The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare in Our Time
2016
The Arden Shakespeare has long set the gold standard in annotated, scholarly editions of
Shakespeare’s plays. We now also offer a broad range of critical studies for students and scholars,
providing fresh insight into the work and world of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The Arden
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A Word from the Publisher
We are marking Shakespeare's 400th anniversary year with some innovative publishing: On Shakespeare's Sonnets celebrates
Shakespeare the poet, with 30 leading poets writing a new poem in response to a sonnet, while Shakespeare in Our Time
showcases the current and future shape of Shakespeare studies with a wealth of essays from leading international scholars.
The beautifully illustrated Shakespeare and the Stuff of Life illuminates the world in which Shakespeare lived and wrote
while Shakespeare's Creative Legacies explores his work's influence on a variety of creative arts, with personal reflections
from theatre makers, artists and writers giving a unique voice to Shakespeare's enduring impact.
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The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
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General Editors: Richard Proudfoot, Emeritus Professor, King’s College London, UK; Ann Thompson, Emeritus Professor, King’s College London, UK; David Scott
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A Jovial Crew
The Spanish Tragedy
Richard Brome
Edited by Tiffany Stern
Thomas Kyd Edited by Clara Calvo
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G. K. Hunter
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£9.99
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Antony and Cleopatra
John Wilders
9781904271017
£8.99
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As You Like It
Juliet Dusinberre
9781904271222
£8.99
$17.00
The Comedy of Errors
Kent Cartwright
9781904271246
£9.99
$17.00
Coriolanus
Peter Holland
9781904271284
£9.99
$17.00
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9781903436028
£9.99
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Double Falsehood
Brean Hammond
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Hamlet: Revised Edition
Ann Thompson & Neil Taylor
9781472518385
£8.99
Hamlet: The Texts Of 1603 And 1623
Ann Thompson & Neil Taylor
9781904271802
£12.99 $22.00
Julius Caesar
David Daniell
9781903436219
£8.99
$17.00
King Henry IV Part 1
David Scott Kastan
9781904271352
£9.99
$18.00
King Henry IV Part 2
James C. Bulman
9781904271376
£9.99
$17.00
King Henry V
T.W. Craik
9781904271086
£8.99
$17.00
King Henry VI Part 1
Edward Burns
9781903436431
£12.99 $18.00
King Henry VI Part 2
Ronald Knowles
9781903436639
£9.99
$18.00
King Henry VI Part 3
Eric Rasmussen & John D. Cox
9781903436318
£9.99
$18.00
King Henry VIII
Gordon McMullan
9781903436257
£11.99 $18.00
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E.A.J. Honigmann
9781903436097
£10.99 $18.00
King Lear
R.A. Foakes
9781903436592
£8.99
$17.00
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Charles R. Forker
9781903436332
£8.99
$17.00
King Richard III
James R. Siemon
9781903436899
£9.99
$17.00
Love's Labour's Lost
H. R. Woudhuysen
9781904271109
£8.99
$17.00
Macbeth
Pamela Mason & Sandra Clark
9781904271413
£8.99
$17.00
Measure For Measure *
J. W. Lever
9781903436448
£8.99
$17.00
The Merchant Of Venice
John Drakakis
9781903436813
£9.99
$17.00
The Merry Wives Of Windsor
Giorgio Melchiori
9781904271123
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Harold Brooks
9781903436608
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Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition
Claire McEachern
9781472520296
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$15.95
Othello: Revised Edition
Ayanna Thompson & E.A.J. Honigmann
9781472571762
£8.99
$17.00
Pericles
Prof. Suzanne Gossett
9781903436851
£9.99
$18.00
Poems
H. R. Woudhuysen & Katherine Duncan-Jones
9781903436875
£9.99
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Romeo and Juliet
Rene Weis
9781903436912
£8.99
$13.95
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Katherine Duncan-Jones
9781408017975
£9.99
$17.00
Sir Thomas More
John Jowett
9781904271482
£16.99 $26.95
The Taming of the Shrew
Barbara Hodgdon
9781903436936
£9.99
$17.00
The Tempest
Alden T Vaughan & Virginia Mason Vaughan
9781408133477
£8.99
$15.95
Timon Of Athens
Anthony Dawson & Gretchen Minton
9781903436974
£8.99
$17.00
Titus Andronicus
Jonathan Bate
9781903436059
£9.99
$17.00
Troilus and Cressida
David Bevington
9781472584748
£10.99 $18.95
Twelfth Night
Keir Elam
9781903436998
£8.99
$17.00
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
William Carroll
9781903436950
£9.99
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The Two Noble Kinsmen: Revised Edition
Lois Potter
9781472577542
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The Winter's Tale
John Pitcher
9781903436356
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John Webster
Leah Marcus
9781904271512
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Everyman and Mankind
ANON
Douglas Bruster
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9781904271628
£11.99
$18.95
The Island Princess
John Fletcher
Clare McManus
9781904271536
£16.99
$21.95
A Jovial Crew
Richard Brome
Tiffany Stern
9781904271772
£12.99
$18.00
Philaster
Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher
Suzanne Gossett
9781904271734
£12.99
$19.95
The Renegado
Philip Massinger
Michael Neill
9781904271611
£11.99
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The Spanish Tragedy
Thomas Kyd
Clara Calvo & Jesus Tronch
9781904271604
£10.99
$16.00
Tis Pity She's A Whore
John Ford
Sonia Massai
9781904271505
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$16.00
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Elizabeth Cary
Ramona Wray
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The Witch of Edmonton Thomas Dekker, John Ford
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C E L E B R AT I N G 4 0 0 Y E A R S O F S H A K E S P E A R E
Shakespeare and the
Stuff of Life
On Shakespeare's
Sonnets
Treasures from the Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust
A Poets' Celebration
Edited by Delia Garratt, Director of
Cultural Engagement, Shakespeare's
Birthplace Trust & Tara Hamling,
University of Birmingham, UK
This unique book brings together, for
the first time, a selection of 50 objects
from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
in Stratford-upon-Avon. Accessible
and lavishly illustrated, the volume
provides an object-based exploration
of the role and significance of notable
paintings, furniture, ceramics,
textiles and metal wares in the
everyday experience of people living
in Shakespearean England. Published
to mark the 400th anniversary of
Shakespeare's death in 2016, it brings
Shakespeare's times to life for readers
of all ages.
In the four hundred years since
Shakespeare's death, the Sonnets have
invited imitation, homage, critique,
parody and pastiche. These new poems
probe our relationship to the Sonnets'
intricate form and ambitious scope,
their investigation of sexuality, wit,
memory and poetic survival. These
sonnets and longer lyrics explore what
it means to write 'on Shakespeare's
Sonnets' in the 21st century. Published
in association with the Royal Society of
Literature contributing poets include:
Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian
Clarke, Paul Muldoon, Ruth Padel,
Simon Armitage, Roger McGough and Jo
Shapcott.
UK February 2016 / US April 2016
136 pages • 50 colour illus
Flexiback 9781474222266 • £9.99 / $17.95
UK February 2016 / US April 2016
112 pages
HB 9781474221580 • £12.99 / $19.95
Shakespeare in Our Time
A Shakespeare Association of America
Collection
Edited by Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University,
USA & Suzanne Gossett, Loyola University,
Chicago, USA
Marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death
this volume offers a unique collection of leading
Shakespeare scholars outlining key developments in
Shakespeare studies over the last two decades. Their
essays are complemented by responses from younger
scholars looking forward to new fields of study and
debate. A "state of the nation" look at Shakespeare
criticism, covering all the key areas of research and
study including gender, text, performance, the body,
history, religion and biography, this is a must-read,
comprehensive introduction to the critical ideas
surrounding Shakespeare's work and a stimulating
exploration of where we might go next.
UK February 2016 / US February 2016
376 pages
PB 9781472520418 • £16.99 / $27.95
HB 9781472520425 • £50.00 / $90.00
Edited by Hannah Crawforth &
Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, both at
King's College London, UK
1616: Shakespeare and Tang
Xianzu's China
Shakespeare's Creative
Legacies
Edited by Tian Yuan Tan, SOAS, University of
London, UK, Paul Edmondson, The Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust, UK & Shih-pe Wang, National
Taiwan University, Taiwan
Artists, Writers, Performers and Critics
Edited by Peter Holbrook, University of
Queensland, Australia
The year is 1616. William Shakespeare has died, and
the world of the London theatres is mourning his
loss. But 1616 is also to see the death of the famous
Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu. Four hundred years
on, and Shakespeare is now an important meeting
place for Anglo-Chinese cultural dialogue in the field
of drama and literary studies. SOAS, The Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust and National Chung Cheng University
of Taiwan have gathered together 11 Shakespeareans
and 11 Chinese literature experts to reflect on
the theatrical climate in England and China in this
significant year.
We justly celebrate Shakespeare as a creator of
plays and poems, characters and ideas, words and
worlds. But so too, in the four centuries since his
death in 1616, have thinkers, writers, artists, and
performers recreated him. Readers are invited to
explore Shakespeare’s afterlife on stage and screen,
in poetry, fiction, music, dance, and in cultural life
and literary criticism. A series of essays combine with
personal reflections from prominent contemporary
practitioners of the arts. Both celebration and
reflection, this unique book explores Shakespeare as a
global cultural figure who continues to inspire artists,
audiences and readers around the world.
UK February 2016 / US February 2016
352 pages • 10 b/w illus
PB 9781472583413 • £22.99 / $29.95
HB 9781472583420 • £70.00 / $112.00
UK July 2016 / US July 2016
288 pages • 6 bw illus
PB 9781474234481 • £18.99 / $29.95
HB 9781474234498 • £60.00 / $104.00
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S tudent G u i des
Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing
Undergraduate
Series Editor: Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University, USA
This series offers a new type of study aid, which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical writing skills students need to develop in
order to engage fully with Shakespeare’s texts. Each edition includes an introduction, considering when and how the play was written; a detailed examination and
analysis of the individual text; discussion of performance history and critical reception of the work and a ‘Writing Matters’ section in every chapter that clearly
links the analysis of Shakespeare’s language to students’ own writing strategies in coursework and examinations.
“This new series from Arden may be aimed at students, but most seasoned professionals have much to learn from it too. In fresh, readable prose, some of today's leading
Shakespeare scholars point up the connections between the plays' distinctive verbal textures and their larger concerns and theatrical effects, rarely touching even
the most familiar passages without opening up nuanced and illuminating new readings. These handy, punchy books are absolute master-classes in close reading and
interpretation.” – Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Birmingham, UK
new
new
Antony and
Cleopatra
The Merchant
of Venice
Hamlet
Virginia Mason Vaughan
Douglas M. Lanier
UK November 2015
US November 2015
184 pages
PB 9781472504999
£10.99 / $14.95
HB 9781408184516
£40.00 / $45.00
UK December 2016
US December 2016
192 pages
PB 9781472571489
£10.99 / $18.95
HB 9781472571496
£40.00 / $68.00
UK February 2015
US April 2015
232 Pages
PB 9781408154892
£9.99 / $14.95
HB 9781472520289
£30.00 / $52.00
Dympna Callaghan
Romeo and
Juliet
Othello
Twelfth Night
Laurie Maguire
Frances E. Dolan
Catherine Belsey
UK April 2014
US June 2014
192 Pages
PB 9781408156599
£9.99 / $14.95
HB 9781472518293
£30.00 / $45.00
UK April 2014
US June 2014
192 Pages
PB 9781408171745
£9.99 / $14.95
HB 9781472518347
£30.00 / $45.00
UK February 2014
US April 2014
192 Pages
PB 9781408171752
£9.99 / $14.95
HB 9781472518354
£30.00 / $45.00
Shakespeare and Theory
Upper Undergraduate and Above
Series Editor: Evelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
This series provides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical developments that have dominated Shakespeare studies since the advent of postmodernism, as well as
those that are emerging at the present moment.
Each volume provides a clear definition of a particular theory; explains its key concepts; surveys its major theorists and critics; situates it in the context of contemporary
political, social, and economic developments; analyses its significance in Shakespeare studies; and offers a wealth of suggested resources for further investigation.
Shakespeare and Ecocritical Theory
Gabriel Egan, Loughborough University, UK
Combining the latest scientific and philosophical understanding
of humankind's place in the world with interpretative methods
derived from other politically inflected literary criticism,
ecocriticism is providing new insights into literary works both
ancient and modern. With case-study analyses of the tragedies,
comedies, histories and the late romances, this book is a
wide-ranging introduction to reading Shakespeare in light of
contemporary ecocritical theory.
UK October 2015 / US October 2015 • 208 pages
PB 9781441199300 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781441145529 • £55.00 / $100.00
Shakespeare and Economic Theory
David Hawkes, Arizona State University, USA
This book shows how concepts and concerns that were until
recently considered purely economic affected the entire range
of sixteenth and seventeenth century life. Using the work
of such critics as Jean-Christophe Agnew, Douglas Bruster,
Hugh Grady and many others, Shakespeare and Economic
Theory traces economic literary criticism to its cultural and
historical roots, and discusses its main practitioners. Providing
new readings of Timon of Athens, King Lear, The Winter’s Tale, The Merchant
of Venice, Measure for Measure, the Sonnets, Julius Caesar, Macbeth and The
Tempest, David Hawkes shows how it can reveal previously unappreciated qualities
of Shakespeare’s work.
UK July 2015 / US September 2015
240 Pages • PB 9781472576972 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472576989 • £55.00 / $94.00
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Shakespeare and New Historicist
Theory
Neema Parvini, University of Surrey, UK
Over the past three decades, no critical movement has been
more prominent in Shakespeare Studies than new historicism.
And yet, it remains notoriously difficult to pin down, define and
explain, let alone analyze. Shakespeare and New Historicist
Theory provides a comprehensive scholarly analysis of new
historicism as a development in Shakespeare studies while
asking fundamental questions about its status as literary theory and its continued
usefulness as a method of approaching Shakespeare’s plays.
UK December 2016 / US December 2016 • 208 pages
PB 9781474240987 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474240994 • £55.00 / $94.00
Shakespeare and
Psychoanalytic Theory
Carolyn E. Brown, University of San Francisco, USA
Although psychoanalytic criticism of Shakespeare is a prominent
field of scholarship, the analytic tools, theories, and critics
who apply the theories have not been adequately assessed.
This book fills that gap. It surveys the psychoanalytic theorists
who have had the most impact on Shakespeare studies, clearly
explaining the fundamental concepts of their theories, providing concise definitions
of key terminology, describing the inception and evolution of different schools of
psychoanalysis, and discussing the relationship of psychoanalytic theory (especially
in Shakespeare) to other critical theories. It assesses the applicability of the theory
to Shakespeare studies and the significance of the resulting readings.
UK August 2015 / US October 2015
192 Pages • PB 9781472503237 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472503244 • £55.00 / $100.00
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S tudent G u i des
Undergraduate and Above
Arden Early Modern Drama
Guides
Series Editors: Andrew Hiscock, Bangor University, UK and
Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
These guides offer practical and accessible introductions to
the critical and performative contexts of key Elizabethan
and Jacobean plays. Each guide introduces the text’s critical
and performance history but also provides students with an
invaluable insight into the landscape of current scholarly
research through a keynote essay on the state of the art, and
newly commissioned essays of fresh research from different
critical perspectives.
Edited by Kirk Melnikoff
UK December 2016
US December 2016
256 pages
PB 9781472584038 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9781472584045 • £55.00 / $94.00
Edited by Ann Thompson
& Neil Taylor
Edited by
Andrew James Hartley
UK April 2016
US April 2016
264 pages
PB 9781472571373 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9781472571380 • £55.00 / $94.00
UK October 2016
US October 2016
304 pages
PB 9781474220385 • £18.99 / $29.95
HB 9781474220378 • £60.00 / $104.00
Edited by Paul Frazer &
Adam Hansen
Edited by Robert C. Evans
Edited by Julia Lupton
Edited by Thomas Rist
Edited by Brian Walsh
UK July 2015
US September 2015
256 Pages
PB 9781472520364 • £17.99 / $30.95
HB 9781472520371 • £55.00 / $94.00
UK January 2016
US January 2016
296 pages
PB 9781472589262 • £18.99 / $29.95
HB 9781474216364 • £60.00 / $104.00
UK October 2016
US October 2016
256 pages
PB 9781472528957 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9781472532756 • £55.00 / $94.00
UK October 2016
US October 2016
304 pages
PB 9781472585400 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9781472585417 • £55.00 / $94.00
UK November 2016
US November 2016
256 pages
PB 9781472587404 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9781472587398 • £55.00 / $94.00
Shakespeare Now!
Undergraduate and Above
Series Editors: Ewan Fernie, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK and Simon Palfrey, University of Oxford, UK
Shakespeare Now! is a series of short books that engage imaginatively and often provocatively with the possibilities of Shakespeare’s plays. It goes back to the source
- the most living language imaginable - and recaptures the excitement, audacity and surprise of Shakespeare. It will return you to the plays with opened eyes.
Othello's Secret
The Cyprus Problem
R M Christofides, Independent
Scholar, UK
Othello's Secret
uncovers the
relationship between
the play and the
conflicts that have
torn apart its
Cypriot setting,
providing a new and
powerfully political
reading. Exploring
the domestic and
military anxieties connected by
Shakespeare, Christofides highlights
the ways in which these issues
resonate with current ideological
and geographical divisions in Cyprus,
divisions rooted in the 16th century
struggles to control the island.
Challenging the conventional view of
Othello as a Venetian play, this book
offers a fierce and personal example
of how early modern literature can
purposefully contribute to even the
most complex geopolitical debates.
Shakespeare's
Universality
Tragic Cognition in
Shakespeare's Othello
Teaching Shakespeare
and Marlowe
Here's Fine Revolution
Beyond the Neural Sublime
Learning versus the System
Kiernan Ryan, University of London, UK
Paul Cefalu, Lafayette College, USA
Liam E. Semler, University of
Sydney, Australia
textbook
Through close
readings of a wide
range of plays and
poems, Kiernan
Ryan's compelling
polemic sets out
to reclaim the idea
of Shakespeare's
timeless
universality from
reactionary and
radical critics alike. Its argument is
driven throughout by the belief that
at this moment in history the need to
recognise and activate the revolutionary
potential of Shakespeare's drama is
more urgent than ever.
UK April 2015 / US June 2015
160 Pages
PB 9781408183496 • £10.99 / $17.95
How can recent
theories of
cognition inform
our understanding
of Shakespeare’s
characters?
Tragic Cognition
in Shakespeare’s
Othello looks at
how such theories
can enhance our
perception of Iago and Othello, as
well as enriching the play’s complex
accounts of empathy, intentionality,
and tragedy. Paul Cefalu argues that
Shakespearean characters raise timely
questions about the relationship
between cognition and consciousness
and often defy our assumptions about
“normal” cognition.
This book explores
how to achieve
innovative
approaches
to teaching
and learning
Shakespeare and
Marlowe within
formal learning
systems such
as school and
university.
Suitable for any teacher or academic
yearning for fresh and authentic
approaches to their discipline.
UK December 2013 / US February 2014
168 Pages
PB 9781408185025 • £12.99 / $22.95
UK May 2015 / US July 2015
136 Pages
PB 9781472523464 • £12.99 / $22.95
UK June 2016 / US June 2016
176 pages
PB 9781474212977 • £12.99 / $22.95
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Refe r ence
Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries
Postgraduate and Reference
Series Editor: Sandra Clark, Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK
The Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries provide authoritative guides to major subject areas covered by the poetry and plays. The dictionaries provide readers with a
comprehensive guide to the topic under discussion, especially its contemporary meanings, and to its occurrence and significance in Shakespeare’s works. Comprehensive
bibliographies accompany many of the items. Entries range from a few lines in length to mini-essays, providing the opportunity to explore an important literary or historical
concept or idea in depth.
new
new
new
Shakespeare's
Insults
Shakespeare's
Books
Shakespeare's
Demonology
A Pragmatic Dictionary
A Dictionary of
Shakespeare Sources
Shakespeare's
Plants and
Gardens
A Dictionary
UK December 2016
US December 2016
240 Pages
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£25.99 / $44.95
in PB
Shakespeare
and National
Identity
UK November 2016
US November 2016
256 Pages
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£100.00 / $172.00
Shakespeare
and Visual
Culture
UK September 2016
US September 2016
264 Pages
HB 9781472568052
£100.00 / $172.00
UK January 2016
US January 2016
512 Pages
HB 9780826498335
£100.00 / $172.00
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UK February 2016
US February, 2016
432 Pages
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432 Pages
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in PB
A Dictionary
Great Shakespeareans
MA and Above
Series Editors: Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA and Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge, UK
Gielgud, Olivier, Ashcroft,
Dench
Poel, Granville Barker, Guthrie,
Wanamaker
Great Shakespeareans
Great Shakespeareans
Edited by Russell Jackson, University of Birmingham,
UK
Edited by Cary M. Mazer, University of Pennsylvania,
USA
In their own distinctive manner, each of the four actors
discussed in this volume have had a profound and
innovative influence on the methods of Shakespearean
performance, and thus on the appreciation and
interpretation of his plays. Their careers encompass
almost a century of theatrical experience, from John
Gielgud’s childhood before the First World War to Judi
Dench’s performances in the first decades of the new millennium. The volume
affords invaluable insights into changing approaches to the actor’s craft, the aims
and methods of the theatre, the institutions presenting productions and, above all,
to Shakespeare’s plays themselves.
All four figures in this volume have been canonized as
central to ‘stage-centred’ Shakespearean scholarship
and stage practice. From William Poel’s reproductions
of early modern stages in the late nineteenth century
to Sam Wanamaker’s reconstruction of the Globe on
London’s South Bank, they all viewed Shakespeare’s plays
as being enmeshed in the social and historical dynamics
of theatremaking and theatregoing. The volume considers how their attempts to
recapture early modern performance conditions can be considered progressive.
UK September 2015 / US September 2015 • 264 pages
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UK September 2015 / US September 2015 • 248 pages
PB 9781474253390 • £24.99 / $39.95 • Previously published in HB 9781441185259
Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Shakespeare's Shakespeare Meagher, John
Shakespeare
Two Tragedies Montchrestien, Antoine de (©C.N. Smith)
This collection, composed of six reissued titles from The Athlone Press,
Sheffield Academic Press and Continuum, offers a distinguished selection
of titles that showcase the breadth of Shakespeare Studies.
The titles in this collection range from Shakespeare’s view on religion,
our understanding of him as an author and director, the work of his
contemporaries and how he is taught in the contemporary curriculum.
UK December 2015 / US December 2015
6 volume HB set
9781474247627 • £450.00 / $768.00
HB 9781474247443 • £75.00 / $128.00
HB 9781474247467 • £75.00 / $128.00
Shakespeare, Catholicism, and Romance Richmond, Velma Bourgeois
HB 9781474247481 • £75.00 / $128.00
Shakespeare In The New Europe Hattaway, Michael, Sokolova, Boika & Roper, Derek
HB 9781474247566 • £75.00 / $128.00
Strengths of Shakespeare's Shrew Empson, William, edited by Haffenden, John
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Shakespeare For All: The Primary School Gilmour, Maurice (© MG and Contributors)
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A ct i ng and P e r f o r mance
Performing King Lear
Anecdotal Shakespeare
Gielgud to Russell Beale
A New Performance History
Jonathan Croall, Theatre Historian
Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin College, USA
Performing King Lear offers a very different and
practical perspective from most studies of the play. It
is centred on the reality of creation and performance,
as seen through the eyes of today’s leading actors and
directors, including Nicholas Hytner, Adrian Noble,
David Hare, Kenneth Brannagh, Deborah Warner,
Derek Jacobi, Jonathan Miller, Dominic Dromgoole
and Simon Russell Beale. Based on over forty unique
interviews with those who have staged the play in
London, Stratford and elsewhere, the book explores
how they have dealt with the formidable challenges
involved in interpreting and staging Shakespeare’s
great tragedy.
Shakespeare’s performance history is full of anecdotes
− ribald, frequently funny, sometimes disturbing, and
always but loosely allegiant to fact. Such anecdotes
are a vital index to the ways that Shakespeare’s
plays have generated meaning across varied times
and in varied places. Particular plays have produced
particular anecdotes − stories of a real skull in
Hamlet, superstitions about the name Macbeth, toga
troubles in Julius Caesar – and express something
embedded in those plays. Anecdotes constitute a vital
component of a play’s performance history and a form
of vernacular criticism by the people most involved in
their production: actors.
UK October 2015 / US December 2015
304 pages
PB 9781474223850 • £16.99 / $29.95
HB 9781474223867 • £50.00 / $86.00
UK October 2015 / US October 2015
280 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781472576156 • £19.99 / $29.95
HB 9781472576163 • £65.00 / $86.00
Early Modern Actors and
Shakespeare's Theatre
Thinking with the Body
Evelyn Tribble, University of Otago, New Zealand
What skills did Shakespeare’s actors bring to their
craft? How do these skills differ from those of
contemporary actors? This book examines the ‘toolkit’
of the early modern player and suggests new readings
of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
through the lens of their expertise. Evelyn Tribble
argues that recapturing a positive account of the
abilities of the early modern players will result in
a more capacious understanding of the nature of
theatricality in the period.
UK December 2016 / US December 2016
256 pages
PB 9781472576026 • £18.99 / $29.95
HB 9781472576033 • £60.00 / $104.00
Shakespeare in the Theatre
Undergraduate
Series Editors: Bridget Escolme, University of London, UK, Farah Karim-Cooper, King's College London, UK, Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA
Each volume in the Shakespeare in the Theatre series examines a director or theatre company who has made a significant contribution to Shakespeare production and
the aesthetic and socio-political contexts of their work. Pointing to the range of people, artistic practices and cultural phenomena that make meaning in the theatre,
the series de-centres Shakespeare from within Shakespeare studies, and provides an unrivalled way of perceiving the performance of his work.
Mark Rylance at the Globe
Stephen Purcell, University of Warwick, UK
Since its opening in the late 1990s, the reconstructed
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre has made an indelible
impression on the contemporary British theatre
scene. This book explores the theatre’s first decade
of productions under the pioneering leadership of
Mark Rylance. Drawing upon interviews with key
practitioners from the Globe and detailed case
studies of notable productions, this book argues that
the Rylance era was a groundbreaking and important
period of recent theatre history. The book gives a
unique insight into Rylance's practice and impact, and
will be of interest to anyone studying Shakespeare in
performance.
UK February 2017 / US February 2017
224 pages
PB 9781472581716 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9781472581723 • £55.00 / $94.00
The American Shakespeare
Center
Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin College, USA
The original Blackfriars closed its doors in the 1640s,
ending over half-a-century of performances by
men and boys. In 2001, in the Shenandoah Valley of
Virginia, it opened once again. The reconstructed
Blackfriars, home to the American Shakespeare
Center, represents an old playhouse for the new
millennium and therefore symbolically registers
the permanent revolution in the performance of
Shakespeare. Time and again, the industry refreshes
its practices by rediscovering its own history. This
book assesses how one American company has
capitalised on history and in so doing has become
a major influence in contemporary Shakespearean
theatre.
UK October 2016 / US October 2016
224 pages
PB 9781472584977 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9781472584984 • £55.00 / $94.00
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Nicholas Hytner
Abigail Rokison-Woodall, University of
Birmingham, UK
This is the first major study of Hytner's renowned
work on Shakespeare and his tenure at the National
Theatre, and features case studies of his major
productions and interviews with Hytner himself, as
well as with the actors, designers, directors and
other practitioners with whom he has worked. Abigail
Rokison­Woodall explores Hytner’s own productions
of Shakespeare’s plays within their respective sociocultural contexts, examines his working practices and
evaluates the impact of his artistic directorship on
the centrality of Shakespeare within the repertoire of
the National Theatre.
UK October 2016 / US October 2016
224 pages
PB 9781472581600 • £16.99 / $29.95
HB 9781472581617 • £50.00 / $86.00
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A ct i ng and P e r f o r mance
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Bloomsbury is a leading publisher of drama and performance books under the Methuen Drama imprint. We publish books for theatre-goers, students, scholars,
practitioners, actors and those wishing to pursue a career in the theatre industry. Our titles reflect an on-going commitment to publishing exciting new playwrights and
the best scholarship in the fields of theatre and performance.
Cracking Shakespeare
Mastering the
Shakespeare Audition
textbook
A Hands-on Guide for Actors
and Directors + Video
Donna Soto-Morettini, Freelance, UK
Cracking Shakespeare serves to demystify the process
of speaking Shakespeare’s language, offering handson techniques for those intimidated by rehearsing,
performing and directing Shakespeare’s plays. Including
supporting online video, it demonstrates how to
embody Shakespeare’s characters in rehearsal and
performance − offering a toolkit that will free actors
and directors from their fear of Shakespeare. The
result of thirty years of acting, teaching and directing
Shakespeare, Kelly Hunter’s Cracking Shakespeare
is the ideal textbook for actors and directors looking for new ways to approach
Shakespeare’s plays in a hands-on, down-to-earth style.
UK August 2016 / US August 2016
224 pages
PB 9781474266857 • £14.99 / $25.95
The Hand on the
Shakespearean Stage
Teaching Shakespeare
with Purpose
Current Practices
Gesture, Touch and the Spectacle
of Dismemberment
A Student-Centred Approach
In this first substantive study of
directing Shakespeare in the USA,
Charles Ney compares and contrasts
directors working at major companies
across the country. The volume
examines contemporary directors’
values and beliefs, the methods they
use and the various tasks they execute
when preparing for, rehearsing and
finishing a Shakespeare production.
It will be useful to practitioners who
want to learn from other directors,
and scholars and students studying
production practice and performance.
UK April 2016 / US April 2016
320 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781474239837 • £19.99 / $29.95
HB 9781474239844 • £65.00 / $112.00
Farah Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare's
Globe, London, UK
This ground-breaking book uncovers
the way Shakespeare draws upon
the available literature and visual
representations of the hand in
his time to inform his work. An
analysis of gesture, touch, skill
and dismemberment in a range of
Shakespeare's works, shows how the
hand was perceived in Shakespeare’s
time as an indicator of human agency,
emotion, social and personal identity.
This book is about how the hand and its
activities are described and embedded
in Shakespeare's texts and about its
role on the Shakespearean stage:
as part of the actor’s body, in the
language as metaphor and as a morbid
stage-prop.
UK June 2016 / US June 2016
256 pages
PB 9781474234269 • £19.99 / $34.95
HB 9781474234276 • £65.00 / $112.00
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Success in auditions – drama school or for professional
jobs – often relies on a well­delivered classical
monologue. Mastering the Shakespeare Audition makes
it easy for actors to analyse and master their chosen
monologue in time for an upcoming audition. Following
a unique quick-start plan of reading and exercises,
actors will be shown how to perform with confidence.
Each section provides a set of exercises, detailing the
time necessary to read and complete them. At the end
of each section there is also a set of extended exercises
for those with more time to spare. Features online
video resources.
Directing Shakespeare
in America
Charles Ney, Texas State University,
USA
textbook
A Quick Guide to Performance Success
Kelly Hunter, Actor/Director, UK
UK December 2015 / US December 2015
192 pages
PB 9781472532831 • £16.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472522481 • £50.00 / $86.00
online resources
Ayanna Thompson, The George
Washington University, Washington
DC & Laura Turchi
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 studentcentred discovery of these complex
texts, approaching them as vehicles
for collaborative exploration in the
classroom and releasing them from
over-determined interpretations.
Written by a renowned Shakespeare
scholar and an expert in teacher
education, the book blends the
most effective approaches from the
humanities and the methodologies from
the social sciences, and in so doing,
liberates and empowers teachers of
Shakespeare.
UK January 2016 / US January 2016
224 pages
PB 9781472599612 • £18.99 / $29.95
HB 9781472599629 • £60.00 / $104.00
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The Politics
of Performing
Shakespeare for
Young People
Standing up to Shakespeare
Jan Wozniak, University of Leeds,
UK
This book examines performance
projects of Shakespeare’s plays for
young people in terms of their value
for their young audiences. Using
interviews with theatre workers and
workshops with young people, the
book argues that it is by trusting young
people’s experience of performances,
rather than promoting a range of
predetermined textual understandings
of the plays, that they might gain most
benefit. It argues that by privileging
the meanings young people make
of Shakespeare, new and exciting
interpretations of his work might be
found.
UK March 2016 / US March 2017
336 pages
HB 9781474234849 • £65.00 / $112.00
T E X T B OO K S / C RI T I C A L S T U D I E S
textbook
textbook
The Arden Guide to
Renaissance Drama
Shakespeare and
Early Modern Drama
An Introduction with Primary
Sources
Text and Performance
Brinda Charry, Syracyse University,
USA
This companion to early modern drama
equips undergraduate students with the
information needed to situate the plays
in their socio-political, intellectual
and literary contexts. Chapters survey
important political, cultural and
intellectual events and movements,
ranging from the Reformation to
emerging nationalism; humanism to
print culture. The book also places
at students’ disposal some of the key
primary documents that constitute the
discursive context in which the plays
are situated. Finally, it introduces them
to the key dramatic texts of the period
and emphasises the importance of both
a historicist and close-reading approach
to better engage with these works.
UK January 2017 / US January 2017
296 pages
PB 9781472572240 • £18.99 / $29.95
HB 9781472572257 • £60.00 / $104.00
Pamela Bickley, The English
Association & Jenny
Stevens, Open University, UK
Tailored to the needs of undergraduate
students and their teachers,
this book fosters confident and
independent thinking, making it an
ideal introduction for students of
Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Each chapter includes:
·a
detailed analysis of a play by
Shakespeare considered alongside
a key work by one other significant
playwright of the day
textbook
Shakespearean
Tragedy: Hamlet,
Othello, King Lear,
Macbeth
English Renaissance
Tragedy
Kiernan Ryan, Royal Holloway,
University of London, UK
This book's underlying claim is that
English Renaissance tragedy addresses
live issues in the experience of readers
and spectators today: it is not a genre
to be studied only for aesthetic or
“heritage” reasons. It considers the
way in which tragedy in general,
and English Renaissance tragedy in
particular, addresses ideas of liberty
and tyranny, understood both from
an individual and a sociopolitical
perspective.
"It is impossible to do justice to
the compacted richness of Ryan's
study…The book is certainly a major
contribution to Shakespeare studies."
The Times, Review of Shakespeare
(1989)
· s uggestions for links with other early
modern texts and further reading
This ground-breaking study reveals the
prophetic, revolutionary vision at the
heart of Shakespeare’s four greatest
tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear
and Macbeth. Through compelling
new readings of the plays, couched in
lively, accessible prose and grounded
in close analysis of their language
and form, Kiernan Ryan transforms
our understanding of Shakespearean
tragedy by revealing the radical
egalitarian perspective from which it is
conceived and written.
UK February 2016 / US February 2016
352 pages
PB 9781472577139 • £16.99 / $29.95
HB 9781472577146 • £50.00 / $86.00
UK November 2017 / US November 2017
360 pages
PB 9781472586988 • £16.99 / $29.95
HB 9781472586995 • £50.00 / $86.00
· close reading of the text
·d
iscussion of early modern theatrical
practices
·a
ground-breaking example of early
modern drama on screen
Ideas of Freedom
Peter Holbrook, University of
Queensland, Australia
UK September 2015 / US September 2015
256 pages
PB 9781472572806 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9781472572813 • £55.00 / $94.00
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C r i t i ca l S tud i es
new
in PB
Shakespeare and
YouTube
Shakespeare's World
of Words
Shakespeare's Acts of
Will
Shakespeare's
Pictures
New Media Forms of the Bard
Edited by Paul Yachnin, McGill
University, Canada
Law, Testament and Properties of
Performance
Visual Culture in Drama
The contributors to this volume
propose that Shakespeare was not
the poet of nature, but rather that
he was a master of rewriting and
recreation. Each chapter in this volume
begins with a key word or phrase
from Shakespeare and builds toward
a broader consideration of the social,
poetic, and theatrical dimensions of
his language. The chapters capture
the richness of Shakespeare’s world
of words by including discussions of
biblical language, Latinity, philosophy
of language and subjectivity, languages
of commerce, criminality, history, and
education, the gestural vocabulary of
performance, as well as accounts of
verbal modality and metrics.
Gary Watt, University of Warwick, UK
Keir Elam, University of Bologna,
Italy
Drawing on years of experience
delivering rhetoric workshops for the
Royal Shakespeare Company and as
a prize-winning teacher of law, Gary
Watt demonstrates how Shakespeare
transformed lawyers’ manual book
rhetoric into powerful drama through
a stirring combination of word, metre,
movement and physical stage material,
producing a mode of performance that
was truly testamentary in its power to
engage the witnessing public. Published
in the 400th anniversary year of
Shakespeare’s last will and testament,
this is a major contribution to the
growing interdisciplinary field of law
and humanities.
This is the first full-length study of
the role of graphic and iconographic
images in Shakespeare referencing
performance history throughout.
Chapters examine plays in which
pictures are brought on stage as part
of the dramatic action (Hamlet, The
Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the
Shrew, Twelfth Night, among others);
the embedding of images from the
popular imagination in the action and
discourse of the plays; the dialectic
between optical and auditory illusion
in the romance or late plays, or "how"
the visual is "heard" in the theatre,
and the question of perspective in the
comedies, especially in Twelfth Night.
UK July 2016 / US July 2016
256 pages
HB 9781474217859 • £55.00 / $94.00
UK August 2016 / US August 2016
256 pages
HB 9781408179758 • £65.00 / $112.00
Stephen O'Neill, National University
of Ireland Maynooth
This book identifies the genres of
YouTube Shakespeare, interpreting them
through theories of remediation and
media convergence and as indices of
Shakespeare’s shifting cultural meanings.
Exploring the intersection of YouTube’s
participatory culture – its invitation to
‘Broadcast Yourself’ – with its corporate
logic, the book argues that YouTube
Shakespeare is a site of productive
tension between new forms of selfexpression and the homogenizing
effects of mass culture. Shakespeare
and YouTube will be of interest to
students and scholars of Shakespearean
drama, poetry and adaptations, as well
as to new media studies.
UK October 2015 / US October 2015
344 pages
PB 9781474263177 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781441120922
UK October 2015 / US October 2015
304 pages
HB 9781472515292 • £60.00 / $110.00
Sonnets
2014/2015
Jo Shapcott
We name our years in numbers and behold, I said,
this new one hangs ahead, plump and divisible.
I poked my cold head round the corner of December,
whose bare evenings sang to me of the future,
until I could see all 365 days laid out from east
to west. A few things stick with me:
a sea view, night-time, lights across the by and by,
wet, black shapes, perhaps the heads of seals;
the Northern Line, glowing with afterworkers –
and someone humming, unless the future is a lie;
a laptop screen: keystrokes and the words expire,
metadata, prism, nourished, homeland, boundless
informant. My beloveds, I will see all this
and I will leave it, in one order or another, to you.
Written in response to Sonnet 73
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C r i t i ca l S tud i es / N ew M e r ma i ds
Bloomsbury Academic
Queering the
Shakespeare Film
Antipodal
Shakespeare
Gender Trouble, Gay
Spectatorship, and Male
Homoeroticism
Remembering and Forgetting
in Britain, Australia and New
Zealand, 1916 - 2016
Anthony Guy Patricia
Edited by Gordon McMullan, King's
College London, UK & Philip Mead,
University of Western Australia,
Australia
This study critiques the various
representations of the queer – broadly
understood as that which is at odds
with what has been deemed to be
the normal, the legitimate, and the
dominant, particularly – but not
exclusively – as regards sexual matters,
in the Shakespeare film. Analysing
the work of directors such as Max
Reinhardt, William Dieterle, George
Cukor, Franco Zeffirelli, Trevor Nunn,
Baz Luhrmann, Michael Hoffman,
Michael Radford, Orson Welles,
Laurence Olivier and Oliver Parker, the
volume presents an alternative and
complementary critical history of the
Shakespeare film genre.
UK November 2016 / US November 2016
256 pages
HB 9781474237031 • £65.00 / $112.00
Scholars from Britain, Australia and
New Zealand reflect on the modes of
commemoration of Shakespeare in and
after the Tercentenary year, 1916, in
two hemispheres, arguing that it was
at this moment of remembering that
‘global Shakespeare’ first emerged in
recognisable, if embryonic, form. A
great deal has been forgotten about
this key moment in the history of
the place of Shakespeare in national
and global culture. In addressing
this, the book offers new materials
and discoveries about, and new
interpretations of, those Tercentenary
celebrations, reflecting also on the long
legacy of those celebrations.
UK August 2016 / US August 2016
240 pages
HB 9781474271431 • £65.00 / $112.00
Macbeth, Macbeth
Ewan Fernie, University of
Birmingham, UK & Simon Palfrey,
University of Oxford, UK
"Macbeth, Macbeth is as close as one
can come to a quantum physics literary
criticism - a reading which supplements
the explicit text of a classic with the
dense network of its 'superposed'
states, unmentioned presuppositions
and implications. It is an analysis
totally faithful to the original and at
the same time totally contemporary. A
miracle, an instant classic."
- Slavoj Žižek
An unprecedented creative-critical
collaboration between two leading
Shakespeareans, Macbeth, Macbeth
sparks a whole new world from the
embers of Shakespeare's darkest play.
UK April 2016 / US April 2016
224 pages
PB 9781474235549 • £19.99 / $29.95
HB 9781474235556 • £65.00 / $112.00
Series: Beyond Criticism
Thomas Mann and
Shakespeare
Something Rich and Strange
Edited by Tobias Döring, LMU
München, Germany & Ewan Fernie,
University of Birmingham, UK
"When Mann speaks of ‘the most
tremendous case of poetic genius the
world has ever seen’, he is referring
not to Homer, nor to Goethe – but to
Shakespeare. It is strange that this
important identification has been so
little heeded or seriously examined for
so long. At last the present book makes
up for such neglect." Heinrich Detering,
President of the German Academy for
Language and Literature
UK December 2015 / US October 2015
280 pages • 4 b/w illustrations
HB 9781628922097 • £80.00 / $120.00
Series: New Directions in German Studies
High School/Secondary and Above
New Mermaids
General Editors: Brian
Gibbons, University of
Münster, Germany; William
C. Carroll, Boston University,
USA and Tiffany Stern,
University College, University
of Oxford, UK
A series of modernized
and fully annotated classic
plays, edited and updated by
experienced teachers who are
internationally recognized as
authorities in their field. Ideal
for, and accessible to, actors,
theatre-goers and students, the
books are in a clear, easy-to-use
format, with annotations below
the text and a comprehensive
introduction.
The Importance
of Being Earnest
Revised Edition
Edited by Francesca Coppa
UK November 2015
US November 2015
160 pages
PB 9781472585202 • £8.99 / $15.95
Ben Jonson: Four
Plays
Four Revenge
Tragedies
The Duchess of
Malfi
Volpone, Epicoene,
The Alchemist, Bartholmew
Fair and Epicoene or The
Silent Woman
The Spanish Tragedy, The
Revenger's Tragedy, 'Tis Pity
She's A Whore and The White
Devil
Edited by Janet Clare
Edited by Brian Gibbons
Edited by Robert N. Watson
UK July 2014 / US September 2014
744 Pages
PB 9781408179628 • £12.99 / $17.95
UK February 2014 / US April 2014
192 Pages
PB 9781472520654 • £7.99 / $13.95
UK May 2015 / US July 2014
600 Pages
PB 9781408159606 • £12.99 / $14.95
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N ew M e r ma i ds B ack l i st
Title
The Alchemist
All for Love
An Ideal Husband
Arden of Faversham
Arms and the Man
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