A dozen essays on various subjects by an outstanding Shakespearean scholar....more
My Cue to Fight is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth examination of how the greatest playwright in the E......more
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This volume argues that, given a Western propensity to identify Shakespeare’s work with "the human", his drama plays a c......more
This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition increases our knowledge of how Twelfth Night was received and......more
This volume reframes the critical conversation about Shakespeare’s histories and national identity by bringing together ......more
Examining the changing reception of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries between 1870 and 1940, this follow-up volume to ......more
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In this decisively innovative approach to Shakespeare s plays through their competitive relation to other choices from L......more
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The chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the aca......more
Deanne Williams offers the very first study of the medieval and early modern girl actor. Whereas previous histories of t......more
Morgan’s study of key texts situating Edmund Spenser and the plantation in Munster in the late 1590s reveals not only a ......more
"Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s four great tragedies, studied and performed around the world. These new volumes in Shake......more
This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Volumes on......more
The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language is the first comprehensive account of Shakespeare’s language to use computat......more
Why does Bassanio compare himself to Jason? What is Hecuba to Hamlet? Is the mechanicals’ staging of the Pyramus and Thi......more
This book provides readers with the tools to unravel the complexities of one of the most difficult sonnet sequences, int......more
This volume interweaves Shakespeare’s wisdom with ancient spiritual practices and the insights of a post-secular age in ......more
Global King Lear provides a kaleidoscopic view of multinational adaptations of King Lear with a focus on productions acr......more
A new account of Shakespearean tragedy as a response to life in an uncertain world In Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, Rhodri L......more
Have you ever stopped and thought about the name of your home country or one you’re travelling to? What it means, where ......more
This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights o......more
This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Volumes on......more
A concise guide to global performances of Shakespeare, combining methodologies of dramaturgy, film and performance studi......more
A concise guide to global performances of Shakespeare, combining methodologies of dramaturgy, film and performance studi......more
Shakespeare Lied is Sky Gilbert’s second rumination on Shakespeare to be published by Guernica Editions. It places ’the ......more
Shakespeare’s Theater of Judgment makes a case for the social and ethical importance of judgment in politics, law, art, ......more
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From their inception, ’low culture’ comics have intersected with the ’high culture’ of Shakespeare. This is the first bo......more
A dazzling portrait of Shakespeare as a young artist, revealing how his rich and complex queer life informed the plays a......more
Co-authored by the resident dramaturg and a long-time scholarly consultant, The Shakespeare Theatre Company chronicles h......more
"This wide-ranging collection reflects on the various motivations that caused the Folio to come into being in 1623, seve......more
Co-authored by the resident dramaturg and a long-time scholarly consultant, The Shakespeare Theatre Company chronicles h......more
In Shakespeare’s Britain rivers were not only a crucial form of travel and important natural resources which sustained c......more
This book deals with Indian Shakespeare adaptations on stage, on screen, in translation, in visual culture and in digita......more
What does it mean for early modern theatre to be ’live’? How have audiences over time experienced a sense of ’liveness’?......more
Featuring case studies, essays, and conversation pieces by scholars and practitioners, this volume explores how Indian c......more
This volume offers a comprehensive array of readings of ’skin’ in Shakespeare’s works, a term that embraces the human an......more
What is (a) play? How do Shakespeare’s plays engage with and represent early modern modes of play - from jests and games......more
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An anthology that reimagines Shakespeare’s works from the perspective of the United States-Mexico Borderlands. For decad......more
An anthology that reimagines Shakespeare’s works from the perspective of the United States-Mexico Borderlands. For decad......more
The book is about the complex dynamics of transmission and transformation of the Italian sources of twelve Shakespearean......more
Margrethe Jolly took her PhD at Brunel University, studying Hamlet alongside its French source and consequently writing ......more
Through analysis of 5 plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield examines what it meant to be a ’stranger’ to English law in th......more
Offering the first book-length study in English on Tsubouchi and Shakespeare, Gallimore offers an overview of the theory......more
This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Volumes on......more
The opening of the first commercial theatre in London in 1579 initiated a pattern of development that radically reshaped......more
Part literary mystery, part an examination of what constitutes fiction versus reality, Ghostwriter is based on the true ......more
’Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?’ Dark and violent, Macbeth is a restless, haunting e......more
’Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.’ Can one life be measured against another? Can a woman’s body be measured ag......more
This analysis of the Stratford Festival examines the full history of one of the largest and oldest dedicated centres for......more
This book examines the work of acclaimed director Tina Packer, founder of Shakespeare & Company, whose ground-breaking a......more
How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And ho......more
The book offers fresh and innovative perspectives on selected plays from diverse genres. It presents a variety of theore......more
New approaches to teaching a familiar work By the time they encounter Romeo and Juliet in the classroom, many students h......more
New approaches to teaching a familiar work By the time they encounter Romeo and Juliet in the classroom, many students h......more
Money, magic and the theatre were powerful forces in early modern England. Money was acquiring an independent, efficacio......more
Courteous Exchanges explores the significant overlap between Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Shakespeare’s plays, sho......more
Shakespeare’s Unmuted Women explores women’s speeches in selected plays by Shakespeare, highlighting women’s discerning ......more
Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War examines the entanglement of Shakespea......more
The Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story of Shakespeare as a family man in Stratford-upon-Avon. Cowen Orl......more
Local/Global Shakespeare and Advertising examines the two-way relationship between Shakespeare and advertising - in the ......more
William Shakespeare has undergone psychological analyses ever since Freud diagnosed Hamlet with an Oedipus complex. But ......more
This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of influe......more
This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of influe......more
Through a metaphorical journey of Shakespeare in traditional Chinese theatre, using three Chinese opera productions of H......more
A valedictory public donation by a celluloid-loving collector includes, unbeknownst to him, the earliest extant feature-......more
Whilst Shakespearean drama provides eloquent calls to war, more often than not these are undercut or outweighed by compe......more
This book shows how early drama traditions were transformed, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships ......more
Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics of than......more
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, more widely known as the First Folio, contains thirty-six o......more
For nearly half a century Anne Lake Prescott has been a force and an inspiration in Renaissance studies. A force, becaus......more
This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Volumes on......more
Shakespeare and the Royal Actor argues that members of the royal family have identified with Shakespearean figures at va......more
A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud In this fresh investigat......more
Four years before the publication of the First Folio, a group of London printers and booksellers attempted to produce a ......more
The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation explores the dynamics of adapted Shakespeare across a range of......more
This study investigates the capacity of Shakespeare’s texts - obviously destined for stage performances - to generate im......more
This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition series increases our knowledge of how Antony and Cleopatra ha......more
Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, has broadened our understanding of the defin......more
Bringing together the discrete fields of appropriation and performance studies, this collection explores pivotal interse......more
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An "extraordinarily brilliant" and "pleasurably naughty" (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship qu......more
The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing......more
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How to Do Things with Dead People studies human contrivances for representing and relating to the dead. Alice Dailey tak......more
What is the "tragic imagination"? And what role does it play in the works of William Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson......more
This engaging study appreciably advances recent critical developments in the way the playwright created his worlds to re......more
A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways. Bookwor......more
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