{"title":"Books by Rory Loughnane","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"pericles-1","title":"Pericles","description":"'Born in a tempest when my mother died! This world to me is as a lasting storm.'Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a tale of adventure, fateful journeys, true love, and marvels. The play recycles a millennia-old story of a prince who sails around a mythic Mediterranean, starts a family, loses his wife and daughter, and is miraculously reunited with them years later. It packs in exciting incidents, from shipwreck to storms to murder, and a colourful cast of characters including knights, assassins, pirates, brothelkeepers, and the goddess of chastity. Written by Shakespeare and George Wilkins, Pericles capitalises on the seventeenth-century vogue for tragicomic romance and it proved to be a hit on the stage and in print. In the twenty-first century, Pericles has again surged in popularity. Inspiring novels by bestselling writers and theatrical adaptations around the globe, this ancient story is used to explore contemporary concerns such as displacement, the treatment of women, the abuse of authority, and the persistence of hope in the face of tragedy. The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems. Using the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition, these volumes offer readers the latest thinking on the authentic texts (collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work) alongside innovative introductions from leading scholars. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive set of critical apparatus to give readers the best resources to help understand and enjoy Shakespeare's work.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57495563960693,"sku":"9780192889782","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780192889782.jpg?v=1786618236"},{"product_id":"shakespeare-at-thirty","title":"Shakespeare at Thirty","description":"A revelatory portrait of Shakespeare’s life before he achieved fameShakespeare at Thirty offers an original account of Shakespeare’s early career by returning to a moment before his fame was assured: the spring of 1594, when he turned thirty amid plague closures, censorship, social upheaval, financial insecurity, and professional uncertainty. Instead of reading Shakespeare’s beginnings through the lens of later achievement, Rory Loughnane reconstructs the precarious world in which a young actor-writer learned his craft and forged a path through a rapidly developing theatre scene.   Drawing on recent advances in textual scholarship, biography, and theatre history, the book sets Shakespeare’s early plays and poems within the collaborative literary networks and volatile theatre world of late-Elizabethan London. It examines the forms of co-authorship underlying many of Shakespeare’s early works; the pressures that plague, censorship, and the authorities put on those working in the theatre; the economics of patronage; and the emerging commercial structures that enabled the repertory system. Above all, it describes a young author who was talented but far from secure, shaped by peers, circumstance, and contingency as much as by innate genius.   By offering a rare biographical and critical portrait of the dramatist before he became a cultural icon, Shakespeare at Thirty restores uncertainty to Shakespeare’s twenties, revealing how he had to grapple with questions of direction, opportunity, and ambition that confront all young artists, and challenging the narratives of inevitability that dominate many Shakespeare biographies. The result sheds new light on his early career—and reminds us that Shakespeare, too, had to become himself.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499129446773,"sku":"9780691233277","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780691233277.jpg?v=1786694441"},{"product_id":"the-ends-of-shakespeare","title":"The Ends of Shakespeare","description":"The Ends of Shakespeare investigates the provenance and transmission of the play-texts of Shakespeare we read, analyse, perform, and teach today. Divided into two parts, the book first assesses the evidence for the production, circulation, and publication of Shakespeare's works in his own lifetime, and, by focusing on the latter half of the poet-dramatist's career, offers an original account of the factors affecting the demand for, and supply of, Shakespeare's creative labour during this period. The second part offers the first study of the other 'lost years' in Shakespeare studies: the ten years that passed between Shakespeare's retirement from writing plays, c. 1613–14, and the publication of the First Folio collection in late 1623 that preserved so many of his plays. This part is ordered chronologically, with the study tracing and tracking what happens to Shakespeare's scripts from 1613\/14 to late 1623 and situating such activities in the context of an evolving theatrical scene left behind in Shakespeare's wake. The Ends of Shakespeare seeks to reassess, in a comprehensive way, the versions of Shakespeare's plays preserved through print by analysing the contexts and conditions in which such acts of preservation occurred. More broadly, the book aims to shift how readers of Shakespeare think about issues related to textual authenticity, authority, and the formation of the Shakespearean canon.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499244265845,"sku":"9780198992561","price":141.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-rory-loughnane.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}