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  • Measure for Measure: A Critical Reader

    Edited by Dr John Jowett, Sarah Olive ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    This scholarly guide to Measure for Measure highlights its unique position in the Shakespeare canon by covering its nuanced performance history and critical backstory.Measure for Measure broke new ground in Shakespeare's dramatic writing by rejecting the formulae of comedy and tragedy. Issues at the heart of the play including gender equality, rape, judicial process, political authority, slander, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Shakespeare in East Asian Education

    by Sarah Olive, Kohei Uchimaru, Adele Lee, Rosalind Fielding ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers fresh, critical insights into Shakespeare in Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan. It recognises that Shakespeare in East Asian education is not confined to the classroom or lecture hall but occurs on diverse stages. It covers multiple aspects of education: policy, pedagogy, practice, and performance. Beyond researchers in these areas, this book is for those teaching and learning ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Shakespeare Valued

    Education Policy and Pedagogy 1989-2009

    by Sarah Olive ...
    Taking a comprehensive, critical, and theoretical approach to the role of Shakespeare in educational policy and pedagogy from 1989 (the year compulsory Shakespeare was introduced under the National Curriculum for English in the United Kingdom), to the present, Shakespeare Valued explores the esteem afforded Shakespeare in the British educational system and its evolution in the twentieth century ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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  • The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy

    Edited by Magda Romanska ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    Dramaturgy, in its many forms, is a fundamental and indispensable element of contemporary theatre. In its earliest definition, the word itself means a comprehensive theory of "play making." Although it initially grew out of theatre, contemporary dramaturgy has made enormous advances in recent years, and it now permeates all kinds of narrative forms and structures: from opera to performance art; ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio

    Theory, Text and Performance

    by Don Weingust ...
    Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio examines a series of techniques for reading and performing Shakespeare's plays that are based on the texts of the first ‘complete’ volume of Shakespeare's works: the First Folio of 1623.Do extra syllables in a line suggest how it might be played? Can Folio commas reveal character? Don Weingust places this work on Folio performance possibility within current ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Hamlet: A Critical Reader

    Edited by Ann Thompson, Professor Neil Taylor ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    Hamlet remains the most-studied of all Shakespeare's great tragedies. This collection of newly-commissioned essays gives readers an overview of past critical views of the play as well as new writing about the play from today's leading scholars. The range of perspectives offered makes the book an invaluable companion to anyone studying the play at an advanced level. The final chapter on learning ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • The People's Bard

    How China Made Shakespeare its Own: Penguin Specials

    by Nancy Pellegrini ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    The story of Shakespeare in China is one of cultural blending and reinvention. Peopled by devoted evangelists, theatre directors and dogged interpreters intent on bridging divisions of language and politics, it tracks the trajectory of modern Chinese history and the development of theatre arts. Four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death, Nancy Pellegrini pulls back the curtain on how the Bard of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance

    Edited by James C. Bulman ...
    The Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespeare specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field. Shakespearean performance criticism has firmly established itself as a ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism

    Edited by Dr Evelyn Gajowski ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks
    The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on 20 specific critical practices, each grounded in analysis of a Shakespeare play. These practices range from foundational approaches including character studies, close reading ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose

    A Student-Centred Approach

    by Laura Turchi, Professor Ayanna Thompson ...
    What 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 themes. Instead, this invigorating new book equips teachers to enable student-centred discovery of these complex texts.Because Shakespeare's plays are excellent vehicles for many topics -history, socio ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Performing Processes

    Creating Live Performance

    by Roberta Mock ...
    Live performance continues to be created every time it is performed. This book explores the dynamic relationship between creative process, presentation and spectator response to provide students and scholars in Drama with new insights on performance from poetry to pantomime. These essays make parallels between areas of performance that are rarely, if ever, compared. They present the basis for an ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Viral Shakespeare

    Performance in the Time of Pandemic

    by Pascale Aebischer ...
    Series series Elements in Shakespeare Performance
    This Element offers a first-person phenomenological history of watching productions of Shakespeare during the pandemic year of 2020. The first section of the Element explores how Shakespeare 'went viral' during the first lockdown of 2020 and considers how the archival recordings of Shakespeare productions made freely available by theatres across Europe and North America impacted on modes of ... Read more

    $20.49 USD