Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

William Shakespeares lifetime (15641616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and t...

NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017Over two full years, Dromgoole, the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and the Globe pla...

Shakespeare, Court Dramatist centres around the contention that the courts of both Elizabeth I and James I loomed much larger in Shakespeare's crea...

A provocative, moving, kinky, and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare, love, obsession, and spanking When it came to understanding love,...

Can Shakespeare help us with the question of how to live? Re Humanising Shakespeare argues that although Shakespeare strikingly dramatizes various ...

Establishes Shakespeare's plays as some of the period's most speculative political literature 'Shakespeare's Fugitive Politics' makes the case that...

This does indeed deserve comparisons with Blackadder Radio TimesA knockabout, well-researched take on the working and domestic life of Shakespeare....

''Now I am alone,'' says Hamlet before speaking a soliloquy. But what is a Shakespearean soliloquy? How has it been understood in literary and thea...

'Rather jolly and very helpful The TimesNeed to swot up on your Shakespeare? The ultimate guide to the Bard, perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado...

Investigating the literary culture of the early interaction between European countries and East Africa, Edward Wilson-Lee uncovers an ...

An exponent of the theory that William Shakespeare, the modestly educated provincial man from Stratford-upon-Avon, could not have written the works...

In 1975 Abram Games, one of Britains greatest graphic designers, was commissioned to make a fund-raising poster for the Royal Shakespeare Company. ...

This innovative study offers a genuinely groundbreaking approach to Shakespeare in performance. Six chapters work like case studies, each highly cr...

A fascinating collection of revelations, quirky characters and other amazing pieces of trivia from the world of Shakespeare's. From the stories beh...

Shakespeare's poems, aside from the enduring appeal of the Sonnets, are much less familiar today than his plays, despite being enormously popular i...

Schools and universities are fast becoming managerial courts of learning in which educators and students are system creatures busily fulfilling sys...

From The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the early 1590s to The Two Noble Kinsmen at the end of his career around 1614, Shakespeare wrote at least eight...

This ground-breaking book provides an abundance of fresh insights into Shakespeare's life in relation to his lost family home, New Place. The findi...

The critically acclaimed biography of Shakespeare's most enduring heroine, Rosalind, now in paperback. Into the spotlight steps Rosalind, the acto...

A deep dive into the science behind the creative ways Shakespeare killed off his characters. William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to...