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We’ll bring you Drama!

Welcome to our 2020 English and Drama for Schools catalogue! Inside you’ll find all our latest and greatest textbooks and plays for teaching and studying drama. Whether you’re looking for traditional or contemporary plays, student guides or critical texts or some inspirational professional development ideas, our books from Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare have something to support you and your students.

Our constantly growing collection of over 2000 titles not only features work from some of the most iconic playwrights in history but also includes an ongoing commitment to introducing some of the best new writers and playwrights from today. Highlights for 2020 include: set texts editions of Our Country’s Good and Arden Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night; new Modern Plays such as The Kids Are Alt Right and Does My Bomb Look Good in This? that bring contemporary issues to life; and A Beginner’s Guide to Devising Theatre which is full of creative ways to create original theatre from a contemporary stimulus.

Lastly, we’d like to thank all the teachers, playwrights and educators who have reviewed material, answered our questions and worked with us this past year to shape our resources.

We hope you enjoy!

From the Bloomsbury Drama team

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Bloomsbury.com/Drama 3 Methuen Drama Student Editions

Methuen Drama’s Student Editions are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of modern and classic plays with an active programme of new editions. Each student edition includes:

 The full text of the play.  A chronology of the playwright’s life and work.  An introduction giving a complete background to the play.  A section of notes, which decode and demystify many of the plays’ references for students.  A study of themes, characters, language and structure.  Questions for further study, a bibliography and further reading.  A review of the play’s production history and adaptations.

TITLE AUTHOR(S) ISBN PRICE TITLE AUTHOR(S) ISBN PRICE The Accrington Pals Peter Whelan 9781474283267 £10.99 Lear Edward Bond 9780413519504 £10.99 A Doll's House NEW Henrik Ibsen 9781350116788 £10.99 The Lieutenant of Inishmore Martin McDonagh 9 7 8 14 0 8 111 0 7 9 £10.99 A Memory of Two Mondays Arthur Miller 97814 0 8123164 £9.99 Life Of Galileo Bertolt Brecht 9780413577801 £10.99 A Raisin In The Sun Lorraine Hansberry 9781408140901 £10.99 The Lonesome West Martin McDonagh 97814 0 8125762 £10.99 A Servant to Two Masters Carlo Goldoni 9781408131053 £10.99 Loot Joe Orton 9780413567604 £10.99 A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams 9781408106044 £9.99 The Malcontent John Marston 9780413162908 £10.99 A Taste Of Honey Shelagh Delaney 9781408106013 £10.99 Medea Euripides 9780413770301 £10.99 A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller 9781408108406 £8.99 The Memory Of Water Shelagh Stephenson 9780413776143 £10.99 Accidental Death of an Anarchist Dario Fo 9780413772671 £10.99 The Merchant Arnold Wesker 9780413516206 £10.99 Across Oka Robert Holman 9780413683205 £10.99 Miss Julie August Strindberg 9780413775825 £8.99 After the Fall Arthur Miller 97814 0 8123126 £9.99 Mother Courage and Her Children Bertolt Brecht 9780413492708 £10.99 All My Sons Arthur Miller 9781408108383 £8.99 My Mother Said I Never Should Charlotte Keatley 9780413684707 £10.99 The Beauty Queen of Leenane Martin McDonagh 9781408173831 £10.99 Oedipus the King Sophocles 9780713686760 £8.99 Blood Wedding Federico Garcia Lorca 9780713685169 £10.99 Oh What A Lovely War Theatre Workshop 9780413775467 £10.99 Blue/Orange Joe Penhall 9781408140918 £10.99 Oleanna David Mamet 9780413773760 £10.99 Broken Glass Arthur Miller 9781408128848 £9.99 Our Country's Good NEW Timberlake Wertenbaker 9781350097889 £10.99 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tennessee Williams 9781408114391 £9.99 The Playboy of the John Millington Synge 9780413519405 £10.99 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht 9780413544506 £10.99 Western World NEW The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov 9780413695000 £8.99 Pomona Alistair McDowall 9781350086715 £10.99 The Cheviot, the Stag and the Pornography Simon Stephens 9781408179857 £10.99 John McGrath 9781472531094 £10.99 Black, Black Oil The Price Arthur Miller 97814 0 8123119 £12.99 Closer Patrick Marber 9780713683295 £10.99 Punk Rock Simon Stephens 9781474229357 £10.99 Confusions Alan Ayckbourn 9780713685510 £10.99 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Bertolt Brecht 9780713685114 £10.99 Copenhagen Michael Frayn 9780413773715 £10.99 The Ride Down Mt. Morgan Arthur Miller 9781474256544 £10.99 The Cripple of Inishmaan Martin McDonagh 9781472532282 £10.99 Rotterdam NEW Jon Brittain 9781350095182 £10.99 The Crucible Arthur Miller 9781408108390 £8.99 Saved Edward Bond 9781408100103 £10.99 Death and the King's Horseman Wole Soyinka 9780413695505 £10.99 The Seagull Anton Chekhov 9780413771001 £10.99 Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller 9781408108413 £8.99 Serious Money Caryl Churchill 9780413771209 £10.99 Doña Rosita the Spinster Federico Garcia Lorca 9781408105054 £10.99 Serjeant Musgrave's Dance John Arden 9780413492609 £10.99 Dreams Of Anne Frank Bernard Kops 9780413712509 £10.99 Shopping And F***ing Mark Ravenhill 9780413773739 £10.99 Educating Rita Willy Russell 9780713687569 £10.99 Six Characters in Search Luigi Pirandello 9780413772688 £10.99 Elektra Euripides 9780413770400 £10.99 of an Author Enron Lucy Prebble 9781472508744 £10.99 Spring Awakening Frank Wedekind 9781408140895 £9.99 Fear and Misery of the Third Strife John Galsworthy 9780413542700 £10.99 Bertolt Brecht 9781408100080 £10.99 Reich Sweet Bird of Youth Tennessee Williams 9781408114384 £9.99 The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams 9780713685121 £9.99 The Threepenny Opera Bertolt Brecht 9780413774521 £10.99 Ghosts Henrik Ibsen 9781472558077 £8.99 Three Sisters Anton Chekhov 9780413771407 £9.99 Glengarry Glen Ross David Mamet 9780413774187 £10.99 Top Girls Caryl Churchill 9781350028579 £10.99 The Good Person Of Szechwan Bertolt Brecht 9781408100073 £10.99 Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose 9781474232326 £10.99 The Government Inspector Nikolai Gogol 9780413773210 £10.99 Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov 9780413774712 £8.99 Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen 9780413770707 £8.99 Wasted NEW Kate Tempest 9781350094925 £10.99 The House Of Bernarda Alba Federico Garcia Lorca 9780713686777 £10.99 Woyzeck COMING IN 2021 Georg Buchner 9781350108141 £10.99 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde 9780413396303 £8.99 Woza Albert! Percy Mtwa et al 9781350025080 £10.99 The Last Yankee Arthur Miller 97814 0 8123157 £9.99 Yerma Federico Garcia Lorca 9780713683264 £10.99

4 www.bloomsbury.com/student-editions GCSE Student Editions and Guides IN LINE WITH GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE SYLLABUS REQUIREMENTS

GCSE Student Editions GCSE Student Guides A series of play editions with accompanying material helps the An invaluable accompaniment to the study of any GCSE student in their understanding of the play. contemporary play at GCSE level and follows the requirements of the GCSE English Literature  Includes the full text of the play. assessment objectives.  Written for GCSE students by specialists in the field.  Offer featured activities for group work and independent study  Provide comprehensive explanatory material alongside the play to help students approach their exams with confidence. texts to aid students’ understanding.  Include a critical commentary of the play and interviews with  Contain an analysis of themes, characters, context and dramatic playwrights, directors and actors that bring the text to life. devises, as well as background information on the playwright.

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Bloomsbury.com/Drama 5 Modern Plays

Methuen Drama’s Modern Plays series is world-famous for containing the work of many of the finest contemporary playwrights. Established in 1959 with the publication of Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey, the series is synonymous with the very best in new writing for the stage. Today it features over 500 titles and continues to grow alongside the staging of new work. Below is a small selection of some of our newest published plays that appeal to students at different levels for study and performance. [Include download NEW The Kids Are Alt Right NEW Does My Bomb Look Big In This? symbol Martin Travers Nyla Levy with This is an unflinching exploration of how After being cast in roles as a 'jihadi bride' or 'terrorist Q and young people today are prey to a range girlfriend' and generally dissatisfied with the narrative of extreme ideologies and how helpless being told, Nyla Levy’s fierce wit and disarming honesty in A with people in their real lives are to stop them Does My Bomb Look Big in This? cleverly unveils a human Martin imploding. It is a cautionary tale of how story behind the headlines and questions how close or far social media and YouTube content can we are from multicultural harmony. Travers] lead to actions and consequences that “Nyla Levy’s play about London school friends can never be undone. divided when one goes to Syria, is savvy, PB | 9781350140523 | £10.99 | Cast: 10 streetwise and energetic.” – The Guardian Q and A with Martin Travers PB | 9781350134607 | £10.99 | Cast: 3

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Khaled Hosseini Mark Haddon Julia Samuels James Graham Zoe Cooper Alex Oates Adapted by Adapted by One in three women Olivier Award-winning A tender new play about Inspired by his Matthew Spangler Simon Stephens in the UK have had an playwright James gender, wild swimming, experiences working abortion; we can debate Graham forges a and how we define who as a carer for over a Afghanistan on the He has an extraordinary it as an idea but struggle uniquely crowd-sourced we are. decade, Alex Oates' new verge of war: childhood brain, but Christopher is to talk about it as an play, incorporating play is a kitchen sink friends Hassan and ill-equipped to interpret experience. scenes by emerging PB | 9781350129467 comedy-drama filled Amir can’t foresee the everyday life. His writers into his own £10.99 | Cast: 3 with heart… and French terrible incident which investigation into the PB | 9781350040250 sweeping narrative. Fancies. will shatter their lives death of his neighbour’s £10.99 | Cast: 33 forever. dog turns his world PB | 9781350107618 PB | 9781350126077 upside-down. £12.99 | Cast: Large/ £10.99 | Cast: 3 PB | 9781350033221 Various £10.99 | Cast: 18 PB | 9781408173350 £10.99 | Cast: 5

NEW NEW NEW NEW

Sarah Milton Henry Lewis, Henry Michael Ross Hannah Khalil Sabrina Mahfouz In these two complementary Shields, Jonathan Sayer The Shy Manifesto is a A story of treasured history, This play journeys across new plays, Sarah Milton “A highly developed sense of solo piece that takes the desperate choices and the 12 different countries using offers up two strong female mischief and cheeky aplomb experience of being shy as its remarkable Gertrude Bell. This theatre, poetry and music led narratives with dynamic, ... it's all very silly ... but central subject – something edition of Hannah Khalil's new to share stories of women complex characters. it's done with just the right which has rarely been play was published to coincide across the region. amount of tongue-in-cheek.” explored in drama, and yet with the world premiere at the PB | 9781350087224 which touches on many. RSC's The Other Place in 2019. PB | 9781350156845 £10.99 | Cast: 2 – Guardian £10.99 | Cast: 4 PB | 9781474244947 PB | 9781350114388 PB | 9781350150805 £10.99 | Cast: 10 £10.99 | Cast: 1 £10.99 | Cast: 9 These are just 13 of over 500 plays. For the full list visit:

6 www.bloomsbury.com/modern-plays Play Collections

NATIONAL THEATRE CONNECTIONS

National Theatre Connections 2020 ALSO AVAILABLE: 10 Plays for Young People National Theatre Connections 2019 PB | 9781350108370 | £21.99 Mojisola Adebayo, Chris Bush, Alison Carr, John National Theatre Connections 2018 Donnelly, Vivienne Franzmann, Hattie Naylor, PB | 9781350066243 | £19.99 Andrew Muir, Frances Poet, Silva Semerciyan & National Theatre Connections 2017 Chris Thompson PB | 9781350033597 | £19.99 National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which National Theatre Connections 2015 commissions exciting work for teenage actors, giving them control of a theatrical production from costume design to stage PB | 9781474237680 | £19.99 management. This anthology brings together 10 new plays by National Theatre Connections 2014 some of the UK's most prolific and current writers and artists PB | 9781472571434 | £19.99 alongside notes on each of the texts exploring performance for schools and youth groups. National Theatre Connections 2013 PB | 9781408184363 | £19.99 PB | 9781350161009 | £21.99 National Theatre Connections 2012 PB | 9781408157244 | £19.99

National Theatre AGE “Connections is the National Theatre’s Connections Monologues 13+ annual, nationwide youth theatre festival. Speeches for Young Actors It is a celebration of youth theatre, new Edited by Anthony Banks writing, creativity and partnership, and This collection of monologues for young people is above all the importance of access for accompanied by a general introduction by the editor, Anthony Banks. It also includes individual studies of young people to the arts.” each monologue with the editor’s suggested points for discussion and a brief commentary about the play from – Kirsten Adam, Connections Producer, which the speech is taken. Each page features one monologue, plus the individual commentary and some National Theatre background to the play. Also includes a foreword by the actor Matt Smith. PB | 9781472573100 | £17.99

OTHER PLAY COLLECTIONS

Rebel Migration Producers’ Voices: Plays Choice: Monologues Edited by Six Plays for Women Fin Kennedy for Young by Women Five new plays Performers written and devised Over 40 years, Megan Barker, Clean Break Theatre in collaboration with has commissioned groups of secondary DJ Britton, some of the most school children that James Graham, progressive and examine immigration Sarah May, to and emigration brilliant women Simon Reade writers to write from the UK. The ground-breaking children’s response & Simon plays, alongside developing the writing skills of the to these exercises – Stephens women they work with in its London studios and which feature in the book enables them to be used An essential collection of some of the best plays in prisons. This is a collection of monologues from again by teachers as a creative resource, were for young performers, all selected and produced by this canon. incorporated into a piece of theatre coordinated by Tamasha Theatre Company and The Migration the UK’s leading theatre companies working with young people. For youth theatre groups, schools “Rebel Voices is a compelling anthology Museum, which the same students then performed. These plays make migration an accessible topic for and festival productions this diverse selection will be and a unique insight into a brilliant, 11–16 year olds encouraging humane discussions invaluable. ground-breaking theatre company.” in Drama, English and PSHE. Plays: Promise; Oedipus/Antigone; Tory Boyz; Kathy Burke, Theatre Director Butterfly Club; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; PB | 9781350090415 | £16.99 Punk Rock PB | 9781350097506 | £12.99 Two exercises to try today PB | 9781408128855 | £17.99

Bloomsbury.com/Drama 7 Plays for Young People

This series features the highest-quality work by established playwrights, which is age-appropriate and organised into age bands to help teachers and youth theatre leaders select the most suitable work for students to perform. For more titles in the series visit: bloomsbury.com/plays-for-young-people

I Love You, Mum Black and She’s Upfront Theatre The Storyteller My Father, Pigeon English – I Promise I Leaving Home Claire Dowie Sequence Odysseus Stephen Kelman Won’t Die Keith Saha Themes: dealing Philip Ridley Timberlake Themes: racism; knife Mark Wheeller Themes: race; with Alzheimer’s; Themes: youth culture; Wertenbaker crime; justice; youth earning a living; culture Themes: drugs; identity; growing schools; bullying; peer Themes: masculinity; emotional repression; peer pressure; youth up; community; pressure; memory; the effects of war; PB | 9781474251037 | transgender issues. £10.99 | Cast: Medium culture; family. contemporary Britain. identity; the supernatural. family; classical mythology. PB | 9781350011144 | PB | 9781350011281 | PB | 9781350085190 | PB | 9781474216999 | SEE ALSO £19.99 | Cast: up to 50 £9.99 | Cast: 25 £12.99 | Cast: Medium £14.99 | Cast: mix of PB | 9781350007505 | sized monologues, duologues £10.99 | Cast: Medium The Kids and larger scenes to large Are Alt Right page 6 Critical Scripts

IMPROVING STANDARDS IN ENGLISH THROUGH DRAMA AT KEY STAGE 3 AND GCSE

Series Editors: Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan The Critical Scripts series features first-class plays by leading authors together with inspiring activities for the English and Drama classroom.  Meets requirements at KS3 and GCSE.  Includes further free resources online.  Uses drama activities to develop pupils’ critical skills.  References the AQA and Edexcel specifications.

AGE AGE AGE AGE 11+ 11+ 11+ 11+

The Curious Incident Ostrich Boys Our Day Out Charles Dickens’ of the Dog in the Keith Gray The Musical A Christmas Carol Night-Time Adapted by Carl Miller Willy Russell Charles Dickens Based on the novel by This is the stage adaptation of Keith Edited by Mark Gunton Adapted by John Mortimer Gray’s hit teenage novel about three Mark Haddon John Mortimer’s stage adaptation friends who steal the urn containing “Willy Russell's big-hearted Adapted by Simon Stephens of Dickens’ classic tale, featuring the ashes of their best friend Ross musical ... never loses sight of extensive classroom activities This schools’ edition of the play and embark on a remarkable journey. the social problems that beset adaptation of Mark Haddon’s multi- designed to raise achievement and the children at its down-at-heel award-winning novel is perfect for PB | 9781408130827 | £10.99 develop critical thinking. Key Stages 3 and 4. Liverpool comprehensive.” The Times PB | 9781408134863 | £10.99 PB | 9781408185216 | £10.99 PB | 9781408134856 | £10.99

ONLINE RESOURCES FOR OUR CRITICAL SCRIPTS ARE AVAILABLE AT WWW.BLOOMSBURY.COM

8 Bloomsbury.com/Drama NEW MERMAIDS Series Editors: William C. Carroll and Tiffany Stern New Mermaids is a series of over 60 modernised and fully annotated classic plays, with an active programme of new editions. Edited and updated by experienced teachers, they are printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, with annotations below the text and a comprehensive introduction.

SET TEXT

The Complete Series

TITLE ISBN PRICE TITLE ISBN PRICE The Alchemist 9781408110201 £10.99 The Man of Mode 9781474289535 £10.99 A Chaste Maid in Cheapside 9780713650686 £9.99 Marriage A-La-Mode 9780713666663 £9.99 A New Way to Pay Old Debts 9780713637939 £9.99 Mrs Warren's Profession 9780713679946 £9.99 A Woman Killed With Kindness 9780713677775 £9.99 The Old Wife's Tale 9780713642704 £9.99 A Woman of No Importance 9780713673517 £9.99 The Provoked Wife 9780713666656 £10.99 All for Love 9780713671056 £9.99 Pygmalion 9780713679977 £9.99 An Ideal Husband 9781408137208 £9.99 The Recruiting Officer 9780713673791 £9.99 Arden of Faversham 9780713677652 £9.99 The Relapse 9780713628876 £9.99 Arms and the Man 9780713679984 £9.99 The Revenger's Tragedy 9780713682847 £10.99 Bartholmew Fair 9780713674279 £9.99 The Rivals 9780713667653 £9.99 The Beaux' Stratagem 9780713670004 £9.99 The Roaring Girl 9780713668131 £9.99 The Beggar's Opera 9780713673821 £9.99 The Rover 9781408152119 £9.99 Ben Jonson: Four Plays 9781408179628 £12.99 Saint Joan 9780713679960 £9.99 The Changeling 9781474290272 £9.99 She Stoops to Conquer 9780713667943 £9.99 Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays 9781408149492 £9.99 Six Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedies 9781408107447 £12.99 The Country Wife 9781408179895 £9.99 Tamburlaine 9780713668148 £9.99 The Critic 9780713631883 £9.99 The School for Scandal 9780713662900 £9.99 Doctor Faustus 9781474295178 £9.99 The Shoemaker's Holiday 9780713673784 £9.99 The Duchess of Malfi 9781472520654 £9.99 The Spanish Tragedy 97814 0 8114216 £9.99 The Dutch Courtesan 9780713644753 £9.99 The Tragedy of Mariam 9780713688764 £9.99 Eastward Ho! 9780713639834 £9.99 Thomas Middleton: Four Plays 9781408156582 £12.99 Edward II Revised 9781472520524 £9.99 Three Late Medieval Morality Plays: Everyman, 9780713666618 £12.99 Epicoene or The Silent Woman 9780713666687 £9.99 Mankind and Mundus et Infans Every Man in His Humour 9780713643978 £9.99 'Tis Pity She's a Whore 9780713650600 £9.99 Four Revenge Tragedies 9781408159606 £12.99 Volpone 9781350007796 £9.99 Gammer Gurton's Needle 9780713644975 £9.99 The Way of the World NEW 9781350106406 £9.99 The Jew of Malta 9780713677669 £9.99 The White Devil 9780713681376 £10.99 The Knight of the Burning Pestle 9780713650693 £9.99 The Witch 9780713639452 £9.99 Lady Windermere's Fan 9780713666670 £9.99 The Witch of Edmonton 9780713642537 £9.99 Love for Love 9780713643237 £9.99 Women Beware Women 9780713666632 £9.99 Major Barbara 9780713679953 £9.99 Women on the Early Modern Stage 97814 0 8182314 £17.99

www.bloomsbury.com/new-mermaids 9 IDEAL FOR A-LEVEL STUDY

 Edited by world-class critics.  Modernised punctuation and spelling.  On-page commentary notes for easy reference.  Comprehensive introduction covers the play’s historical, critical and performance contexts.  Glossary notes explain meanings and literary, classical and biblical allusions. NEW

TITLE ISBN PRICE TITLE ISBN PRICE A Midsummer Night's Dream 9781408133491 £8.99 King Richard III 9781903436899 £9.99 All's Well That Ends Well 9781904271208 £12.99 Love's Labour's Lost 9781904271109 £8.99 Antony and Cleopatra 9781904271017 £8.99 Macbeth 9781904271413 £8.99 As You Like It 9781904271222 £8.99 Measure for Measure NEW 9781904271437 £8.99 The Comedy of Errors 9781904271246 £9.99 The Merchant Of Venice 9781903436813 £9.99 Coriolanus 9781904271284 £9.99 The Merry Wives Of Windsor 9781904271123 £11.99 Cymbeline 9781904271307 £9.99 Much Ado About Nothing: Revised edition 9781472520296 £8.99 Double Falsehood 9781903436776 £16.99 Othello: Revised edition 9781472571762 £8.99 Hamlet: Revised edition 9781472518385 £8.99 Pericles 9781903436851 £9.99 Hamlet: The Texts Of 1603 And 1623 9781904271802 £12.99 Romeo and Juliet 9781903436912 £8.99 Julius Caesar 9781903436219 £8.99 Shakespeare’s Poems 9781903436875 £9.99 King Edward III 9781903436387 £16.99 Shakespeare's Sonnets: Revised edition 9781408017975 £9.99 King Henry IV Part 1 9781904271352 £11.99 Sir Thomas More 9781904271482 £14.99 King Henry IV Part 2 9781904271376 £11.99 The Taming of The Shrew 9781903436936 £9.99 King Henry V 9781904271086 £8.99 The Tempest: Revised edition 9781408133477 £8.99 King Henry VI Part 1 9781903436431 £11.99 Timon Of Athens 9781903436974 £8.99 King Henry VI Part 2 9781903436639 £11.99 Titus Andronicus: Revised edition 9781350030916 £10.99 King Henry VI Part 3 9781903436318 £11.99 Troilus and Cressida: Revised edition 9781472584748 £12.99 King Henry VIII 9781903436257 £11.99 Twelfth Night 9781903436998 £8.99 King John 9781904271390 £14.99 The Two Gentlemen of Verona 9781903436950 £10.99 King Lear 9781903436592 £8.99 The Two Noble Kinsmen: Revised edition 9781472577542 £12.99 King Richard II 9781903436332 £9.99 The Winter's Tale 9781903436356 £9.99

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ShakesFear The Arden Creative and How to Introduction Shakespeare Cure It to Reading The Globe The Complete Shakespeare Education Handbook Jeremy Lopez Guide to for Teaching This is an ideal text Practical Shakespeare for all those teaching Shakespeare Shakespeare, Ralph Alan highlighting the Fiona Banks Cohen Bard’s artistry with words, allowing readers to gain a This book shares the many experiences of For teachers and lovers of Shakespeare, deep and lasting appreciation for the complex Shakespeare’s Globe Education team and their this book provides a comprehensive artistry of their construction and of their effects. active approach to teaching students of all ages. approach to the challenges and rewards This insightful book provides an introduction The book provides practical ideas teachers can take of teaching Shakespeare, giving both an to the practice of reading Shakespeare’s plays and use for their own lessons. overview of each of Shakespeare’s 38 plays and closely. Topics of analysis include verbal patterning, specific classroom tools for teaching it. Written dramatic structure, staging and stage directions, “It’s practical and informative . . . give it to all by a celebrated teacher, scholar, and director of soliloquies and character-construction and poetic your director/practitioner/teacher friends for Shakespeare, it shows how to use the text to make meter. the words and the moments come alive. Christmas.” – Susan Elkin, The Stage PB | 9781472581020 | £16.99 PB | 9781408156841 | £17.99 PB | 9781474228718 | £24.99

www.bloomsbury.com/arden ARDEN PERFORMANCE EDITIONS

“These editions are likely to help not only actors and drama students but also ARDEN all amateur Shakespeareans including schools and colleges which stage the plays … What genius to have Simon Russell PERFORMANCE Beale as a series editor along with two Shakespeare Institute academics, Michael Dobson and Abigail Rokison-Woodall.” EDITIONS – Ink Pellet

Shakespeare playscripts designed with your drama class in mind! Giving young performers just enough definition and direction, Performance Editions are created for students rehearsing and studying the plays, with concise, facing-page notes for easy reference. NEW PB| 9781350002975 | £7.99

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PB | 9781350046788 | £8.99 PB | 9781474272346 | £6.99 PB | 9781474253888 | £6.99 PB| 9781474280143 | £6.99 PB | 9781474245197 | £6.99 PB | 9781474272094 | £6.99

Large format and font size for easy reading, with space to add notes

Short introductions to each play covering metre, key performance moments and textual histories

SERIES EDITORS: Michael Dobson, The Shakespeare Institute, UK, Abigail Rokison-Woodall, The Shakespeare Institute, UK and Sir Simon Russell Beale, distinguished actor.

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