What is it that makes Shakespeare's most famous plays so vividly
alive, down all the centuries since they were first produced? Shakespeare
in Production aims to help readers, students, actors and directors
to understand the changing appeal of Hamlet to successive generations,
and to explore the metamorphoses of The Taming of the Shrew from
the patriarchal Renaissance to the post-modern, post-feminist present.
The editions offer the full Cambridge text of each play, illuminated
by notes that provide description and illustration of productions
throughout history, in Britain and beyond. By the use of promptbooks,
actor's memories, reviews and photographs, each scene is set
in its production history; its most memorable performances, designs
and new interpretations are brought to life in fascinating detail.
The plays are not static and unchanging: every generation has its
own texts, and its own understanding of them. Performance re-writes
and re-interprets the play from page to stage. The series allows
modern readers to access not one Shakespeare, fixed for all time
- but many plays by many generations of players and directors.
Jacky Bratton and Julie Hankey
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Troilus and Cressida
Edited by Frances A. Shirley
Wheaton College, Massachusetts
A detailed account of the theatrical
treatment of Troilus and Cressida.
Shakespeare in Production
2005 228 x 152 mm 280pp 12 halftones
Hardback £50.00 978-0-521-79255-4
Paperback £18.99 978-0-521-79684-2
Othello
Second edition
Edited by Julie Hankey
This revised second edition of Othello provides
a detailed history of the play in production.
‘I cannot recommend too highly the whole series to all theatre lovers,
theatregoers, theatre practitioners, and anybody who enjoys Shakespeare.’
roBert tani tCh, What’S on in london
Shakespeare in Production
2005 228 x 152 mm 328pp 12 halftones
Hardback £50.00 978-0-521-83458-2
Paperback £18.99 978-0-521-54236-4
Twelfth Night
Coming in 2009
Edited by Elizabeth Schafer
Royal Holloway, University of London
Shakespeare in Production
Paperback £TBA 978-0-521-53220-4
The Tempest
Edited by Christine Dymkowski
Royal Holloway, University of London
This edition of The Tempest is the first dedicated to its
stage history.
‘I cannot imagine anyone who either intends to stage The Tempest or to write
about it from a performance-oriented point of view who would not profit from
consulting this text.’
ShakeSpeare Quarterly
Contents: List of productions; Introduction; List of characters; The Tempest:
text and commentary; Appendix 1: textual variations; Appendix 2: list of
principal players; Bibliography.
Shakespeare in Production
2000 228 x 152 mm 406pp 12 halftones 2 tables
Hardback £65.00 978-0-521-44407-1
Paperback £21.99 978-0-521-78375-0
The Taming of the Shrew
Edited by Elizabeth Schafer
Royal Holloway, University of London
This book discusses the stage history of The Taming of
the Shrew, surveying major productions of the play.
Contents: List of illustrations; Series editors’ preface; Acknowledgements;
Editor’s note; List of abbreviations; List of productions; Introduction; The
Taming of the Shrew and commentary; Bibliography; Index.
Shakespeare in Production
2003 228 x 152 mm 296pp 10 halftones
Hardback £50.00 978-0-521-66137-9
Paperback £18.99 978-0-521-66741-8
The Merchant of Venice
Edited by Charles Edelman
Edith Cowan University, Western Australia
Full text of the play and thorough account of its
performance history.
Shakespeare in Production
2003 228 x 152 mm 316pp 11 halftones
Hardback £50.00 978-0-521-77338-6
Paperback £19.99 978-0-521-77429-1
Romeo and Juliet
Edited by James N. Loehlin
University of Texas, Austin
Full text of the play and thorough account of its
performance history.
Shakespeare in Production
2002 228 x 152 mm 286pp 12 halftones
Paperback £18.99 978-0-521-66769-2
Much Ado about Nothing
Edited by John F. Cox
Avondale College, New South Wales
Shakespeare in Production
1998 228 x 152 mm 283pp 14 halftones 1 table
Hardback £50.00 978-0-521-47163-3
Paperback £19.99 978-0-521-59822-4
Macbeth
Edited by John Wilders
Worcester College, Oxford
A detailed account of the theatre history of
Shakespeare’s Macbeth from 1607 to the present day.
Shakespeare in Production
2004 228 x 152 mm 244pp 12 halftones
Hardback £50.00 978-0-521-49562-2
Paperback £18.99 978-0-521-53482-6
King Henry V
Edited by Emma Smith
University of Oxford
A thorough account of its performance history including
introduction, full text of play and footnotes.
Shakespeare in Production
2002 228 x 152 mm 260pp 12 halftones 1 table
Hardback £50.00 978-0-521-59428-8
Paperback £18.99 978-0-521-59511-7
Antony and Cleopatra
Edited by Richard Madelaine
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Richard Madelaine provides the most detailed, extensive
and up-to-date history of Antony and Cleopatra on stage
and screen, in and beyond Britain. In the process he
reveals not only the rich plurality of possible readings
of the play, but also changing attitudes to Shakespeare.
Shakespeare in Production
1998 228 x 152 mm 380pp 11 halftones 1 table
Hardback £50.00 978-0-521-44306-7
Paperback £20.99 978-0-521-62904-1
As You Like It
Edited by Cynthia Marshall
Rhodes College, Memphis
This edition provides a detailed history of the play
in production, both on stage and on screen.
Contents: List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations;
Table of productions; Introduction; Text and commentary; Bibliography.
Shakespeare in Production
2004 228 x 152 mm 284pp 13 halftones
Hardback £50.00 / $80.00 978-0-521-78137-4
Paperback £18.99 / $30.99 978-0-521-78649-2
eBook available
Hamlet
Edited by Robert Hapgood
University of New Hampshire
This edition tells the story of Hamlet in production,
from Burbage at the Globe to Branagh on film,
relating stage interpretations to developments in the
theatre, literary criticism and society.
Shakespeare in Production
1999 228 x 152 mm 312pp 10 halftones 8 music examples
Hardback £47.50 978-0-521-44438-5
Paperback £18.99 978-0-521-64635-2
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