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

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

With its thirteen essays, spanning different types of Italian ’resources’, from novellas to dramas, scenarios and dialog......more

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

Having a conscience distinguishes humans from the most advanced AI systems. Acting in good conscience, consulting one’s ......more

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

The book focuses on language in colonization, Renaissance poetry and Shakespeare, concentrating on text in context, clos......more

This year publishing its twentieth volume, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakesp......more

Clear mirrors and scripture in English, revolutionary innovations of the Elizabethan age, inspired Shakespeare’s drive t......more

The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton explores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral realm play a vital role i......more

This volume maps Shakespearean virtue in all its plasticity and variety, providing thirty-eight succinct, wide-ranging e......more

Laughter, Power, and the Unconscious presents groundbreaking research on humor’s psychological and sociopolitical aspect......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

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Shakespeare combines literary criticism, performance studies, psychiatric literature, ......more

Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare provides critical analysis of the most important moments of hospitality or its den......more

Consent in Shakespeare’s Classical Mediterranean fills a gap in knowledge about how female-identified, gender-fluid, and......more

African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies, and ......more

Seismic shifts in the theatrical meanings of The Merry Wives of Windsor have taken place across the centuries as Shakesp......more

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

This collection celebrates the opening of the Shakespeare North Playhouse (SNP). After discussion of its genesis and dev......more

Shakespeare Amazes in the Classroom supports the instruction of learners needing to be challenged with content that is c......more

This book explores the notion that the emergent language of contemporary theatre, and more generally of modern culture, ......more

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

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

Dancing Shakespeare is the first history of ballets based on William Shakespeare’s works from the birth of the dramatic ......more

Acting and Directing Shakespeare’s Comedies: Key Lessons outlines a clear, effective process for acting Shakespeare’s co......more

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best intern......more

If misogyny is a systemic problem, then in order to understand its influence on canonical works like Shakespeare’s, thos......more

Shakespeare education is being reimagined around the world. This book delves into the important role of collaborative pr......more

Circuits of disease correspond to previously unconsidered practices of caregiving in early modern English drama in this ......more

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

Unpicking the ecopolitics of Shakespeare’s plays at the Stuart court, Shakespeare Beyond the Green World establishes tha......more

This book surveys English love poetry, primarily, though not exclusively, sonnets and sonnet sequences that show the inf......more

Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation pushes back against two intertwined binaries: the idea that appropriation can onl......more

This volume takes a deep dive into the philosophical hermeneutics of Shakespearean tradition, providing insight into the......more

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

Dostoevsky uses Hamlet to address some of the most important problems in Russian culture in the second half of the 19th ......more

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

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Hailey Bachrach reveals how Shakespeare used female characters in deliberate and consistent ways across his history play......more

This is the first book-length, interdisciplinary study of how Shakespeare has been mobilized in performance at times of ......more

This volume reframes the critical conversation about Shakespeare’s histories and national identity by bringing together ......more

Applied Shakespeare is attracting growing interest from practitioners and academics alike, all keen to understand the wa......more

What does it mean for early modern theatre to be ’live’? How have audiences over time experienced a sense of ’liveness’?......more

’The danger is in the neatness of identifications’, Samuel Beckett famously stated, and, at first glance, no two authors......more

First published in 1991, Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum provides a context for debates about the place of Shakes......more

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

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

In this slim, poetically powerful volume, Piero Boitani develops his earlier work in The Bible and Its Rewritings, focus......more

’This is a timely and valuable study, for the story of Shakespeare in America is inseparable from that of the nation’s c......more

In Inkface, Miles P. Grier traces productions of Shakespeare’s Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolit......more

Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory reconsiders, after 20 years of intense critical and creative activity, the theory and ......more

A study of Shakespeare’s child figures in relation to their own political moment, as well as our own. Politicians are fo......more

Shakespeare and Violence Prevention is a handbook that guides educators through an exploration of Shakespeare’s potentia......more

Provides a clearer understanding and interpretation of characters who suffer from mental and emotional extremities in Sh......more

How can we tune into the ecological dynamics of Shakespeare’s plays? How can we adapt those plays to address current env......more

How can the study of Shakespeare contribute to equipping young people for the challenges of an uncertain future? This bo......more

The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare’s Tragedy is the first book-length study of complaint in Sha......more

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

This book presents an innovative, scientifically grounded interpretation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. It off......more

The degree of Shakespeare’s concern for a "living theatre," capable of perpetually diversifying in order to maintain its......more

Choice is the defining issue of the twenty-first century. As the #MeToo movement extends its legal, social, and politica......more

This updated critical edition includes a completely new introduction which draws on the latest research in theatre histo......more

This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of influe......more

This book explores the supernatural and prophetic elements within Shakespeare’s ten plays of English history: King John,......more

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

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

This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of influe......more

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

The final book in Paul Raffield’s trilogy of books about Shakespeare and the Law, takes the theme of ’theatre of law’ in......more

With its thirteen essays, spanning different types of Italian ’resources’, from novellas to dramas, scenarios and dialog......more

Through a metaphorical journey of Shakespeare in traditional Chinese theatre, using three Chinese opera productions of H......more