Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

Explores the challenges of maintaining bonds, living up to ideals, and fulfilling desire in Shakespeares plays In Thinking About Shakespeare, Kay S...

The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary...

The Philosopher's English King offers a close reading of the Henriad, presenting Shakespeare's teaching on political authority and contributing to ...

Dramatic performances at the universities in early modern England have usually been regarded as insular events, completely removed from the plays o...

Mr. Burckhardt does not discuss the plays as theatre. Instead he states: This book is concerned with what Shakespeare meant. I believe that Shakesp...

In the current climate of global military conflict and terrorism, Shakespeare at Peace offers new readings of Shakespeares plays, illuminating a di...

To show how the casuistical tradition illuminates the study of major literary works in the English Renaissance, Camille Slights traces the emergenc...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeares magical late play. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bat...

There is a long history in Ireland of performing, studying and responding to Shakespeare's plays. Transposed to an Irish context, Shakespeare has c...

Mr. Krieger attempts to extract a total mythology from Shakespeare's Sonnets and to use this mythology in their interpretation. Engaged in developi...

The first book-length study of hospitality in Shakespeare Offers innovative literary analysis of canonical plays including The Merchant of Venice,...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Shakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd, eccentric...

Shakespeare and the Senses explores how audiences of Shakespeares time would have understood the sensual world of his work.  Could something as see...

This volume argues that, given a Western propensity to identify Shakespeares work with the human, his drama plays a crucial and constitutive part...

This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, includ...

The Taming of the Shrew is unique among Shakespeare's plays and is a perennial and compelling success in the theatre. Its reception is marked, ho...

THE TIMES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThis book charts the personal and professional journey of Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare C...

The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition is part of the landmark New Oxford Shakespeare--an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's w...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Julius Caesar is one of William Shakespeare's most famous and important plays, and one of the most frequently taught, especially in high schools. D...

This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-know...

Presenting a background study of honor, the author compares ancient concepts with the sympathetic restatements of them that appeared during the Ren...

Anyone who has paid the entry fee to visit Shakespeare's Birthplace on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avonand there are some 700,000 a year who do...

Written by a distinguished international team of contributors, this volume explores Shakespeare's vivid depictions of moral deliberation and indivi...

Ranging from David Garrick's Macbeth in the 1740s to the World Shakespeare Festival in London 2012, this is the first book to provide in-depth anal...

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? The authorship question has been much treated in works of fiction, film and television, provoking interest all o...

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? The authorship question has been much treated in works of fiction, film and television, provoking interest all o...

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, the Survey has published the best international scholarship in ...

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by...

Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance examines the place of photography in the reception of the Shakespeare canon since the inventio...

This urgent and provocative study explores contemporary Shakespeare performance to bring a sense of theatre as technology into view. Rather than me...

Presupposing no specialist musical knowledge, this book offers a fresh perspective on the dramatic role of music in the plays of Shakespeare and hi...