Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was performed first circa 1607 at the Blackfriars The......more
THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK, OFTEN SHORTENED TO HAMLET, IS A TRAGEDY WRITTEN BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AT AN U......more
A mystery writer, thinking she’s writing an academic mystery about Shakespeare, does a little research...and finds a poe......more
This book’s premise is not only the commonly accepted cultural relativity of economic concepts, but also the observation......more
Like previous works by the authors, Thomas North’s 1555 Travel Journal uses original digital research to analyze Thomas ......more
Contemporaries of English polymath Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) eulogized him as "a muse more choice than the nine muse......more
Contemporaries of English polymath Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) eulogized him as "a muse more choice than the nine muse......more
How are unwarranted dislikes and prejudices portrayed in the works of Shakespeare and to what extent does Shakespeare di......more
Focusing on the crossroads in the early modern period, this book deals with the literature and history of the physical c......more
A selection of Fernando Pessoa’s writings (or those of his heteronyms) on art and poetical theory, originally written in......more
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No Hamlets is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right......more
Shakespeare and Happiness is a study of attitudes to happiness in the early modern period and in Shakespeare’s plays. It......more
This study is the first to investigate how cultural interpretations of "genius" influence, and are reflected in, fiction......more
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The Diva’s Gift traces the far-reaching impact of the first female stars on the playwrights and players of the all-male ......more
Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight w......more
In this study, William C. Carroll analyses a wide range of adaptations and appropriations of Macbeth across different me......more
Charting the early dissemination of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries in the 19th century, this opens up an area of gl......more
Taking the anti-Stratfordian view of the Shakespeare authorship question (SAQ) for granted, these essays delve into vari......more
After many years experience as a teacher and examiner, Judy Darby decided to write the book she wished she could find fo......more
This edited collection of twelve essays from an international range of contemporary Shakespeare scholars explores the su......more
Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment argues that enchantment constitutes a key emotional and intellectual dimension......more
This revised edition of King Richard II: Critical Tradition increases our the play was received and understood by critic......more
First published in 2004, David George’s majestic compendium of criticism relating to Shakespeare’s Coriolanus was recogn......more
This book provides translations of early German versions of Titus Andronicusand The Taming of the Shrew. The introductor......more
This book challenges the status quo of studies in literature and religion by returning to "experience" as a bridge betwe......more
There is no Shakespeare without text. Yet readers often do not realize that the words in the book they hold, like the di......more
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In the middle years of the sixteenth century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the ’tyrant by entrie’ or the usu......more
This new volume in Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition increases our knowledge of how Shakespeare’s plays were received ......more
The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays, whose elements resonate even more profoundly in......more
This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have m......more
This book records the work of a teacher making Shakespeare’s plays accessible to college students, including motor vehic......more
The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The pla......more
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare’s early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedi......more
The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first ......more
Cymbeline, also known as The Tragedies of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set ......more
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare first performed in 1599. Although the ......more
This book explores how the myth of Narcissus, which is at once about self-love and self-destruction, desire and death, b......more
Shakespeare and Montaigne share a grounded, genial sense of the lived reality of human experience, as well as a surprisi......more
Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy is an international collection of fresh digital approaches for teaching Shakespeare. It......more
Shakespeare’s Returning Warriors - and Ours takes its primary inspiration from the contemporary U.S. Post-Traumatic Stre......more
This book is the first comprehensive account of global Shakespeare commemoration in the period between 1916 and 2016. Co......more
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A comprehensive collection of the life and works of a literary great -- William Shakespeare! The beautifully illustrated......more
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A new account of playgoing in Elizabethan England, in which audiences participated as much as performers. What if going ......more
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This book considers early modern and postmodern ideals of health, vigor, ability, beauty, well-being, and happiness, unc......more
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Floating daggers, enchanted handkerchiefs, supernatural storms, and moving statues have tantalized Shakespeare’s readers......more
Dryden at the end of his life was admired, perhaps even beloved, by many in England, and his greatest skill over his lon......more
Shakespeare’s Political Imaginationargues that to better understand Shakespeare’s plays it is essential to look at the h......more
Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage reveals an underexplored archive of Italian, English and German fe......more
In Shakespeare and Science Fiction Sarah Annes Brown investigates why so many science fiction writers have turned to Sha......more
"Hamlet" and other plays by Shakespeare are allegories for the major theories of cosmology extant during the poet’s life......more
A new account of playgoing in Elizabethan England, in which audiences participated as much as performers. What if going ......more
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In a period in which some three hundred crimes were designated as felonies and punishable by death, a consideration of c......more
If asked about which writer they associate with Anglophone literature, most students might come up with William Shakespe......more
Child characters feature more numerously and prominently in the Shakespearean canon than in that of any other early mode......more
Eubanks Winkler and Schoch reveal how - and why - the first generation to stage Shakespeare after Shakespeare’s lifetime......more
A new biography of William Shakespeare that explores his private life in Stratford-upon-Avon, his personal aspirations, ......more
"Essays discuss food and drink in Shakespeare’s plays, reframing questions about cuisine, eating, and meals in early mod......more
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, theologian, literary critic, philosopher, and co-founder of the......more
Created when James I granted royal patronage to the former Chamberlain’s Men in 1603, the King’s Men were the first play......more
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"The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at o......more
Games and Theatre in Shakespeare’s England brings together theories of play and game with theatre and performance to pro......more
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Shakespeare and Terrorism delves into how extremists have responded to Shakespeare - whether they’ve attacked him or bee......more
The Shakespearean World takes a global view of Shakespeare and his works, especially their afterlives. Constantly changi......more
Bringing together current intermedial discourses on Shakespeare, music, and dance with the affective turn in the humanit......more
By examining how female characters speak and act during coming of age, engagement, marriage, and intimacy, Consent in Sh......more
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Philosophers speak of newly accessed ways of knowing reality as epistemological shifts. This book demonstrates how Shake......more
The Merchant of Venice and Othelloare the two Shakespeare plays which serve as touchstones for contemporary understandin......more