Essential Shakespeare
The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 16 October 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350444263
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 232x156x28 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
A go-to guide to help undergraduates navigate their way through university Shakespeare, examining 16 key plays.
MoreLong description:
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.
You will gain insights into each play, develop skills of analysis and be introduced to a diverse range of critical approaches that are central to the study of English today. Suggestions for further reading are included at the end of each chapter, together with examples of Shakespearean adaptation across genres, media and time.
New to the second edition:
* A revised and expanded introduction
* Two additional plays and further critical approaches are covered: As You Like It and Titus Andronicus
* Revised chapters on Othello and Twelfth Night
* Updates to each chapter with wider reading and extended Afterlives sections
* New links between chapters to aid study
* A preface to the revised edition
* An appendix featuring recommended open access online resources
* Glossary of critical terms used in this book
Table of Contents:
Preface to the Revised Edition
How to Use this Book
Introduction
1. A Midsummer Night's Dream: Transformations, Illusions, Festivity
2. Much Ado About Nothing: Exploring Language and Gender
3. As You Like It: 'Let the Forest Judge'
4. Twelfth Night, Or What You Will: Genderqueer Desires
5. Measure for Measure (and its problems...)
6. Titus Andronicus: Shakespeare's Most Violent Play?
7. Hamlet: Repeats, Returns, Retellings
8. Othello: Sex, Race and Rhetoric
9. King Lear: 'That things might change, or cease'
10. Macbeth: Kingship and Witchcraft
11. Antony and Cleopatra: The Legendary on Stage
12. King Richard II: The Performance of Majesty
13. King Richard III: History's Monster or Charismatic Villain?
14. Cymbeline: Moving Across Place, Time and Genres
15. The Winter's Tale: Tyranny, Trials, Time
16. The Tempest: Where 'Thought is free'
Linking Questions
Recommended Open Access Online Resources
Glossary of Critical Terms Used in this Book
Abbreviations
References
Index
