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Morgan’s study of key texts situating Edmund Spenser and the plantation in Munster in the late 1590s reveals not only a ......more

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This volume reproduces key critical texts engaging with the play from the past three centuries. During this period criti......more

The concepts of trust and risk provide important insights into the social and cultural life of early modern England but ......more

This book shows that Shakespeare’s dramatization of compassion, far from expressing a sense of universal empathy, stages......more

In this bold, original study Hedrick proposes an early modern ’entertainment value’ revolution, to which Shakespeare con......more

Drawing on interview material, current scholarship and documents from the Ku Na’uka and SPAC archives, this book is the ......more

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typo......more

Investigating an increase in the visibility of Indian adaptations of Shakespeare in film, theatre and fiction between 19......more

Global King Lear provides a kaleidoscopic view of multinational adaptations of King Lear with a focus on productions acr......more

An international group of scholars reappraise The Winter’s Tale through a series of research essays covering performance......more

Why was Shakespeare drawn to Italian sources when writing his plays? How did Italian novellas, plays and ideas from prof......more

Shakespeare’s Hamlet insisted that ’the play’s the thing’; Edmund Husserl’s philosophy advised us to (re)turn our attent......more

This short companion to the Arden Shakespeare Fourth series of editions, is an illustrated introduction to the rich mate......more

This edited collection identifies new relations and intersections between science and religion in sixteenth- and sevente......more

A beautifully giftable anthology of some of Shakespeare’s most evocative verse, illustrated by scores of botanical water......more

Trees abound in Shakespeare’s plays, and in Tree-Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters’ identifica......more

The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare’s texts, as well as in stage pe......more

The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare’s texts, as well as in stage pe......more

The third volume in the anthology, featuring a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands per......more

The third volume in the anthology, featuring a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands per......more

She is more violent than Lady Macbeth, more complex than Ophelia, more strategic than Lear’s daughters. She is the only ......more

This volume posits that clothing in the early modern period was conceived of as the prime interface between the human bo......more

This book provides readers with the tools to unravel the complexities of one of the most difficult sonnet sequences, int......more

This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition series increases our knowledge of how Antony and Cleopatra ha......more

The bloodiest and brashest of Shakespeare’s plays, this revenge tragedy begins with war and ends in mutilation and canni......more

Tyranny, imperialism and political authority define Shakespeare’s enduring dramatic depiction of ruling power and regime......more

The bloodiest and brashest of Shakespeare’s plays, this revenge tragedy begins with war and ends in mutilation and canni......more

What Love’s Labor’s Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and change Shakespeare was a kee......more

Most scholars of early modern English literature consider Cartesian rationalism to be a poor theoretical lens. Though Re......more

This volume interweaves Shakespeare’s wisdom with ancient spiritual practices and the insights of a post-secular age in ......more

Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils of th......more

Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils of th......more

This timely monograph explores the critical, yet often overlooked, role of genre in non-traditional authorship attributi......more

How does Shakespeare remain Shakespeare when every word is changed? In this playful, meditative exploration of translati......more

Kelsey Ridge provides a thorough overview of how we can use trauma theory to understand Shakespeare through its intellec......more

Unfixable Forms explores how theatrical form remakes--and is in turn remade by--early modern disability. Figures describ......more

The Antic Root explores the relations among art, sense-experience, and the conception of the world in the early modern e......more

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe’s most influential carceral institutions, includin......more

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This revised edition investigates first-hand evidence of the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval and Tu......more

Fifty years after its original publication in 1976, this excellent analysis of the psycho-social dimensions of Shakespea......more

This classic study of the Elizabethan sonnet, first published in 1956 and as a second edition in 1965, describes the dev......more

A compelling tour of Shakespeare’s England that makes a powerful contribution to the ’authorship question’. How do we kn......more

This wide-ranging collection reflects on the various motivations that caused the Folio to come into being in 1623, 7 yea......more

A fascinating exploration of the early modern authors who helped to shape Shakespeare’s beloved plays. Shakespeare’s pla......more

How Shakespeare’s exploration of central human questions--about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong--explai......more

A study of how audiences of Shakespeare’s time understood the sensual world of his plays. Could something as seemingly n......more

A study of how audiences of Shakespeare’s time understood the sensual world of his plays. Could something as seemingly n......more

Shakespeare and Identity in a Divided World examines some of the most pressing issues about identity and so-called ident......more

Employing commentary on the play’s main themes, coupled with an editorial apparatus that connects selected primary texts......more

In Shakespeare’s Britain rivers were not only a crucial form of travel and important natural resources which sustained c......more

This collection theorizes the intersections between race, Shakespearean adaptation and pop culture. Chapters take a rang......more

Introduces mirrors as material and metaphorical agents of early modern theatricality whose presence in the playhouse ref......more

The first study of the European Shakespeare Festivals Network (ESFN) during a five-year period of rising nationalism, Br......more

An exploration of displacement and exile in Shakespeare’s plays and our world today. This compelling collection of fourt......more

An exploration of displacement and exile in Shakespeare’s plays and our world today. This compelling collection of fourt......more

This book situates Tilney’s intelligence manual in the emerging genre that developed around intelligence gathering in th......more

Textile Shakespeare argues for the vital presence of the ’textile imagination’ in the works of Shakespeare and his conte......more

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This book explores the crucial role Shakespeare’s play has performed in European culture in the long 20th century. The s......more

Shakespeare’s plays feature events of extreme violence. Investigating the ways in which the original early modern audien......more

Volume 53 of the academic journal devoted to Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama, Culture and Literature, publish......more

How did plays from the popular theatre, written by an author better known as a poet, become the greatest literary monume......more

"A full history of one of the largest and oldest dedicated centres for the performance of Shakespeare in North America, ......more

Boika Sokolova and Kirilka Stavreva’s second edition of the stage history of The Merchant of Venice interweaves into the......more

Shakespeare’s adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare’s plays. Using earl......more

This book writes a performance history of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s most ambiguous play, from 1606 to the pres......more

For nearly half a century Anne Lake Prescott has been a force and an inspiration in Renaissance studies. A force, becaus......more

This engaging study appreciably advances recent critical developments in the way the playwright created his worlds to re......more

In Drama and the Death of God, John Parker argues that the secularity often associated with Shakespeare inspired a varie......more

In Drama and the Death of God, John Parker argues that the secularity often associated with Shakespeare inspired a varie......more

This book explores the nature and wide-ranging impact of the work of Jean-François Ducis (1733-1816), the first adaptor ......more