Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

Passion's Fictions traces the intimate links between literature and the sciences of mind and soul from the age of Shakespeare to the rise of the no...

In the summer of 1960, director C. Douglas Ramey took his Carriage House Players theater company down the street from their Old Louisville venue to...

In the summer of 1960, director C. Douglas Ramey took his Carriage House Players theater company down the street from their Old Louisville venue to...

For Shakespeare and Shakespearean adaptation, the global digital media environment is a brave new world of opportunity and revolution. In OuterSpea...

What is the most wonderful thing about teaching this play in our classrooms? Using this question as a starting point, Shakespeares Guide to Hope, L...

What is the most wonderful thing about teaching this play in our classrooms? Using this question as a starting point, Shakespeares Guide to Hope, L...

The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton explores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral realm play a vital role in early modern England's re...

Courteous Exchanges explores the significant overlap between Edmund Spensers Faerie Queene and Shakespeares plays, showing how both facilitate the ...

This edition is the first that treats Hamlet as the work of a philosophical poet concerned with knowing the nature of the world, particularly the ...

Through a metaphorical journey of Shakespeare in traditional Chinese theatre, using three Chinese opera productions of Hamlet as signposts, the boo...

Weyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'  ha...

This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that...

Early modern playing companies performed up to six different plays a week and mounted new plays frequently. This book seeks to answer a seemingly s...

How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of double, double toil and trouble at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything sci...

Political Wisdom in Late Shakespeare: A Way Out of the Wreck assesses the four last plays of Shakespeares First FolioCymbeline, The Tempest, Henry ...