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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 Academic World English (excluding USA)
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Rise Up! Reader in Tragedy Broadway and American Society from An Anthology of Classical Criticism to 'Angels in America’ to ‘Hamilton’ Contemporary Theory Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, USA Edited by Marcus Nevitt, University of Sheffield, Organized chronologically, this lively and readable UK & Tanya Pollard, Brooklyn College, The City work tells the story of Broadway’s renaissance from University of New York, USA the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, via the disaster This unique anthology presents the most important that was Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark through historical essays on tragedy, ranging from the unparalleled financial, artistic and political success of Lin-Manuel antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged Miranda’s Hamilton. Chris Jones was in the theatres when and where chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of theories it mattered. He takes readers from the moment when Tony Kushner’s and philosophies of tragedy, enabling readers to consider the ways angel crashed (quite literally) through the ceiling of prejudice and in which different varieties of environmentalist, feminist, leftist and religious intolerance to the triumph of Hamilton, with the coda of the postcolonial thought have transformed the status of tragedy, and the Broadway cast addressing a new Republican vice-president from the idea of the tragic, for recent generations of artists, critics and thinkers. stage. Students of literature and theatre will find this collection an invaluable and accessible guide to writing from Plato and Aristotle through to UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 240 pages 21st-century theorists. PB 9781350071933 • £17.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781350071940 Library eBook 9781350071957 UK February 2019 • US March 2019 • 336 pages Methuen Drama PB 9781474270427 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781474270434 • £90.00 / $122.00 Individual eBook 9781474270441 Library eBook 9781474270458 Methuen Drama World English
Theory for Theatre Studies Series Editors: Kim Solga, Western University, Canada & Susan Bennett, University of Calgary, Canada Theory for Theatre Studies meets the need for accessible, mid-length volumes that unpack key words that lie at the core of the discipline. Aimed primarily at undergraduate students and secondarily at postgraduates and researchers, these volumes feature both background material historicizing the term, and forward-looking research into intersecting theoretical trends in the field. Case studies ground volumes in praxis, and additional online resources ensure readers are equipped with the necessary skills and understanding to move deeper into the discipline.
Theory for Theatre Studies: Theory for Theatre Studies: Sound Space Susan Bennett, University of Calgary, Canada Kim Solga, Western University, Canada Sound provides the first overview of relevant critical This book provides the first overview for students theory for students and researchers in theatre and researchers of relevant critical theory relating to and performance studies. Exploring areas such as this fundamental aspect of theatre and performance. music, speech and soundscape, this volume will It examines the 'spatial turn' in 20th-century theatre open up the study of theatrical production and live and performance making – and criticism – and performance to engage more effectively its aural dimensions. By way establishes 5 frameworks for thinking through the spatial turn. A of developed case studies, readers will access new methodologies range of case studies from the contemporary world of theatre and and approaches for their own exploration of 'sound' as a performance performance demonstrate how these frameworks continue to shape component. In an engagement with the burgeoning interdisciplinary and impact the ways in which space emerges as a topic of critical field of sound studies, this book will alert theatre and performance discussion today. The volume also explores new trends and theatre's studies scholars and students to new work important to our fields. engagement with the spaces of work, labour and capital.
UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 144 pages UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 208 pages PB 9781474246477 • £12.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781474246460 • £45.00 / $60.00 PB 9781350006065 • £12.99 / $17.95 • HB 9781350006072 • £45.00 / $60.00 Individual eBook 9781474246484 Individual eBook 9781350006089 Library eBook 9781474246453 Library eBook 9781350006096 Series: Theory for Theatre Studies • Methuen Drama Series: Theory for Theatre Studies • Methuen Drama
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Series Editors: Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland & Kevin J. Wetmore, Loyola Marymount The Theatre of Tom Murphy University, USA Playwright Adventurer Ranging across the 20th and 21st centuries, Methuen Drama's Critical Nicholas Grene, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Companions series covers playwrights, theatre makers, movements and "The best and most complete [book on Murphy] periods of international theatre and performance. Drawing on original that anyone has yet produced and all future research, each volume provides a critical survey and analysis of a body scholars and critics will use it as a diving board of work by one author, giving attention to both text and performance. from which to plunge into Murphy's deep and turbulent waters." Fintan O’Toole, The Irish Times Tom Murphy shot to fame with the London production of A Whistle in the Dark in 1961, establishing him as the outstanding Irish playwright Irish Drama and Theatre Since of his generation. The international success of DruidMurphy in THEATRE STUDIES THEATRE 2012–13 served to underline his continuing appeal and importance. 1950 This provides an overview of all his work and a detailed reading of his Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland, most significant texts. Galway, Ireland Drawing on major new archival discoveries and UK December 2018 • US December 2018 • 272 pages PB 9781472568106 • £21.99 / $29.95 recent research, Patrick Lonergan presents an Previously published in HB 9781472568113 innovative, highly readable and informative account Individual eBook 9781472568120 of Irish drama and theatre since 1950. The book Library eBook 9781472568137 Series: Critical Companions • Methuen Drama focuses on the many Irish dramatists who have achieved international prominence during that period, starting with Beckett and Brendan Behan in the 1950s, continuing with Brian Friel and Tom Murphy in the 1960s, and concluding with the many great dramatists who emerged in the late 1990s – including Martin McDonagh, Enda Walsh, Conor The Drama and Theatre of Sarah McPherson and Marina Carr. Ruhl
UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 288 pages • 15 bw illus Amy Muse, University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, PB 9781474262651 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781474262644 • £65.00 / $88.00 Minnesota, USA Individual eBook 9781474262668 Library eBook 9781474262675 This study provides a clear and accessible analysis of Series: Critical Companions • Methuen Drama Sarah Ruhl's ouevre, giving readers an experience of her plays, not just an explanation of them. Through a finely-grained, dimensional account of each play, readers are immersed in Ruhl’s unique idiom; in themes of love and death, mourning and loss, intimacy and faith, and in inventive The Theatre of Anthony Neilson stagecraft to articulate consciousness onstage. Enriched by engaging Trish Reid, Kingston University, London, UK essays by three scholars, a roundtable discussion with female directors of her generation, this is a companionable guide for students of "Significant to the field of theatre and American literature and theatre studies. performance because of its status as the first full-
length study of the playwright, but its importance UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 232 pages is intensified by its deep thought, rigorous HB 9781350007819 • £75.00 / $102.00 research and superb prose." Studies in Theatre and Individual eBook 9781350007826 Library eBook 9781350007802 Performance Series: Critical Companions • Methuen Drama This volume provides the first full-length study of both Neilson’s plays and his innovative rehearsal methodology. As well as providing a
detailed account of each play Trish Reid includes an extensive new interview with Neilson and with many of his key collaborators. The Theatre and Films of Conor UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 224 pages McPherson PB 9781472570291 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781472570307 Conspicuous Communities Individual eBook 9781472570314 Library eBook 9781472570321 Eamonn Jordan, University College Dublin, Series: Critical Companions • Methuen Drama Ireland This book offers a vibrant and detailed critical analysis of the plays and films of Conor McPherson. It considers issues of gender, class, violence, wealth and the supernatural in relation to the conditions and expressions of agency in the cultural, political and contexts in which the work is written and performed. Supplemented by a number of contributed critical and performance perspectives, including an interview with Conor McPherson, the volume provides readers with a clear analysis of the work and accounts for its popular and critical success.
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4 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] Applied Theatre THEATRE STUDIES Series Editors: Michael Balfour, Griffith University, Australia & Sheila Preston, University of East London, UK The Applied Theatre series brings together leading international scholars who engage with and advance the field. Volumes offer a theoretical framework and introductory survey of the field addressed, combined with a range of case studies illustrating, and critically engaging with, practice.
Applied Theatre: Creative Applied Theatre: Economies Ageing Edited by Molly Mullen, University of Auckland, Sheila McCormick, University of Salford, UK New Zealand Applied Theatre: Economies addresses a notoriously Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing examines the problematic area of applied theatre, asking: Is it all complex social, political and cultural needs of older about the money? Are the aims and forms of applied adults and asks how contemporary applied theatre theatre inevitably determined by the economic responds to those needs. This publication allows an conditions in which it is produced? Will applied examination of innovative national and international theatre makers always, ultimately, align with the agendas of the donors practice in applied theatre that responds to the needs of older adults on which they depend? Are there sustainable ways to finance or to encourage outcomes such as wellbeing and social inclusion. The resource applied theatre that do not undermine its social and artistic volume also questions how we, as a society, wish to respond to the values or conflict with the interests of participants? complex needs of older adults and the process of ageing and how applied theatre practices can help us do so in a way that is both UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 280 pages positive and inclusive. HB 9781350001701 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350001718 UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 272 pages • 6 bw illus Library eBook 9781350001725 PB 9781474233828 • £19.99 / $34.95 Series: Applied Theatre • Methuen Drama Previously published in HB 9781474233835 Individual eBook 9781474233842 Library eBook 9781474233859 Series: Applied Theatre • Methuen Drama
Popular Performance Applied Theatre: Women and the Edited by Adam Ainsworth, Kingston University, Criminal Justice System London, UK, Oliver Double, University of Kent, UK & Louise Peacock, University of Hull, UK Caoimhe McAvinchey, Queen Mary University London, UK Popular Performance defines and surveys varieties of performance where the main purpose is to entertain. This provides the first sustained critical enquiry Contributions by new and established scholars into applied theatre practice with women affected focus particularly on how it is made, explaining the by the criminal justice system. Drawing on a techniques of performance and production that make it so appealing range of international case studies, interviews to audiences. With sections examining how popular performance with practitioners and participants and original documentation from works in a range of historical and contemporary examples, readers will applied theatre projects, the book articulates new understanding gain insights into the variety tradition; performance forms associated about the cultural representations of women who offend, how with circus; issues relating to the identity of the performer in burlesque government policy inscribes social, economic and political values and pantomime, and issues relating to venue and audience in upon these bodies and how applied theatre practice negotiates ideas contemporary street theatre, stand-up, and live sketch comedy. of identity, agency, authority and representation.
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Tennessee Williams in Sweden Puppets and Cities and France, 1945–1965 Articulating Identities in Southeast Asia Cultural Translations, Sexual Anxieties and Jennifer Goodlander, Indiana University, USA Racial Fantasies The book addresses how puppetry complements Dirk Gindt, Stockholm University, Sweden and combines with urban spaces to articulate present and future cultural and national identities. This volume provides a critical study of the Puppetry in Southeast Asia is one of the oldest and processes of production and reception of American most dynamic genres of performance. Bangkok, playwright Tennessee Williams’ works on Swedish and French stages Jakarta, Phnom Penh, and other dynamic cities are expanding at the height of his commercial popularity between 1945 and 1965. and rapidly changing. Performance brings people together, offers With each chapter focusing on stage productions of one of the major opportunities for economic growth, and bridges public and private plays and considering issues of embodiment, performance and visual spheres. Whether it is a traditional shadow performance borrowing THEATRE STUDIES THEATRE culture, Dirk Gindt charts and analyses the patterns of migration and from Star Wars or giant puppets parading down the street, this book cultural translation of Williams’ plays. Readers are provided with a examines how puppets operate as objects and in performance to nuanced understanding of the transnational impact of one of the 20th make culture come alive. century’s most influential playwrights.
UK December 2018 • US December 2018 • 240 pages • 26 bw illus UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus HB 9781350044418 • £75.00 / $102.00 HB 9781350022072 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350044425 Individual eBook 9781350022089 Library eBook 9781350044432 Library eBook 9781350022065 Methuen Drama Methuen Drama
George Farquhar Nomadic Theatre A Migrant Life Reversed Mobilizing Theory and Practice on the European Stage David Roberts, Birmingham City University, UK Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink, Utrecht University, The Netherlands "This captivating biography, full of previously This study introduces the concept of ‘nomadic theatre’ as a tool for undiscovered material, tells the story of analyzing mobile performances and performative installations. It Restoration playwright George Farquhar (1677– includes detailed analysis of contemporary performance practices 1707) in reverse: from his death in poverty, by leading European artists, including Rimini Protokoll, Dries through the success of The Beaux Stratagem and Verhoeven, Ontroerend Goed and Signa, and demonstrates how A Recruiting Officer, and ending with his birth in Londonderry. mobile performances radically rethink the conditions of the stage and Essential reading not only for those interested in Farquhar or 18th- alter our understanding of spectatorship. Nomadic Theatre takes an century theatre, but also in the literature of the dispossessed, it integrated approach to theory and practice, instigates connections is the first study to combine elegant readings of Farquhar’s plays across disciplinary fields, and feeds dramaturgical analysis with with migrancy criticism. Farquhar, it shows, was more modern than insights derived from media theory, urban philosophy, cartography, any other writer of the period." Tiffany Stern, The Shakespeare architecture and game studies. Institute, University of Birmingham, UK
UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 288 pages • 12 bw illus UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 240 pages • 1 bw illus HB 9781350051034 • £75.00 / $102.00 HB 9781350057067 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350051041 Individual eBook 9781350057074 Library eBook 9781350051058 Library eBook 9781350057081 Series: Thinking through Theatre • Methuen Drama Series: Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance • Methuen Drama
6 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] Methuen Drama Engage THEATRE STUDIES Series Editors: Mark Taylor-Batty, Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, UK & Enoch Brater, The University of Michigan, USA Methuen Drama Engage offers original reflections about key practitioners, movements and genres in the fields of modern theatre and performance. Each volume challenges mainstream critical thought through the introduction of original and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Authenticity in Contemporary Fiery Temporalities in Theatre Theatre and Performance and Performance Make it Real The Initiation of History Daniel Schulze, Theater Konstanz, Germany Maurya Wickstrom, City University of New York, This study analyses the ‘culture of authenticity’ as USA it relates to theatre and establishes a theoretical "In a wonderful book that sets itself compellingly framework for analysis. It examines three types of against death, against tragedy, against the performances that exemplify this structure of feeling: intimate theatre closures and comforts of (theatrical) repetition, Maurya Wickstrom seen in Forced Entertainment productions such as Quizoola!, as well designates the theatre she loves as the source of an irruptive force as one-on-one performances, such as Oentroerend Goed’s Internal; of initiation. An initiation that is not against anything, that is not immersive theatres as illustrated by Punchdrunk’s shows The Masque mere resistance, but insists instead upon being for something, for of the Red Death and The Drowned Man; and documentary theatre, something before the end, for revolution, perhaps. Its bold claims through various examples such as Robin Soan’s Talking to Terrorists are sustained through illuminating attention to the experience of a and Edmund Burke’s Black Watch. contemporary theatre that wrestles with its own contemporaneity." Nicholas Ridout, Queen Mary, University of London, UK UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 296 pages PB 9781350086654 • £28.99 / $39.95 UK June 2018 • US June 2018 • 264 pages Previously published in HB 9781350000964 HB 9781474281690 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350000971 Individual eBook 9781474281706 Library eBook 9781350000988 Library eBook 9781474281713 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama
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 Robert Lepage and Ex Machina’s theatricality is University, UK interdisciplinary and intercultural, and, characterized Presenting a critical investigation of the by intense hybridity. Robert Lepage / Ex Machina: reinvigoration of the political in contemporary British Revolutions in Theatrical Space reads against the theatre, Marissia Fragkou's study provides a fresh understanding grain of criticism, providing readers with a fresh, of how theatre has engaged with issues of human vulnerability and practice-based and critical perspective by arguing that these aesthetic responsibility in the last two decades. By focusing on the spiralling of practices operate simultaneously as positive cultural principles. uncertainty in the new millennium, the study makes a case for reading Drawing directly on case studies of process, a wide range of precarity as a political theatrical trope which carries the potential productions and in-depth interviews, this book intertwines theoretical to re-animate our understanding of the ‘human’ and communal and practical concerns, weighing them in balance, and, in doing responsibility for the lives of others. so, produces a new critical perspective on Robert Lepage and Ex Machina.
UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 248 pages HB 9781474267144 • £75.00 / $102.00 UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 288 pages Individual eBook 9781474267168 HB 9781474276092 • £75.00 / $102.00 Library eBook 9781474267151 Individual eBook 9781474276580 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781474276597 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama
Social Housing in Performance Postdramatic Theatre and Form The English Council Estate on and off Edited by Michael Shane Boyle, Queen Mary Stage University of London, UK, Matt Cornish, Ohio Katie Beswick, University of Exeter, UK University, USA & Brandon Woolf, New York Katie Beswick explores how council estates have University, USA been represented in England across a range of This collection of essays brings together scholars, performance forms. Drawing on examples from critics and artists to examine the stakes of continuing mainstream, site-specific and socially engaged to use postdramatic theatre as a lens for studying performance works, including work by SPID Theatre Company, contemporary performance. In addition to introducing key debates in Jordan McKenzie, Bola Agbaje, Andrea Dunbar and The National contemporary performance and documenting recent developments Youth Theatre, it considers the political potential of contemporary in European and North American theatre making, this collection performance practices concerned with the council estate. insists that postdramatic theatre is a formal category of performance. Representations of the council estate are brought into dialogue with Contributors draw on literary studies, art history, film studies and North American cultural products, beside cultural representations philosophy to interrogate the aesthetic outputs of theatre as much as of social housing elsewhere in Northern Europe and South Africa, its material conditions such as funding. to uncover the features of the British context and situate the work globally. UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 304 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350043169 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350043176 UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus Library eBook 9781350043183 • HB 9781474285216 £75.00 / $102.00 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781474285193 Library eBook 9781474285209 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama
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Thinking Through Theatre and The Sixth Sense of the Avant- Performance Garde Edited by Maaike Bleeker, Utrecht University, Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Netherlands, Adrian Kear, Wimbledon College Revolutionary Russia of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK, Joe Kelleher, Roehampton University, UK & Heike Irina Sirotkina, National Research University Roms, University of Exeter, UK Higher School of Economics, Russia & Roger Smith, Lancaster University, UK, and Institute of This radical new textbook introduces an innovative Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, approach to the study of performance. Emphasizing the need to Russia re-engage with the materiality of theatre-making processes and to articulate the knowledge of performance located within the practice "This book is a treasure chest of personages and practices— of theatre, Thinking Through Theatre and Performance examines everyone from Kandinsky to Blok, from Scriabin to Shklovsky, and the ways in which performance – and performance studies – is itself multiple souls in between; everything from Dalcroze Eurythmics to practised through enquiry-driven logics of creative invention and the Foxtrot. It offers dynamic new ways to view the cultural history critical investigation. of this time." The Russian Review This book turns to history to show just how significant movement and UK February 2019 • US March 2019 • 384 pages • 30 bw illus the sense of movement were to pioneers of modernism at the turn of
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9781844575220 9781844577880 Bloomsbury has been appointed as the BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE’s publishing partner from May 2018. Beginning Brief Encounter David Eldridge Noël Coward BFI books and resources are for everyone passionate about "Eldridge combines a hugely sympathetic Adapted by Emma Rice film and moving image – from students and scholars sensibility with rare dramatic power, and one Noël Coward’s Brief Encounter is remembered as leaves this exceptional play rejoicing in his talent one of the most haunting love stories on screen ever. to industry practitioners and general film enthusiasts. and impatient for his next." Telegraph Drawing on the characteristic wit and musicality of Every story starts somewhere. Kneehigh, Emma Rice, former Joint Artistic Director of the Company, has adapted Coward’s classic 1945 It’s the early hours of the morning and Danny’s the Covering all aspects of cinema, books include the flagship 9781844576319 9781844578177 screenplay, and the one-act play Still Life on which it was based, into a last straggler at Laura’s party. The flat’s in a mess. And so are they. One richly theatrical, imaginative and vibrant piece of theatre. BFI Film Classics series, concise Screen more drink? Kneehigh’s production received its world premiere in 2008. This David Eldridge (Festen, Market Boy)'s sharp and astute two-hander Guides edition is published to coincide with the production’s run at the , bestselling introductory textbooks such as takes an intimate look at the first fragile moments of risking your heart Empire Cinema in London’s West End for 2018, co-produced by Steve and taking a chance. The Cinema Book, and scholarly works including the and Jenny Wiener and The Old Vic.
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Child of the Divide Confidence Sudha Bhuchar Judy Upton Summer 1947. Sixteen million people are on the As another summer season on the seafront gets move between India and the newly-formed Pakistan. underway Ella is turning up the heat in a high stakes Amid the violent political upheaval, young Pali’s game to get as far away as possible. Whilst Ruby fingers slip from his father’s hand, and his destiny keeps the café going and Dean mans the ice cream changes forever. kiosk Ella learns there’s no fast track to success. Lost, dispossessed and alone, Pali is saved by a Judy Upton's coming of age drama first exploded Muslim family and given a new name, a new faith and a new life. onto the stage in 1998 at the Birmingham Rep. This new edition has Seven years later his real father returns to claim him and Pali is forced been published to coincide with Boundless Theatre's 20th anniversary to decide who he is: the Hindu boy he was born to be, the Muslim boy revival at the Southwark Playhouse in May 2018. he has become, or simply a child of the divide. UK May 2018 • US June 2018 • 112 pages • UK September 2017 • US October 2017 • 96 pages PB 9781350087453 £10.99 / $14.95 PB 9781350059405 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350087477 Individual eBook 9781350059429 Library eBook 9781350087460 Library eBook 9781350059412 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English World English
Flood Fatherland James Phillips Simon Stephens, Scott Graham & Karl Hyde "A visually stunning, and deeply moving, drama Fatherland is a bold, ambitious play about about belonging" The Stage contemporary fatherhood in all its complexities and One day it starts to rain and no-one knows why. And MODERN DRAMA - PLAYS contradictions. This daring collage of words, music it doesn’t stop. Far out on the North Sea a fisherman and movement confronts the complexities and raises a girl in his net, miraculously alive from the contradictions of contemporary fatherhood. deep sea. Is she one of the migrants now washing A vivid, urgent and deeply personal portrait of 21st- up on English shores? Or someone sent for some higher purpose? century England at the crossroads of past, present and future, the play This epic collaboration is the culmination of a year-long community is inspired by conversations with fathers and sons from the writers' project. Four parts told across three different mediums, this complete home towns in the heart of the country. Tender and tough, honest and text includes four dramas that ask fundamental questions about our true, Fatherland is a vital and necessary show about what we were, future, communities and our collective responsibilities. who we are and what we’d like to become. UK August 2017 • US October 2017 • 208 pages PB 9781350060128 • £14.99 / $20.95 UK May 2018 • US June 2018 • 80 pages Individual eBook 9781350060555 PB 9781350091504 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350091535 Library eBook 9781350060562 Library eBook 9781350091511 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English
Glengarry Glen Ross Frogman: a coming-of-age play David Mamet using live theatre and Virtual Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Reality Lies. Greed. Corruption. It’s business as usual. curious directive Set in an office of cut-throat Chicago salesmen, four Summer 1995, the Great Barrier Reef. Police divers increasingly desperate employees will do anything, hover, looking for traces of Ashleigh by torchlight. legal or otherwise, to sell the most real estate. Meera is eleven. It's her first sleepover with Lily Pitched in a high-stakes competition against each and Shaun. Cassette recordings from the radio, other, as time and luck start to run out the mantra is simple: close the Sega Mega Drive, and the ‘coral club’ descends into theories about deal and you've won a Cadillac; blow the lead and you're f****d. Ashleigh. This new edition of the 1983 Olivier Award-winning Best Play was Outside over the reef, the Frogman hovers, looking for traces of a published to coincide with a new 2017 West End revival starring missing child. As police search lights refract through the ocean, the Christian Slater. annual coral bloom is due, creating an underwater snowstorm. Time is running out. UK November 2017 • 80 pages PB 9781350067370 • £10.99 Frogman is a coming-of-age thriller exploring the fragility of the Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama childhood imagination. A ground-breaking Virtual Reality / live theatre Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market hybrid.
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Great Expectations Grimly Handsome a Twenty-First-Century Adaptation Julia Jarcho Tom Crowley 2013 Obie Award for Best New American Play In this modern day re-imagining of Charles Dickens' Last night I woke up and found that I was not at classic story, Pip is a boy from a council estate with home. And I was not wearing my own clothes. no money, and no hope for the future. His life is In an unnamed American city, two strangers sell changed forever after he meets mysterious fugitive Christmas trees on the sidewalk; two cops work Magwycz, the beautiful but troubled Estella and the to solve a killing spree; and a young woman finds fearsome, wounded Miss Havisham. herself transforming in ways she could never have imagined. Catapulting Dickens' beloved characters into the 21st century, Tom A darkly comic thriller exploring the margins of a city and the violent Crowley's adaption captures all the humour, humanity and adventure fantasies they inspire. Published alongside the UK premiere at the of the original with its timeless themes of unrequited love, the divide Royal Court Theatre. between the rich and the poor, and what it means to be ‘good'.
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Hard Times Gundog Deborah McAndrew & Charles Dickens Simon Longman "Deborah McAndrew puts an intelligent new slant Winner of the George Devine Award for Most on a classic novel" The Observer Promising Playwright Imagine a world where imagination is forbidden. On a farm in the middle of nowhere, sisters Becky Coketown is such a place. Thomas Gradgrind will and Anna try to hold their family together after not permit fanciful thoughts in his school or his the death of their mother. Time is always moving home. But what effect will this policy have on his somewhere – but here it’s very quiet. own children? How can he protect them from corrupting influences – When they discover a stranger wandering aimlessly across the land, especially when the circus comes to town? the three establish an unlikely partnership in their determination Dark satanic mills, interrupted by the colour and vibrancy of Sleary’s to survive. Simon Longman's Royal Court debut premiered at the Circus, set the stage for a sweeping tale of suppressed love, seduction Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in February 2018. and social mores, peopled with exaggerated characters Dickens is celebrated for. UK January 2018 • US February 2018 • 128 pages PB 9781350068773 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350068797 UK February 2018 • US March 2018 • 112 pages Library eBook 9781350068780 PB 9781350083103 • £10.99 / $14.95 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781350083127 World English Library eBook 9781350083110 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English
Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle How to Disappear Simon Stephens Morna Pearson "Wondrously stealthy play" New York Times Winner of the Catherine Johnson Award for Best In this uncertain world, who can predict what brings Play people together? When two strangers meet by When Helen Daniels from Neighbours died, Robert chance amidst the bustle of a crowded London train shut his door on the world. And he’s not opened station, their lives are changed forever. Brimming it since. Now his only connection to the outside with blazing theatrical life it explores the uncertain and often comical world is through his younger sister Isla, who looks sparring match that is human connection. after them both whilst their father is away in Ibiza on ‘business’. With only a strange menagerie of creatures to keep them company, each Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle made its UK premiere in the day looks pretty much the same as the last until their quiet lives are West End in a thrilling production starring Kenneth Cranham and Anne interrupted by a visit from Jessica, a benefit assessor, determined to Marie Duff, directed by Marianne Elliot. prove that Robert is fit for work.
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Jellyfish Kings Ben Weatherill Oli Forsyth Agnes and her daughter Kelly have walked the "A compelling work with a bold political heart." same stretch of Skegness beach every day for The Stage fifteen years. They devour ice cream, hunt for crabs Bess and Hannah are waiting. Sleeping rough on the and watch as things mysteriously vanish along the streets of London they’re hoping for help to arrive shoreline. But when Kelly meets Neil, their cosy and for life to change, but they’ve been waiting for world soon begins to unravel. a long time. Until, that is, they meet Caz, a young With her mum struggling to understand the needs of a maturing woman who's not content to sit quietly, she’s far more interested in daughter with Down’s Syndrome, Kelly and Neil have to fight for their taking what she needs. As Bess and Hannah get drawn further into this right to be together. Jellyfish is the story of a first kiss, chips by the new way of thinking they discover a power in their position that opens beach and coming of age in modern Britain. up a world of change.
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Labour of Love Mood Music James Graham Joe Penhall Winner of the 2018 Olivier Award for Best New "A fine play that raises a host of issues without Comedy ever trying to resolve them." Guardian
MODERN DRAMA - PLAYS Labour MP David Lyons cares about modernisation In a top London recording studio, Cat, a young and "electability"... his constituency agent, Jean songwriter, her producer Bernard, their lawyers and Whittaker cares about principles and her community. psychotherapists go to battle over who owns a hit Set away from the Westminster bubble in the party's song. Amidst a gathering storm of bitter complaints traditional northern heartlands, this is a clash of philosophy, culture and brutal recriminations Cat and Bernard inflict a devastating toll on and class against the backdrop of the Labour Party over 25 years, as it each other in a war that only one of them can win. moves from Kinnock through Blair into Corbyn... and beyond? A sly, wry exploration of the dark side of the music industry by the This razor-sharp political comedy from James Graham was produced multi-Olivier Award-winning writer of Sunny Afternoon and Blue/ by Michael Grandage Company and Headlong andreceived its world Orange, Joe Penhall. Premiere at the Noël Coward Theatre in September 2017. UK April 2018 • US May 2018 • 96 pages • UK September 2017 • US October 2017 • 128 pages PB 9781350089914 £10.99 / $14.95 PB 9781350063679 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350089938 Individual eBook 9781350063693 Library eBook 9781350089921 Library eBook 9781350063686 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English World English
Not Talking National Theatre Connections Mike Bartlett 2018 If I don’t want to tell anyone, it’s up to me, right? The Blue Electric Wind; The Changing Lucy knows James has avoided the battle. Mark Room; The Free9; The Ceasefire Babies; knows Amanda has fought for her life. But speaking These Bridges; When They Go Low; Want; the truth could bring everything crashing down. The Sweetness of a Sting; Dungeness What happens if we live a life of not talking? Brad Birch, Chinonyerem Odimba, Alice Birch, Olivier Award-winning writer Mike Bartlett's gripping and lyrical Chris Bush, In-Sook Chappell, Fiona Doyle, Phoebe Éclair Powell, first play unlocks a culture of silence, and gives voice to the human Natalie Mitchell & Barney Norris casualties when things are easier done than said. This edition was Drawing together the work of nine leading playwrights, National published to coincide with a new production at the Arcola Theatre and Theatre Connections 2018 features work by some of the most exciting features an introduction by the author. contemporary playwrights. Gathered together in one volume, the UK April 2018 • US May 2018 • 72 pages plays offer young performers an engaging selection of material to PB 9781350089723 • £10.99 / $14.95 perform, read or study. Individual eBook 9781350089747 Library eBook 9781350089730 From friends building bridges and siblings breaking down walls; Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama girls making their voice heard and boys searching for home; and not World English forgetting a band of unlikely action heroes taking control of the weather. The anthology contains nine play scripts along with imaginative production notes and exercises, as well as a short introduction to the writing process.
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Quiz Rails James Graham Simon Longman April 2003. Army Major Charles Ingram, his wife and Mike is a 16 year old with a bully of a brother and a coughing accomplice are convicted for cheating on mum who doesn’t speak. Sarah is a weed smoking Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? teen who can’t wait to get out of their dead-end town. One hot summer their lives collide in a blur The evidence is damning. The nation is gripped of hormones, loneliness and dreaming as they by the sheer audacity of the plot to snatch the discover that growing up is just as confusing as they £1,000,000 jackpot. But was he really guilty? It’s time say. Funny, poignant, and sharply reminiscent of the joy, pain and for you to decide. confusion of growing up, Rails explores what it means to feel lonely in Question everything you think you know in James Graham’s a forgotten and isolated corner of the world. provocative new play. Olivier Award-winning James Graham returns with a sharp, fictional UK May 2018 • US June 2018 • 112 pages PB 9781350089303 • £10.99 / $14.95 imagination of one of the most famous quiz show controversies to Individual eBook 9781350089327 date. Library eBook 9781350089310 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English UK April 2018 • US April 2018 • 112 pages PB 9781350069299 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350069312 Library eBook 9781350069305
Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English Saint George and the Dragon Rory Mullarkey
"There are ticklish jokes and moments of enjoyable mischief." Evening Standard Rita, Sue and Bob Too A village. A dragon. A damsel in distress. Andrea Dunbar Into the story walks George: wandering knight, "Dunbar’s play is as fresh as a stiff northerly wind freedom fighter, enemy of tyrants the world over. off the Pennines. The story is bursting with a One epic battle later and a nation is born. gutsy vitality." London Evening Standard As the village grows into a town, and the town into a city, the myth Best friends Rita and Sue get a lift home from of Saint George which once brought a people together, threatens to married Bob after babysitting his kids. When he divide them. takes the scenic route and offers them a bit of fun, the three start a fling each of them think they control. A new retelling of the popular British folk tale for our 'uncertain' nation. Andrea Dunbar’s semi-autobiographical play, written in 1982, is a vivid portrait of girls caught between brutal childhood and an unpromising UK October 2017 • US November 2017 • 144 pages future, both hungry for adult adventure. PB 9781350064430 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350064454 UK September 2017 • US October 2017 • 96 pages Library eBook 9781350064447 PB 9781350061460 • £10.99 / $14.95 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781350061477 World English Library eBook 9781350061484 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English
Snow in Midsummer Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig Silk Road (How to Buy Drugs "Gripping and affecting… graceful and Online) and Rules for Being a impassioned." Times Executed for a murder she did not commit, young Man widow Dou Yi vows that if she is innocent snow will Alex Oates fall in midsummer and a catastrophic drought will "This is new writing at its best" Public Reviews strike. Three years later, a businesswoman visits Silk Road: Bruce is 19, unemployed and living with the parched, locust-plagued town to take over an ailing factory. his Nan. A struggling young Geordie tech-head, When her young daughter is tormented by an angry ghost, the new he’s the unlikeliest international criminal mastermind you can imagine. factory owner must expose the injustices Dou Yi suffered before the Sucked into an underworld dark-web of new-age pirates, local curse destroys every living thing. Snow in Midsummer premiered at gangsters and tea-cosies, it isn’t long before Bruce discovers how easy Stratford-Upon-Avon in 2017 and has been republished to coincide it is to buy narcotics online. with the American premiere.
Rules For Being a Man: a stirring new play that uses silent disco UK February 2018 • US February 2018 • 112 pages technology to create a vivid soundscape and take the audience into PB 9781350068063 • £10.99 / $14.95 the heads of three generations of men as they struggle with mental Individual eBook 9781350068087 Library eBook 9781350068070 health issues and contemplate suicide. Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English UK January 2018 • US February 2018 • 64 pages PB 9781350079595 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350079618 Library eBook 9781350079601 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English
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The Cherry Orchard The Comedy About a Bank Anton Chekhov Robbery Translated by Rory Mullarkey Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields "Rory Mullarkey’s translation is supple and "Thrilling and daringly inventive...This lung- authoritative." The Observer bustingly funny play is just what the therapist The tide of change is coming. Madam Ranyevskaya's ordered." Guardian liberal world of privilege and pleasure is beginning Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry to show cracks, but she and her family live on in Shields of Mischief Theatre, creators of the Olivier denial. Lopakhin wants to rescue Ranyevskaya. The hard-working son Award-winning Best New Comedy The Play That Goes Wrong and of one of her family's serfs, his new-found wealth can offer shelter Peter Pan Goes Wrong, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is the and security to the woman he has loved since boyhood, but it will latest adventure in mishap, mistimed exits and entrances, and disaster come at a high price. Meanwhile, revolution hangs in the air, the poor unfolding in front of the audience's eyes. This new edition contains the and hungry are pushing at the doors, and tutor Trofimov predicts a full up-to-date script to match the West End production. tumultuous change for everybody. UK October 2017 • US October 2017 • 112 pages UK March 2018 • US March 2018 • 88 pages PB 9781350063082 • £10.99 / $14.95 PB 9781350086029 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350063105 Individual eBook 9781350086043 Library eBook 9781350063099 Library eBook 9781350086050 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English World English
The Firm The Culture - a Farce in Two Acts Roy Williams James Graham In a pub in London ‘The Firm’ reunite for the first MODERN DRAMA - PLAYS "Juggles satire and farce in a knockabout time in twelve years. Back in their misspent youth celebration of Hull’s tenure as UK city of culture." they were a notorious criminal gang; these days Guardian they’re older, wiser, and their lives have changed January 2018, and a busy day at the offices of beyond recognition. But when an uninvited guest Hull 2017. Today is the ceremonial handover to turns up to the party with an intriguing proposition ambassadors from the next UK City of Culture. and an explosive secret it’s clear they might be tempted to try their Meanwhile, the monitoring and evaluation team have to present The hands at one last job. Will they escape their past unscathed? Audit – a measurement of the impact ‘the culture’ has had on the city. Roy Williams’ gripping new play is a tale of growing up, lifelong Can their logic models, outcome evaluations and statistical analyses loyalties and how sometimes, it is possible to choose your own family. really measure its impact on the people of Hull? The visiting Minister
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The Greatest Play in the History The Great Wave of the World Francis Turnly Ian Kershaw "This truth-based story of abduction is an urgent, A man wakes in the middle of the night to discover resonant piece of theatre" Financial Times that the world has stopped. On a Japanese beach, teenage sisters Hanako and Through the crack in his bedroom curtains he can Reiko are caught up in a storm. Reiko survives while see no signs of life at all...other than a light in the Hanako is lost to the sea. Their mother, however, house opposite where a woman in an oversized can’t shake the feeling her missing daughter is still Bowie T-shirt stands, looking back at him. alive, and soon family tragedy takes on a global political dimension. The Greatest Play in the History of the World is a beautifully This major new play, winner of the Catherine Johnson Best Play Award, constructed love story, set on Preston Road and also in space and premiered at the National Theatre in Spring 2018. in time. Presented as a monologue, it asks profound questions with deep sincerity whilst simultaneously balancing the human quest for UK March 2018 • US March 2018 • 136 pages meaningful connections. PB 9781350076259 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350076273 UK July 2018 • US August 2018 • 64 pages Library eBook 9781350076266 PB 9781350089648 • £10.99 / $14.95 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781350089662 World English Library eBook 9781350089655 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English
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The Seagull The Secret Theatre Anton Chekhov Anders Lustgarten Adapted by Simon Stephens "Lustgarten is a fierce writer whose activism "An incisive 21st-century version of Chekhov" blends intellectual curiosity and idealism" - Guardian Evening Standard Chekhov’s celebrated masterpiece is given vibrant Spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham oversees a vast new life in this dynamic new version by Olivier surveillance network from the heart of Elizabeth award-winning playwright Simon Stephens. I’s court. As the nation’s relationship with Europe deteriorates and civil unrest grows, Walsingham adopts ever more Switching effortlessly between the ridiculous and the profound The extreme tactics to keep his queen and country safe. But does he risk Seagull forensically examines the transcendence and destructiveness losing control of the apparatus he has created and destroying the lives of love. The burning need to create art and how harshly that need can of those closest to him? And can such safety ever be achieved? be crushed permeates throughout the play. Shot through with moments of the blackest humour, this is a smart, Simon Stephens' new adaption of The Seagull received its premiere at tense thriller. the Lyric Hammersmith, London on 3 October 2017.
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Tremor Black and She's Leaving Home Brad Birch Keith Saha Once our lives are touched by tragedy, can we ever With bracing insight into the worlds of two young truly move on? Sophie and Tom’s relationship fell women with very different struggles, Black and She’s apart in the aftermath of a catastrophe. Four years Leaving Home force the issues of modern Britain to on and as they come face to face once again, the take centre stage. aftershocks of that fateful day can still be felt. Black: Nikki doesn’t think her dad is a racist. But Tremor is a play about now. It’s about how we when a Zimbabwean family move in over the road, choose to see things and live our lives in a world riven with tension, the dog won’t stop barking, the local kids start lobbing stones, and anxiety and division. This thrilling new play by Brad Birch, recipient of her dad starts laying down the law. the Harold Pinter Commission, offers a taught, intense and thrilling two-hander. She's Leaving Home: At 15, Kelsey has her whole life in front of her. As the years roll by she realises that leaving home to fulfill her dreams UK April 2018 • US May 2018 • 72 pages isn’t as easy as she imagined. PB 9781350087828 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350087842 • • Library eBook 9781350087835 UK April 2018 US April 2018 88 pages PB 9781350085190 • £12.99 / $17.95 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English Individual eBook 9781350085213 Library eBook 9781350085206 Series: Plays for Young People • Methuen Drama World English
OBJECTLESSONS Explore the hidden lives of ordinary things
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The Contemporary Dramatists series celebrates the work of individual writers, bringing together into single volumes a number of plays The Methuen Drama Book of from their oeuvre. Each volume includes a chronology of the writer's Suffrage Plays: Taking the Stage work and an introduction to the plays featured. Taken as a whole, it Might is Right; Free Woman to Free Man; represents an index of great contemporary playwriting. A Woman's Influence; Press Cuttings; Woman This and Women That; The Twelve Pound Look; For One Night Only; Birch Plays: 1 Her Will; Su L'Pave; Which; 10 Clowning Where the Shot Rabbits Lay; Even Street; Anti Suffrage Waxworks Stillness Breathes Softly Against a Brick Edited by Naomi Paxton Wall; The Brink; Black Mountain Featuring a wide variety of short pieces and one-act plays written by Brad Birch female and male suffragist writers between 1908-1914. "Brad Birch is a courageous writer, tackling Spanning different styles and genres they explore many issues that complex ideas with a wit and deftness and interested feminist and suffragist campaigners such as: the value of challenging our notion of the stories which make women’s work; domestic and economic inequality; visibility in public us feel comfortable." Vicky Featherstone, Artistic Director of the space; direct action and its consequences; sexual double standards; Royal Court and the influence of the media on public opinion. Birch Plays: 1 celebrates the work of Welsh writer Brad Birch. Winner Edited and introduced by Dr Naomi Paxton, the anthology is of the 2016 Harold Pinter Commission, Birch's work has been brimming with in-depth knowledge, photographs and contextual produced around the world in Russia, the USA and Europe. This information making for an informative and inspirational volume that’s remarkable collection includes Where the Shot Rabbits Lay; Even perfect for both performance and study. Stillness Breathes Slowly Against a Brick Wall; The Brink; and Black Mountain along with an introduction by the author. UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 272 pages PB 9781350082984 • £18.99 / $25.95 Individual eBook 9781350083004 • • UK April 2018 US May 2018 296 pages Library eBook 9781350082991 PB 9781350075306 • £18.99 / $25.95 Series: Play Anthologies • Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781350075344 World English Library eBook 9781350075320 Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Methuen Drama World English MODERN DRAMA - PLAY COLLECTIONS MODERN DRAMA - PLAY
Brecht and the Writer's Mullarkey Plays: 1 Workshop Single Sex; Tourism; Cannibals; The Wolf Fatzer and Other Dramatic Projects From the Door; Each Slow Dusk Bertolt Brecht Rory Mullarkey Edited by Tom Kuhn, St Hugh's College, Oxford University, UK "A remarkable writer – an original fresh voice, with a sharp political edge." Vicky Featherstone, This volume collects some of the most important Artistic Director, Royal Court theatrical projects and fragments of Bertolt Brecht's that were always to remain ‘works in progress’. The collection features the famous British writer Rory Mullarkey is the winner of the Harold Pinter Fatzer as well as The Bread Store and Judith of Shimoda, along with Commission, the James Tait Black Prize for Drama and the George other texts that have never before been available in English. Alongside Devine Award for most promising playwright. His original work the familiar, ‘completed’ plays, Brecht worked on many ideas and has been staged at the Royal Court Theatre, the National Theatre, plans which he never managed to work up for print or stage. In pieces Manchester Royal Exchange and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. like Fleischhacker, Büsching and Jacob Trotalong we see how such His first play collection brings together three previously published projects were abandoned or interrupted or became proving grounds plays with two unpublished works. A writer of “considerable talent” for ideas and techniques. (Telegraph), this is a powerful and diverse collection from an established contemporary voice. UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 384 pages PB 9781474273282 • £25.99 / $35.95 • HB 9781474273329 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781474273305 UK July 2018 • US August 2018 • 304 pages Library eBook 9781474273299 PB 9781350090774 • £19.99 / $27.95 Series: World Classics • Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781350090798 World English Library eBook 9781350090781 Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Methuen Drama World English
24 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] Calder Publications MODERN DRAMA - PLAY COLLECTIONS
Founded in 1949, Calder Publications is an imprint of Alma Books. The Selected Works of Yussef El Each volume under the Calder imprint is accurately translated and Guindi carefully edited. All editions contain an extensive section on the Back of the Throat / Our Enemies: Lively author's life and works, a selected bibliography and extensive notes on the text. Scenes of Love and Combat / Language Rooms / Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World / Threesome The Bérenger Plays Yussef El Guindi The Killer, Rhinocerous, Exit the King, Edited by Michael Malek Najjar, University of Oregon, USA Strolling in the Air The first collected works anthology of the plays of prolific Arab Eugene Ionesco American playwright Yussef El Guindi features five plays, as well as Translated by Donald Watson & Derek Prouse El Guindi's essay "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Meet Abdallah and Ahmed: Musings about Arabs and Muslims in American Theatre" and This collection brings together the four plays an annotated timeline of his work. that feature Ionesco’s everyman protagonist Jean Bérenger. While each play in the Bérenger cycle is unique, they
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PB 9780714548487 • £9.99 Calder Publications Contemporary Plays by African World English (excluding USA/Canada) Women
Niqabi Ninja; Not That Woman; I Want to Fly; Silent Voices; Unsettled; Mbuzeni; Six Plays Bonganyi Six Characters in Search of an Author, Sophia Kwachuh Mempuh, JC Niala, Adong Henry IV, Caps and Bells, Right You Are (if Judith, Thembelihle Moyo, Koleka Putuma, Sara You Think You Are), The Jar, The Patent Shaarawi & Tosin Jobi-Tume Luigi Pirandello Edited by Yvette Hutchison & Amy Jephta Translated by Felicity Firth, Robert Rietty, John These plays, which are selected from writers across the continent, Wardle, Bruce Penman & Carlo Ardito together give a rich portrait of identity, politics, culture and society in contemporary Africa. The editors of the volume have also provided This selection of plays by Luigi Pirandello contains some of his best- biographies and the writers' own artistic statements; production known works: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, Caps histories; and a critical contextualisation of the theatre from which and Bells, Right You Are (if You Think You Are), The Jar, The Patent each woman is writing. This edition is fully annotated.
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Plays by Women from the Contemporary American Theatre Festival 20th Century Blues; The Niceties; Gidion’s Knot; Dead and Breathing; Memoirs of a Forgotten Man Susan Miller, Eleanor Burgess, Johnna Adams & Chisa Hutchinson Edited by Peggy McKowen & Ed Herendeen This anthology represents the voices of women who range from two- time Obie Award-winning authors to emerging writers just beginning their careers. One of the Festival's core values is "to tell diverse stories". This play anthology represents the success of that value by identifying some of the most current work in the theater today - all of which have had subsequent productions since their premiere at the Contemporary American Theater Festival.
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Series Editors: Suzanne Gossett, Loyola University Chicago, Othello: Arden Performance USA; John Jowett, Shakespeare Institute, University of Editions Birmingham, UK & Gordon McMullan, King's College London, William Shakespeare UK Edited by Paul Prescott, University of Warwick, Arden Early Modern Drama accompanies and complements the Arden UK Shakespeare Third Series, offering editions of non-Shakespearean Renaissance and Restoration drama from the period 1500-1700. are ideal for anyone Arden Performance Editions Modelled on the Third Series in appearance and style, Arden Early engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. Modern Drama editions offer high-quality textual scholarship, With clear facing-page notes giving definitions together with an accessible, student-friendly introduction. of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play’s possibilities and meanings to actors and students. Designed to be used and to be useful, each edition has plenty of The Dutch Courtesan space for personal annotations and the well-spaced text is easy to John Marston read and to navigate. Edited by Karen Britland, University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 408 pages PB 9781474272346 • £6.99 / $9.95 This riotous tragicomedy explores the delights and Individual eBook 9781474272353 perils afforded by Jacobean London. While Freevill, Library eBook 9781474272360 an educated young Englishman and the play's Series: Arden Performance Editions • The Arden Shakespeare nominal hero, frolics in the city's streets, taverns and brothels, Franceschina, his cast-off mistress and the Dutch courtesan of the play's title, laments his betrayal and plots revenge. Juxtaposing
Franceschina's vulnerable financial position against the unappealing marital prospects available to gentry women, the play undermines All's Well That Ends Well the language of romance, revealing it to be rooted in the commerce Third Series and commodification. Marston's commentary on financial insecurity William Shakespeare and the hypocritical repudiation of foreignness makes the play truly a document for our time. Edited by Suzanne Gossett, Loyola University Chicago, USA & Helen Wilcox, University of UK April 2018 • US April 2018 • 296 pages • 19 bw illus Bangor, UK PB 9781472568960 • £12.99 / $17.95 • HB 9781472568984 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781472568977 The comprehensive introduction to this new, fully- Library eBook 9781472568953 illustrated Arden edition takes a transformative Series: Arden Early Modern Drama • The Arden Shakespeare SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY MODERN DRAMA SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY look at the play’s critical and performance history by offering fresh perspectives on the conundrum of genre, sexuality and the moral
dilemmas, together with masculinity and the structures of family. The authoritative play text is amply annotated to clarify its language and allusions, and two appendices debate the play’s authorship and review The White Devil its casting. Offering students and scholars alike a wealth of insight John Webster and new research, this edition maintains the rigorous standards of the Edited by Benedict S. Robinson, Stony Brook Arden Shakespeare. University, USA A completely new Arden Early Modern Drama UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 440 pages • 15 bw illus edition of Webster's violent and fascinating PB 9781904271208 • £10.99 / $14.95 • HB 9781904271192 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781408151921 revenge tragedy, featuring a clear and authoritative Library eBook 9781408151914 text, detailed on-page commentary notes, a Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series • The Arden Shakespeare comprehensive, illustrated introduction and a bibliography of references and further reading.
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Series Editors: William C. Carroll, Boston University, USA & Tiffany Stern, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Doctor Faustus Birmingham, UK Christopher Marlowe New Mermaids is a series of over 50 modernized and fully annotated Edited by Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin College, classic plays, with an active programme of new editions. New USA Mermaids are edited and updated by experienced teachers who are This fully re-edited, modernised play text is internationally recognized as authorities in their field. They are ideal accompanied by commentary notes, while its lively for, and accessible to, actors, theatre-goers and students and are introduction will guide you through the fume of fact printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, with annotations below the text and legend that has accompanied the play across and a comprehensive introduction. the centuries, from its premiere in the late 16th century to its most recent incarnation on stage and film.
UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 160 pages PB 9781474295178 • £9.99 / $14.95 The Man of Mode Individual eBook 9781474295161 Library eBook 9781474295154 George Etherege Series: New Mermaids • Methuen Drama Edited by Michael Neill, University of Kent, UK The most perfectly poised of Restoration comedies, The Man of Mode is a finished exercise in dramatic sprezzatura, matching the beguiling ‘easiness’ and The Changeling ‘complaisance’ of its central character. Its seemingly casual construction and breaches of comic decorum Revised Edition mask an artistic control designed to upset the complacency of our Thomas Middleton & William Rowley moral, social and aesthetic assumptions, luring us into sympathy for a Edited by Michael Neill, University of Kent, UK character whose dangerous ‘wildness’ we should deplore. The Changeling’s vivid tale of sexual appetite, The modernised play text is accompanied by incisive commentary repulsion, betrayal and lunacy remains one of the notes, while the introduction unpacks the complexity of the most compelling tragedies of the 17th century. This Restoration’s political and theatrical context, analyses the play’s newly revised edition, edited by world-class scholar performance history and demonstrates Etherege’s linguistic artistry. Michael Neill, will enable you to appreciate and interpret it afresh for yourself. This edition is supplemented by a plot summary, annotated UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 176 pages bibliography and a companion website providing thought-provoking PB 9781474289535 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781474289528 podcasts, production images, useful web links and sample questions Library eBook 9781474289511 and essay ideas. Series: New Mermaids • Methuen Drama
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Shakespeare in Action The Arden Introduction to 30 Theatre Makers on their Practice Reading Shakespeare Jaq Bessell, Guildford School of Acting, UK Close Reading and Analysis Comprising accounts from 30 actors and creatives Jeremy Lopez, University of Toronto, Canada - including directors, choreographers, musical A close-reading handbook for undergraduates directors and scenic designers - describing their studying Shakespeare: it provides a wide range approach to performing and staging Shakespeare, of vivid and practical examples of both how this is a unique book about how theatre practice Shakespeare’s language works and how literary critics look at impacts and informs productions of Shakespeare's works. Filled Shakespeare’s language. This is an ideal teaching text for introductory with personal insights, anecdotes and practical guidance, this book courses on Shakespeare, offering a welcome return to close textual will give readers a critical toolkit with which to study the plays as analysis and showing students how to read and analyse the plays in performance and one that will inform their own theatre practice. close detail to build sustained critical readings of their own.
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ShakesFear and How to Cure It Shakespeare's Acts of Will The Complete Handbook for Teaching Law, Testament and Properties of Shakespeare Performance Ralph Alan Cohen, Mary Baldwin College, USA Gary Watt, University of Warwick, UK For teachers and lovers of Shakespeare, this Drawing on years of experience delivering rhetoric book provides a comprehensive approach to the workshops for the Royal Shakespeare Company and challenges and rewards of teaching Shakespeare, as a prize-winning teacher of law, Gary Watt shows giving both an overview of each of Shakespeare’s that Shakespeare is playful with legal technicality 38 plays and specific classroom tools for teaching it. Written by a rather than obedient to it. The author demonstrates how Shakespeare celebrated teacher, scholar, and director of Shakespeare, it shows how transformed lawyers’ manual book rhetoric into powerful drama to use the text to make the words and the moments come alive. For through a stirring combination of word, metre, movement and physical the general reader it refutes the idea that Shakespeare’s language is stage material, producing a mode of performance that was truly difficult and provides a survey of the plays by someone who has lived testamentary in its power to engage the witnessing public. intimately with them on the page and on the stage. UK January 2018 • US January 2018 • 304 pages • UK May 2018 • US May 2018 • 400 pages PB 9781350059573 £28.99 / $39.95 PB 9781474228718 • £24.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474228725 • £75.00 / $102.00 Previously published in HB 9781474217859 Individual eBook 9781474228732 Individual eBook 9781474217866 Library eBook 9781474228749 Library eBook 9781474217873 The Arden Shakespeare The Arden Shakespeare
Performing Hamlet Queer Shakespeare Actors in the Modern Age Desire and Sexuality Edited by Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary’s Jonathan Croall, Theatre Historian, UK University, Halifax, Canada Some of the finest of modern Hamlets have been Queer Shakespeare draws together 13 essays, which seen on stage during the present century. Acclaimed offer a major reassessment of criticism on desire theatre writer and scholar Jonathan Croall brings and sexuality in Shakespeare. Bringing together together extended essays on seven very different, some of the most prominent critics working at the original and acclaimed performances during these intersection of Shakespeare studies and queer criticism, this collection years, based on interviews with the actors and their directors. The shows that queer Shakespeare studies is an especially vibrant scholarly essays are complemented by a series of pen-portraits of many other field. Taken together, these essays treat Shakespeare as the key
SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY MODERN DRAMA SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY leading actors who have taken on the role during the last 65 years. object of analysis producing concepts and ideas that draw power Key actors covered include David Tennant, Maxine Peake, Simon from a focussed study of language and objects as embodiments of Russell Beale, Mark Rylance, Jude Law and Rory Kinear. queerness.
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Queering the Shakespeare Film Gender Trouble, Gay Spectatorship and Shakespeare and Greece Male Homoeroticism Edited by Alison Findlay, Lancaster University, UK & Vassiliki Markidou, University of Athens, Anthony Guy Patricia, Concord University, West Greece Virginia, USA Inverting Jonson’s claim that Shakespeare had ‘small This study critiques the various representations of Latin and less Greek’, this book argues that there is the queer – broadly understood as that which is at actually more Greek and less Latin in a significant odds with what has been deemed to be the normal, group of Shakespeare’s texts: a group whose generic the legitimate, and the dominant, particularly – but not exclusively hybridity exemplifies the hybridity of Greece in the early modern – as regards sexual matters, in the Shakespeare film. Analysing the imagination. work of directors such as Max Reinhardt, William Dieterle, George Cukor, Franco Zeffirelli, Trevor Nunn, Baz Luhrmann, Michael Hoffman, Focusing on Venus and Adonis, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Michael Radford, Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier and Oliver Parker, the Night’s Dream, Love's Labour’s Lost, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of volume presents an alternative and complementary critical history of Athens, King Lear, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and The the Shakespeare film genre. Two Noble Kinsmen, the volume considers how Shakespeare’s use of Greek myth intersects with early modern perceptions of the country UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 320 pages and its empire. PB 9781350084469 • £24.99 / $33.95 Previously published in HB 9781474237031 UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 304 pages Individual eBook 9781474237048 PB 9781350079960 • £28.99 / $39.95 Library eBook 9781474237055 Previously published in HB 9781474244251 The Arden Shakespeare Individual eBook 9781474244268 Library eBook 9781474244275 The Arden Shakespeare
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Series Editors: Andrew Hiscock, Bangor University, UK & Lisa Hopkins, University of Sheffield Hallam, UK Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics Reader practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance Edited by Efterpi Mitsi, National and contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader offers an a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for accessible and thought-provoking guide to this study and research. complex problem play, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. Considering its generic ambiguity and experimentalism, it also provides a uniquely
detailed and up-to-date history of the play’s stage performance from King Henry V: A Critical Reader Dryden’s rewriting up to Mark Ravenhill and Elizabeth LeCompte’s Edited by Line Cottegnies, Sorbonne Universite, controversial 2012 production for the Royal Shakespeare Company France & Karen Britland, University of Wisconsin- and the Wooster Group. Madison, USA UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 304 pages • 2 bw illus Moving through to five new critical essays, the HB 9781350014190 • £75.00 / $102.00 guide opens up fresh perspectives on this much Individual eBook 9781350014183 studied work, including a particularly provocative Library eBook 9781350014176 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare and timely analysis of the intersection between war and religion, as well as essays on British identity, non-Anglophone responses to King Henry V, and criminality and heroism. The fifth
essay focuses on the history and nature of filmic adaptations of Shakespeare’s King Henry V, including the iconic productions of Olivier The Changeling: A Critical and Branagh, as well as more recent versions, such as that featured in The Hollow Crown series. Reader Edited by Mark Hutchings, University of Reading,
UK October 2018 • US October 2018 • 352 pages UK HB 9781474280105 • £75.00 / $102.00 This volume offers an accessible and thought- Individual eBook 9781474280112 Library eBook 9781474280129 provoking guide to this major Renaissance tragedy, Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. It provides a uniquely detailed and up-to-date history of the play’s rich stage performance, while critical essays open up fresh perspectives, including an exploration of the characters’ mechanical psychology, the influence of Spanish literature and its treatment of virginity and rape on the construction of Middleton and Rowley’s plot, and recent theatre-makers’ handling of the play’s dramaturgy. It finishes with a guide to critical, web-based, audio and video resources, discussing the ways in which they can be used in the classroom.
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Shakespearean Character Shakespeare and Domestic Life Language in Performance A Dictionary Jelena Marelj, Sheridan College, Ontario, Canada Sandra Clark, University of London, UK Jelena Marelj's study examines five linguistically self-conscious This dictionary explores the language of domestic characters drawn from the genres of history, tragedy and comedy, life found in Shakespeare’s work and demonstrates which continue to be subjects of extensive critical debate: Falstaff, the meanings he attaches to it through his uses of Cleopatra, Henry V, Katherine from The Taming of the Shrew, and it in particular contexts. "Domestic life" covers a Hamlet. Using theories drawn from linguistic pragmatics, it claims range of topics: the language of the household, that our impression of characters as real people is an effect arising clothing, food, family relationships and duties; household practices, from characters’ pragmatic use of language in combination with the architecture of the home, and all that conditions and governs the the historical and textual meanings that Shakespeare conveys to his life of the home. The dictionary draws on recent cultural materialist audience by dramatic and meta-dramatic means. research to provide in-depth definitions of the domestic language and life in Shakespeare's works, creating a richly rewarding and informative UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 256 pages reference tool for upper level students and scholars. HB 9781350061385 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350061392 Library eBook 9781350061408 UK May 2018 • US May 2018 • 456 pages • 5 bw illus Series: Arden Shakespeare Studies in Language and Digital Methodologies HB 9781472581808 • £130.00 / $176.00 The Arden Shakespeare Individual eBook 9781472581815 Library eBook 9781472581822 Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries • The Arden Shakespeare
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Series Editors: Professor Ann Thompson, King's College London, UK; Professor Lena Orlin, Georgetown University, Early Modern Theatre and the USA Figure of Disability Each volume in the series is an expedition to discover the ‘state of Genevieve Love, Colorado College, USA play’ with respect to Shakespeare’s major plays. Featuring ten or more A critical analysis of key early modern plays including newly commissioned essays written by world-class Shakespeareans, Doctor Faustus and Richard III, revealing how each volume presents a detailed engagement with a single play, physical disability operates as a metaphor for both focusing on current issues in teaching, performance and research. theatrical personation and textual forms. The first
part considers the relationship between actor and character: prosthetic disabled figures with names like Cripple and Titus Andronicus: The State of Stump capture the simultaneous presence of the imaginative world Play of the fiction and the material, embodied world of the theatre. The Edited by Farah Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare's second part considers the relationship between plays in their theatrical Globe, London, UK and in their textual forms, a relationship that has been understood in part through an appeal to disability. Titus Andronicus: The State of Play is a collection of new essays from leading international scholars UK October 2018 • US October 2018 • 232 pages that showcases current critical approaches HB 9781350017207 • £75.00 / $102.00 to Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy. This study Individual eBook 9781350017214 explores how the revitalized critical responses to early modern and Library eBook 9781350017221 Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama • The Arden Shakespeare contemporary performance histories has had a significant impact upon the wider reception of this play.
UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781350027398 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350027404 Directing Shakespeare in Library eBook 9781350027411 Series: Arden Shakespeare: The State of Play • The Arden Shakespeare America Historical Perspectives Charles Ney, Texas State University, USA
"Charles Ney’s book is a revelation—the research Elizabethan Narrative Poems: is impeccable and the anecdotes, directing The State of Play lessons, visions, egos, mistakes and inspiration are Edited by Lynn Enterline, Vanderbilt University, brilliant as tools for seasoned or aspiring Shakespeareans." Dr. Jim USA Volz, Editor, Shakespeare Theatre Association’s Quarto, USA
SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY MODERN DRAMA SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY Shakespeare saw only two poems through to Historical Perspectives reviews key American directors, their publication: Venus and Adonis and The Rape of productions and their approaches to directing Shakespeare, from Lucrece. This volume traces the larger conversation the late 19th to the end of the 20th centuries. Among the directors that took place in the 1590s within the vogue covered are Augustin Daly, David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, Orson for minor epic narratives as Shakespeare and a coterie of Ovidian Welles, B. Iden Payne, Angus Bowmer, William Ball, Margaret Webster, imitators composed and published erotic epyllia to, for, and against Tyronne Guthrie, Joseph Papp, John Houseman, Gerald Freedman, one another. These poems take place in imagined worlds far removed Michael Kahn, Craig Noel, Tina Packer and Julie Taymor. from urban world of London and these classicizing narratives are deeply engaged in wide-ranging critiques of 16th century norms for UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 256 pages • 12 bw illus HB 9781474289696 • £75.00 / $102.00 masculine conduct – whether professional, poetic, economic, legal, Individual eBook 9781474289702 emotional, or sexual. Library eBook 9781474289719 The Arden Shakespeare
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Library eBook 9781350073388 Series: Arden Shakespeare: The State of Play • The Arden Shakespeare Performing Shakespeare's Women Playing Dead Paige Martin Reynolds, University of Central Arkansas, USA Shakespeare's female characters die often, both onstage and off. But what does it mean for the actor portraying these roles to to play dead? And what obstacles in playing dead are the same for women actors playing alive? This book addresses both current scholarship and the practical and ethical problems facing the female actor of Shakespeare’s plays today to explore what those deaths signify and suggest about playing female parts on the contemporary stage and in a post-feminist world.
UK December 2018 • US December 2018 • 224 pages HB 9781350002593 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350002616 Library eBook 9781350002609 The Arden Shakespeare
30 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] Shakespeare and Theory SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY MODERN DRAMA Series Editor: Evelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA This series provides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical developments that have dominated Shakespeare studies since the advent of postmodernism, as well as those that are emerging at the moment.
Shakespeare and Posthumanist Shakespeare and Queer Theory Theory Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania, Karen Raber, University of Mississippi, USA USA This provides both an indispensable guide and an Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory charts intervention in the ongoing critical debates about challenges in the field of Shakespeare studies queer method both within and beyond Shakespeare to the assumption that the category “human” is and early modern studies. Clearly elucidating the real, stable, or worthy of privileging in discussions central ideas of the theory and its history, it also of the playwright’s work. Drawing on a variety of illuminates current debates about historicism and embodiment. methodologies - cognitive theory, systems theory, animal studies, ecostudies, the new materialisms - the volume investigates the Through a series of original readings of texts including As You Like world of Shakespeare’s plays and poems in order to represent more It, Othello, Macbeth and Venus and Adonis, as well as recent film thoroughly its variety, its ethics of inclusion, and its resistance to adaptations including Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet and Ralph human triumphalism and exceptionalism. Fiennes’ Coriolanus, it illustrates the value of queer theory to Shakespeare scholarship, and the value of Shakespearean texts to UK April 2018 • US April 2018 • 216 pages • 5 bw illus queer theory. HB 9781474234436 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781474234450 Library eBook 9781474234467 UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 240 pages • Series: Shakespeare and Theory • The Arden Shakespeare HB 9781474256674 £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781474256698 Library eBook 9781474256704 Series: Shakespeare and Theory • The Arden Shakespeare
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A wide variety of filmmakers including Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard and Akira New Places: Shakespeare and Kurosawa, Julie Taymor and Quentin Tarantino Civic Creativity have tapped into the possibilities Shakespeare's Edited by Paul Edmondson, The Shakespeare work inspires. This study considers Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust, UK & Ewan Fernie, University of impact on our experience of words and the images they conjure and Birmingham, UK considers how this leads to a greater understanding of Shakespeare New Places documents and analyses a range of and the possibilities of cinema and adaptation. innovative projects which take Shakespeare beyond the worlds of education and even the theatre, in UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 224 pages HB 9781472572493 • £75.00 / $102.00 an attempt to make a difference in the wider world. Mixing critical Individual eBook 9781472572509 reflection on the social value of Shakespeare and creative writing, Library eBook 9781472572516 the volume presents Carol Ann Duffy’s Shakespeare Ode for 2016, Series: Shakespeare and Theory • The Arden Shakespeare the first ever open-air performance of The Merchant of Venice in that city’s original Jewish Ghetto, a new Shakespeare-inspired liturgy, civic-minded opera and ballet, international Shakespeare clubs and societies, and a creative practice of rehabilitating soldiers returned
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Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare in the Theatre: The Peter Sellars National Theatre, 1963–1975 Ayanna Thompson, The George Washington Olivier and Hall University, USA Robert Shaughnessy, University of Surrey, UK The first in-depth look at Peter Sellars, the avant- The National Theatre’s years at the Old Vic were the garde director whose Shakespeare productions most Shakespearean period in its history, one which have polarized communities and critics. Through included Laurence Olivier’s Othello and Shylock, a extensive interviews and archival work, leading radical all-male As You Like It, the Berliner Ensemble’s Coriolanus and Shakespearean Ayanna Thompson takes readers on a journey through Tom Stoppard’s classic offshoot, Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are experimental theatre and the tensions that arise between innovation Dead. Drawing extensively upon the company archives, this book tells and accessibility. An iconoclastic figure who inspires strong reactions the interlinked stories of the National’s relationship with Shakespeare both personally and professionally, Peter Sellars continues to amaze through a series of production case studies. Together, these stories and confound. This book takes readers inside his world for the first illuminate Olivier’s significance as actor and director, the National’s time. pioneering accommodation of European theatre practitioners, and its ways of engaging Shakespeare with the contemporary. UK May 2018 • US May 2018 • 208 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9781350021747 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350021754 UK May 2018 • US May 2018 • 264 pages • 5 bw illus Library eBook 9781350021761 HB 9781474241045 • £75.00 / $102.00 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare Individual eBook 9781474241052 Library eBook 9781474241069 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare in the Theatre: Trevor Nunn Russell Jackson, University of Birmingham, UK Peter Hall Stuart Hampton-Reeves, University of Central Trevor Nunn is one of the most significant and
SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY MODERN DRAMA SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY Lancashire, UK influential directors of modern times. This book Peter Hall was one of the most influential directors of provides the first critical overview of his work Shakespeare’s work of modern times. Through both as a director, including detailed discussions of his own work and the management of two national representative productions during his artistic theatre companies, the National Theatre and the directorship of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and the National RSC, Hall promoted Shakespeare as a writer who can comment Theatre. The book explores too the wider context of his productions incisively on the modern world. His best productions exemplified in the sometimes fraught debates on the cultural politics of Britain’s this approach: Coriolanus (1959), The Wars of the Roses (1963) and theatrical institutions in the 20th and 21st centuries. Hamlet (1965) established his reputation as a directorable to bring The book draws on archive material, reviews and other published Shakespeare to the heart of contemporary politics. commentary, including that of actors who have worked with him. UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 224 pages • 6 bw illus UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 256 pages • 6 bw illus HB 9781472587077 • £75.00 / $102.00 HB 9781474289580 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781472587091 Individual eBook 9781474289597 Library eBook 9781472587107 Library eBook 9781474289603 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King's Men Shakespeare in the Theatre: Lucy Munro, King's College London, UK Cheek by Jowl The King’s Men reappraises the company as theatre artists, analysing Peter Kirwan, University of Nottingham, UK in detail the performance practices, cultural contexts and political With 17 productions of Shakespeare's plays, pressures that helped to shape and reshape Shakespeare’s plays Cheek by Jowl is one of the world’s most critically between 1603 and 1642. Reconsidering casting and acting styles, acclaimed touring classical theatre companies. staging and playing venues, audience response, influence and Drawing on the company’s work in English, Russian popularity, and local, national and international politics, the book and French, the book uses key productions as presents case-studies of performances of Macbeth, The Tempest, The case studies to interrogate the company’s unique style and build Winter’s Tale, Richard II, Henry VIII, Othello and Pericles alongside a an argument for the distinctive insights offered by Cheek by Jowl’s broader reappraisal of the repertory of the company and the place of approach. Informed by new interviews with creative and administrative Shakespeare’s plays within it. company members from the full span of Cheek by Jowl’s history, as well as a full appraisal of the Cheek by Jowl archives, this book is the UK June 2019 • US August 2019 • 224 pages HB 9781474262613 • £75.00 / $102.00 first scholarly overview of the company’s work. Individual eBook 9781474262620 Library eBook 9781474262637 • UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 224 pages Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre The Arden Shakespeare HB 9781474223294 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781474223300 Library eBook 9781474223317 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare
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Shakespeare and the 'Live' Shakespeare on the Record Theatre Broadcast Experience Researching an Early Modern Life Edited by Pascale Aebischer, University of Edited by Hannah Leah Crummé, Lewis & Clark Exeter, UK, Susanne Greenhalgh, University College, USA of Roehampton, UK & Laurie Osborne, Colby Shakespeare on the Record is a guide to major College, USA Shakespeare discoveries and the archival insight "This brilliant collection of pieces sets the that made them possible. Compiled by experts parameters for our consideration of the at The National Archives, the Folger Shakespeare phenomenon for years to come, exploring examples of reception Library and leading universities, the volume explores and explains round the world and investigating the technologies that are the bureaucratic processes and governmental practices that shaped creating such exhilarating new ways to watch live and once-live life and records in Renaissance England – making it a key resource theatre by an ever-increasing array of theatre companies." Peter for both Shakespeare scholars and researchers of early modern lives. Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA The National Archives hold a rich collection of over 120 documents relating to Shakespeare’s life – several of which are profiled here for This is the first collection of essays to concentrate exclusively on the first time. the phenomenon of how Shakespeare has, in the 21stC, been experienced as a “live” or “as-live” theatre broadcast by audiences UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 256 pages around the world. HB 9781350003514 • £80.00 / $108.00 Individual eBook 9781350003521 UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 264 pages • 20 bw illus Library eBook 9781350003538 HB 9781350030466 • £75.00 / $102.00 The Arden Shakespeare Individual eBook 9781350030473 Library eBook 9781350030480 The Arden Shakespeare
The Shakespeare Hut A Story of Memory, Performance and Screening the Royal Shakespeare Identity, 1916-1923 Company Ailsa Grant Ferguson, Brighton University, UK A Critical History The story of the Shakespeare Hut, built in John Wyver, Independent Scholar, UK Bloomsbury in 1916, is a unique case study in cultural memory and performance of Shakespeare; No theatre company has been involved in such a one extraordinary building brings together broad range of adaptations for television and film Shakespeare’s place in First World War theatre, in emerging new post- as the Royal Shakespeare Company. Drawing on colonial identities and in the struggle for women’s suffrage. interviews with actors and directors, this is the first book to explore the remarkable history of collaborations between stage and screen UK December 2018 • US December 2018 • 272 pages • 8 bw illus and considers key questions about adaptation that concern all those HB 9781474295840 • £75.00 / $102.00 involved in theatre, film and television. Written by John Wyver, a Individual eBook 9781474295857 Library eBook 9781474295864 broadcasting historian and the television producer of Hamlet as well The Arden Shakespeare as of RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, the book provides a vivid, detailed and fascinating account of the RSC’s television and film productions.
UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus Shakespeare in the Global South HB 9781350006584 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350006591 Transcolonial Solidarities across Oceans of Difference Library eBook 9781350006607 The Arden Shakespeare Sandra Young, University of Cape Town, South Africa Shakespeare in the Global South proposes the critical frame provided by the idea of a Global South in order to theorize cultural difference.
It looks sideways across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to a variety of non-traditional centres of Shakespeare theatre-making to explore Shakespeare and the Gods the solidarities and affinities not as evident in Stratford’s Shakespeare. Virginia Mason Vaughan, Clark University, USA It takes its lead from innovative theatre practice in Mauritius, Cape Shakespeare and the Gods is a major new Verde, north India, and post-apartheid South Africa, to assess the critical work exploring the scope and meaning of value for cultural theory of conceptualising the transformation Shakespeare’s allusions to major Roman deities such of Shakespeare across the world as indigenisation, creolisation, as Jupiter, Venus, Diana and Hercules. Each chapter Africanisation, and localisation of endlessly transforming iterations of surveys early modern mythographic writing on the Shakespeare’s work. god in question, surveys Shakespeare’s references to particular myths in which the god is involved, discusses allusive UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 240 pages HB 9781350035744 • £75.00 / $102.00 patterns that repeat throughout the canon, and concludes with a Individual eBook 9781350035751 focused discussion of one or two plays in which the god becomes Library eBook 9781350035768 much more than an allusion, shaping in powerful ways our response to The Arden Shakespeare the action and characters.
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A Cultural History of the Emotions Six-Volume Set Edited by Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia, Australia, Jane W. Davidson, University of Western Australia, Australia & Andrew Lynch, University of Western Australia, Australia A thematic reference work covering the cultural history of the emotions from antiquity to the 21st century. Themes and chapter titles are: Medical and Scientific Understandings; Religion and Spirituality; Music and Dance; Drama; The Visual Arts; Literature; In Private: The Individual and the Domestic Community; and In Public: Collectivities and Polities.
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A Cultural History of Theatre Six-Volume Set Edited by Christopher B. Balme, University of Munich, Germany & Tracy C. Davis, Northwestern University, USA The first comprehensive overview of theatre in culture and culture in theatre throughout history. Themes and chapter titles are: Institutional Frameworks; Social Functions; Sexuality and Gender; The Environment of Theatre; Circulation; Interpretations; Communities of Production; Repertoire and Genres; Technologies of Performance; and Knowledge Transmission: Media and Memory.
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MAJOR REFERENCE WORKS The Great European Stage Directors Two Four-Volume Sets Edited by Simon Shepherd, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK The two sets offer an account of the work, lineage and legacy of the major theatre directors from the late 19th century onwards. Each volume provides a substantial treatment of three directors, with each individual considered by two specialists, combining analysis of their practical craft
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Decades of Modern American Drama Eight-Volume Set Playwriting from the 1930s to 2009 Edited by Brenda Murphy, University of Connecticut, USA & Julia Listengarten, University of Central Florida, USA A comprehensive study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009, each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged, as well as a thorough survey of the companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in theatre. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from each decade receives in-depth analysis, and a final section brings together original documents.
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