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DRAMA & PERFORMANCE STUDIES NEW BOOKS CATALOGUE 2018-19 ARDEN PERFORMANCE EDITIONS Taking you from page to stage Arden Performance Editions are designed with the practical All needs of actors and drama students in mind, while providing £6.99/ the trustworthy scholarship of the Arden Shakespeare. $9.95 9781474253888 9781474280143 9781474245197 9781474272094 9781474272346 432pp • 216x138mm 360pp • 216x138mm 264pp • 216x138mm 344pp • 216x138mm 408pp • 216x138mm PLAYTEXT “The Arden Performance Editions so far represent a much-needed and important contribution. In such a crowded market, it is remarkable to see editions that feel so fresh, relevant, and necessary.” Studies in Theatre and Performance FACING-PAGE NOTES Watch the series editors introduce the series at bloomsbury.com/ardenperformanceeditions www.bloomsbury.com/arden Arden_PE_catalogue advert_1.0.indd 1 31/05/2018 17:42 This year, Bloomsbury Academic celebrates ARDEN PERFORMANCE EDITIONS Contents our 10th anniversary In our short history, we’ve become an award-winning publisher across the humanities, social sciences and visual arts and combined Drama and Performance Studies the incredible publishing histories of Methuen Drama, The Arden Shakespeare, T&T Clark and Fairchild Books in one place. And we’re still growing: I.B. Tauris, a leading publisher in Middle East Studies, Theatre Studies ..................................................2 International Studies, History, Politics and Visual Culture joined Taking you from page to stage Bloomsbury in 2018! Performance Studies ..........................................8 EBooks Arden Performance Editions are designed with the practical All Individual eBook: available for your e-reader Performance Practice........................................10 Library eBook: available for institution-wide access and also for pdf needs of actors and drama students in mind, while providing £6.99/ sale to individuals See the website for details of vendors, or to purchase individual the trustworthy scholarship of the Arden Shakespeare. $9.95 Theatre Practice ................................................13 eBooks direct. Library eBook prices are available from your supplier. Modern Drama - Modern Plays ........................17 Review Copies For copies of books for review in journals, please email Modern Drama - Play Collections.....................24 [email protected] in North and South America and [email protected] in the UK and rest of world. Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama ........26 Standing Orders Many of our series are available on a standing order basis. For further information contact our trade ordering departments listed Major Reference Works..................................35 on pages 38 and 39. Translation Rights Representatives and Agents .............................38 Translation rights for all titles are available unless otherwise indicated. Pricing and Availability 9781474253888 9781474280143 9781474245197 9781474272094 9781474272346 Editorial Contacts .............................................39 Whilst we endeavour to ensure that prices, publication dates and 432pp • 216x138mm 360pp • 216x138mm 264pp • 216x138mm 344pp • 216x138mm 408pp • 216x138mm other details in this catalogue are correct on going to press, they are subject to change without further notice. 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Registered in England No. 01984336. www.bloomsbury.com/arden www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 1 Arden_PE_catalogue advert_1.0.indd 1 31/05/2018 17:42 Bloomsbury Revelations Bringing together books and thinkers that have opened up startling new ways of looking at the world, the Bloomsbury Revelations series celebrates the originality and excellence of Bloomsbury's non-fiction publishing. Including books by the likes of Winston Churchill, Slavoj Zizek, Ferdinand de Saussure, Ronald Dworkin, Constantin Stanislavski and Gilles Deleuze, this is an essential library of the thinkers who have fundamentally shaped the way we see the modern world. Brecht on Performance Brecht On Theatre Messingkauf and Modelbooks Bertolt Brecht Bertolt Brecht Edited by Marc Silberman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, Steve Giles, University Edited by Tom Kuhn, St Hugh's College, of Nottingham, UK & Tom Kuhn, St Hugh's Oxford University, UK, Steve Giles, University of THEATRE STUDIES THEATRE College, Oxford University, UK Nottingham, UK & Marc Silberman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA "The new Brecht on Theatre improves on John Willett’s original version, introducing some "Brecht on Performance is a vital aid to English enlightening texts that were not previously accessible to an speakers in understanding Brecht as a theatre practitioner as well English-speaking readership ... Finely conceived and beautifully as what constitutes Brechtian performance. For the first time, a edited." Modern Language Review full edition of the unfinished Messingkauf"— translated as Buying Brass — is available in English. [This book] will allow Anglophone Charting the development of Brecht’s thinking over four decades, scholars and performance practitioners to revisit Brecht’s influence the volume demonstrates how the theories of Epic Theatre and as a writer, theoretician, and theatre maker specifically, but also — Verfremdung evolved, and contains notes and essays on the staging more generally — the relationship between political thought and of The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, aesthetics, and between the theory and the practice of making Galileo, and many other plays. art." TDR: The Drama Review UK October 2018 • 392 pages • 39 bw illus PB 9781350068902 • £19.99 UK October 2018 • US October 2018 • 328 pages • 50 bw illus Individual eBook 9781350068919 PB 9781350077065 • £19.99 / $26.95 Library eBook 9781350068926 Individual eBook 9781350077072 Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic Library eBook 9781350077089 World English (excluding USA) Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic World English The Shifting Point Impro Forty Years of Theatrical Exploration, Improvisation and the Theatre 1946–87 Keith Johnstone Peter Brook In this landmark work, now available in the Brook's account covers many of the groundbreaking Bloomsbury Revelations series, Keith Johnstone productions that cemented his reputation as 'one provides a revelatory guide to rediscovering and of the artistic geniuses of our time' (San Franciso unlocking the imagination. Admired for its clarity Herald): his controversial productions of King Lear and zest, Impro lays bare the techniques and and Romeo and Juliet; the 3-month period in Africa which culminated exercises used to foster spontaneity and narrative skill for actors. in The Conference of the Birds; Marat/Sade; filming King Lear and Divided into four sections, 'Status', 'Spontaneity', 'Narrative Skills' Lord of the Flies, and the epic The Mahabharata. With Brook's and 'Masks and Trance', arranged more or less in the order a group reflections on the problems of Shakespeare and opera, and on a might approach them, the book sets out the specific approaches range of modern theatre artists including Grotowski, Gordon Craig which Johnstone has himself found most useful and most stimulating. and Samuel Beckett, The Shifting Point provides a uniquely revealing The result is a fascinating exploration of the nature of spontaneous account of 4 decades of artistic exploration. creativity. UK October 2018 • 232 pages PB 9781350069428 • £18.99 UK October 2018 • 208 pages Individual eBook 9781350069435 PB 9781350069039 • £14.99 Library eBook 9781350069442 Individual eBook 9781350069046 Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic Library eBook 9781350069053 World All Languages (excluding USA) Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury