Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Nothing in Shakespeare's England was as important as religion. Questions of faith informed everything from history and politics to love and family,...

Michael Pennington's solo show about Shakespeare, Sweet William, has been acclaimed throughout Europe and in the US as a unique blend of showmanshi...

In The Quality of Mercy, one of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics. In this se...

This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Volumes one through ten present criti...

It has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, the man heralded as the greatest writer in the English language and Englands national poet, died. ...

Opening with a look at a Cambridge play satirising Shakespeare in his own time, we follow Cambridges part in Shakespeare appreciation through the c...

Shakespeares Verbal Art is a profoundly important study of the newly rediscovered anagrams that lie hidden below the surface of all Shakespearean t...

From an obscure family in a small provincial town, Shakespeare had no formal education after the age of thirteen. His surviving handwriting consist...

Written by the only American to direct and fight-choreograph all of Shakespeare's plays, this text represents an expert and practical guide to t...

Overturns orthodox thinking about morality in Shakespeare's plays by updating our understanding of the human mindThis ground-breaking study fearles...

Argues that Shakespeare transforms philosophies of comedy and melancholy by revising them concomitantlyIconic as Hamlet is, Shakespearean comedy sh...

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

To the readers who ask themselves: 'What is science?', this volume provides an answer from an early modern perspective, whereby science included su...

The 71st in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The articles, like those of volume 70, are drawn from the Wor...

The contents of the Shakespeare canon have come into question in recent years as scholars add plays or declare others only partially his work. N...

Shakespeare's tragedy about two star-crossed lovers from warring families has stirred audiences and readers alike and inspired other artists for ge...