{"title":"Peter Kirwan","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"arden-research-handbook-of-shakespeare-and-contemporary-performance-book-peter-kirwan-9781350225169","title":"The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Arden Research Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance\u003c\/i\u003e is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and performance studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on the key methods and questions surrounding the performance event, the audience, and the archive – the primary sources on which performance studies draws. It identifies the recurring trends and fruitful lines of inquiry that are generating the most urgent work in the field, but also contextualises these within the histories and methods on which researchers build. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA central section of research-focused essays offers case studies of present areas of enquiry, from new approaches to space, bodies and language to work on the technologies of remediation and original practices, from consideration of fandoms and the cultural capital invested in Shakespeare and his contemporaries to political and ethical interventions in performance practice. A distinctive feature of the volume is a curated section focusing on practitioners, in which leading directors, writers, actors, producers, and other theatre professionals comment on Shakespeare in performance and what they see as the key areas, challenges and provocations for researchers to explore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition, the Handbook contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A-Z of key terms and concepts, a guide to research methods and problems, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field, and a substantial annotated bibliography. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance\u003c\/i\u003e is a reference work aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars and libraries, a guide to beginning or developing research in the field, and an essential companion for all those interested in Shakespeare and performance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49742050394385,"sku":"NGR9781350225169","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1350225169.jpg?v=1751403031"},{"product_id":"arden-of-faversham-a-critical-reader-book-peter-kirwan-9781350270176","title":"Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the earliest domestic tragedies, \u003ci\u003eArden of Faversham\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This \u003ci\u003eCritical Reader \u003c\/i\u003epresents the first collection of essays specifically focused upon \u003ci\u003eArden of Faversham\u003c\/i\u003e. It highlights the way in which this important play from the early 1590s stands at several different critical intersections. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocused research chapters propose new directions for exploring the play in the light of ecocriticism, genre studies, critical race studies and narratives of dispossession. It also looks forward to \u003ci\u003eArden of Faversham\u003c\/i\u003e’s role and status in a less author-centred critical climate. Chapters explore how this anonymous and canonically marginal play has been approached in the past by scholars and theatre-makers and the frameworks that have offered productive insight into its unique features. The volume includes chapters covering a wide range of critical discourses and resources available for its study, as well as offering practical approaches to the play in the classroom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50698482319633,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50698484056337,"sku":"NGR9781350270176","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52668876161297,"sku":"NLS9781350270176","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1350270172.jpg?v=1751458090"},{"product_id":"canonising-shakespeare-book-peter-kirwan-9781316608258","title":"Canonising Shakespeare","description":"This book appeals to scholars with interests in Shakespeare's authorial and publication history and book history, from the Renaissance to the early eighteenth century. International experts show how booksellers, editors, printers and publishers shaped the Shakespeare canon, adapting the presentation of Shakespeare's plays and poems for a range of consumers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51023030452497,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51023032418577,"sku":"NIN9781316608258","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52130916925713,"sku":"NLS9781316608258","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1316608255.jpg?v=1751402577"},{"product_id":"arden-research-handbook-of-shakespeare-and-contemporary-performance-book-peter-kirwan-9781350080676","title":"The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance","description":"The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and performance studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on the key methods and questions surrounding the performance event, the audience, and the archive – the primary sources on which performance studies draws. It identifies the recurring trends and fruitful lines of inquiry that are generating the most urgent work in the field, but also contextualises these within the histories and methods on which researchers build.   A central section of research-focused essays offers case studies of present areas of enquiry, from new approaches to space, bodies and language to work on the technologies of remediation and original practices, from consideration of fandoms and the cultural capital invested in Shakespeare and his contemporaries to political and ethical interventions in performance practice. A distinctive feature of the volume is a curated section focusing on practitioners, in which leading directors, writers, actors, producers, and other theatre professionals comment on Shakespeare in performance and what they see as the key areas, challenges and provocations for researchers to explore.  In addition, the Handbook contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A-Z of key terms and concepts, a guide to research methods and problems, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field, and a substantial annotated bibliography.   The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance is a reference work aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars and libraries, a guide to beginning or developing research in the field, and an essential companion for all those interested in Shakespeare and performance.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52424670282001,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52424670871825,"sku":"NLS9781350080676","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781350080676.jpg?v=1759152603"},{"product_id":"canonising-shakespeare-book-peter-kirwan-9781107154599","title":"Canonising Shakespeare","description":"Canonising Shakespeare offers the first comprehensive reassessment of Shakespeare's afterlife as a print phenomenon, demonstrating the crucial role that the book trade played in his rise to cultural pre-eminence. 1640-1740 was the period in which Shakespeare's canon was determined, in which the poems resumed their place alongside the plays in print, and in which artisans and named editors crafted a new, contemporary Shakespeare for Restoration and eighteenth-century consumers. A team of international contributors highlight the impact of individual booksellers, printers, publishers and editors on the Shakespearean text, the books in which it was presented, and the ways in which it was promoted. From radical adaptations of the Sonnets to new characters in plays, and from elegant subscription volumes to cheap editions churned out by feuding publishers, this period was marked by eclecticism, contradiction and innovation as stationers looked to the past and the future to create a Shakespeare for their own times.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52532352549137,"sku":"NLS9781107154599","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781107154599.jpg?v=1760660525"},{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-the-idea-of-apocrypha-book-peter-kirwan-9781107096172","title":"Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha","description":"In addition to the thirty-six plays of the First Folio, some eighty plays have been attributed in whole or part to William Shakespeare, yet most are rarely read, performed or discussed. This book, the first to confront the implications of the 'Shakespeare Apocrypha', asks how and why these plays have historically been excluded from the canon. Innovatively combining approaches from book history, theatre history, attribution studies and canon theory, Peter Kirwan unveils the historical assumptions and principles that shaped the construction of the Shakespeare canon. Case studies treat plays such as Sir Thomas More, Edward III, Arden of Faversham, Mucedorus, Double Falsehood and A Yorkshire Tragedy, showing how the plays' contested 'Shakespearean' status has shaped their fortunes. Kirwan's book rethinks the impact of authorial canons on the treatment of anonymous and disputed plays.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52585323823377,"sku":"NLS9781107096172","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781107096172.jpg?v=1761052618"},{"product_id":"winter-s-tale-book-peter-kirwan-9781350439252","title":"The Winter's Tale","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn international group of scholars reappraise \u003ci\u003eThe Winter’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e through a series of research essays covering performance history, critical history, and new interpretations\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNavigating the play’s fluctuating genre conventions, onstage spectacle and leaps across time, scholars consider how eco-materiality, radical hospitality, childhood, gender, and critical race studies shape contemporary understandings and staging of a play that defies easy definition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy charting these changing interpretive trends, readers are introduced to a rich body of scholarship which shows how the play can be used to confront the experiences of those marginalized by race, age, gender, and nationality, to place fresh attention on the economic and material structures that define the dramatic plot of the play. As \u003ci\u003eThe Winter’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e’s depictions of patriarchal violence, vulnerability, economic disparity, border crossings and exploitation continue to draw attention, this guide serves as an invaluable resource for scholars, students and audiences alike. Complete with pedagogical tools including resources and strategies for approaching the play in the classroom, this Critical Reader is an essential collection of scholarship on one of Shakespeare’s most audacious experiments.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52599108108561,"sku":"NLS9781350439252","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781350439252.jpg?v=1761077513"},{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-the-idea-of-apocrypha-book-peter-kirwan-9781107479982","title":"Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha","description":"In addition to the thirty-six plays of the First Folio, some eighty plays have been attributed in whole or part to William Shakespeare, yet most are rarely read, performed or discussed. This book, the first to confront the implications of the 'Shakespeare Apocrypha', asks how and why these plays have historically been excluded from the canon. Innovatively combining approaches from book history, theatre history, attribution studies and canon theory, Peter Kirwan unveils the historical assumptions and principles that shaped the construction of the Shakespeare canon. Case studies treat plays such as Sir Thomas More, Edward III, Arden of Faversham, Mucedorus, Double Falsehood and A Yorkshire Tragedy, showing how the plays' contested 'Shakespearean' status has shaped their fortunes. Kirwan's book rethinks the impact of authorial canons on the treatment of anonymous and disputed plays.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52660153254161,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52660154073361,"sku":"NLS9781107479982","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781107479982.jpg?v=1762264617"},{"product_id":"arden-of-faversham-a-critical-reader-book-peter-kirwan-9781350270961","title":"Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the earliest domestic tragedies, \u003ci\u003eArden of Faversham\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This \u003ci\u003eCritical Reader \u003c\/i\u003epresents the first collection of essays specifically focused upon \u003ci\u003eArden of Faversham\u003c\/i\u003e. It highlights the way in which this important play from the early 1590s stands at several different critical intersections. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocused research chapters propose new directions for exploring the play in the light of ecocriticism, genre studies, critical race studies and narratives of dispossession. It also looks forward to \u003ci\u003eArden of Faversham\u003c\/i\u003e’s role and status in a less author-centred critical climate. Chapters explore how this anonymous and canonically marginal play has been approached in the past by scholars and theatre-makers and the frameworks that have offered productive insight into its unique features. The volume includes chapters covering a wide range of critical discourses and resources available for its study, as well as offering practical approaches to the play in the classroom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52684844040465,"sku":"NLS9781350270961","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781350270961.jpg?v=1762323961"},{"product_id":"winter-s-tale-book-peter-kirwan-9781350439290","title":"The Winter's Tale","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn international group of scholars reappraise \u003ci\u003eThe Winter’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e through a series of research essays covering performance history, critical history, and new interpretations\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNavigating the play’s fluctuating genre conventions, onstage spectacle and leaps across time, scholars consider how eco-materiality, radical hospitality, childhood, gender, and critical race studies shape contemporary understandings and staging of a play that defies easy definition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy charting these changing interpretive trends, readers are introduced to a rich body of scholarship which shows how the play can be used to confront the experiences of those marginalized by race, age, gender, and nationality, to place fresh attention on the economic and material structures that define the dramatic plot of the play. As \u003ci\u003eThe Winter’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e’s depictions of patriarchal violence, vulnerability, economic disparity, border crossings and exploitation continue to draw attention, this guide serves as an invaluable resource for scholars, students and audiences alike. Complete with pedagogical tools including resources and strategies for approaching the play in the classroom, this Critical Reader is an essential collection of scholarship on one of Shakespeare’s most audacious experiments.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52799051727121,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52799051759889,"sku":"NGR9781350439290","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781350439290.jpg?v=1782856437"},{"product_id":"shakespeare-in-the-theatre-cheek-by-jowl-book-peter-kirwan-9781474223287","title":"Shakespeare in the Theatre: Cheek by Jowl","description":"\u003cp\u003eCheek by Jowl, founded by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod in 1981, is one of the world’s most critically acclaimed classical theatre companies. Across seventeen productions of Shakespeare (as well as several by his contemporaries and other European dramatists), Cheek by Jowl’s experiments with text, space, light and bodies have produced bold reinventions of canonical and lesser-explored plays. Despite the pre-eminence of the company, its multiple awards and central place in the European repertory, this is the first substantive study of the company’s body of work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book situates Cheek by Jowl’s work within the key institutions and traditions that have shaped the company’s development from low-budget beginnings at the Edinburgh Festival to international celebration, while also focusing specifically on the company’s use of Shakespeare to drive forward its practice. Drawing on the company’s work in English, Russian and French, the book uses key productions as case studies to interrogate the company’s unique style and build an argument for the distinctive insights offered by Cheek by Jowl’s approach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book draws on new interviews with creative and administrative company members from the full span of Cheek by Jowl’s history as well as a full appraisal of the Cheek by Jowl archives, offering the first scholarly overview of the company’s work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52818377441553,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52818377638161,"sku":"GOR014628043","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781474223287.jpg?v=1780652742"},{"product_id":"shakespeare-in-the-theatre-cheek-by-jowl-book-peter-kirwan-9781474223294","title":"Shakespeare in the Theatre: Cheek by Jowl","description":"\u003cp\u003eCheek by Jowl, founded by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod in 1981, is one of the world’s most critically acclaimed classical theatre companies. Across seventeen productions of Shakespeare (as well as several by his contemporaries and other European dramatists), Cheek by Jowl’s experiments with text, space, light and bodies have produced bold reinventions of canonical and lesser-explored plays. Despite the pre-eminence of the company, its multiple awards and central place in the European repertory, this is the first substantive study of the company’s body of work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book situates Cheek by Jowl’s work within the key institutions and traditions that have shaped the company’s development from low-budget beginnings at the Edinburgh Festival to international celebration, while also focusing specifically on the company’s use of Shakespeare to drive forward its practice. Drawing on the company’s work in English, Russian and French, the book uses key productions as case studies to interrogate the company’s unique style and build an argument for the distinctive insights offered by Cheek by Jowl’s approach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book draws on new interviews with creative and administrative company members from the full span of Cheek by Jowl’s history as well as a full appraisal of the Cheek by Jowl archives, offering the first scholarly overview of the company’s work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53730479210769,"sku":"NLS9781474223294","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781474223294.jpg?v=1783044588"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-peter-kirwan.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}