Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

This volume takes a deep dive into the philosophical hermeneutics of Shakespearean tradition, providing insight into the foundations, theories, and...

Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things maps large, new vistas for understanding the relationship between De rerum natura and Shakespeare...

Shakespeares last plays, because of their apparent similarity in thematic concern, dramatic arrangements and stylistic features, are often consider...

Nigeria, England, America, Jamaica; are you proud of where you're from? Dark skinned, light skinned, afro, weaves, who are your true brothers and s...

This collection brings together a variety of essays by prominent academicians from around the world to project on the current trends in the vast ar...

I know you hey. Youre the one thats always in the back of the library. Like a little library gremlin. Eating up knowledge. And Haribo Its a new te...

Ireland, north and south of the border, has witnessed volatile patterns of immigration in the past decade, and stage representations of these fluct...

The last decade has witnessed a spate of high-profile presentations of The Merchant of Venice: the 2004 Michael Radford film, 2010s New York City S...

Are some of Shakespeares romantic storybook heroines actually emoting sexually obscene (but very funny) lines?{Sexual quibbles (puns, play-on words...

Hamlet kills Polonius thinking he is Claudius. Yet he cannot kill Claudius. Why?Hamlet, angry, tells Ophelia: Take thee to a nunnery! [nunnery: Ren...

This book reveals the remarkable life of a Renaissance New Yorker sustained by the play Hamlet. Cravens detective work finds for the first time Apo...

Dr Ronald Gray, Fellow of Emmanuel College, lectured at Cambridge University on German Literature and Philosophy for 33 years, and now expands his ...

A scrupulous study of Shakespeares The Tempest and its most comprehensive rewriting Indigo, or Mapping the Waters by Marina Warner. Taking as its f...

The first decade of the new century has certainly been a busy one for diversity in Shakespearean performance and interpretation, yielding, for exam...

This volume argues that a focus on the European reception of Othello represents an important contribution to critical work on the play. The chapter...