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"King Lear" by William Shakespeare
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $18.88'By far the best edition of King Lear - in respect of both textual and other matters - that we now have.'John Lyon, English Language Notes'This volume is a treasure-trove of precise information and... -
Everyman and Mankind by Douglas Bruster
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $27.93Everyman and Mankind are morality plays which mark the turn of the medieval period to the early modern, with their focus on the individual. Everyman follows a man's journey towards death and his... -
Much Ado About Nothing: Arden Performance Editions William Shakespeare 9781474272094
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.43Arden 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... -
Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader Efterpi Mitsi (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) 9781350014190
Booksplease Price: $202.34Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this complex problem play, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. Considering its... -
Macbeth: Arden Performance Editions William Shakespeare 9781350046788
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.43'I wish I had copies like this at Drama School. Essential notes on the language for those who will get up and speak it, not purely for those who will sit and study it. An incredibly useful tool with... -
Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare's England by Dr Tiffany Stern
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $49.98This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Rethinking Theatrical Documents brings together fifteen major scholars to analyse and... -
Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach by Ayanna Thompson
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $55.44What does it mean to teach Shakespeare with purpose? It means freeing teachers from the notion that teaching Shakespeare means teaching everything, or teaching "Western Civilisation" and universal... -
Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality Goran Stanivukovic (Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada) 9781350084476
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $62.33Now available in paperback, Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama... -
As You Like It: Language and Writing by Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.88As You Like It: Language and Writing explores one of Shakespeare's best-known comedies. It considers the literary and theatrical contexts in which Shakespeare was writing; examines, in detail, the... -
"The Two Gentlemen of Verona" by William Shakespeare
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.81Two Gentlemen of Verona is commonly agreed to be Shakespeare's first comedy, and probably his first play. A comedy built around the confusions of doubling, cross - dressing and identity, it is also... -
"King Henry VI": Pt. 1 by William Shakespeare
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.83A fresh look at a play usually regarded as the first component of a three-part historical epic, this edition argues that Henry VI Part 1 is a 'prequel', a freestanding piece that returns for ironic... -
King Henry VI Part 3: Third Series William Shakespeare 9781903436318
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.16In their lively and engaging edition of this sometimes neglected early play, Cox and Rasmussen make a strong claim for it as a remarkable work, revealing a confidence and sureness that very few... -
Shakespeare / Sense: Contemporary Readings in Sensory Culture by Dr Simon Smith
Booksplease Price: $90.49Shakespeare Sense explores the intersection of Shakespeare and sensory studies, asking what sensation can tell us about early modern drama and poetry, and, conversely, how Shakespeare explores the... -
Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability by Genevieve Love
Booksplease Price: $68.82What work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre? Through a consideration of a range of plays, including Doctor Faustus and Richard III, Genevieve Love argues that the... -
King John: Third Series by William Shakespeare
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.89The Arden Shakespeare is the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's plays. Now in its third series, Arden offers the best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume guides you to a deeper... -
"Hamlet": The Texts of 1603 and 1623 by William Shakespeare
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $25.10This volume gives readers the First Quarto text of 1603 and the Folio Text of 1623, modernised and edited to the usual Arden standard. As a companion to the Second Quarto volume, it will be of... -
King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series William Shakespeare 9781903436639
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.10This edition celebrates King Henry VI Part 2 as one of the most exciting and dynamic plays of the English renaissance theatre, with its exploration of power politics and social revolution and its... -
The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe 9781408130001
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $62.35The Jew of Malta, written around 1590, can present a challenge for modern audiences. Hugely popular in its day, the play swings wildly and rapidly in genre, from pointed satire, to bloody revenge... -
Othello: A Critical Reader by Robert C. Evans 9781472520364
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $47.50Othello has long been, and remains, one of Shakespeare's most popular works. It is a favourite work of scholars, students, and general readers alike. Perhaps more than any other of Shakespeare's... -
'Tis Pity She's A Whore by John Ford 9781408129968
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $199.35A fully modernised, annotated edition of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Ford's controversial tragedy of sibling incest and complex revenge plots. As with all Arden editions, detailed on-page commentary... -
The Two Noble Kinsmen, Revised Edition: Third Series by William Shakespeare 9781472577559
Booksplease Price: $200.66This tragi-comedy is one of the plays we know Shakespeare worked with a collaborator on -- John Fletcher -- and is based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale. This revised edition includes a new introductory... -
The Shoemakers' Holiday Thomas Dekker 9781474277549
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $34.42Thomas Dekker’s singular comic drama, The Shoemakers’ Holiday moves through the urban landscape of 16th century apprenticeships and artisan production in this tale of thwarted marriages and class... -
Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life by Katherine Duncan-Jones 9781408125083
Booksplease Price: $36.58'[A] deeply considered and stimulating book, informed throughout by the author's intimate knowledge of the literature and society of Shakespeare's age...' Stanley Wells, TLS 'It is unquestionably the... -
Creating Space for Shakespeare: Working with Marginalized Communities Rowan Mackenzie 9781350272743
Booksplease Price: $66.91Applied Shakespeare is attracting growing interest from practitioners and academics alike, all keen to understand the ways in which performing his works can offer opportunities for reflection,... -
Shakespeare and the Victorians by Adrian Poole 9781903436714
Booksplease Price: $85.66Adrian Poole's major new study is the first to present a fully comprehensive view of what Shakespeare meant to the Victorian period as a whole. He examines the Victorian's obsession with Shakespeare,... -
King Richard III: Language and Writing by Rebecca Lemon 9781474253352
Booksplease Price: $150.26A new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical writings skills students need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare's texts. The... -
Antony and Cleopatra: A Critical Reader by Domenico Lovascio 9781350215528
Booksplease Price: $66.91Arden Early Modern 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: Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan: 1592-1623 by Katherine Duncan-Jones 9781408130148
Booksplease Price: $202.34An original and provocative study of the evolution of Shakespeare's image, building on the success of Duncan-Jones' acclaimed biography, Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life. Taking a broadly chronological... -
Shakespeare's Political Imagination: The Historicism of Setting by Philip Goldfarb Styrt 9781350173972
Booksplease Price: $181.50Shakespeare's Political Imagination argues that to better understand Shakespeare's plays it is essential to look at the historicism of setting: how the places and societies depicted in the plays were... -
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Mark Rylance at the Globe by Stephen Purcell 9781472581723
Booksplease Price: $191.92Shakespeare in the Theatre: Mark Rylance at the Globe Each volume in the Shakespeare in the Theatre series focuses on a director or theatre company who has made a significant contribution to... -
The Changeling: The State of Play by Professor Gordon McMullan 9781350288430
Booksplease Price: $66.91This collection of original essays on Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s unsettling revenge tragedy The Changeling represents key new directions in criticism and research. The 13 chapters fall... -
Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play by Lynn Enterline 9781350197633
Booksplease Price: $73.16Tracing the development of narrative verse in London's literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a... -
Directing Shakespeare in America by Charles Ney 9781474289696
Booksplease Price: $237.53This unique and comprehensive study reviews the practice of leading American directors of Shakespeare from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Charles Ney examines rehearsal and... -
Shakespeare's Fathers and Daughters by Oliver Ford Davies 9781474290135
Booksplease Price: $216.53A theme that obsessed Shakespeare in over 20 plays from Titus Andronicus to The Tempest was the relationship between a daughter and her father. This study traces chronologically the development of... -
Shakespeare's Artists: The Painters, Sculptors, Poets and Musicians in his Plays and Poems by B. J. Sokol 9781350021938
Booksplease Price: $237.53This study of the many poets, musicians and visual artists portrayed or described in Shakespeare's plays and poems reveals a fascination with art and its makers that continued to influence... -
King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare 9781903436240
Booksplease Price: $170.16King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a... -
"The "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare 9781903436134
Booksplease Price: $96.08The Arden Shakespeare, in association with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, presents a new series of volumes on Shakespeare's plays in performance.The series discusses and analyses the wide range of... -
The Revenger's Tragedy: The State of Play by Gretchen E. Minton 9781350112506
Booksplease Price: $77.32The Revenger's Tragedy (1606), now widely attributed to Thomas Middleton, is a play that provides a dark, satirical response to other revenge tragedies such as Hamlet. With its over-the-top and... -
Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Auden, Beckett: Great Shakespeareans: Volume XII by Adrian Poole 9781472518507
Booksplease Price: $78.58The four writers featured in this volume represent different aspects of the modernist response to Shakespeare. James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and Samuel Beckett were all exceptionally learned... -
The Comedy of Errors: Third Series by William Shakespeare 9781904271239
Booksplease Price: $204.92Shakespeare's dextrous comedy of two twin masters and two twin servants continually mistaken for one another is both farce and more than farce. The Comedy of Errors examines the interplay between...