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Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare 9781903436912
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.43This major new edition of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy of love argues that that play is ultimately Juliet's. The play text is expertly edited and the on-page commentary notes discuss issues of... -
King Lear: Language and Writing by Professor Jean E. Howard
Booksplease Price: $47.73Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the writing skills you need to develop in order to... -
Twelfth Night: Arden Performance Editions William Shakespeare 9781350002975
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.43For the first time, the world-renowned Arden Shakespeare is producing Performance Editions, aimed specifically for use in the rehearsal room. Published in association with the Shakespeare... -
King Richard III: Third Series William Shakespeare 9781903436899
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.98Richard III is one of the great Shakespearean characters and roles. James R Siemon examines the attraction of this villain to audiences and focuses on how beguiling, even funny, he can be,... -
Macbeth: A Critical Reader by John Drakakis
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $51.62ARDEN RENAISSANCE DRAMA GUIDES offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading... -
Shakespeare and Queer Theory by Melissa E. Sanchez
Booksplease Price: $57.92Shakespeare and Queer Theory is an indispensable guide on the ongoing critical debates about queer method both within and beyond Shakespeare and early modern studies. Clearly elucidating the... -
King Henry IV Part 2 William Shakespeare 9781904271376
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.83More troubled and troubling than King Henry IV Part 1, the play continues the story of King Henry's decline and Hal's reform. Though Part 2 echoes the structure of the earlier play, it is a darker... -
Springboard Shakespeare: King Lear by Ben Crystal
Booksplease Price: $32.66King Lear is a towering drama of personal and national tragedy. This accessible introduction offers a springboard into the play, taking a hands-on, performance-based approach, exploring the... -
Springboard Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Ben Crystal
Booksplease Price: $30.41A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. This accessible introduction offers a springboard into the play, taking a hands-on, performance-based approach,... -
The Dutch Courtesan by Karen Britland
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $27.93The Dutch Courtesan is a riotous tragicomedy that explores the delights and perils afforded by Jacobean London. While Freevill, an educated young Englishman and the play's nominal hero, frolics in... -
The Tempest: Arden Performance Editions William Shakespeare 9781350133952
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.37Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key... -
The Island Princess by FLETCHER
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $36.54The Island Princess is a tragicomic romance set in the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Fletcher rewrites Shakespeare's The Tempest through the encounter of Islam and Christianity and the fierce European... -
Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, by William Shakespeare 9781472584748
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $25.10A revised edition of this intriguing and complex play, updated to cover recent critical thinking and stage history. Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy often labelled a "problem" play because of its... -
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare 9781904271208
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $27.53In All's Well That Ends Well, Helen, a lowly ward, risks her life to satisfy her boundless love for Bertram, a count and ward to the King of France. Following him to Paris, she concocts an... -
Shakespearean Tragedy by Professor Kiernan Ryan 9781472586988
Booksplease Price: $52.25This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare's tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its beginnings in the Henry VI plays and Shakespeare's... -
Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory by Sujata Iyengar 9781350073586
Booksplease Price: $169.53Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory reconsiders, after 20 years of intense critical and creative activity, the theory and practice of adapting Shakespeare to different genres and media. Organized... -
The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies by Lukas Erne 9781350225190
Booksplease Price: $85.97The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and textual studies by an international team of leading scholars. It... -
The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations by Jane Armstrong 9781408128978
RRP: $37.80Booksplease Price: $34.78Who said "Neither a lender or borrower be", who loved "not wisely but too well" and whose "salad days" are now behind her? If you have ever struggled to remember a Shakespeare quote, this is the book... -
Shakespeare in Action by Jacquelyn Bessell 9781408171738
Booksplease Price: $60.59- How do actors prepare a script of a Shakespeare play for performance? - Where do directors begin? - What do Shakespeare's plays offer a designer or choreographer? - How do the cast and creative... -
Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body by Evelyn Tribble 9781472576026
Booksplease Price: $65.06What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body examines... -
The Shakespeare Hut: A Story of Memory, Performance and Identity, 1916-1923 by Ailsa Grant Ferguson 9781474295840
Booksplease Price: $214.64This book tells the forgotten story of the Shakespeare Hut, a vast, mock-Tudor building for New Zealand Anzac soldiers visiting London on leave from the front lines. Constructed in Bloomsbury in... -
A Jovial Crew by Tiffany Stern 9781408130018
Booksplease Price: $202.00A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, is a comedy about four noble lovers who join the beggar community for a pastoral life of dance and song. Or is it? Whilst maintaining its unremitting good humour,... -
Shakespeare and Lecoq: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers by Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall 9781350244092
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $33.79This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of influential theatre practitioner Jacques Lecoq to the process of rehearsing or... -
The Spanish Tragedy by Clara Calvo 9781408129982
Booksplease Price: $202.48A major new edition of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy,an outstanding landmark of Elizabethan drama. In its time, it quickly became a box office success and probably inspired Shakespeare to write... -
Money and Magic in Early Modern Drama David Hawkes 9781350247086
Booksplease Price: $66.19Money, magic and the theatre were powerful forces in early modern England. Money was acquiring an independent, efficacious agency, as the growth of usury allowed financial signs to reproduce without... -
Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition Claire McEachern (UCLA, USA) 9781472520302
Booksplease Price: $202.92Much Ado About Nothing presents a battle of the sexes in more ways than one: as both a lightning-fast skirmish of wits between two famously disputatious lovers, and a near-deadly conflict built on... -
Hamlet: Revised Edition Ann Thompson (King's College London, UK) 9781472518392
Booksplease Price: $201.16This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key... -
Interruptions in Early Modern English Drama by Michael M. Wagoner 9781350238312
Booksplease Price: $191.92From the Ghost's appearance in Hamlet to Celia's frightful speech in Volpone, interruptions are an overlooked linguistic and dramatic form that delineates the balance of power within a scene. This... -
Shakespeare's Creative Legacies: Artists, Writers, Performers, Readers by Peter Holbrook 9781474234481
Booksplease Price: $62.75We celebrate Shakespeare as a creator of plays and poems, characters and ideas, words and worlds. But so too, in the four centuries since his death in 1616, have thinkers, writers, artists and... -
Shakespeare in the Theatre: The National Theatre, 1963-1975: Olivier and Hall by Robert Shaughnessy 9781474241045
Booksplease Price: $237.53The National Theatre's years at the Old Vic were the most Shakespearean period in its history, one which included Laurence Olivier's Othello and Shylock, a radical all-male As You Like It, the... -
Shakespeare's Acts of Will: Law, Testament and Properties of Performance by Gary Watt 9781474217859
Booksplease Price: $235.47Shakespeare was born into a new age of will, in which individual intent had the potential to overcome dynastic expectation. The 1540 Statute of Wills had liberated testamentary disposition of land... -
Re-imagining Shakespeare in Contemporary Japan: A Selection of Japanese Theatrical Adaptations of Shakespeare by Professor Tetsuhito Motoyama 9781350116245
Booksplease Price: $191.92An anthology of three exciting Japanese adaptations of Shakespeare that engage with issues such as changing family values, racial diversity, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and terrorism,... -
Shakespeare in Action by Jacquelyn Bessell 9781350033504
Booksplease Price: $169.53- How do actors prepare a script of a Shakespeare play for performance? - Where do directors begin? - What do Shakespeare's plays offer a designer or choreographer? - How do the cast and creative... -
Shakespeare on the Record: Researching an Early Modern Life by Hannah Leah Crumme 9781350003514
Booksplease Price: $235.47Winner of the Janette Harley Prize 2019Shakespeare on Record is a unique guide to major Shakespeare discoveries and the archival insight that made them possible. With contributions from experts at... -
Shakespeare and Religion by Alison Shell 9781472568175
Booksplease Price: $62.06This book sets Shakespeare in the religious context of his times, presenting a balanced, up-to-date account of current biographical and critical debates, and addressing the fascinating, under-studied... -
Shakespeare's Plants and Gardens: A Dictionary by Vivian Thomas 9781474273879
Booksplease Price: $87.49Shakespeare lived when knowledge of plants and their uses was a given, but also at a time of unique interest in plants and gardens. His lifetime saw the beginning of scientific interest in plants,... -
Shakespeare on European Festival Stages by Nicoleta Cinpoes 9781350283244
Booksplease Price: $66.19From the aftermath of World War II to the convulsions of Brexit, festivals have deployed Shakespeare as a model of inclusive and progressive theatre to seek cultural solutions to Europe's... -
Performing Shakespeare's Women: Playing Dead by Paige Martin Reynolds 9781350170964
Booksplease Price: $74.47Shakespeare's women rarely reach the end of the play alive. Whether by murder or by suicide, onstage or off, female actors in Shakespeare's works often find themselves 'playing dead.' But what does... -
Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader by Andrew James Hartley 9781474220378
Booksplease Price: $214.64This volume offers a practical, accessible and thought-provoking guide to this Roman tragedy, surveying its major themes and critical reception. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history... -
The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare’s World by Dr Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin 9781350328617
Booksplease Price: $66.91The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare’s World explores Shakespeare’s complex art of insults and shows how the playwright set abusive words at the heart of many of his plays. It provides valuable...