Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Angela Thirlwell explores the fictitious life and the many after-lives of Rosalind, Shakespeare's progressive new heroine, and her perennial influe...

For historians of the Wars of the Roses William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin on fifteenth...

Resources and activities to support students in exploring and analysing Hamlet as a literary text and as a drama script in production. Includes sub...

A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of ...

Rapt in Secret Studies: Emerging Shakespeares is a collection of new essays in Shakespeare Studies from a generation of scholars presently emerging...

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

This book shows that William Shakespeare was a more personal writer than any of his innumerable commentators have realised. It asserts that numerou...

The essential guide to the Bard and his work, celebrating 400 years of his legacy.The works of William Shakespeare have been a permanent feature on...

One of Shakespeares relatives was executed for plotting against Elizabeth I. There are more than 80 records of Shakespeares name. Not one of them...

Unravel the history, themes, and language of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets with this beautifully illustrated guide to his life and works....

This enthralling tour de force of literary criticism, unprecedented in Shakespeare studies for its scope and daring, is nothing less than an attemp...

In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently...

A study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected Shakespeare's treatment of the poet. The debt owed by Shakespeare to Ovid is a maj...

A new source for Shakespeare's plays, only recently uncovered, is investigated here with a full edition and facsimile of the text. New sources for...

This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeares tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its...

This book explores parallels between William Shakespeares second set of history plays, consisting of Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, and Henry ...

Ruin and Reformation in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Marvell explores writerly responses to the religious violence of the long reformation in England ...

Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works insp...

For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of riv...