Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

An international collection of the traditional tales that inspired some of Shakespeare's greatest playsShakespeare knew a good story when he heard ...

King Lear has ruled for many years. As age overtakes him, he divides his kingdom amongst his children. Misjudging their loyalty, he soon finds hims...

Charting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this book explores how recognition of the dramatic person is involved in ...

From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeares imag...

Give me the daggers and Ill pin the blame/ On Duncans grooms who both are also slain. /A little water clears us of this deed /Though a large scotch...

Cease I say, cantankerous old fools /Thy deeds hath made our streets a no go zone /No more shall Montagues and Capulets /Enact their West Side Stor...

This book is for teachers who want to heighten the intellectual impact of their courses by using their classrooms as a creative space for social fo...

Winner of the 2016 Shakespeare's Globe Book AwardThe first comprehensive study of Shakespeares storms. Whether the apocalyptic storm of King Lear o...

Winner of the 2016 Shakespeare's Globe Book AwardWhether the apocalyptic storm of King Lear or the fleeting thunder imagery of Hamlet, the shipwrec...

The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres. Its approach is both scholarly ...

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The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents a feature of special importance in the case of J...

This entertaining collection gathers together William Shakespeare's wisest and wittiest quotations. Quotable Shakespeare proves that brevity is the...

It is January 1719 and Daniel Defoe, almost sixty, sits at a table, writing. He is troubled with gout and debt, but for now is preoccupied with a y...

What has been the appeal of Anne Hathaway, both globally and temporally, over the past four hundred years? Why does she continue to be reinterprete...

Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (15906) occupied an important place in eighteenth-century culture. Spenser influenced almost every maj...

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