Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama – Call For Proposals

Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama

Series Editors:

  • Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University
  • Tanya Pollard is Professor of English at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, of the City University of New York

Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama offers fresh approaches to the plays of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, or studies that put Shakespeare in dialogue with other playwrights of the period. The series does not seek to privilege any particular theoretical position but accommodates a range of new perspectives on how these plays work and why they still matter. Above all the series makes available new writing, including from emerging scholars, which is energised by the insights produced by recent editorial work on the plays and by enquiries and experiments into how they can work on the stage and what the effects of original performance conditions might be.

Volumes will be of interest to scholars working on any aspect of early modern drama and Shakespeare as well as to postgraduates and advanced undergraduates.

Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama:

  • provides new insights into the important and under-studied plays of Shakespeare’s contemporaries
  • showcases new approaches to Shakespeare’s contemporaries, including performance studies, textual studies, and studies of collaborative writing conditions
  • builds on the discoveries and textual work of recent scholarly editions and work on collaboration
  • offers new perspectives on Shakespeare by situating him within the work of his contemporaries
  • capitalizes on the energy and insights of new stagings of the plays and, new experiments into original staging conditions

Series Advisors:

  • Farah Karim-Cooper, Head of Courses & Research and chair of the Architectural Research Group, Shakespeare’s Globe, London, UK
  • Holger Schott Syme, Associate Professor of English, Chair, Department of English and Drama, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada
  • R. S. (Bob) White, Winthrop Professor of English, The University of Western Australia and Chief Investigator, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

To find out more or to submit a proposal please contact the Publisher, Margaret Bartley: margaret.bartley@blomsbury.com