Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Actor, producer and director Ben Crystal revisits his acclaimed book on Shakespeare for the 400th anniversary of his death, updating and adding thr...

This book is not merely a study of Shakespeares debt to Montaigne. It traces the evolution of self-consciousness in literary, philosophical and rel...

Julius Caesar presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particu...

This illuminating study of The Winters Tale in performance in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries contributes to understanding the growt...

This companion brings Renaissance drama to life by considering such classic plays as Hamlet, Othello and Dr Faustus from the perspective of contemp...

Shakespeares Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus through the lens of generative...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare''s tragic history of a ruler losing his grip on power. With an exp...

It is astonishing how deeply the figure of Ophelia has been woven into the fabric of Spanish literature and the visual arts from her first appeara...

Within Shakespeares lifetime there was already some curiosity about what the writer of such brilliant poems, sonnets and plays looked like. Yet lik...

Free Will: Art and power on Shakespeares stage is a study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeares plays in the contraflow between two...

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

The seventieth volume in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The articles are drawn from the World Shakespear...