Shakespeare catalog 2015

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to readers worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. Edited by an expert international team, the series provides lively, instructive access to Shakespeare’s works without over-simplifying them.

Rediscover Shakespeare with Cambridge, as we launch new eBook versions of our stunning New Cambridge Shakespeare series. You can now enjoy reading all Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets and poems on your eReader device or computer.

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T H E N E W C A M B R I D G E S H A K E S P E A R ENCS

2 New Cambridge Shakespeare

10 Recent and forthcoming highlights

14 Student Resources

16 Shakespeare and Early Modern Criticism

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The TempestSecond Edition

Updated edition of The Tempest includes a thoroughly revised introduction and reading list.

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All’s Well that Ends WellSecond Edition

Edited by Russell Fraser, revised and updated by Alexander Leggatt

For this updated edition of All’s Well, Alexander Leggatt has written a wholly new Introduction to one of Shakespeare’s most puzzling, ambiguous and demanding plays. Leggatt’s interest in performance informs his thoughtful account of the play’s critical and theatrical fortunes to the end of the twentieth century.

978-0-521-82793-5 Hardback £49.99 / US$94.99 978-0-521-53515-1 Paperback £8.99 / US$18.99

Antony and CleopatraSecond Edition

Edited by David Bevington

For this updated edition, David Bevington has included in his introductory section a thorough consideration of recent critical and stage interpretations of Antony and Cleopatra, demonstrating how the theatrical design and imagination of this play make it one of Shakespeare’s most remarkable tragedies. An updated reading list completes the edition.


As You Like ItSecond Edition

Edited by Michael Hattaway

Shakespeare’s As You Like It can appear bright or sombre in performance: a feast of language and a delight for comic actors, or a risk-taking exploration of gender roles. This updated edition provides an account of what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous.


The Comedy of ErrorsSecond Edition

Edited by T. S. Dorsch, revised and updated by Ros King

Ros King has provided a completely new introduction, arguing that Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors cannot be regarded merely as a farcical romp based on a classical model, but belongs to the critically misunderstood genre of tragi-comedy. Her introduction also engages fully with the play’s continuing popularity in the theatre.


CoriolanusSecond Edition

Edited by Lee Bliss, revised and updated by Bridget Escolme

Shakespeare’s Roman play Coriolanus was probably his last tragedy, and represents the playwright’s most searching exploration of the political life of a community. This annotated edition provides full explanatory notes, and a substantial introduction which has been updated to include the most recent criticism and productions of the play.


CymbelineEdited by Martin Butler, recently updated

This new edition of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline foregrounds the elements of romance, tragicomedy and Jacobean stagecraft which together shape the play; it also acknowledges the postmodern indeterminacy of the play’s key moments. Martin Butler presents a refreshingly unsentimental reading of the heroine, Innogen.


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T h e N e w C a m b r i d g e S h a k e S p e a r eNCS

CoriolaNuS

edited by lee bliss


CymbeliNe

edited by martin butler

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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

Edited by T. S. Dorsch


aNToNy aNd CleopaTra

edited by david bevington


all’S well ThaT eNdS well

edited by russell Fraser


aS You Like iT

edited by michael hattaway

eBooks available

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Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkSecond Edition

Edited by Philip Edwards, revised and updated by Robert Hapgood

Robert Hapgood has added a section on prevailing critical and performance approaches to Hamlet. He discusses recent film and stage performances, and actors of the Hamlet role, as well as directors of the play; he stresses the role of remembering and forgetting, and the impact of feminist and performance studies.

‘The introduction and commentary reveal an author with a lively awareness of the importance of perceiving the play as a theatrical document, one which comes to life, which is completed only in performance.’The Review of English Studies

978-0-521-82545-0 Hardback £49.99 / US$94.99

978-0-521-53252-5 Paperback £8.99 / US$17.99

Julius CaesarSecond Edition

Edited by Marvin Spevack, revised and updated by Marga Munkelt

For this updated edition of Julius Caesar, Marga Munkelt has added a new section and new pictures to the Introduction, surveying stage and critical interpretations since the 1980s of Shakespeare’s most famous Roman play. The reading list has also been brought up to date.


King Edward IIIEdited by Giorgio Melchiori

Edward III is a major addition to the Shakespearean canon, and is published here for the first time in an authoritative edition of Shakespeare’s works. Melchiori claims that Shakespeare is the author of a significant part of the play, the extent of which is discussed in detail.


The First Part of King Henry IVSecond Edition

Edited by Herbert Weil and Judith Weil, revised and updated by Katharine A. Craik

This updated edition offers a strongly theatrical perspective on the origins of the play, and the history of its interpretation. The notes provide a thorough commentary on Shakespeare’s transformation of his sources, and suggest alternative stagings. A new introductory section by Katharine Craik describes recent stage, film and critical interpretations.


The Second Part of King Henry IVSecond Edition

Edited by Giorgio Melchiori, revised and updated by Adam Hansen

Melchiori offers a fresh approach to The Second Part of King Henry IV, which he sees as an unplanned sequel to the First Part, itself a ‘remake’ of an old non-Shakespearean play. This updated edition includes a new introductory section by Adam Hansen describing recent stage, film and critical interpretations.


King Henry VSecond Edition

Edited by Andrew Gurr

For this updated edition of Shakespeare’s most celebrated war play, Professor Gurr has added a new section to his introduction which considers recent critical and stage interpretations, especially concentrating on the ‘secret’ versus ‘official’ readings of the play. An updated reading list completes the edition.



The FirST parT oF kiNg heNry iV

edited by herbert weil and Judith weil


kiNg heNry V

edited by andrew gurr

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hamleT,priNCe of deNmark

edited by philip edwards


JuliuS CaeSar

edited by marvin Spevack


kiNg edward iii

edited by giorgio melchiori


The SeCONd parT Of kiNg heNry iV

edited by giorgio melchiori

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The First Part of King Henry VIEdited by Michael Hattaway

This, the first major edition for over twenty-five years, takes account of recent discoveries concerning Shakespeare’s early career. The First Part of King Henry VI, which gives us Shakespeare’s portrait of Joan of Arc, stands revealed both as a successful venture in its own exploratory style, and as a necessary account of key events in the Hundred Years War without which the Wars of the Roses, anatomised in the following two plays, cannot be understood.


The Second Part of King Henry VIEdited by Michael Hattaway

This edition of The Second Part of King Henry VI takes account of discoveries concerning Shakespeare’s early career, and pays particular attention to theatrical history, relating readings generated by modern performances to ideologically positioned accounts of the history and politics of Shakespeare’s age.


The Third Part of King Henry VIEdited by Michael Hattaway

In The Third Part of King Henry VI, Shakespeare contrasts Henry VI with his rival Edward IV to present a picture of the perils of aristocratic factionalism.


King Henry VIIIEdited by John Margeson

Professor Margeson considers and illustrates the stage history of the play, and gives a balanced account of the authorship controversy from the mid-nineteenth century. The Introduction considers the political and religious background of the play, its pageant-like structure and visual effects, and its varied ironies. The commentary is detailed but concise, explaining difficult passages and contemporary references, and suggesting how the play might have been staged in an Elizabethan theatre, or might still be staged for a modern audience.


King JohnEdited by L. A. Beaurline

King John had a distinguished life on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century stage, but for most of this century the play has been undervalued. The Introduction in this edition presents the fullest account to date of the stage history, with accompanying illustrations to suggest the dramatic potential of the script. The appendix surveys the arguments about the dating of Shakespeare’s King John and the anonymous Troublesome Reign of King John and presents new evidence for the possibility that Shakespeare’s play was written first.


The Tragedy of King LearSecond Edition

Edited by Jay L. Halio

For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Professor Halio has added a new introductory section on recent stage, film, and critical interpretations of the play. He gives a comprehensive account of Shakespeare’s sources and the literary, political and folkloric influences at work in the play; a detailed reading of the action; and a substantial stage history of major productions. Professor Halio chooses the Folio as the text for this edition. He explains the differences between the quarto and Folio versions and alerts the reader to the rival claims of the quarto by means of a sampling of parallel passages in the Introduction and by an appendix which contains annotated passages unique to the quarto. An updated reading list completes the edition.



kiNg JohN

edited by L. a. beaurline


The Tragedy of kiNg Lear

edited by Jay L. halio


The FirST parT oF kiNg heNry Vi



kiNg heNry Viii

edited by John margeson

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The SeCONd parT Of kiNg heNry Vi



The Third parT of kiNg heNry Vi



Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit

– Twelfth Night

King Richard IISecond Edition

Edited by Andrew Gurr

For this updated edition Gurr has added a new section to the Introduction in which he describes the growing interest in re-historicising and repoliticising the play, surveys a number of important professional theatre productions, and guides the reader through the scholarly criticism of recent years.


King Richard IIISecond Edition

Edited by Janis Lull

This updated edition of King Richard III, one of Shakespeare’s most perennially popular plays, contains a new introductory section on the most recent criticism and performances, including the RSC cycles of the history plays. Lull’s introduction stresses the importance of women’s roles in the play and emphasises its tragic themes.


Love’s Labour’s LostEdited by William C. Carroll

This new edition of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost presents a highly readable text of the play based on the first quarto of 1598. A thorough but concise critical commentary and a comprehensive introduction illuminate the significant elements of the play, its remarkable use of language, and its performance history.


MacbethSecond Edition

Edited by A. R. Braunmuller

This book is an extensively-annotated edition of Macbeth, offering a thorough reconsideration of one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays. The book contains a brand new introductory section on recent performances and adaptations of the play.

‘This updated edition of Macbeth reveals thorough research, it is conscientiously annotated, and it appears a superb tool for researchers and students involved in Shakespeare scholarship.’Year’s Work in English Studies


Measure for MeasureSecond Edition

Edited by Brian Gibbons, revised and updated by Angela Stock

This updated edition of Measure for Measure includes a new introductory section on recent stage, film and critical interpretations by Angela Stock. An updated reading list completes the edition.

978-0-521-85448-1 Hardback £49.99 / US$89.99

978-0-521-67078-4 Paperback £8.99 / US$17.99

The Merchant of VeniceSecond Edition

Edited by M. M. Mahood, revised and updated by Charles Edelman

In a substantial new section, Charles Edelman focuses on the play’s sexual politics and recent scholarship on the position of Jews in Shakespeare’s time. He surveys the international scope of theatrical interpretations of The Merchant in the 1980s and 1990s and different ways of tackling the troubling figure of Shylock.

‘The introduction and commentary reveal an author with a lively awareness of the importance of perceiving the play as a theatrical document, one which comes to life, which is completed only in performance.’The Review of English Studies



The merChaNT of VeNiCe

edited by m. m. mahood


kiNg riChard ii

edited by andrew gurr

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Love’S Labour’S LoST

edited by william C. Carroll


meaSure for meaSure

edited by brian gibbons


maCbeTh

edited by a. r. braunmuller

The Merry Wives of WindsorSecond Edition

Edited by David Crane

Focusing on theatrical aspects of The Merry Wives of Windsor, this new edition includes a response to some current arguments about the dating of the play. Crane also brings the stage history of the play up to date, showing how recent productions contribute to our understanding of it.


A Midsummer Night’s DreamSecond Edition

Edited by R. A. Foakes

For this updated edition a new section of the Introduction takes account of important professional theatre productions and the large output of scholarly criticism on the play which has appeared in recent years. The reading list has also been revised and augmented.

‘… a fine example of judicious editorial writing. Foakes guides the reader securely and fluently through the critical and scholarly disputes that have accumulated around the play. He manages to be informative without being patronizing, and detached with out failing to offer opinions.’The Times Higher Education Supplement


Much Ado about NothingSecond Edition

Edited by F. H. Mares, revised and updated by Angela Stock

For this updated edition Angela Stock has added a new section to the Introduction in which she reviews both romantic and darker, more cynical aspects of the play in the light of late twentieth-century stage, film and critical interpretations and the play’s interest in sexuality and misogyny, eavesdropping and deception.


OthelloSecond Edition

Edited by Norman Sanders, revised and updated by Scott McMillin

For this updated edition, Scott McMillin has added a new section on the key events in both scholarship and theatre since the 1980s, including political, feminist and postcolonial treatments in various parts of the world, together with a description of performances of the play on stage, film and television.


PericlesEdited by Doreen DelVecchio and Antony Hammond

In recent decades there has been a resurgence of theatrical interest in Shakespeare’s Pericles, which has been rescued from comparative neglect and is now frequently performed. The editors reject the current orthodoxies, that the text is seriously corrupt and that the play is of divided authorship. They show how the 1609 quarto has features in common with the first quarto of King Lear, now widely regarded as being based on Shakespeare’s manuscript. Likewise they regard the arguments concerning divided authorship as unproven and misleading. Instead they show the play to be a unified aesthetic experience.


The PoemsSecond Edition

Edited by John Roe

This updated edition of Shakespeare’s poems contains a new introductory section on recent critical interpretations. Fully annotated, it includes all the poems which can be confidently assigned to Shakespeare, excluding the Sonnets. An updated reading list completes the edition.

‘John Roe offers without doubt the best treatment of the poems for many years …’The Year’s Work in Modern Languages



periCleS

edited by doreen delVecchio and antony hammond


The poemSVenus and adonis, The rape of Lucrece, The phoenix and the Turtle, The passionate pilgrim, a Lover’s Complaint

edited by John roe


The merry wiveS of wiNdSor

edited by david Crane

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muCh ado abouT NoThiNg

edited by F. h. mares


Romeo and JulietSecond Edition

Edited by G. Blakemore Evans, revised and updated by Thomas Moisan

For this updated edition Thomas Moisan has added an account of the number of important professional theatre productions and the large output of scholarly criticism on the play which have appeared in recent years. The reading list has also been revised and augmented.

‘… beautifully edited … and presented.’The Daily Telegraph


The SonnetsSecond Edition

Edited by G. Blakemore Evans, with an introduction by Stephen Orgel

For this edition, Stephen Orgel offers a warmly personal and original introduction to Shakespeare’s best-loved and most widely read poems. The edition retains the text of the Sonnets prepared by Gwynne Evans, together with his detailed notes on each, and a line-by-line commentary.


The Taming of the ShrewSecond Edition

Edited by Ann Thompson

For this updated edition Ann Thompson has added new sections to the Introduction which describe the ‘deeply problematic’ nature of debates about the play and its reception since the 1980s. She discusses recent editions and textual, performance and critical studies.

‘A radically fresh and challenging view of the play.’The Times Higher Education Supplement


The TempestSecond Edition

Edited by David Lindley

The Tempest is one of the most suggestive, yet most elusive of all Shakespeare’s plays, and has provoked a wide range of critical interpretations. In this updated edition, David Lindley has thoroughly revised the introduction and reading list to take account of the latest directions in criticism and performance.

Review of the first edition: ‘If you are looking for a model edition – by which I mean one that is concerned to honour the text and to explain the processes involved in editing – this is it. If I were ever again to undertake

the editing of a Shakespeare play, I would keep Lindley’s edition of The Tempest open beside me.’Peter Thompson


Timon of AthensEdited by Karl Klein

Karl Klein introduces Shakespeare’s late play as a complex exploration of a corrupt, moneyed society. He argues that evidence for other authors is inconclusive and shows the play to be neither tragedy, satire nor comedy, but a subtle and complete drama whose main characters contain elements of all three genres.


Titus AndronicusSecond Edition

Edited by Alan Hughes

This updated edition of Titus Andronicus includes a section on recent stage, film and critical interpretations by Sue Hall-Smith. The text is based on the first quarto, supplemented by crucial additions and stage directions from the Folio. An updated reading list completes the edition.



The TamiNg of The Shrew

edited by ann Thompson


The SONNeTS

edited by g. blakemore evans

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The TamiNg of The Shrew

edited by ann Thompson


TimoN of aTheNS

edited by karl klein


The TempeST

edited by david Lindley


TiTuS aNdroNiCuS

edited by alan hughes

Troilus and CressidaEdited by Anthony B. Dawson

Troilus and Cressida, long considered one of Shakespeare’s most problematic plays, is both difficult and fascinating. In this edition, Dawson views the play from a performance perspective – both in the commentary as well as in the detailed section on stage history in the introduction.


Twelfth NightSecond Edition

Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno, revised and updated by Penny Gay

For this updated edition of Twelfth Night, Penny Gay has written a wholly new introduction to this well-loved Shakespearean comedy. She stresses the play’s theatricality, its elaborate linguistic games and its complex use of Ovidian myths. A thorough performance history is accompanied by a new selection of photographs of productions.


The Two Gentlemen of VeronaSecond Edition 2012

Edited by Kurt Schlueter, revised and updated by Lucy Munro

Professor Schlueter approaches this early comedy as a parody of two types of Renaissance educational fiction: the love-quest story and the test-of-friendship story. A thoroughly researched, illustrated stage history reveals changing conceptions of the play ,and this updated edition features a new introductory section on recent stage and critical interpretations.


The Two Noble KinsmenEdited by Robert Kean and Patricia Tatspaugh

With scholarly attention recently focusing on Shakespeare’s late plays, collaboration and sexuality, The Two Noble Kinsmen has become an essential script. Containing a detailed performance history and a lively introduction which surveys contemporary critical responses and addresses Shakespeare’s craftsmanship, this edition argues that the play can no longer be marginalized.


The Winter’s TaleEdited by Susan Snyder and Deborah T. Curren-Aquino

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s most varied, theatrically self-conscious, and emotionally wide-ranging plays. This edition provides a newly-edited text, a comprehensive introduction that takes into account current critical thinking, and a detailed commentary on the play’s language designed to make it easily accessible to contemporary readers.



TwelfTh NighT

edited by elizabeth Story donno


The wiNTer’S Tale

edited by Susan Snyder and deborah T. Curren-aquino


TroiluS aNd CreSSida

edited by anthony b. dawson

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The Two geNTlemeN of VeroNa

edited by kurt Schlueter


The Two Noble kiNSmeN

edited by robert kean Turner and patricia Tatspaugh


TwelfTh NighT

edited by elizabeth Story donno

For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court

– Richard II


eBooks available


The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of ShakespeareEdited by Bruce R. Smith

The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare aims to replicate the expansive reach of Shakespeare’s global reputation. In pursuit of that vision, this work is transhistorical, international and interdisciplinary. Shakespeare’s World, 1500–1660, volume one, includes a comprehensive survey of the world in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries lived, while The World’s Shakespeare, 1660–Present, volume two, examines what the world has made of Shakespeare as a cultural icon over the past four centuries. Richly illustrated with more than three hundred images between the two volumes, this work brings the world, life and afterlife of Shakespeare to readers, from non-academic shakespeare fans and students to theater professionals and Shakespeare scholars.

978-1-107-05725-8 2 Volume Hardback Set £400.00 / US$650.00

Publication December 2015

Shakespeare on Screen: OthelloEdited by Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin

This volume offers up-to-date coverage of screen versions of Othello, as well as original critical reviews of older, canonical films. Written by an international team of leading scholars, the essays explore productions from around the world. It will be a valuable resource for students, scholars and teachers of Shakespeare and film studies.

Advance praise: ‘Shakespeare On Screen: Othello overturns conventional narratives about this play’s life on screen. Hatchuel and Vienne-Guerrin curate a volume that treats Othello as a truly international text, privileging little-known meta-narratives alongside mainstream Western cinema. Essays unpack the adaptations’ engagement with domestic violence, racial prejudice and sexual politics, making this the most vital and thorough treatment available of the play’s contemporary resonance.’Peter Kirwan, University of Nottingham

978-1-107-10973-5 Hardback c. £60.00 / c. US$95.00

Publication July 2015

Shakespeare SurveyVolume 66: Working with ShakespeareEdited by Peter Holland

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production which has published the best international scholarship in English since 1948. The theme for Volume 66 is ‘Working with Shakespeare’. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at www.cambridge.org/online/shakespearesurvey.

‘Tiffany Stern’s essay, ‘Sermons, Plays and Note-Takers: Hamlet Q1 as a ‘Noted’ Text’, reads like an especially well-written and deftly plotted mystery novel. Taking as her subject the so-called ‘bad quarto’ of Hamlet, Stern leads the reader through a thoroughly documented and totally compelling rethinking of Q1’s origins. [She] persuasively argues that this text is the product of a note-taking scribal audience who employed contemporary notational habits to produce a ‘pirated’ text for publication … [She] brings to life a new world of early modern performance through descriptions and details that offer many small openings onto the textual culture of the period … this essay not only offers a significant reassessment of Hamlet Q1, but also makes a claim for the cultural importance of note-taking practices in the early modern period more generally.’Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society

978-1-107-04173-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$130.00

Shakespeare SurveyVolume 67: Shakespeare’s Collaborative WorkEdited by Peter Holland

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and productions which has published the best international scholarship in English since 1948. The theme for Volume 67 is ‘Shakespeare’s Collaborative Work’. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at www.cambridge.org/online/shakespearesurvey.

978-1-107-07154-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$130.00

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Shakespeare SurveyVolume 68: Shakespeare, Origins and OriginalityEdited by Peter Holland

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production which has published the best international scholarship in English since 1948. The theme for Volume 68 is ‘Shakespeare, Origins and Originality’. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at www.cambridge.org/online/shakespearesurvey.

978-1-107-10884-4 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$130.00

Publication September 2015

Tales from ShakespeareCreative CollisionsGraham Holderness

Tales from Shakespeare takes an innovative and engaging look at Shakespeare through a fusion of creative and critical writing. Using four specific examples, Holderness explores the ‘collisions’ between Shakespeare and contemporary concerns. This book is of vital interest to students, scholars and enthusiasts of Shakespeare, literary criticism and creative writing.

‘Graham Holderness, who was given Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare as a child, here returns the compliment by writing tales for grown ups – and again shows that he is one of the few academics who can combine scholarship with creativity, criticism with fantasy, historical awareness with commitment to present-day issues. Anyone who thought that there was nothing further to say about the authenticity of the account of shipboard performances of two Shakespeare plays off the coast of Sierra Leone in 1607, or the likelihood of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson collaborating on the King James Bible, will be surprised at what Holderness does with the two controversies.’Lois Potter, University of Delaware

978-1-107-07129-2 Hardback £25.00 / US$44.99

Shakespeare and the Digital WorldRedefining Scholarship and PracticeEdited by Christie Carson and Peter Kirwan

This collection critically assesses the opportunities and pitfalls presented by recent digital advances in Shakespeare studies. Featuring contributions from archivists, scholars, teachers, publishers, arts practitioners and digital innovators, this collection is relevant to those interested in the digital humanities as well as to Shakespeare scholars and enthusiasts.


Shakespeare’s Possible WorldsSimon Palfrey

Simon Palfrey offers a new way of understanding Shakespeare’s playworlds. Going right to the heart of early modern popular drama, both how it works and why it matters, this book’s piercing close readings discover the multiplying life in Shakespeare’s language, scenes, and characters as never before.

‘Shakespeare’s Possible Worlds establishes Simon Palfrey as one of the great Shakespeare scholars of our age. On every page, Palfrey marshals his command of Renaissance theatrical technique and Baroque philosophy in order to float inventive readings that demonstrate the plenitude and plasticity of Shakespeare’s dramatic imagining. Crafting both a philosophy of close reading and a dramaturgy of metaphor, Palfrey discovers a hermeneutics indigenous to theater. As Palfrey summons us to witness Shakespeare knitting shapes from the deep, we rediscover ourselves in the concatenation of worlds that drama assembles.’Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine, and author of Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life

978-1-107-05827-9 Hardback £65.00 / US$99.00

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The Shakespeare CircleAn Alternative BiographyEditors: Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells

Published in partnership with The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

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An Alternative Biography

Edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells

Written by a distinguished team of scholars, biographers and writers, this volume casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators and patrons both in their own right and in relation to his life.

www.cambridge.org/shakespearecircle

Shakespeare beyond EnglishA Global ExperimentEdited by Susan Bennett and Christie Carson

The Globe to Globe Festival, held at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2012, was an extraordinary cultural experiment, offering the opportunity to see Shakespeare’s plays performed in many languages. This collection of exclusive reviews and discussions from world wide scholars and theatre professionals explores what it means to perform Shakespeare in translation.

‘With a foreword by the Globe’s artistic director, Dominic Dromgoole, a chapter by Globe to Globe director Tom Bird, generous endnotes for the essays, a performance calendar (noting language, company size, and other data), 23 halftones and 16 colour plates, the book serves as both a flavourful impression and a complete documentary record of the ‘big, simple, stupid idea’ (as the editors describe it in their introduction) that piqued audiences with political and gender issues and at the same time exhilarated them as well as the performers.’Choice


Shakespeare as Literary DramatistSecond edition

Lukas Erne

First published in 2003, Erne’s groundbreaking study argues that Shakespeare wrote his plays not only with audiences but also with readers in mind. This second edition includes a substantial 10,000-word preface that reviews and intervenes in the controversy that the book has triggered.

Review of the first edition: ‘The year’s best book on Shakespeare.’Jonathan Bate, The Times Literary Supplement

978-1-107-02965-1 Hardback £49.99 / US$89.99978-1-107-68506-2 Paperback £19.99 / US$29.99

Shakespeare beyond DoubtEvidence, Argument, ControversyEdited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? The authorship question has been much treated in works of fiction, film and television, provoking interest all over the world. The book explores the issues surrounding the debate in the light of biographical, textual and bibliographical evidence to bring fresh perspectives on an intriguing cultural phenomenon.

‘Until now no book has provided the comprehensive evidence necessary to satisfy those ‘Reasonable Doubters’.’James Shapiro, Columbia University, and author of Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?


The Cambridge Introduction to Early Modern Drama, 1576–1642Julie Sanders

Engaging and stimulating, this Introduction provides a fresh vista of the theatrical landscape in the early modern era. Through special focus on commercial playhouses and their repertoires, the book revisits familiar territory from different angles and opens up new areas of investigation alongside the canonical and the known.


Studies in Medieval and Renaissance LiteratureC. S. Lewis

Edited by Walter Hooper

This entertaining and learned volume contains book reviews, lectures and hard-to-find articles from the late C. S. Lewis, whose constant aim was to show the twentieth-century reader how to read and how to understand old books and manuscripts.

978-1-107-65892-9 Paperback £12.99 / US$19.99

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Spenser’s Images of LifeC. S. Lewis

With Alastair Fowler

This book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death. It approaches The Faerie Queene as a majestic pageant of the universe and nature, and argues that conventional views must be modified if the poem is to be fully enjoyed and understood.

978-1-107-69113-1 Paperback £12.99 / US$19.99

Restoration Plays and PlayersAn IntroductionDavid Roberts

Providing an account of how Restoration plays were written, performed, printed, adapted and revived for modern audiences, this accessible and engaging book is of great interest to undergraduate and non-specialist readers of theatre studies, Restoration drama and English literature.

‘In addition to discussions of a generous selection of plays, Roberts provides students with succinct, informative and well-paced accounts of the personnel and material circumstances of Restoration Theatre, including the actors, the managers, the theatres and the growth of print culture. There is much to admire here.’Derek Hughes, University of Aberdeen


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Edited by Rob SmithSeries editors: Richard Andrews and Vicki WienandFounding editor: Rex Gibson

Cambridge School Shakespeare was developed from the work of Rex Gibson’s Shakespeare and Schools Project and has gone on to become a bestselling series in schools around the world. Each play in the series has been carefully edited to enable students to inhabit Shakespeare’s imaginative world in accessible and creative ways.

This new larger-format edition of Cambridge School Shakespeare has been substantially revised, extended and presented in an attractive new design. It remains faithful to the series’ active approach, which treats each play as a script to be acted, explored and enjoyed.

As well as the complete scripts, you will � nd a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and a variety of classroom-tested activities to help turn the script into drama. This edition includes:

• A stunning full-colour design, richly illustrated with exciting photographs of performances from around the world

• A wide variety of classroom activities, thematically organised in distinctive ‘Stagecraft’, ‘Write about it’, ‘Language in the play’, ‘Characters’ and ‘Themes’ feature boxes

• Expansive endnotes, including extensive essay-writing guidance • Glossary aligned with the play text for ease of reference.

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Edited by Linda BuckleSeries editors: Richard Andrews and Vicki WienandFounding editor: Rex Gibson

Cambridge School Shakespeare was developed from the work of Rex Gibson’s Shakespeare and Schools Project and has gone on to become a bestselling series in schools around the world. Each play in the series has been carefully edited to enable students to inhabit Shakespeare’s imaginative world in accessible and creative ways.

This new larger-format edition of Cambridge School Shakespeare has been substantially revised, extended and presented in an attractive new design. It remains faithful to the series’ active approach, which treats each play as a script to be acted, explored and enjoyed.

As well as the complete scripts, you will � nd a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and a variety of classroom-tested activities to help turn the script into drama. This edition includes:

• A stunning full-colour design, richly illustrated with exciting photographs of performances from around the world

• A wide variety of classroom activities, thematically organised in distinctive ‘Stagecraft’, ‘Write about it’, ‘Language in the play’, ‘Characters’ and ‘Themes’ feature boxes

• Expansive endnotes, including extensive essay-writing guidance • Glossary aligned with the play text for ease of reference.

Visit education.cambridge.org/schoolshakespeare for more information on our online teacher’s resources.



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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean TragedySecond edition

Edited by Claire McEachern

This updated Companion has been fully revised to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship. With an extensively overhauled bibliography, it also includes four new chapters by leading scholars, discussing Shakespearean form, Shakespeare and philosophy, Shakespeare’s tragedies in performance, and Shakespeare and religion.


The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary DramatistsEdited by Ton Hoenselaars

While Shakespeare’s popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. This Companion introduces the distinctive drama of playwrights from Shakespeare’s time, including Kyd, Marlowe, Middleton, Jonson and Webster. The book also covers Shakespeare as a collaborator and the difficult question of co-authorship.

‘… a fine primer for the Shakespearean era.’Reference Reviews


The Discarded ImageAn Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance LiteratureC. S. Lewis

This book paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This, Lewis’s last book, has been hailed as ‘the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind’.

978-1-107-60470-4 Paperback £12.99 / US$19.99

The Cambridge Shakespeare GuideEmma Smith

Perfect for students and theatregoers, this lively and authoritative guide contains key information on Shakespeare. Covering all of Shakespeare’s dramatic and poetic works in compact, alphabetical form, the book provides plot and character summaries, essential background context, information on major themes and descriptions of performance history.

‘This admirably lucid and concise guide will both provide essential information and stimulate fresh thought about Shakespeare and his works.’Stanley Wells


How to Read a Shakespearean Play TextEdited by Eugene Giddens

This is an invaluable introductory guide for the English student who needs to decipher a page from a play, or a facsimile equivalent, from the Shakespearean period. Giddens guides the reader through bibliography and critical editing, explaining how it works, what the different elements mean, and who created them.

‘This book provides practical guidance on how to read specific bibliographical features of early modern printed playbooks, while constantly drawing attention to the larger question of how these features affect the reader’s experience.’Sonia Massai, King’s College London


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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s PoetryMichael Schoenfeldt

A comprehensive guide to the pleasures and challenges of reading Shakespeare’s poetry, this volume outlines the poems’ complexity while making them accessible. Emphasizing the whole poetic corpus, not just the Sonnets, it addresses the many approaches and contexts available for reading the poems, and includes exemplary readings of individual poems.


Actors and Acting in Shakespeare’s TimeThe Art of Stage PlayingJohn H. Astington

A survey of acting in the Shakespearean period, this book describes and analyses individual performers, styles of performance, theatrical companies, and casting. Perfect for courses, it will be of interest to all students and scholars in the areas of Shakespeare studies, early modern drama and theatre, and theatrical history.

‘The book offers a complex, lively, absorbing sense of the acting profession, its ‘art’ and social networks.’Eleanor Lowe, Early Theatre


The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance TragedyEdited by Emma Smith and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr

Combining discussion of key topics for the study of Renaissance tragedy with fresh readings of canonical and frequently-taught texts, this Companion provides an engaging overview of Renaissance tragedy which features, but is not dominated by, Shakespeare. It includes chapters on religion, revenge, and modern performance traditions on stage and screen.


The New Cambridge Companion to ShakespeareSecond edition

Edited by Margreta De Grazia and Stanley Wells

Containing twenty-one essays, this Companion is perfect for readers seeking a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to Shakespeare’s works. It includes stimulating chapters on familiar topics such as Shakespeare’s life and the genres in which he wrote, and pioneering accounts of topics including Shakespeare’s appearance in new digitalised media.

‘As the introduction to this volume points out, this is the fifth volume to bear its title, and together they form a fascinating chronicle of the ways in which Shakespeare – plays, poems, person – has been addressed over these years … Like the plays themselves, the essays are enriched by cross comparison; and it is to the plays that they repeatedly return us, the most that can be asked of a companion of this order.’Cahiers Élisabéthains


The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Last PlaysEdited by Catherine M. S. Alexander

Why group Shakespeare’s last plays together? When does Shakespeare’s ‘last’ period begin? Reflecting the recent growth of interest in late studies, in this book leading international Shakespeare scholars address these questions, locating Shakespeare’s last six plays in the period of their composition and considering the significant characteristics of their Jacobean context.



Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none

– William Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Textual StudiesEdited by Margaret Jane Kidnie and Sonia Massai

This cutting-edge and comprehensive collection gathers contributions from the leading specialists in the fields of manuscript and textual studies, book history, editing, and digital humanities to provide a comprehensive reassessment of how manuscript, print and digital practices have shaped the body of works that we now call ‘Shakespeare’.

Advance praise: ‘This collection is most insightful – essential reading for editors and textual scholars. Kidnie and Massai assemble the very best Shakespeareans to examine crucial debates about the origins, production and subsequent uses of Shakespeare’s texts.’Eugene Giddens, Anglia Ruskin University

978-1-107-02374-1 Hardback c. £65.00 / c. US$110.00

Publication September 2015

Shakespeare and the Visual ImaginationStuart Sillars

This book is a fully illustrated study of Shakespeare’s knowledge of visual art, its theories and contemporary debates, and their importance in his plays and poems. It will be of value for upper-level students and academic researchers of Shakespeare, as well as readers interested in early modern theatre, literature and art history.

Advance praise: ‘Sillars’ concern is with the concept of visual art as much as it is with art objects themselves. The argument that the theatre itself has a specific visual identity and that Shakespeare uses visual ideas to explore that identity is an especially fresh approach and one that works to complicate the depictions of art objects in the plays. This is a remarkable and important book and one that demonstrates compendious knowledge of both the literary and visual traditions and casts a genuinely new light on Shakespeare’s works.’Dympna C. Callaghan, Syracuse University, New York

978-1-107-02995-8 Hardback c. £65.00 / c. US$110.00

Publication June 2015

Lyric in the RenaissanceFrom Petrarch to MontaigneUllrich Langer

This wide-ranging study of the lyric as a literary genre in Renaissance Europe, by a leading scholar of the period, explores how Petrarch revolutionized the love lyric and how European poetic language was changed thereafter. It includes discussions of the work of Charles d’Orléans, Ronsard, Du Bellay, and Montaigne, among others.

978-1-107-11028-1 Hardback c. £60.00 / c. US$95.00

Publication July 2015

The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean StageMichelle M. Dowd

The first book-length study examining how the Shakespearean theatre shaped attitudes about primogeniture, one of England’s most important and longstanding socio-economic systems. This book offers a new understanding of the history of both inheritance and patriarchy in early modern England, appealing to readers interested in Renaissance drama, economic history, family history, and gender studies.

978-1-107-09977-7 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99

Publication June 2015

Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of ShakespearePaul Werstine

Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare analyzes surviving manuscripts and printed quartos marked up for performance in Shakespeare’s time to situate the theory and practice of Shakespeare editing in context. In doing so, it explores editorial choices about what to give today’s readers as ‘Shakespeare’.

978-1-107-51546-8 Paperback £20.99 / US$32.99

Publication April 2015 Also available 978-1-107-02042-9 Hardback £69.99 / US$104.99

Shakespeare and Early Modern Criticism

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Shakespeare and the Idea of ApocryphaNegotiating the Boundaries of the Dramatic CanonPeter Kirwan

This book explores how, and on what grounds, plays have been excluded from the Shakespeare canon over the past four centuries. Combining approaches from varying fields of interest, it will appeal to researchers and graduate students in Shakespeare studies, early modern drama, theatre history, book history and attribution studies.

Advance praise: ‘In this smart and timely book, Kirwan returns Shakespeare’s apocryphal plays to their original habitat, namely, the repertory of a commercial playing company; thus relocated, the plays may be appraised as they were in their own time: on market value, not authorship.’Roslyn L. Knutson, University of Arkansas

978-1-107-09617-2 Hardback £60.00 / US$95.00

Publication April 2015

Printers without BordersTranslation and Textuality in the Renaissance

A. E. B. Coldiron

This innovative book reveals how early printing and translation transformed English Renaissance literary culture. Combining insights from both textual and translation studies, ten detailed case studies explore printed translations between Caxton and the late Elizabethan era. This volume appeals to readers interested in early modern English literature, translation, and print culture.

Advance praise: ‘Anne Coldiron demonstrates a remarkable interdisciplinary range, with literary, historical, philological and bibliographical readings of texts and evidence deftly woven together. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the transmission of early modern literature and culture, the history of books and printing, and the role of knowledge technologies in early transnationalism.’Alan Galey, University of Toronto

978-1-107-07317-3 Hardback £65.00 / US$99.00

Publication April 2015

Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern EuropeEdited by José María Pérez Fernández and Edward Wilson-Lee

This collection underscores the role played by translated books in the early modern period, highlighting the international nature of Renaissance culture and the role of translators in the formation of literary canons. This volume introduces readers to a pan-European story while considering various aspects of the book trade, from typesetting and bookselling to editing and censorship.

978-1-107-08004-1 Hardback £60.00 / US$99.00

Shakespeare and Early Modern ReligionEdited by David Loewenstein and Michael Witmore

This collection of fourteen new essays freshly illuminates early modern religious beliefs and practices and the ways in which Shakespeare engages with a diversity of religious issues and perspectives in his plays. Offering an interdisciplinary approach, the collection is of great interest to readers of history, Shakespeare studies, and religious studies.

978-1-107-02661-2 Hardback £65.00 / US$99.00

Shakespeare in the Eighteenth CenturyEdited by Fiona Ritchie and Peter Sabor

During the eighteenth century, editions and adaptations of Shakespeare proliferated, making him the most popular English dramatist. He exerted a profound influence on a variety of authors and on several other literary genres. Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century explores the impact Shakespeare had on various aspects of society and culture.

978-1-107-47989-0 Paperback £19.99 / US$32.99

Also available 978-0-521-89860-7 Hardback £69.99 / US$104.99

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Shakespeare in the Nineteenth CenturyEdited by Gail Marshall

In the nineteenth century, Shakespeare achieved the status of international pre-eminence that we recognise today. This collection of essays show his reach in culture, literature and society and includes a unique reference guide listing performances, reviews and editions.

‘… gives excellent coverage of many aspects of the reception, treatment, dramatisation and proliferation of attention given to the Shakespearean corpus in the nineteenth century … it includes a reference guide to nineteenth century works about Shakespeare, play publication and an invaluable guide to performances of Shakespeare’s plays in nineteenth century London. It contains an extensive bibliography, and Gail Marshall provides a very useful introduction … Anyone seeking to understand the complex nature of the social and intellectual life of the nineteenth century needs to take into account the popularity and esteem afforded to Shakespeare and his dramatic works through all segments of society. This excellent selection of essays assists in addressing that need. Each contribution is well researched, lucid and full of insights concerning the inescapable influence of England’s greatest playwright. Collectively, they provide an extremely valuable resource for all readers with an interest in this period.’The Glass

978-1-107-47988-3 Paperback £19.99 / US$32.99


Shakespeare on the University StageEdited by Andrew James Hartley

Featuring sixteen new essays written by an international team of contributors, this is the first study exploring the unique conditions surrounding staging Shakespeare by, and for, students. It is of great interest to students and scholars of Shakespeare studies, theatre, and performance studies.

‘This highly intelligent collection of essays, written by practitioners and eyewitnesses as well as by some of the most important theatre scholars writing today, at last puts student Shakespeare onto our intellectual map. As impressive in its

geographical and historical scope as it is in its depth, Shakespeare on the University Stage reveals campus production as a rich, diverse and scandalously under-studied field of Shakespearean performance, now at last ripe for analysis and appreciation.’Michael Dobson, University of Birmingham

978-1-107-04855-3 Hardback £60.00 / US$95.00

Ben Jonson’s Walk to ScotlandAn Annotated Edition of the ‘Foot Voyage’Edited by James Loxley, Anna Groundwater and Julie Sanders

This is the first publication of a recently discovered account of Ben Jonson’s walk to Scotland in 1618. Supported by contextual essays, this unique firsthand narrative provides researchers and graduate students with an invaluable insight into Jonson’s life and work, and the social and cultural history of early modern Britain.

978-1-107-00333-0 Hardback £65.00 / US$99.00

The Shakespearean ArchiveExperiments in New Media from the Renaissance to PostmodernityAlan Galey

Galey explores how Shakespeare texts became material for new media experiments. Looking historically at the archive, the book, photography, sound and information, as well as theories of information and computing, this book is of interest to scholars of the digital humanities, Shakespeare studies, and media history.

978-1-107-04064-9 Hardback £60.00 / US$95.00

Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth CenturyFiona Ritchie

Interdisciplinary and employing a broad range of sources, this book establishes, for the first time, the significant role played by women – in particular actresses, female playgoers and women critics – in the establishment of Shakespeare’s burgeoning reputation in the eighteenth century.

‘This compelling and original book enriches and complicates the history of Shakespeare’s reputation. Fiona Ritchie expands traditional notions of literary criticism beyond the printed page to include play-going, patronage and performance, at the

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same time introducing new evidence of the range and depth of women’s cultural work in the eighteenth century.’Elizabeth Eger, King’s College London

978-1-107-04630-6 Hardback £60.00 / US$95.00

Shakespeare and Renaissance EthicsEdited by Patrick Gray and John D. Cox

Looking at Shakespeare’s depictions of moral deliberation and individual choice in light of Renaissance debates about ethics, this collection illuminates Shakespeare’s engagement with the most pressing moral questions of his time. It is of great interest to scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance studies, and the history of ethics.

978-1-107-07193-3 Hardback £60.00 / US$95.00

Margaret CavendishGender, Science and PoliticsLisa Walters

The first major study to link Cavendish’s political theory to her natural science, her literary texts and her understandings of gender, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of early modern literature, philosophy, science, politics and gender studies.

‘This book admirably demonstrates that Cavendish was a sophisticated thinker who actively engaged with, and fearlessly challenged, the dominant political and scientific ideas of her time. Walters’ text is the result of much painstaking research and careful analysis – it will undoubtedly convince readers that Cavendish’s philosophical vision was even more radical than previously thought.’Jacqueline Broad, Monash University

978-1-107-06643-4 Hardback £60.00 / US$95.00

Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance1550–1700Susan Wiseman

Wiseman explores the transformations of fantastic creatures including werewolves and wild children in English Renaissance writing. Analysing a variety of texts, from Shakespeare’s The Tempest to court records, Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance argues that the seventeenth century is marked by concentration on the potential of the human to change or be changed.

978-1-107-04165-3 Hardback £60.00 / US$95.00

Shakespeare Performance StudiesW. B. Worthen

Considering three well-known recent performances of Shakespeare at length, Worthen suggests how they provide a commentary on important areas of concern in the humanities, and what Shakespeare performance tells us about contemporary Shakespeare. This book is of interest to scholars and advanced students of Shakespeare, and of performance studies.

‘In a dazzling survey of cutting-edge contemporary Shakespeare performances, W. B. Worthen calls for a full embrace of the often provocative ‘noise’ of modern Shakespearean performance, and does so with great erudition, analytical incisiveness, and sheer delight.’Douglas Lanier, University of New Hampshire

978-1-107-05595-7 Hardback £60.00 / US$95.00

Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642Edited by Thomas L. Berger and Sonia Massai

A unique reference source of English drama to 1642, which gathers texts drawn from preliminaries and end matters in early modern English playbooks. With multiple indices and a finding list, this book provides a comprehensive overview of seminal texts which have never before been fully transcribed, annotated and cross-referenced.

978-0-521-85184-8 2 Volume Set £150.00 / US$250.00

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For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court

– Richard II

Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern TheatreRichard Preiss

Richard Preiss presents a lively and provocative study of how the early modern stage clown defined – and changed – theatrical experience. Recovering the interactive entertainments with which comedians including Richard Tarlton, Will Kemp and Robert Armin engaged audiences, he draws new conclusions about how early modern theatre negotiated its own textuality.

‘Original, sophisticated and deeply researched.’The Times Literary Supplement

978-1-107-03657-4 Hardback £60.00 / US$95.00

Moving Shakespeare IndoorsPerformance and Repertoire in the Jacobean PlayhouseEdited by Andrew Gurr and Farah Karim-Cooper

The year 2014 witnessed the opening of the Sam Wanamaker Theatre, based on seventeenth-century designs. This volume considers the effects that more intimate staging, lighting and music had on performance and repertory. It will find a substantial readership among scholars of Shakespeare and Jacobean theatre history.

978-1-107-04063-2 Hardback £60.00 / US$95.00

Ben Jonson in ContextEdited by Julie Sanders

In this book, established and emergent Jonson scholars react to major advances in thinking about the writer and his canon of works. Generously illustrated throughout, the first part of the volume considers Jonson’s career from biographical, critical, and performance-based angles; the second looks at cultural and historical contexts.

‘… the short-essay format works successfully, making the experience of reading the book through something of a pleasant and informative addiction.’Notes and Queries

978-1-107-63709-2 Paperback £21.99 / US$32.99


Shakespeare in AsiaContemporary PerformanceEdited by Dennis Kennedy and Yong Li Lan

Shakespeare, the world’s most popular dramatist, is produced and transformed in huge variety around the globe. This book investigates how Shakespeare is used in contemporary Asia, asking why countries as diverse as China, Japan and India have become interested in Shakespeare and how they have redefined his work.

‘This collection of essays is an invigorating conversation on its subject … In the best sense, this is a working collection, which offers readers inviting opportunities for further reflection, not least in the far-flung work of its own participants.’Tom Bishop, Shakespeare Quarterly

978-1-107-69373-9 Paperback £19.99 / US$29.99


Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and MiltonChristopher Warley

Why study Renaissance literature? Through detailed readings of six canonical works, including Paradise Lost and Hamlet, this book shows that literary criticism is uniquely able to describe social class. Warley’s accessible interpretations also offer exciting new directions for the role of criticism in the contemporary, post-industrial world.

978-1-107-05292-5 Hardback £55.00 / US$90.00

Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern EnglandAllison P. Hobgood

How were early modern playgoers emotionally moved by theatre performances, and how did their reactions in turn influence the stage? Through detailed case studies of canonical plays by Shakespeare, Jonson and others, Allison P. Hobgood tells a new story of emotional encounters between playgoers and the Renaissance stage.

978-1-107-04128-8 Hardback £60.00 / US$95.00

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Constructing the Canon of Early Modern DramaJeremy Lopez

Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama provides the first-ever history of the canon of Renaissance drama as it has evolved since the eighteenth century. Containing dozens of short, provocative readings of unfamiliar plays, this book will benefit professors and postgraduate researchers who seek a broader sense of the period’s dazzling array of forms.

‘This is a remarkable book: confidently and wittily written, exhaustively and widely researched, timely, provocative, enlightening and highly original. The strength of Lopez’s argument is that he resists the impulse to shape his own anthology, offering instead a history and a method of critical enquiry and appreciation that completely destabilise current practice.’Richard Cave, Royal Holloway, University of London

978-1-107-03057-2 Hardback £60.00 / US$90.00

Shakespeare’s Stage TrafficImitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance TheatreJanet Clare

Shakespeare’s Stage Traffic re-visions and re-situates Shakespeare’s dramaturgy within the flourishing theatrical trade of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Challenging the traditional notion of Shakespeare as originator, each chapter examines particular plays demonstrating how throughout his career Shakespeare adapted, imitated and borrowed from the work of others.

‘Eloquently puts a theory of intertextuality into practice … For those interested in early modern drama [this book] will be indispensable.’The Times Literary Supplement

978-1-107-04003-8 Hardback £65.00 / US$99.00

A Jacobean Company and its PlayhouseThe Queen’s Servants at the Red Bull Theatre (c.1605–1619)Eva Griffith

This unique and colourful history tells the story of Thomas Heywood’s playing company, the Queen’s Servants, and their playhouse, The Red Bull. Eva Griffith makes use of extensive research to set the playhouse in the context of Jacobean London, offering new insights into the development of drama during Shakespeare’s age.

‘The last book about The Red Bull’s plays and their staging came out more than eighty years ago. At the time, it offered a wholly fresh approach to Shakespearean playing. Studiously written by George F. Reynolds, and working from a well-documented body of evidence, freshly assessed, it became the first in a long series of studies of specific acting companies and their repertoire of plays, most of them much more recent, and all attempting to identify how the plays were meant to be staged at their original venues. Eva Griffith has written an admirable replacement for Reynolds’s great work, adding masses of fresh information about the families and their interests behind the company and their playhouse, as well as clarifying many features of the company’s remarkable repertoire. Her book will rightly take its place among the works that have clarified and helped to explain the activities of that uniquely fertile period in English theatre.’Andrew Gurr, University of Reading

978-1-107-04188-2 Hardback £60.00 / US$99.00

Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare’s EnglandDavid B. Goldstein

David B. Goldstein argues for a new understanding of Shakespeare and early modern English writing from the perspective of communal eating. Taking up issues of ecology, gender, book history, philosophy, religious pluralism, colonialism and material culture, this book ultimately forces us to rethink our own relationship to food.

978-1-107-03906-3 Hardback £65.00 / US$99.00

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By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes

– Macbeth

Reviewing ShakespeareJournalism and Performance from the Eighteenth Century to the PresentPaul Prescott

Ranging from Garrick’s Macbeth in the 1740s to the World Shakespeare Festival in 2012, this is an engaging account of the ways in which theatre critics have responded to Shakespearean performance. Prescott provides new interpretive methods and case studies of great interest to students of Shakespeare, theatre and media studies.

‘Reviews of theatre performances are often regarded as transitory and of little weight. In this critically astute study, Paul Prescott rescues them from oblivion. The result is a book of genuine intellectual and social significance which makes an original and valuable contribution to cultural history.’Stanley Wells, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

978-1-107-02149-5 Hardback £55.00 / US$95.00

The Model of PoesyWilliam Scott

Edited by Gavin Alexander

This recently discovered treatise on poetics from 1599, the end of the most revolutionary decade in English literary history, includes discussions of the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Gavin Alexander’s groundbreaking edition, with an introduction and commentary, makes William Scott’s powerful work newly available to students and scholars of English Renaissance literature.

‘Alexander’s editorial skills are dazzling.’Times Literary Supplement

978-0-521-19611-6 Hardback £60.00 / US$95.00

Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean StageMary Floyd-Wilson

In this ground-breaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores early modern occult beliefs and their relation to women and scientific knowledge in Renaissance drama, focusing on Twelfth Night, Arden of Faversham, A Warning for Fair Women, All’s Well that Ends Well, The Changeling and The Duchess of Malfi.

‘… [a] rich, well-researched volume … This valuable book illuminates underexplored aspects of early modern thought, with

important consequences for understanding the period’s plays. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.’T. Pollard, Choice

978-1-107-03632-1 Hardback £55.00 / US$99.00

Shakespeare and Amateur PerformanceA Cultural HistoryMichael Dobson

From the Renaissance to the present day, this book is the first history of how and why Shakespeare’s plays have always been performed by amateurs. This is a must for theatre historians, a revelation for students of Shakespeare’s influence and a fascinating read for anyone interested in the amateur stage.

‘… brilliantly researched and written with clarity and verve. A scholarly work by a man who obviously loves the theatre, it will make fascinating reading for both professional and amateur performers alike.’Wendy Craig, actress

978-1-107-61320-1 Paperback £19.99 / US$29.99


Shakespeare and the Book TradeLukas Erne

Shakespeare and the Book Trade follows on from Lukas Erne’s groundbreaking Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist to examine the publication, constitution, dissemination and reception of Shakespeare’s printed plays and poems in his own time and to argue that their popularity in the book trade has been greatly underestimated.

‘An admirable amount of original research has gone into the study, making it of use to a wide array of readers. With Shakespeare and the Book Trade, Lukas Erne manages to do that most coveted of things: he has written another book that everyone must read.’Patrick Cheney, Pennsylvania State University

978-0-521-76566-4 Hardback £28.99 / US$44.99

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The Myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his ContemporariesWarren Chernaik

Presenting a fresh approach to such familiar plays as Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, this study examines the dramatic uses of Roman history – ‘the myth of Rome’ – in the age of Shakespeare. Chernaik provides illuminating comparisons of Shakespeare’s Roman plays with plays by dramatists including Jonson and Massinger.

‘… brilliant new readings … Chernaik’s readings of Shakespeare show how historicism and close reading work together … On Massinger, Chernaik is dazzling in his textual and historical precision …’N. Lukachev, Choice

978-1-107-65407-5 Paperback £21.99 / US$34.99


Environmental Degradation in Jacobean DramaBruce Boehrer

Environmental Degradation in Jacobean Drama provides the first general history of the Shakespearean stage to focus primarily on ecological issues. Bruce Boehrer discusses the work of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Fletcher, Dekker and Heywood, exploring the strategies by which they made sense of radical ecological change in their drama.

‘This book is an impressive work of social history offering excellent chapters on Shakespeare’s extra-theatrical business endeavours and Middleton’s civic pageantry … Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.’A. Moore, Choice

978-1-107-02315-4 Hardback £54.99 / US$94.99

Shakespearean SensationsExperiencing Literature in Early Modern EnglandEdited by Katharine A. Craik and Tanya Pollard

This lively and accessible collection of essays explores the ways Shakespeare and his contemporaries imagined literature’s impact on audiences’ bodies, minds and emotions. Readers and theatregoers have always sought out literature for its emotional power, and this book shows how seriously early modern writers took their relationships with their audiences.

‘The volume’s contributors engage in meaningful dialogues with drama, poetry, and primary sources; with a growing body of secondary materials; and above all with one another. Both uninitiated readers and longtime students of embodiment in literature will find much to deepen their understanding of the physiological impacts of reading and play going…Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above.’P. D. Collington, Choice

978-1-107-02800-5 Hardback £54.99 / US$94.99

Medieval ShakespearePasts and PresentsEdited by Ruth Morse, and Peter Holland

Before Shakespeare is our contemporary he is the contemporary of late-medieval European culture, self-consciously regenerating and transforming earlier ideas of history, art, poetry and the stage. This book gives readers the opportunity to appreciate both Shakespeare and his period from the perspectives of the traditions that fostered and surrounded him.

‘A fascinating dialogue between two literary periods.’The Times Literary Supplement

978-1-107-01627-9 Hardback £59.99 / US$104.99

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Which plays are included under the heading ‘Shakespeare’s last plays’, and

when does Shakespeare’s ‘last’ period begin? What is meant by a ‘late play’,

and what are the benefits in defining plays in this way? Reflecting the recent

growth of interest in late studies, and recognising the gaps in accessible schol-

arship on this area, leading international Shakespeare scholars address these

and many other questions. The essays locate Shakespeare’s last plays – single

and co-authored – in the period of their composition, consider the signifi-

cant characteristics of their Jacobean context, and explore the rich afterlives,

on stage, in print and in other media of The Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline, The

Tempest, Pericles, The Two Noble Kinsmen and Henry VIII. The volume opens

with a historical timeline that places the plays in the contexts of contemporary

political events, theatrical events, other cultural milestones, Shakespeare’s life

and that of his playing company, the King’s Men.

Contents

Historical timeline clare smout

Preface catherine m. s . alexander

What is a ‘late play’? gordon mcmullan

Blackfriars, music and masque: theatrical contexts of the last plays david lindley

The literary and dramatic contexts of the last plays charles moseley

Politics, religion, geography and travel: historical contexts of the last plays karen britland

‘You speak a language that I understand not’: listening to the last plays russ mcdonald

The Winter’s Tale: shifts in staging and status patricia tatspaugh

Cymbeline: the afterlife catherine m. s . alexander

Literary invocations of The Tempest virginia mason vaughan

Pericles: the afterlife eugene giddens

The Two Noble Kinsmen and King Henry VIII: the last last plays suzanne gossett

further reading clare smout

Cover illustration: Johann Heinrich Fuseli, The Tempest. Line and stipple engraving by Jean Pierre Simon, with hand colouring, 1797. Fine Arts Museums

of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, 1963.30.20006.

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Edited by Claire McEachern

Warren Chernaik

The Cambridge Introduction to

Shakespeare’s History Plays


Cambridge Introductions to Literature

Cover illustration: David Troughton in Henry IV Part I, RoyalShakespeare Company, 2000. Photograph: Geraint Lewis.

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This series is designed to introduce students to key topics and authors.Accessible and lively, these introductions will also appeal to readerswho want to broaden their understanding of the books and authorsthey enjoy.

Ideal for students, teachers and lecturersConcise yet packed with essential informationKey suggestions for further reading

Shakespeare’s History Playswarren chernaik King’s College London

Shakespeare’s history plays, as fresh today as when they were written,have had a continuing life in stage and film productions. This livelystudy examines this tradition as well as giving an account of the criticaldebate on the plays. Chernaik discusses each history play, and theirdistinctive characteristics, in turn: the three early Henry VI plays;Richard III; King John; the perennial stage favourite Richard II; Henry IV 1 and 2, famous for the character of Falstaff; Henry V; and Henry VIII. An invaluable introduction to these fascinating and complex plays.

• Comprehensive treatment of the theatrical and cinematic historyof each play

• Includes a useful guide to further reading

‘Fresh but informed, Chernaik’s study will please both students andthose who think they know more … a focussed but also panoramicreading of Shakespeare’s history plays’.

Michael Hattaway University of Sheffield

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Cover illustration: Romeo and Juliet with Matthew Rhys andTau Mutu. Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by PeterGill, 2004. Photograph: Geraint Lewis.

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Ideal for students, teachers and lecturersConcise, yet packed with essential informationKey suggestions for further reading

Shakespeareemma smith Herford College, Univeristy of Oxford

Innovative and engaging, this introduction to Shakespearepromotes active involvement with the plays and proves thatthere is space for new and fresh thinking even on the most-studied and familiar texts.

The study covers a range of examples and is divided intoseven subject-based chapters:

• Character • Language • History

• Performance • Structure

• Texts • Sources

‘. . . a dazzling, reader-friendly tutorial in readingShakespearean drama.’ Emily Bartels Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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Shakespeare’sComedies


The Cambridge Introductions to Literature

Cover illustration: Twelfth Night, directed by Tim Sheader,with Mariah Gale and Simon Day. Open Air Theatre atRegent’s Park, 2005. Photograph Geraint Lewis.

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Ideal for students, teachers and lecturersConcise yet packed with essential informationKey suggestions for further reading

Shakespeare’s Comediespenny gay University of Sydney

Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare’s day and whydo they still laugh now? What do Shakespeare’s comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community andclass? What place have pain, cruelty and even death in a comedy? Why all those puns? Penny Gay addresses these and many otherquestions in a survey that travels from Shakespeare’s earliestexperiments in farce and courtly love-stories to the great romantic comedies of his middle years and the mould-breakingexperiments of his last decade’s work.

• Organised thematically, the book provides a map of Shakespeare’s comedic styles

• Covers all Shakespeare’s comedies, demonstrating how he built on conventions and themes to enrich the possibilities of the genre

• Surveys changing fashions in productions of Shakespeare’s comedies, from the seventeenth century to the films of today

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Shakespeare’sTragedies



Cover illustration: Greg Hicks and Sian Thomas in the 2004RSC production of Macbeth. Photographer Manuel Harlan © Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Ideal for students, teachers and lecturersConcise, yet packed with essential informationKey suggestions for further reading

Shakespeare’s Tragediesjanette dillon University of Nottingham

Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick’s skull;Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconicmoments have anything to tell us about the definition of Shakespeareantragedy? Is it in fact helpful to talk about ‘Shakespearean tragedy’ as aconcept, or are there only Shakespearean tragedies? What makes someplays more tragic than others? This book seeks to investigate suchquestions in a way that highlights both the distinctiveness and theshared concerns of each play within the broad trajectory ofShakespeare’s developing exploration of tragic form.

• Includes a separate chapter on each of Shakespeare’s tragedies, ordered chronologically

• Considers tragedy before Shakespeare, allowing the reader to understand Shakespearean tragedy in the light of what has gone before

• Includes contemporary quotations in shaded boxes

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Cover illustration: The Awakening of Adonis, 1899 (oil on canvas) by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917). Private Collection / © The Maas Gallery, London, UK / The Bridgeman Art Library.

• • •

This series is designed to introduce students to key topics and authors. Accessible and lively, these introductions will also appeal to readers who want to broaden their understanding of the books and authors they enjoy.

Ideal for students, teachers, and lecturersConcise, yet packed with essential informationKey suggestions for further reading

Shakespeare’s Poetrymichael schoenfeldt University of Michigan

Shakespeare’s poems were enormously popular in his lifetime, but, aside from the enduring appeal of the Sonnets, are today much less familiar than his plays. This Introduction celebrates the achievement of Shakespeare as a poet, providing students with ways of understanding, appreciating, and enjoying his highly wrought poems. It honors the aesthetic and intellectual complexity of the poems without making them seem unapproachably complicated, and outlines their pleasures and challenges.

• Covers all of Shakespeare’s non-dramatic poetry, rather than focusing exclusively on the Sonnets, and explores Shakespeare’s developing verbal prowess

• Introduces students to the many approaches and contexts for reading Shakespeare’s poetry, and presents exemplary readings of individual poems

• Addresses the controversies surrounding Shakespearean authorship, including the claim that the works of William Shakespeare were not written by him, and the frequent rediscovery of “new” poems by Shakespeare.

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PLAYERS OF SHAKESPEARE

The six books in the Players of Shakespeare series contain collections

of essays by well-known actors with the Royal Shakespeare

Company and the National Theatre on their interpretations of major

Shakespearian roles. Contributors include Sir Nigel Hawthorne,

Antony Sher, Frances de la Tour, Adrian Lester and many more.

Each volume includes excellent photographs of theatre productions

and a detailed introduction which places the essays in the context

of the Stratford and London stages.

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J O N S O N’S CO M P L E T E W R I T I N G S

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Double Falshood; or, The Distrest LoversA Play, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, Written Originally by W. ShakespeareEdited by Lewis Theobald

Published in 1728, this play is widely accepted as the only surviving version of Shakespeare and Fletcher’s play Cardenio.

Portraits of Shakespeare, and On the Sonnets of ShakespeareJames Boaden and Abraham Wivell

A one-volume reissue of works, published 1824–7, examining portraits of Shakespeare, including an 1837 essay on his sonnets’ dedicatee.

The Life of Sir John FalstaffWith a Biography of the Knight from Authentic Sources

Robert Barnabas Brough and George Cruikshank

A delightful 1858 fictional biography of that most colourful of Shakespeare’s characters, built around a series of inspired etchings.

C A M B R I D G E L I B R A R Y C O L L E C T I O NThe Cambridge Library Collection is the premier imprint for reissues of

out-of-copyright scholarly books. It provides top-quality resources for researchers, students and enthusiasts seeking important works from the past.

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Shakespeare in Production gives readers, students, actors and directors the fullest possible stage histories of individual

Shakespearean texts, enabling them to understand the

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