Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Authoritative, surprising, evocative and original, Shakespeare: staging the world offers a completely new approach to one of the most exceptional c...

Learn the entire works of one of the greatest writers of the English language in The Shakespeare Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, thi...

NOW IN COLOR! Read Hamlet in graphic-novel formwith NO FEAR! Based on the No Fear Shakespeare modern translations, this dynamic graphic novelnow w...

Bel-vedére; or The Garden of the Muses is an early modern printed commonplace book containing an anthology of nearly 4,500 short verse quotations a...

From Shakespeare''s religion to his wife to his competitors in the world of early modern theatre, biographers have approached the question of th...

Early Shakespeare, 15881594 draws together leading scholars of text, performance, and theatre history to offer a rigorous re-appraisal of Shakespea...

This volume proposes new insights into the uses of classical mythology by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, focusing on interweaving processes in...

From the author of 1599, a fresh perspective on the history of the United States - and a timely reminder of Shakespeare''s indelible influence. ...

William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions - shock, sadness,...

This book follows the recent turn to religion that has been so important to English Studies in the 21st century, and builds on many of the recent b...

1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Eliza...

Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage collects significant work from the 2013 Blackfriars Conference. The conference, sponsored by th...

In 1982, rising actor and recent Royal Shakespeare Company arrival Antony Sher played the Fool to Michael Gambon''s King in the RSC''s production o...

A substantial reference work that supersedes existing studies, the Companion, explores the place of Shakespeare in relation to a wide range of arti...

A captivating, beautifully illustrated, one-of-a-kind color compendium of the flowers, fruits, herbs, trees, seeds, and grasses cited in the works ...