This book explores the life of William Shakespeare and his contribution to the dramatic arts. It includes historical con......more

J. Mort’s insightful analysis of Shakespeare’s sonnets and other poems sheds new light on the Bard’s inner life and crea......more

Durning-Lawrence presents a detailed analysis of the evidence that suggests that Francis Bacon wrote the works of Willia......more

Richard Grant White was one of the foremost Shakespeare scholars of the nineteenth century, and his magnum opus remains ......more

This scholarly work delves into the character of Othello, one of Shakespeare’s most complex and controversial figures. T......more

In a period in which some three hundred crimes were designated as felonies and punishable by death, a consideration of c......more

Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage reveals an underexplored archive of Italian, English and German fe......more

It has been over two decades since the publication of the last major edited collection focused on psychoanalysis and ear......more

Between 1599 and 1601, no fewer than five anthologies appeared in print with extracts from Shakespeare’s works. Some fea......more

This is the book I wanted and needed when I started teaching. This book will change how you see Shakespeare. This book h......more

Contemporary performance is a particularly stimulating area for the study of how Shakespeare is produced and received in......more

Shakespeare’s Political Imagination argues that to better understand Shakespeare’s plays it is essential to look at the ......more

Sidney Homan defines a pivotal line as "a moment in the script that serves as a pathway into the larger play ... a magne......more

Wish’st thou to talk’st trash like the great bard, Shakespeare? A pox on your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharit......more

The collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital shaming. Violence against women. Sexual bullying. Racial slurs a......more

We share with Shakespeare, it seems, the assumption that to be human is to be an interpreter of oneself, others and the ......more

The enduring cultural legacy of Shakespeare’s Juliet Capulet -- a history "as vital and provocative as the character her......more

Dramatic performances at the universities in early modern England have usually been regarded as insular events, complete......more

For its eighteenth volume The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies, add......more

This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture b......more

Shakespeare’s plays have a long and varied performance history. The relevance of his plays in literary studies cannot be......more

This collection explores the consequences of accentism in the Shakespeare industry across languages and cultures, past a......more

This book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe appropriate supernatural devices like prophecies, dreams, beliefs, and div......more

This book brings together research on Shakespeare, biosemiotics, ecocriticism, epigenetics and actor network theory as i......more

Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet offers a unique and highly innovative transdisciplinary discussion of ’unspeaka......more

The Shakespeare Multiverse: Fandom as Literary Praxis argues that fandom offers new models for a twenty-first century re......more

Publishing its nineteenth volume, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare stud......more

This book argues the idea that Shakespeare was deeply engaged with other poets and with pursuing a career as a poet, and......more

This set contains the volumes: 1, 2, 3a, and 3b Frederik Theodor Visser’s An Historical Syntax of the English Language, ......more

Beginning with how the signifier ’will’ operates in Shakespearean contexts, this book, unlike other studies, deals fully......more

This volume captures the best of the Shakespearean comedy universe, which is full with funny misunderstandings, deceptio......more

This volume captures the best of the Shakespearean comedy universe, which is full with funny misunderstandings, deceptio......more

Eubanks Winkler and Schoch reveal how - and why - the first generation to stage Shakespeare after Shakespeare’s lifetime......more

An "extraordinarily brilliant" and "pleasurably naughty" (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship qu......more

A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Sh......more

E. Nesbit’s book "Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare" is a compilation of stories that simplifies and retells some of Wi......more

This engaging and fresh biography begins by examining how Shakespeare’s life turns into myth so comfortably as to seduce......more

"This engaging and fresh biography begins by examining how Shakespeare’s life turns into myth so comfortably as to seduc......more

bCelebrating the 400th Anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio/b This is the biography of a book: th......more

Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts on te......more

The First Folio, published in 1623 by Shakespeare’s colleagues, was the first complete and faithful publication of plays......more

Shakespeare’s comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost has perplexed scholars and theatergoers for over 400 years due to its linguist......more

"Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays" is a collection of essays written by the English literary critic and essayist, Willi......more

This volume captures the diverse ways in which Shakespeare interacts with educational theory and practice. It explores t......more

Presents literary criticism on the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, i......more

The Merchant of Venice and Othello are the two Shakespeare plays which serve as touchstones for contemporary understandi......more

"This anthology brings a wide range of Borderlands Shakespeare plays together for the first time in a multi-volume schol......more

This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a ra......more

Drawing on both historical analysis and theories from the modern affective sciences, Shakespeare and Disgust argues that......more

The Eco-Self in Early Modern English Literature tracks an important shift in early modern conceptions of selfhood, argui......more

Drawing inspiration from Robert Greene’s deathbed attack on Shakespeare as "an upstart crow, beautified with our feather......more

Presents literary criticism on the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, i......more

Ever since Timon of Athens shunned his fellow-countrymen and went to live out in the wilderness, the misanthrope has pro......more

Featuring case studies, essays, and conversation pieces by scholars and practitioners, this volume explores how Indian c......more

This book contains a detailed introduction to its subject. Part One presents relevant ideas about openings in rhetorical......more

Theatre has a remarkable capacity: it touches from a distance. The audience is affected, despite their physical separati......more

The Life of King Henry the Fifth, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken prec......more

The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After offers a series of sophisticated and powerful readings of tragicomedy......more

Originally published in 1926, this title was edited from a series of lectures the author gave to raise money for her the......more

What is it that makes Shakespeare’s problem plays problematic? Many critics have sought for the underlying vision or mes......more

’What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet.’ So says Juliet in the balcony scen......more

Returning to Shakespeare addresses two broad areas of Shakespeare criticism: the unity of form and meaning, and the hist......more

Conflict is at the heart of much of Shakespeare’s drama. Frequently there is an overt setting of violence, as in Macbeth......more

In the course of some research into the musical element in English poetry, Dr Wilson read the work of the Elizabethan so......more

Originally published in 1989, this book focuses on the handling of the relationship between the onstage world and the of......more

The ’infinite variety’ of Shakespeare’s Roman plays is reflected in the diversity of critical commentary to which they h......more

Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes successively influenced by such classic works as A. C. ......more

If it is not generally known that the foundations of twentieth-century criticism of Shakespeare’s imagery were laid over......more

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This exciting collection of original essays critically assesses the significance of locality in Shakespearean plays. Con......more

Shakespeare and Latinidad is a collection of scholarly and practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that speci......more

Presents literary criticism on the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, i......more

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English and ......more

Aimed at A-level students and the top-end of GCSE, this new, innovative critical guide to Shakespeare’s great tragedy ’O......more