This new edition of Macbeth includes helpful annotations, unique illustrations, and a commentary on the birds hidden in ......more

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

How to Do Things with Dead People studies human contrivances for representing and relating to the dead. Alice Dailey tak......more

Literature’s Critique, Subversion, and Transformation of Justice explores two of the fundamental institutions in human e......more

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

A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways....more

Romeo and Juliet is the most produced, translated and re-mixed of all of Shakespeare’s plays. This volume takes up the i......more

Shakespeare and baseball are monuments of high and popular culture: Shakespeare is the most widely read and staged playw......more

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

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

This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Volumes on......more

Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation explores how Shakespeare responded in drama to the historical trauma of the ......more

The persona of Edward de Vere represents a contrast to the canonical, Stratfordian image of Shakespeare. His adulterous ......more

Shakespeare/ Space explores new approaches to the enactment of ’space’ in and through Shakespeare’s plays, as well as to......more

Diverging from critical paths that have focused on nostalgia as a memorializing practice or on Stuart nostalgia for Eliz......more

Shakespeare / Naturesets new agendas for the study of nature in Shakespeare’s work. Offering a rich exploration of the i......more

How can theatre and Shakespearean performance be used with different communities to assist personal growth and developme......more

"This lively contemporary translation of Shakespeare’s sexiest play brings the political intrigue and historical storyte......more

This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Volumes on......more

How come Shakespeare keeps challenging and fascinating us? Why do we keep watching his plays and reading his poetry? May......more

Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface uses the concept of the ’surface’ to examine the relationship between contemporary......more

Exploring plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Mourning Men in Shakespeare’s England argues that early modern pl......more

Crossing the boundaries between literature, philosophy and theology, Shakespeare and the Grace of Words pioneers a readi......more

Shakespeare’s Law is a critical overview of law and legal issues within the life, career, and works of William Shakespea......more

Shakespearean Spaces in Australian Literary Adaptations for Children and Young Adults offers a comprehensive examination......more

Women and Indian Shakespearesexplores the multiple ways in which women are, and have been, engaged with Shakespeare in I......more

This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Volumes on......more

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

Embark on a scholarly journey through the intricate layers of William Shakespeare’s "Macbeth," often overshadowed by its......more

This book sheds light on the reckoning and judgement of conscience by demonstrating how these concepts are explored in E......more

The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare’s World explores Shakespeare’s complex art of insults and shows how the playwright......more

The twentieth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook focuses on Pericles, Prince of Tyre, a play long neglec......more

Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory posits that we have today forgotten a cultural icon that helped to bring about the Rena......more

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of......more

How the study of Shakespeare’s legacy, specifically in film and television, can radically challenge what we consider to ......more

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

This volume adds a new dimension to authorship studies by linking the editorial tradition to the transformative receptio......more

Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London, 1586-1592, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throug......more

This book makes connections between the five Shakespeare plays most frequently taught in US high schools and the essenti......more

This book makes connections between the five Shakespeare plays most frequently taught in US high schools and the essenti......more

One of Italy’s best-known contemporary philosophers and leftists offers a literature-informed take on our contemporary p......more

The Shakespeare Authorship Question has been the subject of heated debate for generations. This concise introduction to ......more

The Shakespeare Authorship Question has been the subject of heated debate for generations. This concise introduction to ......more

Inspired by ongoing movements for social justice, equality, accountability, and truth, the scholars in this volume resit......more

Shakespeare in Tehran is a personal history of Iran through the eyes of an award-winning Iranian American artist....more

Shakespeare in Tehran is a personal history of Iran through the eyes of an award-winning Iranian American artist....more

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ’ where love, magic, and mischief intertwine under the moonlit forest canopy. Shakespeare’s t......more

Afterlives of Endor offers an analysis of the way early modern English literature addressed the period’s anxieties about......more

Afterlives of Endor offers an analysis of the way early modern English literature addressed the period’s anxieties about......more

Focusing on the crossroads in the early modern period, this book deals with the literature and history of the physical c......more

Explore Shakespeare’s comedic genius in ’Greatest Comedies of Shakespeare.’ This collection features five of his most be......more

A challenging re-appraisal of the ways in which we have conceived of ’source’ study in relation to Shakespeare. By combi......more

The phrase ’Jus Uncommon’ summarizes England’s claim to independence from Europe, a claim supported by its unique legal ......more

What Shakespeare’s plays can teach us about modern-day politics William Shakespeare understood power: what it is, how it......more

What does the keyword "continence" in Love’s Labor’s Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What......more

How are unwarranted dislikes and prejudices portrayed in the works of Shakespeare and to what extent does Shakespeare di......more

Mindreading is the human ability to look at a person or a literary character and contemplate what that person is thinkin......more

Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism aims to articulate the reception of Shakespeare by the 19th-century Indian intelligen......more

This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Volumes on......more

It is widely acknowledged that the hit franchise Game of Thrones is based on the Wars of the Roses, a bloody fifteenth-c......more

Shakespeare and Happiness is a study of attitudes to happiness in the early modern period and in Shakespeare’s plays. It......more

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This book presents original material which indicates that Aemilia Lanyer - female writer, feminist, and Shakespeare cont......more

This book’s premise is not only the commonly accepted cultural relativity of economic concepts, but also the observation......more

This book explores how the myth of Narcissus, which is at once about self-love and self-destruction, desire and death, b......more

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Ovid, William Shakespeare and John Donne are among the most prominent names within the European literary canon. Ovid was......more

Ovid, William Shakespeare and John Donne are among the most prominent names within the European literary canon. Ovid was......more

This collection of essays explores how the Shakespearean drama enacts ancient virtues and conceptualises new ones in com......more

Shakespeare had an ear and hand that was able to capture our everyday thoughts and emotions, pin them to a page, and exp......more

Following the two world wars of the twentieth century, governments decided to dispose of unwanted chemical weapons in th......more

This book challenges the status quo of studies in literature and religion by returning to "experience" as a bridge betwe......more

Charting the early dissemination of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries in the 19th century, this opens up an area of gl......more

This open access book provides translations of early German versions of Titus Andronicus and The Taming of the Shrew. Th......more