Twelfth Night: Arden Performance Editions

Twelfth Night: Arden Performance Editions

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  • Author: William Shakespeare
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1350002984
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304

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 textual variants, and guidance on metre and pronunciation; a larger font size for easier reading; space for writing notes and reduced punctuation aimed at the actor rather than the reader. With editorial expertise from the worlds of theatre and academia, the series has been developed in association with actors and drama students. The Series Editors are distinguished scholars Professor Michael Dobson and Dr Abigail Rokison and leading Shakespearean actor, Simon Russell Beale.


King Lear: Arden Performance Editions

King Lear: Arden Performance Editions

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  • Author: William Shakespeare
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1350243639
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 400

King Lear has ruled for many years. As age overtakes him, he divides his kingdom amongst his children. Misjudging their loyalty, he soon finds himself stripped of all the trappings of state, wealth and power that had defined him. Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students. Designed to be used and to be useful, each edition has plenty of space for personal annotations and the well-spaced text is easy to read and to navigate. Each edition offers: - Short, clear definitions of words - Information about key textual variants - Notes on pronunciation of difficult names and unfamiliar words - An easy to read layout with space to write your own notes - A short introduction to the play


A MIDSUMMER-NIGHTʼS DREAM

A MIDSUMMER-NIGHTʼS DREAM

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  • Author: William Shakespeare
  • Publisher:
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  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 62


Hamlet: Arden Performance Editions

Hamlet: Arden Performance Editions

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  • Author: William Shakespeare
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1474253881
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 246

The young Prince Hamlet, returning from university, finds his Kingdom in disarray: 'something is rotten in the state of Denmark'. With his father dead, and his uncle and mother marrying, Hamlet is confronted by an armored ghost, who, claiming to be the King, implores him to enact revenge upon the newlyweds and restore order to the realm. Yet, Hamlet's ability to act conflicts with his will to think: curing the rot and stabilising the kingdom will unleash a series of tragedies that threaten to ruin his entire family. Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students. Designed to be used and to be useful, each edition has plenty of space for personal annotations and the well-spaced text is easy to read and to navigate. Each edition offers: ·- F-Facing page notes · - Short, clear definitions of words · -Easily accessible information about key textual variants · -Notes on pronunciation of difficult names and unfamiliar words · -An easy to read layout · - Space to write notes · -A short introduction to the play


Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will

Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will

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  • Author: William Shakespeare
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  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 114


Twelfth Night: Arden Performance Editions

Twelfth Night: Arden Performance Editions

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  • Author: William Shakespeare
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1350002992
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 302

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 textual variants, and guidance on metre and pronunciation; a larger font size for easier reading; space for writing notes and reduced punctuation aimed at the actor rather than the reader. With editorial expertise from the worlds of theatre and academia, the series has been developed in association with actors and drama students. The Series Editors are distinguished scholars Professor Michael Dobson and Dr Abigail Rokison and leading Shakespearean actor, Simon Russell Beale.


Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works

Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works

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  • Author: Ann Thompson
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1474296394
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1512

This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes all of Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this edition are the 'apocryphal' plays, part-written by Shakespeare: Double Falsehood, Sir Thomas More and King Edward III. The anthology is unique in giving all three extant texts of Hamlet from Shakespeare's time: the first and second Quarto texts of 1603 and 1604-5, and the first Folio text of 1623. With a simple alphabetical arrangement the Complete Works are easy to navigate. The lengthy introductions and footnotes of the individual Third Series volumes have been removed to make way for a general introduction, short individual introductions to each text, a glossary and a bibliography instead, to ensure all works are accessible in one single volume. This handsome Complete Works is ideal for readers keen to explore Shakespeare's work and for anyone building their literary library.


Macbeth: Arden Performance Editions

Macbeth: Arden Performance Editions

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  • Author: William Shakespeare
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1350046795
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 178

'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 that a copy from this series will be in my hand.' ADRIAN LESTER, Actor, Director and Writer Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students. Each edition offers: -Facing-page notes -Short, clear definitions of words -Easily accessible information about key textual variants -Notes on pronunciation of difficult names and unfamiliar words -An easy to read layout -Space to write notes -A short introduction to the play


Romeo and Juliet: Arden Performance Editions

Romeo and Juliet: Arden Performance Editions

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  • Author: William Shakespeare
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1474280161
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 355

In the heat of renaissance Italy two houses are at war. One son and one daughter from the opposing families break this bitter conflict by falling in love. Yet, in this whirlwind of enmity, Romeo and Juliet's passion agitates rather than unites the clashing houses, causing a trail of destruction. Locked in a burning embrace, the two young lovers are tragically doomed to live or die together. 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 textual variants, and guidance on metre and pronunciation; a larger font size for easier reading; space for writing notes and reduced punctuation aimed at the actor rather than the reader. With editorial expertise from the worlds of theatre and academia, the series has been developed in association with actors and drama students. The Series Editors are distinguished scholars Professor Michael Dobson and Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall and leading Shakespearean actor, Simon Russell Beale.


Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

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  • Author: William Shakespeare
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1408198789
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1382

This revised edition of the Arden Shakespeare Complete Works includes the full text of Double Falsehood, which was published in the Arden Third series to critical acclaim in 2010. The play is an eighteenth century rewrite of Shakespeare's "lost" play Cardenio and as such is a fascinating testament to the original. A short introduction outlines its complex textual history and the arguments for including it within the Shakespeare canon. The Complete Works contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden series. A general introduction gives the reader an overall view of how and why Shakespeare has become such an influential cultural icon, and how perceptions of his work have changed in the intervening four centuries. The introduction summarises the known facts about the dramatist's life, his reading and use of sources, and the nature of theatrical performance during his lifetime. Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within Shakespeare's oeuvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers.