Richard III: Arden Performance Edition

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Richard III is one of Shakespeare's enduring villains as the troubled and troubling figure at the heart of this popular succession drama. Traversing the familiar terrain of scheming plots, proposals, betrayals and kingly power, this edition is presented in an easy to read format with notes for performance and rehearsal by directors and actors. It is edited by academic and director, Abigail Rokison-Woodall and the leading Shakespearean actor, Sir Simon Russell Beale. Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students. Designed to be used and to be useful, each edition has plenty of space for personal annotations and the well-spaced text is easy to read and to navigate. Each edition offers: - Short, clear definitions of words - Information about key textual variants - Notes on pronunciation of difficult names and unfamiliar words - An easy to read layout with space to write your own notes - A short introduction to the play

Author Bio

Abigail Rokison-Woodall is Deputy Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. Her first monograph, Shakespearean Verse Speaking won the Shakespeares Globe first book award. As well as writing a number of journal articles and chapters on Shakespeare and theatre, she has also published Shakespeare for Young People, Shakespeare in the Theatre: Nicholas Hytner and As You Like It: Language and Writing. She also works on the RSC's Signing Shakespeare, a project which has produced a series of resources and films for teaching Shakespeares Macbeth to deaf children. Sir Simon Russell Beale is the leading Shakespearean actor of his generation, having played King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Malvolio, Timon of Athens, Benedick, Falstaff, Prospero and Richard II in film and television over more than thirty years.