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Arden Shakespeare Third Series Measure For Measure Complete Works Third Series Edited by Ann Thompson, King's College William Shakespeare London, UK, David Scott Kastan, Yale University, Edited by A.R. Braunmuller, UCLA, USA & USA, H. R. Woudhuysen, University of Oxford, Robert N. Watson, University of California, Los UK & Richard Proudfoot, King's College London, Angeles, USA UK The latest Arden edition of Shakespeare's dark A new edition of the Complete Works of William comedy of justice, mercy and the governance of Shakespeare, edited by leading international scholars. New to this sexual desire. As well as detailed on-page commentary notes, this edition are the 'apocryphal' plays, part-written by Shakespeare: new edition has a long, illustrated introduction exploring the play's Double Falsehood, Sir Thomas More and King Edward III. The performance and critical history. anthology is unique in giving all three extant texts of Hamlet from

Shakespeare's time: the first and second Quarto texts of 1603 and UK January 2020 • US January 2020 • 440 pages • 15 bw illus 1604-5, and the first Folio text of 1623. The volume has a general PB 9781904271437 • £10.99 / $14.95 • HB 9781904271420 • £80.00 / $110.00 introduction, short contextual introductions to the texts, a glossary ePub 9781408151884 • £11.87 / $13.03 ePdf 9781408151877 • £11.87 / $13.03 and a bibliography. Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series • The Arden Shakespeare

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2 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] Arden Shakespeare Intersections DRAMA – The Arden Shakespeare Farah Karim Cooper, Shakespeare's Globe, London, UK and Gordon McMullan, Lucy Munro & Sonia Massai, King's College London, UK

Shakespeare / Sense Shakespeare / Sex Contemporary Readings in Sensory Contemporary Readings in Gender and Culture Sexuality Edited by Simon Smith, University of Edited by Jennifer Drouin, McGill University, Birmingham, UK Canada Shakespeare | Sense explores the intersection of Shakespeare / Sex interrogates the relationship Shakespeare and sensory studies, asking what between Shakespeare and sex, challenging sensation can tell us about early modern drama readers to consider Shakespeare’s texts in light and poetry, and, conversely, how Shakespeare explores the senses in of the most recent theoretical approaches to gender and sexuality his literary craft, his fictional worlds and his stagecraft. A substantive studies. It takes as its premise that gender and sexuality studies are volume, edited by leading and emerging scholars working at the key to any interpretation of Shakespeare, be it his texts and their cutting edge of the field, with 15 chapters reflecting on the current historical contexts, contemporary stage and cinematic productions, state of Shakespearean intersection around the issues and ideas of or adaptations from the Restoration to the present day. Approaching sense, the essays provide inventive reflections, suggestions for future “sex” through four main perspectives - heterosexuality, third-wave directions for the field, and interdiscplinary engagements. intersectional feminism, queer studies, and trans studies - this book tackles a number of hot topics for both Shakespearean scholars and UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 416 pages the public at large. HB 9781474273237 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781474273244 • £140.40 / $153.21 • • • ePdf 9781474273251 • £140.40 / $153.21 UK November 2020 US November 2020 416 pages 6 bw illus • Series: Arden Shakespeare Intersections • The Arden Shakespeare HB 9781350108554 £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350108561 • £140.40 / $153.21 ePdf 9781350108578 • £140.40 / $153.21 Series: Arden Shakespeare Intersections • The Arden Shakespeare

The Arden Research Handbook The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare of Shakespeare and Social Criticism Justice Edited by Evelyn Gajowski, University of Edited by David Ruiter, University of Texas at El Nevada, Las Vegas, USA Paso, USA This is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to This is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare research on Shakespeare and issues of social by an international team of leading scholars. justice and arts activism by an international team of It contains chapters on over 20 specific critical practices, each leading scholars. grounded in analysis of a Shakespeare play. These practices range Across four sections it explores the relevance and responsibility from foundational approaches including character studies, close of art to the real world - to the significant teaching and learning, reading and genre studies, through critical practices including performance and practice, theory and economies that not only feminist, Marxist and psychoanalytic theories. Approaches drawn from expand the discussion of literature and theatre, but also open postcolonial, queer studies and race studies, besides more recent the gate of engagement between the life of the mind and lived topics including disability studies, global studies and the digital experience. The collection draws from noted scholars, writers, and humanities all receive detailed treatment. Further resources equip practitioners from around the globe to assert the power of art to readers with practical aids to developing research in this area. question, disrupt and re-invigorate questions of social justice today.

UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 464 pages • 6 bw illus UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 400 pages HB 9781350093225 • £130.00 / $175.00 HB 9781350140363 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350093232 • £140.40 / $153.21 ePub 9781350140370 • £140.40 / $153.21 ePdf 9781350093249 • £140.40 / $153.21 ePdf 9781350140387 • £140.40 / $153.21 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks • The Arden Shakespeare Series: The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and London: A Dictionary Sarah Dustagheer, University of Kent, UK This is a topographical reference book of all the London locations, allusions and colloquial terms mentioned in Shakespeare’s complete works. For many years critics have argued that Shakespeare did not engage with the city in which he lived, however London's topography and life is present in all his work, in its language, its locations and its characters. This dictionary offers a concise, accessible and pointed insight into the city's impact on the Shakespearean imagination and provides readers with a wide-ranging guide to early modern London, its contemporary meanings and the ways in which Shakespeare employs these throughout the canon.

UK December 2020 • US December 2020 • 256 pages • 6 bw illus HB 9781350006829 • £100.00 / $135.00 ePub 9781350006812 • £99.99 / $108.66 ePdf 9781350006805 • £99.99 / $108.66 Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries • The Arden Shakespeare

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Shakespeare and Gender Studying Shakespeare Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Drama Adaptation Kate Aughterson, Brighton University, UK & From Restoration Theatre to YouTube Ailsa Grant Ferguson, Brighton University, UK Pamela Bickley, The English Association & Jenny Shakespeare and Gender guides students Stevens, Open University, UK and teachers through the complexities of This book offers a clear guide to the ways in which the representation of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare's 12 most commonly studied plays Shakespeare’s work. Using close textual analysis have been adapted in different ages and media. With an accessible hand-in-hand with verbal and visual contextual materials the book introduction to adaptation theory and chapters on individual plays offers an accessible and intelligent introduction both to how gender organized chronologically, the volume examines 36 case studies of debates are integral to the plays and poems, and why we continue adaptations and their respective political and cultural interactions to read and perform them with this in mind. Chapters discuss with Shakespeare's plays. The examples range from film, drama, contemporary productions of key plays and feature annotated prose fiction, ballet, opera, the visual arts, poetry, YouTube videos bibliographies specific to the chapter topic, in addition to conclusions and manga comics to introduce readers to the sheer variety of offering points of departure for further work and research. Shakespeare adaptations. Suggestions for further reading offer additional guidance for readers new to this important area of UK August 2020 • US August 2020 • 272 pages • 11 bw illus PB 9781474289979 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781474289986 • £65.00 / $90.00 Shakespeare studies. ePub 9781474289993 • £21.59 / $23.90 ePdf 9781474290005 • £21.59 / $23.90 UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 288 pages The Arden Shakespeare The Arden Shakespeare DRAMA – The Arden PB 9781350068643 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350068636 • £65.00 / $88.00 ePub 9781350068650 • £21.58 / $23.90 ePdf 9781350068667 • £21.58 / $23.90 The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare: Actors and Screening the Royal Audiences Shakespeare Company Edited by Fiona Banks, Shakespeare's Globe A Critical History Theatre, UK John Wyver, Independent Scholar, UK 400 years on from Shakespeare’s death, No theatre company has been involved in such a Shakespeare: Actors and Audiences shines broad range of adaptations for television and film a spotlight on the role of the audience at as the Royal Shakespeare Company. Drawing on Shakespeare’s plays. Exploring the relationship that interviews with actors and directors, this is the first book to explore has kept Shakespeare’s name and work alive through four centuries, the remarkable history of collaborations between stage and screen scholars, audiences, actors and directors reflect on the role of the and considers key questions about adaptation that concern all those audience and provide fresh insights into the relationship that lies at involved in theatre, film and television. Written by John Wyver, a the heart of Shakespeare in performance. broadcasting historian and the television producer of Hamlet as well as of RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, the book provides a vivid, UK May 2020 • US May 2020 • 296 pages PB 9781350164536 • £28.99 / $39.95 detailed and fascinating account of the RSC’s television and film Previously published in HB 9781474257930 productions. ePub 9781474257947 • £86.40 / $94.53 ePdf 9781474274005 • £86.40 / $94.53 The Arden Shakespeare UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 288 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9781350174078 • £21.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781350006584 ePub 9781350006591 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781350006607 • £81.00 / $89.10 The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Common Shakespearean Character Language Language in Performance Alysia Kolentsis, University of Waterloo, Canada Jelena Marelj, Sheridan College, Ontario, What can recent developments in contemporary Canada linguistics and language theory reveal about Jelena Marelj's study examines five linguistically Shakespeare’s language in the plays? In this book, self-conscious characters drawn from the genres Alysia Kolentsis offers a finely-grained analysis of of history, tragedy and comedy, which continue to Shakespeare's use of language to illuminate how be subjects of extensive critical debate: Falstaff, the common words used by characters in the plays contain significant Cleopatra, Henry V, Katherine from The Taming of the Shrew, and clues about moments of interaction which are pivotal to the plots. Hamlet. Using theories drawn from linguistic pragmatics, it claims With chapters focused on different approaches based in language that our impression of characters as real people is an effect arising theory, the author analyzes language change in Coriolanus; employs from characters’ pragmatic use of language in combination with discourse analysis in her study of Troilus and Cressida; focuses on the historical and textual meanings that Shakespeare conveys to pragmatics in Richard II, and explores how Shakespeare engaged with his audience by dramatic and meta-dramatic means. The volume various aspects of grammar in As You Like It. challenges the notion of interiority attributed to Shakespeare’s characters, demonstrating that dramatic characters possess UK January 2020 • US January 2020 • 208 pages anteriority. HB 9781350007017 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350007000 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781350006997 • £81.00 / $89.10 UK July 2020 • US July 2020 • 264 pages Series: Arden Shakespeare Studies in Language and Digital Methodologies • The Arden PB 9781350175006 • £21.99 / $29.95 Shakespeare Previously published in HB 9781350061385 ePub 9781350061392 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781350061408 • £81.00 / $89.10 Series: Arden Shakespeare Studies in Language and Digital Methodologies • The Arden Shakespeare

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Shakespeare and Postcolonial Shakespeare and Reception Theory Theory Jyotsna G. Singh Nigel Wood, Loughborough University, UK Now available in paperback, Shakespeare and How do playtexts – especially in their Early Modern Postcolonial Theory is an up-to-date guide to form – allow us to infer meanings? And if it is down contemporary debates in postcolonial studies to us to assess ourselves in our reading, is there a and how these shape our understanding of secure division between text and self? This study Shakespeare’s politics and poetics. Taking demonstrates how recent emphases on a reader’s a historical perspective, it covers early modern discourses role in the creation of meaning might allow us to contemplate of colonialism, ‘race’, gender and globalization, through to Shakespeare’s work in fresh and often provocative ways, paying close contemporary intercultural appropriations and global adaptations attention to Early Modern modes of interaction in the playhouse of Shakespeare. Showing how the dialogue between Shakespeare alongside more recent assumptions that underlie spectating and criticism and postcolonial studies has evolved, this book offers a performing. critical vocabulary that connects contemporary and early modern cultural struggles. The book includes guides to further reading and UK December 2020 • US December 2020 • 224 pages • 4 bw illus online resources which make this an essential resource for students HB 9781350112100 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350112117 • £81.00 / $89.10 and scholars of Shakespeare. ePdf 9781350112124 • £81.00 / $89.10 Series: Shakespeare and Theory • The Arden Shakespeare UK March 2020 • US March 2020 • 264 pages PB 9781408185544 • £21.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781408185742

ePub 9781408185261 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781408186053 • £81.00 / $89.10 Series: Shakespeare and Theory • The Arden Shakespeare Shakespeare and Queer Theory Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania, USA This provides both an indispensable guide and an intervention in the ongoing critical debates about queer method both within and beyond Shakespeare and early modern studies. Clearly elucidating the central ideas of the theory and its history, it also illuminates current debates about historicism and embodiment. Through a series of original readings of texts including As You Like It, Othello, Macbeth and Venus and Adonis, as well as recent film adaptations including Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet and Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus, it illustrates the value of queer theory to Shakespeare scholarship, and the value of Shakespearean texts to queer theory.

UK March 2020 • US March 2020 • 248 pages Shakespeare in the Theatre PB 9781474256681 • £21.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781474256674 Bridget Escolme, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, ePub 9781474256698 • £81.00 / $89.10 Farah Karim Cooper, Shakespeare's Globe, London, UK, Peter ePdf 9781474256704 • £81.00 / $89.10 Series: Shakespeare and Theory • The Arden Shakespeare Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA & Stephen Purcell, University of Warwick, UK

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare in the Theatre: Cheek by Jowl Trevor Nunn Peter Kirwan, University of Nottingham, UK Russell Jackson, University of Birmingham, UK Across seventeen productions of Shakespeare, Trevor Nunn is one of the most significant and Cheek by Jowl’s experiments with text, space, influential directors of modern times. This book light and bodies have produced bold reinventions provides the first critical overview of his work of canonical and lesser-explored plays. Peter as a director, including detailed discussions of Kirwan situates Cheek by Jowl’s work within the representative productions during his artistic key institutions and traditions that have shaped the company’s directorship of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and the National development from low-budget beginnings at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre. The book explores too the wider context of his productions to international celebration. The book draws on new interviews with in the sometimes fraught debates on the cultural politics of Britain’s creative and administrative company members from the full span of theatrical institutions in the 20th and 21st centuries. Cheek by Jowl’s history as well as a full appraisal of the Cheek by The book draws on archive material, reviews and other published Jowl archives, offering the first scholarly overview of the company’s commentary, including that of actors who have worked with him. work.

UK May 2020 • US May 2020 • 264 pages • 6 bw illus UK March 2020 • US March 2020 • 232 pages PB 9781350164574 • £28.99 / $39.95 PB 9781474223287 • £21.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781474289580 Previously published in HB 9781474223294 ePub 9781474289597 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePub 9781474223300 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781474289603 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781474223317 • £81.00 / $89.10 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare

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The Merchant of Venice: Tamburlaine: A Critical Reader A Critical Reader Edited by David McInnis, University of Edited by Sarah Hatchuel, University Paul-Valéry Melbourne, Australia Montpellier 3, France & Nathalie Vienne- This collection of critical essays offers the definitive Guerrin, University of Montpellier III Paul Valery, introduction to Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine France plays and new perspectives on these seminal works for students, teachers and scholars. It provides a Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice has often detailed overview of the reception and stage and been labelled a “problem play”, and throughout critical histories of the two parts from the 1580s to the present day. the ages it has been an object of both fascination and repulsion. Beyond placing the plays in their historical and intellectual contexts This guide offers students and scholars an introduction to its critical over time, the volume also provides a series of new perspectives and performance history, including notable stage productions and ranging from repertory studies and the history of travel, to film versions. It includes chapters outlining major areas of research meteorological and theological readings. It includes an entire chapter on the play and four new critical essays. The critical, web-based and on Tamburlaine and pedagogy offering an evaluation of resources for production-related resources section give readers some directions the teaching of Marlowe’s plays in the classroom. to explore this unsettling play with students and its annotated bibliography provides a basis for further research. UK July 2020 • US July 2020 • 256 pages The Arden Shakespeare DRAMA – The Arden HB 9781350082717 • £75.00 / $100.00 UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 288 pages ePub 9781350082724 • £81.00 / $89.10 HB 9781350082298 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePdf 9781350082731 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePub 9781350082304 • £81.00 / $89.10 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare ePdf 9781350082311 • £81.00 / $89.10 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare

Richard II: A Critical Reader King Henry V: A Critical Reader Edited by Andrew Duxfield, University of Edited by Line Cottegnies, Sorbonne Universite, Liverpool, UK & Michael Davies France & Karen Britland, University of Wisconsin- This volume offers a thought-provoking guide to Madison, USA Richard II, surveying its key themes and critical Moving through to five new critical essays, the reception. It also provides a detailed and up-to- guide opens up fresh perspectives on this much date history of the play’s rich stage performance, studied work, including a particularly provocative looking particularly closely at major contemporary and timely analysis of the intersection between war performances in the UK. and religion, as well as essays on British identity, non-Anglophone responses to King Henry V, and criminality and heroism. The fifth UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 256 pages essay focuses on the history and nature of filmic adaptations of HB 9781350064553 • £85.00 / $115.00 Shakespeare’s King Henry V, including the iconic productions of ePub 9781350064560 • £91.80 / $99.96 ePdf 9781350064577 • £91.80 / $99.96 Olivier and Branagh, as well as more recent versions, such as that Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare featured in The Hollow Crown series.

UK April 2020 • US April 2020 • 352 pages PB 9781350164796 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474280105 ePub 9781474280112 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781474280129 • £81.00 / $89.10 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare

Hamlet: The State of Play Edited by Sonia Massai, King's College London, UK & Lucy Munro, King's College London, UK This collection brings together essays exploring the play from a variety of different angles: drawing on contemporary approaches to gender, sexuality, race, the history of emotions, memory, visual and material cultures, performativity, theories and histories of place, and textual studies. They offer fresh approaches to literary and cultural analysis, offer accessible introductions to some current ways of exploring the relationship between the three early texts, and present analysis of some important recent responses to Hamlet on screen and stage, together with a set of approaches to the study of adaptation.

UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350117723 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350117730 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781350117747 • £81.00 / $89.10 Series: Arden Shakespeare The State of Play • The Arden Shakespeare

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Shakespeare and Geek Culture Early Modern Theatre and the Edited by Andrew James Hartley, University Figure of Disability of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA & Peter Genevieve Love, Colorado College, USA Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA A critical analysis of key early modern plays From sci-fi to graphic novels, from boy scouts to including Doctor Faustus and Richard III, revealing board games, from cult films to the cult of theatre, how physical disability operates as a metaphor for Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. This both theatrical personation and textual forms. The is the first edited volume to address both the many first part considers the relationship between actor ways in which Shakespeare has entered into popular culture and and character: prosthetic disabled figures with names like Cripple more particularly the geekiness of Shakespeare scholarship itself. and Stump capture the simultaneous presence of the imaginative Working at the intersections of a wide range of fields - including fan world of the fiction and the material, embodied world of the theatre. studies and film analysis, cultural studies and fantasy/sci-fi theory – The second part considers the relationship between plays in their the authors demonstrate how the particularities of the connection theatrical and in their textual forms, a relationship that has been between Shakespeare and geek culture generate new insights into understood in part through an appeal to disability. the plays, poems and their larger cultural legacy in the 21st century.

UK July 2020 • US July 2020 • 224 pages UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 320 pages PB 9781350160361 • £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781350107748 • £75.00 / $100.00 Previously published in HB 9781350017207 ePub 9781350107755 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePub 9781350017214 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781350107762 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781350017221 • £81.00 / $89.10 The Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama • The Arden Shakespeare

Performing Shakespeare's Shakespeare and the Gods Women Virginia Mason Vaughan, Clark University, USA Playing Dead Shakespeare and the Gods is a major new critical work exploring the scope and meaning of Paige Martin Reynolds, University of Central Shakespeare’s allusions to major Roman deities such Arkansas, USA as Jupiter, Venus, Diana and Hercules. Each chapter Shakespeare's female characters die often, both surveys early modern mythographic writing on the onstage and off. But what does it mean for the god in question, surveys Shakespeare’s references actor portraying these roles to to play dead? And what obstacles to particular myths in which the god is involved, discusses allusive in playing dead are the same for women actors playing alive? This patterns that repeat throughout the canon, and concludes with a book addresses both current scholarship and the practical and ethical focused discussion of one or two plays in which the god becomes problems facing the female actor of Shakespeare’s plays today to much more than an allusion, shaping in powerful ways our response explore what those deaths signify and suggest about playing female to the action and characters. parts on the contemporary stage and in a post-feminist world. UK March 2020 • US March 2020 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 208 pages PB 9781474284264 • £21.99 / $29.95 PB 9781350170964 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474284271 Previously published in HB 9781350002593 ePub 9781474284288 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePub 9781350002616 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781474284295 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781350002609 • £81.00 / $89.10 The Arden Shakespeare The Arden Shakespeare

The Shakespeare Hut Shakespeare and the Politics of A Story of Memory, Performance and Nostalgia Identity, 1916-1923 Negotiating the Memory of Elizabeth I on Ailsa Grant Ferguson, Brighton University, UK the Jacobean Stage The story of the Shakespeare Hut, built in Yuichi Tsukada, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Bloomsbury in 1916, is a unique case study in Japan cultural memory and performance of Shakespeare; The volume reveals the unnoticed richness of one extraordinary building brings together Shakespeare’s Jacobean drama by focusing on the growing cultural Shakespeare’s place in First World War theatre, in emerging new and political nostalgia for England’s dead queen. Yuichi Tsukada post-colonial identities and in the struggle for women’s suffrage. demonstrates that, far from not involving himself in the phenomenon of nostalgia for Elizabeth, Shakespeare interacted closely with UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 288 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781350171206 • £28.99 / $39.95 retrospective writings on Elizabeth and illuminated the complex Previously published in HB 9781474295840 politics behind the nostalgia. Based around close readings of ePub 9781474295857 • £81.00 / $89.10 Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, and Henry ePdf 9781474295864 • £81.00 / $89.10 The Arden Shakespeare VIII, together with a range of plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries, including Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, George Chapman, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, the study traces the ongoing cultural negotiation of the memory of Elizabeth.

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The Way of the World The Duchess of Malfi New Edition John Webster William Congreve Edited by Karen Britland, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Edited by David Roberts, Birmingham City University, UK This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by insightful commentary notes, Set in high-society London, Congreve’s comic while its lively introduction provides an essential masterpiece features scenes of uproarious comedy, contextual grounding in the court scandals, anti- Machiavellian scheming and devastating wit. Its Catholic sentiment and Senecan drama that formed a backdrop to sparring between sexes is enchanting but shadowed by melancholy Webster’s tragedy. Exploring the challenges of staging this highly and the ethical uncertainty latent in the title. If this is the way of the melodramatic play, Karen Britland guides you through the most world, are we supposed to cheer, despair, or shrug our shoulders? interesting points of its rich performance history, and discusses recent The new introduction peels back the layers of the plot to tell the story productions. Exploring its masterful poetry, she shows how the work of the play’s stage and critical history from 1699 to the present day, can be harnessed to engage in contemporary social debates about engaging voices from universities and theatres in this debate. privacy, torture, surveillance, and personal freedom.

UK July 2020 • US July 2020 • 184 pages • 4 bw illus • • PB 9781350106406 • £9.99 / $14.95 UK October 2020 US October 2020 176 pages • ePub 9781350106413 • £10.79 / $11.94 PB 9781474295673 £8.99 / $14.95 • ePdf 9781350106420 • £10.79 / $11.94 ePub 9781474295666 £9.70 / $10.86 • Series: New Mermaids • Methuen Drama ePdf 9781474295659 £9.70 / $10.86 Series: New Mermaids • Methuen Drama

A Doll’s House The Caucasian Chalk Circle Henrik Ibsen Bertolt Brecht Edited by Sophie Duncan, Christ Church, Oxford Edited by Kristopher Imbrigotta, University of University, UK Puget Sound, USA The slamming of the front door at the play's end Brecht projects an ancient Chinese story onto a shatters the romantic masquerade of the Helmers' realistic setting in Soviet Georgia. In a theme that marriage when Nora acknowledges her need for echoes the Judgment of Solomon, two women individual freedom. Ibsen's 1879 play shocked its argue over the possession of a child. Thanks to the first audiences with its radical insights into the social roles of husband unruly judge, Azdak, the peasant Grusha keeps the child she loves, and wife. His portrayal of the caged 'songbird' in his flawed heroine even though she is not its mother. Written while Brecht was in exile in Nora remains one of the most striking dramatic depictions of the late the US during the Second World War, The Caucasian Chalk Circle is nineteenth-century woman. This Methuen Drama Student Edition an example of Brecht's epic theatre. This edition contains introductory contains introductory commentary and notes by Sophie Duncan, commentary and notes by Kristopher Imbriggota. offering a 21st century perspective on the play. UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 144 pages • UK July 2020 • US July 2020 • 160 pages PB 9781350113367 £10.99 / $14.95 • PB 9781350116788 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350113381 £10.99 / $11.94 • ePub 9781350116801 • £11.86 / $13.03 ePdf 9781350113374 £10.99 / $11.94 • ePdf 9781350116795 • £11.86 / $13.03 Series: Student Editions Methuen Drama Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama World English World English

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National Theatre Connections 2020 The Sugar Syndrome Plays for Young People Lucy Prebble, Playwright, UK Mojisola Adebayo, Chris Bush, Alison Carr, John I like the internet. I like that way of talking to Donnelly, Vivienne Franzmann, Hattie Naylor, people. It’s honest. It’s a place where people are Andrew Muir, Frances Poet, Silva Semerciyan & free to say anything they like. And most of what Chris Thompson they say is about sex. National Theatre Connections is an annual festival Dani is 17. She’s looking to meet someone honest which brings new plays for young people to schools and direct. What she finds is a man twice her age and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. Commissioning exciting who thinks she’s an 11-year-old boy. work from leading playwrights, the festival exposes actors aged Lucy Prebble’s debut play is a devastatingly and disturbingly funny 13-19 to the world of professional theatre-making, giving them full exploration of an unlikely friendship, our desire to connect, and the control of a theatrical production - from costume and set design to limits of empathy. stage management and marketing campaigns. This anthology brings together 10 new plays by some of the UK's most prolific and current UK January 2020 • US March 2020 • 80 pages writers and artists alongside notes on each of the texts exploring PB 9781350174573 • £10.99 / $14.95 performance for schools and youth groups. Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 400 pages PB 9781350161009 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePub 9781350161016 • £23.75 / $26.07 ePdf 9781350161023 • £23.75 / $26.07 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

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all of it Death of England Alistair McDowall Roy Williams & Clint Dyer Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta A family in mourning. A man in crisis. BBBBBBBBBB After the death of his dad, Michael is powerless and angry. Face In a state of heartbreak, he confronts the difficult Faces truths about his father’s legacy and the country Smile that shaped him. At the funeral, unannounced and Smiling unprepared, Michael decides it is time to speak. Yes Death of England is a powerful new monologue play by Roy Williams and Clint Dyer that explores family feelings and a country on the Yes brink. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere Yes Yes Yes at the National Theatre, London, in 2020. Bbbbbbbbb UK January 2020 • US March 2020 • 48 pages A short play for one performer about all of it. This edition was PB 9781350167896 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350167919 • £11.86 / $13.03 published to coincide with the world premiere at the Royal Court in ePdf 9781350167902 • £11.86 / $13.03 February 2020, performed by Kate O'Flynn. Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

UK February 2020 • US March 2020 • 64 pages PB 9781350168169 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350168183 • £11.86 / $13.03 ePdf 9781350168176 • £11.86 / $13.03 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Alone in Berlin Whatever Happened to the DRAMA – METHUEN Modern Plays Alistair Beaton, Playwright, UK Jaggy Nettles? A gripping portrait of life in wartime Berlin and a Martin Travers vividly theatrical study of how paranoia can warp a It’s 1978. Unemployment and violence darken every society gripped by the fear of the night-time knock Glasgow close, Scotland have been knocked out of on the door. the World Cup, Grease is at the top of the charts Based on true events, Hans Fallada’s Alone In and seminal Scottish punk band The Jaggy Nettles Berlin follows a quietly courageous couple, Otto are imploding. and Anna Quangel who, in dealing with their own heartbreak, stand up to the brutal reality of the Nazi regime. With the smallest of acts, UK February 2020 • US March 2020 • 80 pages they defy Hitler’s rule with extraordinary bravery, facing the gravest of PB 9781350174412 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350174429 • £11.87 / $13.03 consequences. ePdf 9781350174436 • £11.87 / $13.03 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama UK February 2020 • US March 2020 • 120 pages World English PB 9781350172401 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350172425 • £11.86 / $13.03 ePdf 9781350172418 • £11.86 / $13.03 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Judgment Day The High Table Christopher Shinn Temi Wilkey Ödön von Horváth’s seldom-performed, The dresses are chosen, the venue’s been booked penultimate play from 1937 is an intriguing and the RSVPs are flooding in. But with her hybrid of theatrical genres: part moral fable, part wedding to Leah drawing nearer, Tara’s future is sociopolitical comedy, part noirish thriller. thrown into jeopardy when her Nigerian parents refuse to attend. This kind of love is unheard of, This new adaptation by Pulitzer Prize finalist and they say. It’s not African. High above London, Obie Award-winning playwright Christopher Shinn, suspended between the stars, three of Tara’s ancestors are jolted offers a fresh take on the portrait of a society struggling to take from their eternal rest. Stubborn and opinionated, they keep watch responsibility for its actions in a search for public retribution, themes as family secrets are spilled and the rift widens between Tara and her that still resonate in today’s societal climate. parents. Can these representatives of generations passed keep the

UK February 2020 • US December 2019 • 64 pages family together? PB 9781350159358 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350159372 • £11.86 / $13.03 UK February 2020 • US March 2020 • 112 pages ePdf 9781350159365 • £11.86 / $13.03 PB 9781350147188 • £10.99 / $14.95 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama ePub 9781350147201 • £11.86 / $13.03 World English ePdf 9781350147195 • £11.86 / $13.03 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

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The Glee Club American Moor Richard Cameron Keith Hamilton Cobb The Glee Club, made up of five hard-working, hard- The intelligent, intuitive, indomitable, large, black, drinking miners and a church organist, is preparing American male actor explores Shakespeare’s for the local gala. Though they’re established in Othello, race, and America… not necessarily in that the working men’s clubs, they aren’t exactly at the order. vanguard of a musical revolution. American Moor is a play that examines the This is the summer of ’62. Britain and music are experience and perspective of black men in about to change, so too are the lives of these six men. Will anything America through the metaphor of William Shakespeare’s character, ever be the same again? Othello. It is a play about race in America, but it is also a play about who gets to make art, who gets to play Shakespeare, about the A raucous comedy featuring live music, this new edition of Richard qualitative decline of the American theatre, about actors and acting, Cameron's celebrated play was published to coincide with a 2020 and about the nature of unadulterated love. revival by Out of Joint Theatre Company.

UK March 2020 • US March 2020 • 64 pages UK February 2020 • US March 2020 • 112 pages PB 9781350165304 • £10.99 / $14.95 PB 9781350174351 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350165328 • £11.86 / $13.03 ePub 9781350174368 • £11.86 / $13.03 ePdf 9781350165311 • £11.86 / $13.03 ePdf 9781350174344 • £11.86 / $13.03 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English World English

Contemporary Irish The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro Documentary Theatre Electricidad; Oedipus El Rey; Mojada Mary Raftery, Colin Murphy, Jimmy Murphy, Luis Alfaro Martin Lynch, Domingos Nunez & Grace Dyas Edited by Rosa Andújar, King's College London, Edited by Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos, Staffordshire UK University, UK & Shaun Richards, St Mary's The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro gathers together University College, UK for the first time the three ‘Greek’ plays of the Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre is the first MacArthur Genius Award-winning Chicanx anthology of Irish documentary drama. It features five challenging playwright and performance artist. Based respectively on Sophocles’ plays by Irish writers, and one by an international author, interrogating Electra and Oedipus, and Euripides’ Medea, Alfaro’s Electricidad, and commenting on crucial events of Irish history and of the diaspora, Oedipus El Rey, and Mojada transplant ancient themes and problems with introductory essays by established academics. into the 21st century streets of Los Angeles and New York, in order to give voice to the concerns of the Chicanx and wider Latinx UK May 2020 • US May 2020 • 304 pages communities. PB 9781350094536 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350094529 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350094550 • £31.31 / $34.76 • • ePdf 9781350094543 • £31.31 / $34.76 UK September 2020 US September 2020 224 pages Methuen Drama PB 9781350155404 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350155398 • £75.00 / $100.00 World English ePub 9781350155428 • £26.99 / $29.33 ePdf 9781350155411 • £26.99 / $29.33 Methuen Drama World English

The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Docudrama Series Pivotal Moments in American History A unique play anthology featuring five gripping audio docudramas that each explore pivotal historical events in American history. From debates about the First Amendment and Freedom of the Press to the development of the Atomic Bomb and the Civil Rights movement, these five plays represent key moments in U.S history from the 21st century and dramatise these important themes with originality and flair. Originally commissioned by L.A Theatre Works and presented as audio dramas these plays are designed to be read, studied and above all, performed.

UK May 2020 • US May 2020 • 256 pages PB 9781350135796 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350135789 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350135819 • £31.31 / $34.76 ePdf 9781350135802 • £31.31 / $34.76 Methuen Drama World English

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Becky Shaw Ink Gina Gionfriddo James Graham Becky Shaw is an amusing and cleverly constructed I want to tell you a story. And it's true. That's what comedy about ambition, the cost of being truthful makes it a good fucking story, right, 'cause all the and the perils of a blind date. The fast and funny best stories are true. dialogue navigates between five distinctively Fleet Street. 1969. The Sun rises. perverse and disingenuously dysfunctional characters. From the moment that Becky arrives James Graham's ruthless, red-topped play leads overdressed for her blind date with straight-talking Max, it is clear the with the birth of this country's most influential evening won't go to plan. In the immediate fallout, Becky becomes newspaper – when a young and rebellious Rupert Murdoch asked the an object of devotion for her boss Andrew, who appears to have a impossible and launched its first editor's quest, against all odds, to taste for vulnerable women. In turn Andrew's wife Suzanna turns to give the people what they want. her step-brother Max for comfort, and their desire resurfaces. Ink premiered in London before transferring to the West End and Broadway. It was nominated for both the Olivier and Tony Award for UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 104 pages Best New Play. PB 9781350146365 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350146389 • £11.87 / $13.03 ePdf 9781350146372 • £11.87 / $13.03 UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 144 pages Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama PB 9781350146327 • £10.99 / $14.95 World English ePub 9781350146341 • £11.87 / $13.03 ePdf 9781350146334 • £11.87 / $13.03 Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama World English

Now or Later Red Velvet Christopher Shinn Lolita Chakrabarti Election night in the U.S. and things are looking Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 1833. Edmund rosy for the Democratic Party. Holed up in a hotel Kean, the greatest actor of his generation, has watching the results flood in are the likely President- collapsed on stage whilst playing Othello. A young elect, his wife, advisors and twenty-year-old son black American actor has been asked to take over John Jnr. Every speech, interview and photocall the role. But as the public riot in the streets over has been carefully controlled and meticulously the abolition of slavery, how will the cast, critics and orchestrated, all leading up to this big night. audience react to the revolution taking place in the theatre? At the same time controversial photos of John Jnr are gathering Lolita Chakrabarti's play creates imagined experiences based on the momentum on the internet. Whilst his father's advisors work against little-known, but true, story of Ira Aldridge, an African-American actor DRAMA – METHUEN Modern Classics / Acting the clock on damage limitation, it's up to father and son to try and who, in the 19th century, built an incredible reputation on the stages reach an agreement. of London and Europe.

UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 72 pages UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 112 pages PB 9781350146440 • £10.99 / $14.95 PB 9781350149137 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350146464 • £11.87 / $13.03 ePub 9781350149151 • £11.87 / $13.03 ePdf 9781350146457 • £11.87 / $13.03 ePdf 9781350149144 • £11.87 / $13.03 Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama World English World English

Three Uses Of The Knife The Invisible Actor On the Nature and Purpose of Drama Yoshi Oida & Lorna Marshall David Mamet The Invisible Actor presents the captivating and unique methods of the distinguished Japanese This is a classic work on the power and importance actor and director, Yoshi Oida. While a member of drama by renowned American playwright, of Peter Brook's theatre company, Yoshi Oida screenwriter and essayist David Mamet. developed a masterful approach to acting.Written In this arresting series of essays, David Mamet with Lorna Marshall, Yoshi Oida explains that explains the necessity, purpose and demands once the audience becomes openly aware of the actor's method of drama. In three tightly woven essays of characteristic force and becomes too conscious of the actor's artistry, the wonder of and resonance, Mamet speaks about the connection of art to life, performance dies. In a new foreword to accompany the Bloomsbury language to power, imagination to survival, public spectacle to Revelations edition, Oida revisits the questions that have informed his private script. Self-assured and filled with autobiographical touches, career as an actor and explores how his skilful approach to acting has it is a call to art and arms, a manifesto that reminds us of the singular shaped the wider contours of his life. power of the theatre to keep us sane, whole and human. UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 144 pages UK October 2020 • 96 pages PB 9781350148260 • £14.99 / $19.95 PB 9781350128958 • £12.99 ePub 9781350148284 • £16.19 / $18.46 ePub 9781350129009 • £14.03 ePdf 9781350148277 • £16.19 / $18.46 ePdf 9781350129016 • £14.03 Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

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Actors' and Performers' The Clowning Workbook for Yearbook 2021 Actors and Performers Essential Contacts for Stage, Screen and A Practical Course with Video Radio Jon Davison, Royal Central School of Speech "An essential tool for all actors" and Drama, University of London, UK - Christine Payne, Equity The Clowning Workbook uses the techniques and This well-established and respected directory insights of clowning to improve and expand the supports actors in their search for work on stage, screen and radio. It scope of classical actor training. Author Jon Davison draws on original is the only directory to provide detailed information for each listing workshops and research to provide practical clowning exercises to and specific advice on how to approach companies and individuals, develop wider acting practice in interesting and innovative ways. saving hours of further research. From agents and casting directors to Starting with practical workshops, he offers guidance and explanation producing theatres, showreel companies, photographers and much to key concepts in clowning including the dynamics of clown- more, this essential reference book editorially selects only the most audience relationship, improvisation, movement and voice, offering relevant and reputable contacts for the actor. fresh and inspiring angles from which to view classical actor training.

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The Moving Body (Le Corps The Uncapturable Poétique) The Fleeting Art of Theatre Teaching Creative Theatre Rubén Szuchmacher Jacques Lecoq Translated by William Gregory, King's College Translated by David Bradby London, UK The Uncapturable is a wide-ranging reflection on Published for the first time in the Theatre the art of the mise en scène from the perspective Makers series, this new edition of Lecoq's classic of leading Argentinian theatre director Rubén work features an updated foreword by Simon McBurney, plus an Szuchmacher. Szuchmacher defines theatre as the confluence of four introduction by Mark Evans, considering the context for Lecoq's work art forms - architecture, visual art, sound and literature - whose works and teaching, his pedagogy and the impact that Lecoq and his school only truly exist in the moment of encounter with an audience. He have had on modern theatre practice. In this book, Lecoq shares his argues that, by taking full account of these four art forms, the director unique philosopy of performance, improvisation, masks, movement of today can still create work that innovates and inspires. The book is and gesture, which together form one of the greatest influences on translated from the Spanish by William Gregory. contemporary theatre.

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Adrian Lester and Lolita Movement Directors in Chakrabarti: A Working Diary Contemporary Theatre Adrian Lester & Lolita Chakrabarti Conversations on Craft In this insightful joint working diary, the creative Ayse Tashkiran, Royal Central School of Speech powerhouse of a couple Lolita Chakrabarti and Drama, University of London, UK and Adrian Lester chronicle 16 months of their Over time, we have witnessed the emergence of fascinating working lives, including their relative the movement director as a core component of experiences working on the stage adaptation of Life contemporary theatre, yet it is an ephemeral and shifting practice. of Pi, an original series of monologues about the NHS - The Greatest Through a series of in-depth interviews with leading movement Wealth (Old Vic, London), the film adaptation of Red Velvet and the directors, Ayse Tashkiran examines the processes of creativity, Starz TV's series The Rook, among many other projects. As readers, collaboration and innovation for the moving body in performance. we experience, first-hand, their experiences as two of the most These conversations reveal new areas of practice; provide insight proactive and versatile theatre makers today, working across a range into the role of the movement director; draw attention to several key of media and exciting collaborations. practitioners; highlight diverse movement approaches; investigate the differences and similarities between movement direction and UK August 2020 • US August 2020 • 224 pages PB 9781350092778 • £18.99 / $24.95 choreography; and propose future developments in the field. ePub 9781350092785 • £20.50 / $22.81 • ePdf 9781350092792 £20.50 / $22.81 UK July 2020 • US July 2020 • 288 pages • Series: Theatre Makers Methuen Drama PB 9781350054455 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350054462 • £65.00 ePub 9781350054486 • £23.74 / $26.07 ePdf 9781350054479 • £23.74 / $26.07 Series: Theatre Makers • Methuen Drama

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Michael Chekhov Technique in The Theatre of Rupert Goold the Twenty-First Century Radical Approaches to Adaptation and New Pathways New Writing Edited by Cass Fleming, Goldsmiths, University Sarah Grochala, Royal Central School of Speech of London, UK & Tom Cornford, University of and Drama, London, UK York, UK This is the first book to provide a survey, analysis The culmination of an innovative practice-based and practical guide to the work and processes of research project, Michael Chekhov Technique in the Twenty-first the director Rupert Goold who since the 1990s has Century is a thorough and fascinating investigation into new uses gained a reputation as one of the UK’s most exciting and provocative of the Michael Chekhov technique which draws on clusters of theatre directors. Co-authored by Rupert Goold and Sarah Grochala historical writings and archive materials to investigate how we can with contributions from key creative collaborators and members of use Chekhov’s technique for other areas of theatre-making practice. Goold’s producing team, it offers a backstage view of both Goold’s The central areas explored are: Devising and Catalyst Direction; work and the work of other major UK theatre artists he has nurtured. Collaborating with Playwrights; and Scenographic practice. The It gives an inside view of the processes behind some of Goold’s most book also investigates the potential use of the technique in relation successful productions and explores in detail Goold’s approach to to other areas of performer-training, as well as looking beyond the making work that asks provocative questions of the modern world in theatre to applied performance and therapeutic contexts. the most theatrical ways imaginable.

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Applied Theatre: Economies Prison Theatre and the Global Edited by Molly Mullen, University of Auckland, Crisis of Incarceration New Zealand Ashley E. Lucas, University of Michigan, Ann Applied Theatre: Economies addresses a Arbor, USA notoriously problematic area of applied theatre, Examining plays about incarceration and theatre asking: Is it all about the money? Are the aims and within prisons across the globe, this volume offers forms of applied theatre inevitably determined by a uniquely international account and exploration the economic conditions in which it is produced? of prison theatre. By discussing a range of Will applied theatre makers always, ultimately, align with the agendas performance practices tied to incarceration, this book looks at the of the donors on which they depend? Are there sustainable ways to ways in which playwrights and prisoners use theatre as a means to finance or resource applied theatre that do not undermine its social identify, reify, and critique national discourses on criminal justice. and artistic values or conflict with the interests of participants? Distinct examples of theatre performed in prisons are explored in a section of critical perspectives by international scholars and UK March 2020 • US March 2020 • 280 pages PB 9781350154834 • £28.99 / $39.95 practitioners exploring and considering the rationale and the Previously published in HB 9781350001701 impact on audiences and actors. A section of additional resources, ePub 9781350001718 • £81.00 / $89.10

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The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust Grzegorz Niziolek, Jagiellonian University, Poland Translated by Ursula Phillips, University College London, UK Grzegorz Niziolek’s The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and society from 1945 to the present. It reveals the role of theatre within Polish society as a crucial medium of collective memory – and collective forgetting – of the trauma of the Holocaust. Through close study of key productions and the work of post-war directors the author shows how six decades of Polish theatre have been shaped by the perspective of the Holocaust in which its presence is variously visible, or displaced.

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A Companion to British-Jewish The Schaubühne Berlin under Theatre Since the 1950s Thomas Ostermeier Edited by Eckart Voigts, TU Braunschweig, Reinventing Directors’ Theatre Germany, Jeanette Malkin, Hebrew University Edited by Peter M. Boenisch, Royal Central Jerusalem, Israel & Sarah Jane Ablett School of Speech and Drama, University of The first of its kind, this companion to British-Jewish London, UK. theatre brings a neglected dimension in the work On the 20th anniversary of artistic director Thomas of many prominent British theatre-makers to the Ostermeier’s time at Berlin's Schaubühne Theatre, this important fore. Its structure reflects the historical development of British-Jewish study reflects on the contribution he has made to contemporary theatre from the 1950s onwards, also covering the new generation theatre. International expert theatre scholars come together in this of British-Jewish playwrights. Included in the book are fascinating original study while productions by Katie Mitchell, Falk Richter and interviews with significant theatre practitioners working today, Sasha Waltz, are also delved into. Included exclusively in this book is including Ryan Craig, Patrick Marber, John Nathan, Julia Pascal, the first English translation of Schaubühne’s original manifesto “The Nina Raine and Nicholas Hytner. Overall, this companion initiates Mission”; a contribution from Ostermeier’s long-term co-director Jens an important intercultural dialogue by analysing the ways in which Hillje; and interviews with Thomas Ostermeier and Katie Mitchell. these British-Jewish dramatists and directors have influenced and co- created contemporary British theatre.

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Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty- Robert Lepage / Ex Machina First Century Theatre Revolutions in Theatrical Space Politics, Affect, Responsibility James Reynolds, Kingston University London, UK Marissia Fragkou, Canterbury Christ Church Through the course of his analysis, James Reynolds University, UK illustrates that underpinning the inter-disciplinary Presenting a critical investigation of the eclecticism of Ex Machina's practice is a profound reinvigoration of the political in contemporary engagement with social, cultural and political British theatre, Marissia Fragkou's study provides a fresh difference. Running through the work is a drive understanding of how theatre has engaged with issues of human to create performances built around a principle of contradiction, vulnerability and responsibility in the last two decades. By focusing on through which audiences can apprehend difference in its myriad, the spiralling of uncertainty in the new millennium, the study makes a infinite forms. Consequently, Robert Lepage / Ex Machina explores case for reading precarity as a political theatrical trope which carries this embracing of difference in all its depth and complexity, opening the potential to re-animate our understanding of the ‘human’ and a key way for readers to develop both their practical and theoretical communal responsibility for the lives of others. appreciation of this practice.

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Nomadic Theatre Theory for Theatre Studies: Mobilizing Theory and Practice on the European Stage Memory Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink, Utrecht University, Milija Gluhovic, University of Warwick, UK The Netherlands Part of the Theory for Theatre Studies series This study introduces the concept of ‘nomadic which introduces core theoretical concepts theatre’ as a tool for analyzing mobile performances that underpin the discipline for undergraduate and performative installations. It includes detailed readers, Memory provides an introduction to the analysis of contemporary performance practices by leading European intersections between contemporary theatre and artists, including Rimini Protokoll, Dries Verhoeven, Ontroerend Goed performance, the interdisciplinary field of memory studies, and and Signa, and demonstrates how mobile performances radically current preoccupations with the politics of memory across the globe. rethink the conditions of the stage and alter our understanding of Drawing on vivid theatrical examples from the 20th and 21st centuries spectatorship. Nomadic Theatre takes an integrated approach to and across several continents, the book compellingly illustrates the theory and practice, instigates connections across disciplinary fields, centrality of memory for the theatre worldwide. and feeds dramaturgical analysis with insights derived from media theory, urban philosophy, cartography, architecture and game studies. UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 144 pages PB 9781474246675 • £12.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781474246651 • £45.00 / $60.00 ePub 9781474246682 • £12.99 / $14.12 UK July 2020 • US July 2020 • 224 pages • 12 bw illus ePdf 9781474246644 • £12.99 / $14.12 PB 9781350175082 • £21.99 / $29.95 Series: Theory for Theatre Studies • Methuen Drama Previously published in HB 9781350051034 ePub 9781350051041 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781350051058 • £81.00 / $89.10 Series: Thinking Through Theatre • Methuen Drama World English

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Theatre Blogging Applied Theatre The Emergence of a Critical Culture A Pedagogy of Utopia Megan Vaughan, Live Art Development Agency, Selina Busby, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK University of London, UK To what extent have theatre bloggers established This book offers a critical consideration of long-term applied and a new critical culture? Has the potential of the form participatory theatre projects in India, Malta, New Zealand, the USA been realised? Megan Vaughan contextualises and the UK to consider a key question: Is the twenty-first century key writings with current research, and brings past the end for applied theatre as it was understood to function at the and present practitioners into conversation with one another. The end of the previous century? Drawing on 20 years of practice in work of prominent and influential early adopters such as Encore prisons, youth theatres and with street and slum-dwellers, this book Theatre Magazine and Chris Goode in London; George Hunka and focuses on long-term interventions that raise troubling questions Isaac Butler in New York; Jill Dolan at Princeton University and Alison about applied theatre, cultural colonialism and power, while arguing Croggon in Melbourne are considered alongside those who followed that community or participatory theatre conversely has the potential them. to generate a resilient sense of optimism, or what Busby terms a ‘nebulous utopia’. UK February 2020 • US February 2020 • 280 pages • 10 bw illus • • • PB 9781350068810 £24.99 / $34.95 HB 9781350068827 £75.00 / $100.00 UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 240 pages • 7 bw illus • ePub 9781350068834 £26.99 / $29.33 HB 9781350086111 • £75.00 / $100.00 • ePdf 9781350068841 £26.99 / $29.33 ePub 9781350086166 • £74.99 / $81.49 Methuen Drama ePdf 9781350086173 • £74.99 / $81.49 Methuen Drama

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Tradition Building and Transmission Processes Puppets and Cities Stefan Aquilina, School of Performing Arts, Articulating Identities in Southeast Asia University of Malta, Malta Jennifer Goodlander, Indiana University, USA What did modern theatre in Russia look like and The book addresses how puppetry complements how did it influence global theatre at the start of and combines with urban spaces to articulate the 20th century? present and future cultural and national identities. Puppetry in Southeast Asia is one of the oldest and Theatre Studies DRAMA – METHUEN Theatre This book offers fresh readings of the Russian theatre scene from most dynamic genres of performance. Bangkok, 1898-1934 through a unique history-theory-practice approach with Jakarta, Phnom Penh, and other dynamic cities are expanding specific attention to the transmission of Russian theatrical practices and rapidly changing. Performance brings people together, offers to other cultures. Stefan Aquilina argues that it is through the process opportunities for economic growth, and bridges public and private of transmission from one culture to another that theatre traditions are spheres. Whether it is a traditional shadow performance borrowing formed and consolidated. from Star Wars or giant puppets parading down the street, this book This investigation is accompanied by a series of practical workshops examines how puppets operate as objects and in performance to and exercises to be practiced in the rehearsal room and studio, make culture come alive. bringing the migration of Russian modernist theatre into the present. UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 224 pages • 26 bw illus UK August 2020 • US August 2020 • 240 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9781350170858 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350066083 • £75.00 / $100.00 Previously published in HB 9781350044418 ePub 9781350066090 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePub 9781350044425 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781350066106 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781350044432 • £81.00 / $89.10 Methuen Drama Methuen Drama

American Theatre Ensembles American Theatre Ensembles Volume 1 Volume 2 Post-1970: Mabou Mines, Theatre X, Post-1995: Rude Mechs, The Builders Goat Island, Lookingglass, Elevator Association, Pig Iron, Radiohole, The Repair Service and SITI Company Civilians and 600 Highwaymen Edited by Mike Vanden Heuvel, University of Edited by Mike Vanden Heuvel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Wisconsin-Madison, USA This volume presents the history, processes and achievements of A companion to American Theatre Ensembles Volume 1, this volume American theatre companies which use collective and/or ensemble- charts the development and achievements of theatre companies based techniques to generate new work. Focusing on those working since 1995, bringing together the diffuse generation companies that arose during 1970-1995 and their subsequent work, of ensembles working within a context of media saturation and it features case studies of 6 companies: Theatre X, Mabou Mines, SITI epistemological and social fragmentation. Ensembles examined Company, Goat Island, Elevator Repair Service, and Lookingglass. are Rude Mechs, The Builders Association, Pig Iron, Radiohole, The Preliminary chapters provide an overview of ensemble-based creation Civilians and 600 Highwaymen. The introductory chapters provide within the historical and cultural contexts of the period, while the case an overview of ensemble-based creation within the general historical studies cover a history of development and methods; key productions and cultural contexts of the period, followed by a detailed study of and projects; critical reception, and a chronology of significant the evolution of ensemble-based work. The contributors' case studies productions. present close readings of the companies' most prominent works.

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Staging Technology Consuming Scenography Medium, Machinery, and Modern Drama The Shopping Mall as a Theatrical Craig N. Owens, Drake University, IA, USA Experience Staging Technology examines performance works in the European Nebojša Tabacki, Independent scholar and American canon and beyond from 1920-2018 that represent Consuming Scenography explores the ways in complex or fraught human encounters with technology. By focusing which scenography is used to create a global on key works by writers including Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, cultural impact and accelerate profits in the site- Heiner Müller, Sophie Treadwell, Harold Pinter and Arthur Miller, it specific context of themed shopping malls. It considers how those technologies themselves have influenced 20th analyses the effect of architectural, aesthetic, spatial, material and and 21st-century playwrights’, composers’, and librettists’ choice of sensory design through performative encounters with consumers in subject matter. Transforming how we think about the interrelationship order to offer a better understanding of performance design. In doing between theatre practice, performance, narrative drama, and text, so, this book confronts the issue of how, in the commercial context it explains how these aesthetic modes speak to and about the of privately owned businesses, scenography can reflect upon culture advanced technologies that have come to saturate our everyday lives. and society and the challenges it faces in doing so.

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Digital Scenography Performing Specimens 30 Years of Experimentation and Contemporary Performance And Innovation in Performance and Interactive Biomedical Display Media Gianna Bouchard, University of Birmingham, UK Neill O’Dwyer, Dublin Institute of Technology, Through an examination of selected performance Ireland and theatre works that turn the performer’s body This book uses digital media theory to explore or another’s body into a specimen, this book maps contemporary understandings of expanded out the relations between these performative acts scenography as spatial practice. It surveys and analyses a selection and medical practices of collecting, storing and showing specimens of ground-breaking, experimental digital media performances that in a variety of modes and contexts. Moving from an examination comprise a genealogy spanning the last 30 years, in order to show of the medical and historical contexts of specimen display in the how the arrival of digital technologies have profoundly transformed museum and the anatomy theatre to contemporary performance, the performance practice. The 30-year genealogy surveyed includes book engages with examples from live art, bio-art, popular culture works by Troika Ranch, Klaus Obermaier, Chunky Moves, Onion Lab, and theatre since the year 2000 that stage the performer’s body as a Sila Sveta, Adrian Mondot, Maria Takeuchi, Stelarc, Orlan, Symbiotica, specimen. Blast Theory, and a reflection on practice-based virtual/augmented reality projects by the author. In addition, the work includes artists’ UK January 2020 • US January 2020 • 192 pages • 5 bw illus HB 9781350035676 • £75.00 / $100.00 interviews and opinions. ePub 9781350035683 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781350035690 • £81.00 / $89.10 • UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 224 pages • 20 bw illus Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues Methuen Drama HB 9781350107311 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350107328 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePdf 9781350107335 • £81.00 / $89.10 Series: Performance and Design • Methuen Drama

Dance and Activism Falling ... Through Dance 100 Years of Radical Dance Across the Shame, Laughter, Dying and Creative World (1920-2020) Potency of Gravity Dana Mills, University of Oxford, UK Emilyn Claid, University of Roehampton, UK This study focuses on dance as an activist practice This book is about processes of falling. Dance and in and of itself, across geographical locations and movement-based performers understand how over the course of a century, from 1920 to 2020. practices of falling initiate supportive ways of being Through doing so, it considers how dance has been creatively alive in the world. An intentional practice an empowering agent for political action throughout civilisation. of falling, experienced through somatic (mind-body) movement Dance and Activism offers a glimpse of different strategies of knowledge is a core element of dance practice, performance and mobilizing the human body for good and justice for all, and captures movement-based therapy. This physical practice of falling affects both the increasing political activism epitomized by bodies moving on the psychological awareness and metaphorical representation, and is key streets in some of the most turbulent political situations. to the events, ideas and theories presented in the book.

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The Great North American Stage Directors Set 2 Volumes 5-8: Directors and the Theatrical Avant-garde, post-1970 DRAMA – MAJOR REFERENCE WORKS 4-Volume Set Edited by James Peck, Muhlenberg College, USA The Great North American Stage Directors Set 2 offers an authoritative account of the work, lineage and legacy of the major theatre directors since 1970, where the role of the director is seen primarily as an auteur. In each of the 4 volumes, a cluster of 3 related directors is analysed in detail within a wider artistic context, offering a rich and substantial account of the development of artistic practice and the artform as a whole. Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £295.00 / $400.00

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