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  • The Witch of Edmonton

    Edited by Lucy Munro ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama
    On 19 April 1621, a woman named Elizabeth Sawyer was hanged at Tyburn. Her story was on the bookstalls within days and within weeks was adapted for the stage as The Witch of Edmonton. The devil stalks Edmonton in the shape of a large black dog and, just as Elizabeth Sawyer makes her demonic pact, the newlywed Frank Thorney enters into his own dark bargain in the shape of a second, bigamous ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King's Men

    by Lucy Munro ...
    Series series Shakespeare in the Theatre
    Created when James I granted royal patronage to the former Chamberlain's Men in 1603, the King's Men were the first playing company to exercise a transformative influence on Shakespeare's plays. Not only did Shakespeare write his plays with them in mind, but they were also the first group to revive his plays, and the first to have them revised, either by Shakespeare himself or by other dramatists ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time: Timeless Classics That Celebrate the Season

    The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries — from Dickens, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy to Willa Cather, Damon Runyon and Beatrix Potter. As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare / Play

    Contemporary Readings in Playing, Playmaking and Performance

    Series series Arden Shakespeare Intersections
    What is (a) play? How do Shakespeare's plays engage with and represent early modern modes of play – from jests and games to music, spectacle, movement, animal-baiting and dance? How have we played with Shakespeare in the centuries since? And how does the structure of the plays experienced in the early modern playhouse shape our understanding of Shakespeare plays today?Shakespeare / Play brings ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • Shakespeare / Space

    Contemporary Readings in Spatiality, Culture and Drama

    Series series Arden Shakespeare Intersections
    Shakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of 'space' in and through Shakespeare's plays, as well as to the material, cognitive and virtual spaces in which they are enacted.With contributions from 14 leading and emergent experts in their fields, the collection forges innovative connections between spatial studies and cultural geography, cognitive studies, memory studies, ... Read more

    $145.99 USD

  • Shakespeare / Nature

    Contemporary Readings in the Human and Non-human

    Series series Arden Shakespeare Intersections
    Shakespeare / Nature sets new agendas for the study of nature in Shakespeare's work. Offering a rich exploration of the intersections between the human and non-human worlds, the chapters focus on the contested and persuasive language of nature, both as organic matter and cultural conditioning.Rooted in close textual analysis and historical acuity, this collection addresses Shakespeare's works ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • Electricity Capital and Energy Poverty

    Perspectives From Developmental States and Decentralised Markets

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the rise of new forms of electricity capital, examining how evolving energy systems shape energy consumption and access in five different case studies from the global South. Structured in seven chapters, it begins with a clear theoretical and conceptual foundation and is followed by five compelling case studies, grounded in research insights from Zimbabwe, Mexico, ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare / Skin

    Contemporary Readings in Skin Studies and Theoretical Discourse

    Series series Arden Shakespeare Intersections
    This volume offers a comprehensive array of readings of 'skin' in Shakespeare's works, a term that embraces the human and animal, noun and verb.Shakespeare / Skin departs from previous studies as it deliberately and often explicitly engages with issues of social and racial justice. Each of the chapters interrogates and centres 'skin' in relation to areas of expertise that include performance ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • Shakespeare / Sense

    Contemporary Readings in Sensory Culture

    Series series Arden Shakespeare Intersections
    Shakespeare | Sense explores the intersection of Shakespeare and sensory studies, asking what sensation can tell us about early modern drama and poetry, and, conversely, how Shakespeare explores the senses in his literary craft, his fictional worlds, and his stagecraft.15 substantial new essays by leading Shakespeareans working in sensory studies and related disciplines interrogate every aspect of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590–1674

    by Lucy Munro ...
    Ranging from the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton to those of Robert Southwell and Anna Trapnel, this groundbreaking study explores the conscious use of archaic style by the poets and dramatists between 1590 and 1674. It focuses on the wide-ranging, complex and self-conscious uses of archaic linguistic and poetic style, analysing the uses to which writers put literary style in ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Hamlet: The State of Play

    Series series Arden Shakespeare The State of Play
    This collection brings together emerging and established scholars to explore fresh approaches to Shakespeare's best-known play. Hamlet has often served as a testing ground for innovative readings and new approaches. Its unique textual history – surviving as it does in three substantially different early versions – means that it offers an especially complex and intriguing case-study for histories ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Shakespeare / Text

    Contemporary Readings in Textual Studies, Editing and Performance

    Series series Arden Shakespeare Intersections
    Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts on textual matters, each chapter challenges a single entrenched binary – such as book/theatre, source/adaptation, text/paratext, canon/apocrypha, sense/nonsense, extant/ephemeral, material/digital and original/copy – that has come to both define and limit the way we read, analyze, ... Read more

    $39.99 USD