    Series series Shakespeare in the Theatre
    Cheek by Jowl, founded by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod in 1981, is one of the world's most critically acclaimed classical theatre companies. Across seventeen productions of Shakespeare (as well as several by his contemporaries and other European dramatists), Cheek by Jowl's experiments with text, space, light and bodies have produced bold reinventions of canonical and lesser-explored plays. ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha

    Negotiating the Boundaries of the Dramatic Canon

    by Peter Kirwan ...
    In addition to the thirty-six plays of the First Folio, some eighty plays have been attributed in whole or part to William Shakespeare, yet most are rarely read, performed or discussed. This book, the first to confront the implications of the 'Shakespeare Apocrypha', asks how and why these plays have historically been excluded from the canon. Innovatively combining approaches from book history, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Canonising Shakespeare

    Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640–1740

    Edited by Emma Depledge, Peter Kirwan ...
    Canonising Shakespeare offers the first comprehensive reassessment of Shakespeare's afterlife as a print phenomenon, demonstrating the crucial role that the book trade played in his rise to cultural pre-eminence. 1640–1740 was the period in which Shakespeare's canon was determined, in which the poems resumed their place alongside the plays in print, and in which artisans and named editors crafted ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Digital World

    Redefining Scholarship and Practice

    Edited by Christie Carson, Peter Kirwan ...
    Due to the unique cultural capital of his works, Shakespeare has long been the test subject for new methods and digital advances in arts scholarship. Shakespeare sits at the forefront of the digital humanities - in archiving, teaching, performance and editing - impacting on scholars, theatres and professional organisations alike. The pace at which new technologies have developed is unprecedented ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

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  • The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Hamlet: A Critical Reader

    Edited by Ann Thompson, Professor Neil Taylor ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    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 range of perspectives offered makes the book an invaluable companion to anyone studying the play at an advanced level. The final chapter on learning ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • William Shakespeare: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by David Bevington ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England

    Actor, Audience and Performance

    Edited by Simon Smith, Emma Whipday ...
    This edited collection of essays brings together leading scholars of early modern drama and playhouse culture to reflect upon the study of playing and playgoing in early modern England. With a particular focus on the player-playgoer exchange as a site of dramatic meaning-making, this book offers a timely and significant critical intervention in the field of Shakespeare and early modern drama. ... Read more

    $25.49 USD