The book examines the distinction between revision and rewriting in Early New English literature, analysing over 50 poem......more

Shakespeare and Loss explores how, in Shakespeare’s late tragedies (Hamlet, King Lear, Timon of Athens, Macbeth, Coriola......more

Shakespeare and Loss explores how, in Shakespeare’s late tragedies (Hamlet, King Lear, Timon of Athens, Macbeth, Coriola......more

Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within thr......more

The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion surveys new and longstanding critical conversations about the role o......more

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Sophie Chiari analyzes how Shakespeare’s plays and poems present the transformation of the early modern natural world th......more

This scholarly guide to Measure for Measure highlights its unique position in the Shakespeare canon by covering its nuan......more

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship draws together leading and emerging scholars of Shakespea......more

Shakespeare in Pakistan offers a comprehensive examination of the appropriation of Shakespearean plays in Pakistan, with......more

Games and Theatre in Shakespeare’s England brings together theories of play and game with theatre and performance to pro......more

Through analysis of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and Cavendish, the author reveals how this reconceptualized selfhood ......more

Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process. The ess......more

On college and university campuses across the United States, scholar-teachers and their students find themselves in cond......more

Bringing together the discrete fields of appropriation and performance studies, this collection explores pivotal interse......more

Local/ Global Shakespeare and Advertising examines the local/ global and rhizomatic phenomenon of Shakespeare as adverti......more

Shakespeare’s Unmuted Women explores women’s speeches in selected plays by Shakespeare, highlighting women’s discerning ......more

This volume offers new critical and performance approaches to Shakespeare’s most well-known comedy of desire, a play tha......more

An examination of the messy, often contradictory processes of poetic production and reception. The volume offers an invi......more

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Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historical......more

’Richard Wilson’s meticulously researched, powerfully argued and brilliantly written account of Shakespeare’s 20th-centu......more

In Over-Measure in Kant, Hegel, and Shakespeare: Putting the Principles Into Play, four Shakespeare plays become the exp......more

Shakespeare and Disability Theory serves as a guide to the intersections of Shakespeare studies and disability studies. ......more

A history of Shakespeare’s play in performance, from John Dryden’s Restoration adaptation to the rediscovery of the play......more

"How Shakespeare became Shakespeare: a riveting tale of London’s first playhouse and the people--actors, writers, builde......more

A sparkling companion for late-night thought: Agnes Repplier s keen mind and wry compassion light up every page of this ......more

What is the "tragic imagination"? And what role does it play in the works of William Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson......more

The first practical guide to exploring Shakespeare and Brecht together with a view to expanding staging and performing p......more

This practical guide uncovers the roots of Brecht’s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare and makes the case for reading t......more

This volume explores the disruptive effects of militarism, war and social unrest in early modern drama. Engaging with Si......more

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics of than......more

Addressing the transition from pre-university to undergraduate Shakespeare studies, this introductory critical guide exa......more

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A provocative mystery of authorship that reshaped English literary history rediscover Edmond Malone s landmark 1782 crit......more

The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing......more

Having filched a little white bundle from under the noses of an apothecary’s apprentice and his maid in London’s Leadenh......more

This book is the accumulation of the many Clues from the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays (as opposed to any edited ve......more

This book considers how Shakespeare’s theatre investigates and reveals "Being-in-the-world". Through the lens of phenome......more

What does queer death have to do with early modern England? This collection interrogates the profoundly queer, strange, ......more

Having performed the role of Cleopatra on numerous occasions, Vanessa Redgrave delivered a lecture at the Oxford Researc......more

I have written a synopsis of 24 Shakespeare plays. The idea is that students can read my synopsis before they tackle the......more

The first in-depth study of the career of Shakespearean ’star’ actor and theatrical impresario, Richard Burbage. This bo......more

"A Life of William Shakespeare" by Sidney Lee is a comprehensive biography of the legendary playwright and poet William ......more

Dost thou yearn to unleash barbed jests like the immortal Shakespeare himself? Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou! --......more

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’These contributors are some of the best, and best-known poets writing today ... The result is a slimly elegant book of ......more

First published in 1972, Drama and Reality is a lucid account of the forces that have shaped modern European theatre, an......more

Investigating how character, time and art manifest and interact in the visual-verbal medium of Shakespeare comics, Svenn......more

This book offers a detailed consideration of the iconic five-volume novel written by Cao Xueqin, translated into English......more

This volume documents the full tradition of criticism of The Merchant of Venice ranging from 1775 to 1939. The Merchant ......more

This volume celebrates the centrality of clowning in Shakespeare’s conception of theatre and explores how he purposefull......more

This collection of essays brings together well-established authorities, offering innovative and ground-breaking discussi......more

Originally commissioned by Exodus 90, the pioneering men’s app, these brief but stirring reflections by acclaimed writer......more

This book presents the first edition of Polish and Latin works by Stefan Javors’kyj (1658-1722), the leading author of U......more

Unlike most academic books on Shakespeare, In The Theater of Love doesn’t assume or require any familiarity with Elizabe......more

Shakespearean Ethics in Extremity addresses forms of ethical experience on the Shakespearean stage. Early modern theater......more

This new examination of Shakespeare’s four Roman tragedies (Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus and Antony and C......more

The idea of toxic masculinity might feel like a very modern, even twenty-first century notion, but similar concerns abou......more

Shakespeare in Tongues interrogates the popular conflation of "the language of Shakespeare" with English by examining th......more

In the modern world, references to Shakespeare frequently mark moments of catastrophe and of the longing for restoring s......more

"This volume offers critical opinions about Twelfth Night across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions with......more

This bookis the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare’s life as depicted on the modern stage and screen. Focusi......more

Shakespeare in the ’Post’Colonies provides a wide-ranging examination of engagements with and adaptations of Shakespeare......more