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Philip Massinger
Renegado, The (Arden Early Modern Drama)
The Renegado is one of the most shamelessly entertaining plays of its age, fetching its inspiration from a number of works by Cervantes, based on his own experiences as a captive in Algiers. Introducing the eroticized captivity narrative to the English stage, Massinger's tragicomedy combines it wit...
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William Shakespeare
King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series)
More troubled and troubling than King Henry IV Part 1 , the play continues the story of King Henry's decline and Hal's reform. Though Part 2 echoes the structure of the earlier play, it is a darker and more unsettling world, in which even Falstaff's revelry is more tired and cynical, and the once-m...
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William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet (Arden Shakespeare: Second Series)
The editors’ introduction addresses what is known about the original writing of the play and its evolution through seven editions.  Historical context, cultural references, and literary sources are also covered.  A discussion of the play’s themes, characters, and allusions precedes the text of...
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Nicholas D. Nace
Shakespeare Up Close: Reading Early Modern Texts (Arden Shakespeare)
This landmark collection of newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars, offers expert close readings of Shakespeare and other early modern authors. The book is an intervention into current critical methodology as well as an invaluable tool for all students of the literature of the p...
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William Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series)
A revised edition of this intriguing and complex play, updated to cover recent critical thinking and stage history. Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy often labelled a "problem" play because of its apparent blend of genres and its difficult themes. Set in the Trojan Wars it tells a story of doomed ...
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William Shakespeare
King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series, 8)
David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of play it is. Conventionally regarded as a history play, much of it is in fact conspicuously invented fiction, and Kastan argues th...
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Michelle M. Dowd
The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Perspectives on Culture, Performance and Identity (The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks)
How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more inclusive approach to early modern drama help enable students to discuss a range of issues, including race and gender, in more productive ways? Underpinned by thes...
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Ben Jonson
Volpone, Or, The Fox (Arden Early Modern Drama)
Volpone, Or, The Fox is Ben Jonson's great parable of greed, self-interest and inheritance. Using animal fable to satirize the wealthy and the greedy, it remains one of his most distinctive and compelling dramatic works. Jonson wrote the play for performance in 1606, and orchestrated its publicati...
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Pamela Bickley
Essential Shakespeare: The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation
Addressing the transition from pre-university to undergraduate Shakespeare studies, this introductory critical guide examines 16 key plays. Each chapter focuses on modern theoretical methods, close reading skills, early modern contexts, and productions from stage and screen spanning several decades....
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Katherine Duncan-Jones
Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life (Arden Shakespeare)
'[A] deeply considered and stimulating book, informed throughout by the author's intimate knowledge of the literature and society of Shakespeare's age... ' Stanley Wells, TLS 'It is unquestionably the best Shakespearean biography of the new century' Jonathan Bate, Sunday Telegraph This major bi...
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William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Arden Performance Editions
For the first time, the world-renowned Arden Shakespeare is producing Performance Editions, aimed specifically for use in the rehearsal room. Published in association with the Shakespeare Institute, the text features easily accessible facing page notes – including short definitions of words, key t...
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Jeremy Lopez
The Arden Introduction to Reading Shakespeare: Close Reading and Analysis (The Arden Shakespeare)
Shakespeare's plays are works of art made out of words. To read the plays closely, that is, to pay careful attention to the multiple, shifting meanings of and relationships between their words, is to gain a deep and lasting appreciation for the complex artistry of their construction and of their eff...
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Sra Nair Martínez
Donde arden los secretos (Bajo el velo.) (Spanish Edition)
Dicen que algunas amistades están destinadas a sobrevivir a cualquier distancia. Incluso a los secretos que arden bajo la superficie. Erika y Roi han pasado meses separados desde aquel verano que lo cambió todo. Ahora, un viaje del instituto a Madrid podría ser la oportunidad perfecta para reenco...
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Alden T. Vaughan
The Tempest: A Critical Reader (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides)
The Tempest contains sublime poetry and catchy songs, magic and low comedy, while it tackles important contemporary concerns: education, power politics, the effects of colonization, and technology. In this guide, Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan open up new ways into one of Shakespeare's...
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William Shakespeare
Macbeth (Arden Shakespeare: Second Series)
The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of Macbeth provides, a clear and authoritative text, de...
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William Shakespeare
Macbeth: Third Series (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series)
"A splendid edition: it incorporates the most recent modern scholarship ... and it does so within a compass and format that is both readable and usable." - Around the Globe Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied tragedies. This Arden Shakespeare Third Series edition offers s...
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Lindy Woodhead
War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry
Now a Tony-nominated Broadway musical playing at the Nederlander Theatre starring two-time Tony Award winners Patti LuPone ( Evita , Gypsy ) as Helena Rubinstein and Christine Ebersole ( 42nd Street , Grey Gardens ) as Elizabeth Arden. A fascinating dual biography of the women who founded today's ...
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William Shakespeare
Othello: Arden Performance Editions
'I wish I had copies like this at Drama School. Essential notes on the language for those who will get up and speak it, not purely for those who will sit and study it. An incredibly useful tool with room on every page to make notes. Next time I'm in rehearsal on a Shakespeare play, I have no doubt t...
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William Shakespeare
Coriolanus: Third Series (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series, 4)
This Roman play is one of Shakespeare's last tragedies, best known for its political and military themes. Its hero, Coriolanus, is a proud General who does not hesitate to show his arrogant and outspoken contempt of the Roman rabble. The Tribunes banish him and he raises an army to take his revenge ...
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William Shakespeare
Timon Of Athens: Third Series (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series)
Timon of Athens has struck many readers as rough and unpolished, perhaps even unfinished, though to others it has appeared as Shakespeare's most profound tragic allegory. Described by Coleridge as `the stillborn twin of King Lear', the play has nevertheless proved brilliantly effective in performanc...
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