Connolly Annaliese - Richard III: A Critical Reader

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides

Series Editors: Andrew Hiscock, University of Wales, Bangor, UK and Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offers practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performative contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Each guide introduces the texts critical and performance history but also provides students with an invaluable insight into the landscape of current scholarly research through a keynote essay on the state of the art and newly commissioned essays of fresh research from different critical perspectives.

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1 Henry IV edited by Stephen Longstaffe

Tis Pity Shes a Whore edited by Lisa Hopkins

Women Beware Women edited by Andrew Hiscock

Volpone edited by Matthew Steggle

The Duchess of Malfi edited by Christina Luckyj

Richard III edited by Annalise Connolly

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The Jew of Malta edited by Robert A Logan

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RICHARD III

A Critical Reader

Edited by

Annaliese Connolly

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CONTENTS

T IMELINE

Introduction A NNALIESE C ONNOLLY

8 Resources for Teaching and Studying Richard III D ANIEL C ADMAN

The drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has remained at the very heart of English curricula internationally and the pedagogic needs surrounding this body of literature have grown increasingly complex as more sophisticated resources become available to scholars, tutors and students. This series aims to offer a clear picture of the critical and performative contexts of a range of chosen texts. In addition, each volume furnishes readers with invaluable insights into the landscape of current scholarly research as well as including new pieces of research by leading critics.

This series is designed to respond to the clearly identified needs of scholars, tutors and students for volumes which will bridge the gap between accounts of previous critical developments and performance history and an acquaintance with new research initiatives related to the chosen plays. Thus, our ambition is to offer innovative and challenging guides which will provide practical, accessible and thought-provoking analyses of Early Modern Drama. Each volume is organized according to a progressive reading strategy involving introductory discussion, critical review and cutting-edge scholarly debate. It has been an enormous pleasure to work with so many dedicated scholars of Early Modern Drama and we are sure that this series will encourage to you read 400-year-old playtexts with fresh eyes.

Andrew Hiscock and Lisa Hopkins

Daniel Cadman is an Associate Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University where he was awarded a PhD for a study on closet drama which he is currently developing as a monograph. He has published work on William Shakespeare, Fulke Greville and Samuel Daniel and has written for Renaissance Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, and Notes and Queries. He also writes the section on Shakespeares problem plays for The Years Work in English Studies and is a contributor to the Lost Plays Database.

Annaliese Connolly is Senior Lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University. Recent publications include Guy of Warwick, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Elizabethan Repertory in Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds, Bernadette Andrea and Linda McJannet (eds), (Palgrave, 2011), the entry for George Peele in The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature (Blackwell, 2011) and a chapter on the performance history of Middletons Women Beware Women in Middleton: Women Beware Women (Continuum, 2011). Her current project is a monograph on George Peele.

Adele Lee is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Greenwich, London. Her research interests focus on travel writing and the postmodern appropriation of Shakespeare, and she has published articles in Shakespeare Bulletin, Early Modern Literary Studies and Quidditas, among others. Currently, she is working on a book-length study, for Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, of Englands encounter with the Far East in both the early modern and postmodern periods, in addition to co-editing a special feature on Belfast for CITY Journal (Routledge).

Rebecca Lemon is an Associate Professor in the department of English at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeares England (2006), as well as co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature (2009), and associate editor of The Blackwell Encyclopedia to Renaissance Literature (2012). The recipient of a Mellon fellowship through the American Council of Learned Societies, a Stanford Humanities Center fellowship and a Francis Bacon Foundation fellowship at the Huntington Library, her essays on Shakespeare, early modern political philosophy and law have appeared in numerous journals and edited collections.

Nina Levine is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of Womens Matters: Politics, Gender, and Nation in Shakespeares Early Histories (1998), editor of the Evans Shakespeare Richard III (2012), and co-editor with David Lee Miller of the essay collection A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr. and the Arts of Interpretation (2009). Her publications on Shakespeares history plays also include essays in Shakespeare Quarterly, Renaissance Drama and Shakespeare Studies.

Peter J. Smith is Reader in Renaissance Literature at Nottingham Trent University. His publications include Social Shakespeare: Aspects of Renaissance Dramaturgy and Contemporary Society and Hamlet: Theory in Practice. His most recent book is Between Two Stools: Scatology and its Representations in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift.