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Finding Shakespeare's New Place(1st Edition)
An archaeological biography
by Kevin Colls, Professor William Mitchell, Paul Edmonson, Paul Edmondson, William Mitchell
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2016 by Manchester University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-0649-0, ISBN: 1-5261-0649-3

"This ground-breaking book provides an abundance of fresh insights into Shakespeare's life in relation to his lost family home, New Place. The findings of a major archaeological excavation encourage us to think again about what New Place meant to Shakespeare and, in so doing, challenge some of the long-held assumptions of Shakespearian biography. New Place was the largest house in the borough and the only one with a courtyard. Shakespear ..."






The Winter's Tale(1st Edition)
by William Shakespeare, Russ Mcdonald, Paul Edmondson
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2015 by Penguin Classics
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-139656-9, ISBN: 0-14-139656-3

"Though sometimes classified as a 'problem play' for its mix of turbulent emotional and light-hearted comedy, William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is a timeless study of jealousy and desire. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Ernest Schanzer with an introduction by Russ McDonald. 'You may as well Forbid the sea for to obey the moon As or by oath remove or counsel shake The fabric of his folly.' Leontes, the jealous King of ..."






The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare, Randall Martin, Paul Edmondson
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Penguin Press
International Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-139628-6, ISBN: 0-14-139628-8

"A farcical comedy of mistaken identity and outrageous trickery, William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors is edited by Stanley Wells with an introduction by Randall Martin in Penguin Shakespeare. 'We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do, Wives may be merry, and yet honest too' Two sets of identical twins - Dromio and Antipholus of Syracuse, and their brothers Dromio and Antipholus of Ephesus - having been separated at sea as chil ..."






Three Renaissance Usury Plays
The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl (Revels Plays Companions Library)
by Lloyd Edward Kermode, Robert Wilson, William Haughton, Robert Tailor, Paul Edmondson, Martin White
Hardcover, 380 Pages, Published 2009 by Manchester University Press
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-7262-8, ISBN: 0-7190-7262-X

"This book provides for the first time modern-spelling, fully annotated editions of three important Elizabeth and Jacobean 'usury plays' - The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl. The edition includes an extensive scholarly introduction to the attitudes toward money-lending in early modern England, and to the authors, texts and historical contexts of this drama. The plays included in this edition ..."






New Penguin Shakespeare Loves Labours Lost(Updated)
by William Shakespeare, John Kerrigan, Dr. Nicholas Walton, Nicholas Walton, Paul Edmondson
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2005 by Penguin Uk
International Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-102055-6, ISBN: 0-14-102055-5

"William Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labours Lost is edited with an introduction by John Kerrigan in Penguin Shakespeare. 'What fool is not so wise To lose an oath to win a paradise?' Ferdinand, King of Navarre and his lords Berowne, Dumaine, and Longaville agree to form an austere academy, taking a solemn to have no contact with women for three years. But when the Princess of neighbouring France arrives with her female attendants, the ..."






Richard II
by William Shakespeare, Paul Edmondson
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2015 by Penguin Classics
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-139664-4, ISBN: 0-14-139664-4

"This is the first part of the 'Henriad', continued with the two parts of Henry IV and concluded by Henry V. William Shakespeare's Richard II is a history play dramatizing the rebellion of Henry Bolingbroke, that would eventually see him made King of England. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Stanley Wells with an introduction by Paul Edmondson. 'Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed k ..."






Penguin Classics Richard Ii
(Penguin Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare, Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2008 by Penguin Classic
International Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-101663-4, ISBN: 0-14-101663-9

"The first part of the 'Henriad', continued with the two parts of Henry IV and concluded by Henry V¸ William Shakespeare's Richard II is a history play dramatizing the rebellion of Henry Bolingbroke, that would eventually see him made King of England. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Stanley Wells with an introduction by Paul Edmondson. 'Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king' ..."






William Shakespeare
(Usborne Young Reading Series)
by Rosie Dickins, Christa Unzner, Paul Edmondson
Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2008 by Usborne Pub Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-7945-2096-0, ISBN: 0-7945-2096-0

"William dreams of acting and writing plays. This ambition takes him from the quiet country town of Stratford to the great playhouses of London, where his talent takes the city by storm...The life of Britain's most famous playwright told for children ready to tackle longer and more complex books."






Three Renaissance Travel Plays(Updated)
The Travels of Three English Brothers by John Day, William Rowley and George Wilkins; The Sea Voyage by John Fletcher ... Brome (The Revels Plays Companion Library)
by Anthony Parr, Tony Parr, Paul Edmondson, Martin White, Thomas Nelson
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2000 by Manchester University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-5800-4, ISBN: 0-7190-5800-7

"This volume brings together three little-known plays that convey vividly the fascination in early seventeenth-century England with travel and exploration.. Three dramas of wandering and adventure which explore the great diversity of responses in the period to the lures of tourism and colonial expansion and to challenges posed by the encounter with exotic places and peoples.. Intellectually distinguished edition now available in paperbac ..."






John Hall, Master of Physicke(1st Edition)
A casebook from Shakespeare's Stratford
by Greg Wells, Paul Edmondson
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2020 by Manchester University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-3453-0, ISBN: 1-5261-3453-5

"This is the first complete edition and English translation of John Hall's Little Book of Cures, a fascinating medical casebook composed in Latin around 16345. John Hall (15751635) was Shakespeare's son-in-law (Hall married Susanna Shakespeare in 1607), and based his medical practice in Stratford-upon-Avon. Readers have never before had access to a complete English translation of John Hall's casebook, which contains fascinating details a ..."






Shakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives
by Paul Franssen, Paul Edmondson
110 Pages, Published 2020 by Berghahn Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78920-689-0, ISBN: 1-78920-689-8

"In his 1998 biography Shakespeare: A Life, Park Honan vows to avoid '[i] maginative reconstructions and elaborate psychological theories' (ix), focusing instead on illustrating the 'Tudor social milieu' (xi) alongside 'the complex evolution in ..."






Shakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives
(Shakespeare &, 6)
by Paul Franssen, Paul Edmondson
Paperback, 110 Pages, Published 2020 by Berghahn Books 2020-04
ISBN-13: 978-1-78920-688-3, ISBN: 1-78920-688-X

"Shakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives explores the relationship between fiction and non-fiction within Shakespeare’s biography, across a range of subjects including feminism, class politics, wartime propaganda, children’s fiction, ..."






Shakespeare's Sonnets
by Paul Edmondson, Stanley W. Wells
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-155509-1, ISBN: 0-19-155509-6






Shakespeare's Creative Legacies
Artists, Writers, Performers, Readers
by Peter Holbrook, Paul Edmondson
200 Pages, Published 2016 by Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-4742-3450-4, ISBN: 1-4742-3450-X

"Introduction: Great. Creating. Shakespeare. Paul. Edmondson. and. Peter. Holbrook. The art itself is nature. THE WINTER'S TALE, 4.4.97 Four hundred years on from the beginning of one of the strongest of all artistic legacies, we – artists, writers, performers and readers – continue to create and recreate Shakespeare. Why? Some explanations are obvious: the sheer unmatched eloquence of the writing; the cultural prestige of the works ..."






1616
Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China
by Tian Yuan Tan, Paul Edmondson, Shih-Pe Wang
352 Pages, Published 2016 by Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-8343-7, ISBN: 1-4725-8343-4

"... juan xia 卷下). For the aria, see Wang Shifu, Xixiangji 1.2 (in this essay, I use the book number before the period and act number after the period), 'Wu sha' ( fifth from coda), photographic reproduction of the 1498 edition (Shijiazhuang: Hebei jiaoyu chubanshe, 2006), 47a. ... (eds and trans), The Story of the Western Wing (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), p. 134. ... Nine in the fifth place refers to the fifth p ..."






1616
Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China
by Tian Yuan Tan, Paul Edmondson, Shih-Pe Wang
352 Pages, Published 2016 by Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-8344-4, ISBN: 1-4725-8344-2

"... foreign merchants were allowed to reside for six months a year but forbidden to learn Chinese. For the first translation of a Chinese play we have to wait until 1735, when the French translation of Ji Junxiang's (fl. late thirteenth century) Zhaoshi gu'er (The Orphan of Zhao) was published by the French Jesuit missionary Joseph Henri Marie de Prémare (1666–1736) as L'Orphelin de la maison Tchao, Tragédie chinoise in Du Halde's ..."






Pap with an Hatchet by John Lyly
An annotated, modern-spelling edition (Revels Plays Companion Library MUP)
by Leah Scragg, John Lyly, Paul Edmondson, Martin White
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2015 by Manchester University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-8738-7, ISBN: 0-7190-8738-4

"The first fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of Lyly's Pap with an Hatchet, this volume in the Revels Plays Companion Library series opens a window on the most neglected item in the Lylian canon. A response to a series of late sixteenth-century anti-episcopalian pamphlets issued under the pseudonym "Martin Marprelate", Pap with an Hatchet seeks to beat Martin at his own game, employing all the devices deployed in the tracts to der ..."






The Shakespeare Circle
An Alternative Biography
by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells
Published 2015 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-316-40462-1, ISBN: 1-316-40462-5

"introduction. paul. edmondson. and. stanley. wells. g. Imagination is needed if we are to bring the information we have about another human being to life. When the subject is Shakespeare, although we may continually lament that the facts we most desire do not exist, we may decide to broaden the scope of how to use what is available the better to imagine what his life was like. Biographers of Shakespeare normally and understandably ..."






Shakespeare
Ideas in Profile
by Paul Edmondson
186 Pages, Published 2015 by Profile Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-103-7, ISBN: 1-78283-103-7

"Criticism Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells, eds, The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2001): an essential A–Z of Shakespeare Studies. Margreta de Grazia and Stanley Wells, eds, The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (2010): the latest iteration of a volume of essays about contemporary Shakespearian studies. Ewan Fernie and Simon Palfrey, eds, Shakespeare Now! (from 2010): a series of fresh, experimental and original approaches. ..."






Shakespeare
Ideas in Profile
by Paul Edmondson
186 Pages, Published 2015 by Profile Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-136-5, ISBN: 1-78283-136-3

"In this lively and authoritative introduction, Paul Edmondson presents Shakespeare afresh as a dramatist and poet, and encourages us to take ownership of the works for ourselves as words to be spoken as well as discussed."



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