Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

A thorough and scholarly study of Spenser and Shakespeare and their contrary artistry, covering themes of theology, psychology, the depictions of p...

Copyright is by no means the only device for asserting ownership of a work. Some writers, including playwrights in the early modern period, did not...

Othello has long been considered (along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth) one of Shakespeare's four greatest works of tragedy. Recently, however...

What does the keyword continence in Love's Labor's Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contem...

Ever since Timon of Athens shunned his fellow-countrymen and went to live out in the wilderness, the misanthrope has proved to be a fascinating but...

Long before Shakespeares name was synonymous with the stage he built a name as a poet, and Venus and Adonis was likely the first work to be publish...

Long before Shakespeares name was synonymous with the stage he built a name as a poet, and Venus and Adonis was likely the first work to be publish...

Of the three texts of King Lear--the Quarto version printed in 1608, the Folio edition of 1623, and the modern composite of these two early texts--...

Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio This is the biography of a book: the first collected edition of ...

'A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life' This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's enduring tale of ill-fa...

Shakespeare everyone can understandnow in new DELUXE editions!   Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-l...

The Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story of Shakespeare as a family man in Stratford-upon-Avon. Cowen Orlin offers close readings of...

Hamlet tells Horatio that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy. In Double Vision, philosopher and literar...

Yeats, Shakespeare, and Irish Cultural Nationalism examines Yeatss writing on Shakespeare in the context of his work on behalf of the Irish Literar...

This engaging study appreciably advances recent critical developments in the way the playwright created his worlds to reflect concurrent cartograph...

Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, has broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of rac...

In Subjects of Advice, Ivan Lupi uncovers the rich interconnectedness of dramatic art and the culture of counsel in the early modern period. While ...

This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition series increases our knowledge of how Antony and Cleopatra has been received and underst...

Representations of the mind have a central place in Shakespeares artistic imagination, as we see in Bottom struggling to articulate his dream, Macb...

At twenty-three, Michelle Ephraim was failing at everything. The only child of reclusive Holocaust-survivor parents who were dismayed by her litera...

The persona of Edward de Vere represents a counterpoint to the canonical, Stratfordian image of Shakespeare. His adulterous affair with a teenage g...

All four figures in this volume have been canonized as central to stage-centred Shakespearean scholarship and stage practice. From William Poels re...

Shakespeares plays are works of art made out of words. To read the plays closely, that is, to pay careful attention to the multiple, shifting meani...

Reading Antony and Cleopatra is particularly challenging because of Shakespeare's masterful embodiment of Rome and Egypt's contrasting worlds in l...

Shakespeare's international status as a literary icon is largely based on his masterful use of the English language, yet beyond Britain his plays a...

In 1603, Queen Elizabeth I died and King James I inherited the English throne. During Jamess reign, England continued to hark back to Elizabeth, co...

Shakespeare is at the heart of the British theatrical tradition, but the contribution of Ira Aldridge and the Shakespearean performers of African, ...

Hamlet is arguably the most famous play on the planet, and the greatest of all Shakespeares works. Its rich story and complex leading role have pro...

Shakespeare | Sense explores the intersection of Shakespeare and sensory studies, asking what sensation can tell us about early modern drama and po...

Shakespeare / Sex interrogates the relationship between Shakespeare and sex by challenging readers to consider Shakespeares texts in light of the m...

Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy is an international collection of fresh digital approaches for teaching Shakespeare. It describes 15 methodologies...

There is no Shakespeare without text. Yet readers often do not realize that the words in the book they hold, like the dialogue they hear from the s...

In the cultural and highly intellectual climate of the Age of Reason, it comes as no surprise that the supernatural was under scrutiny. However, a ...

The subjects of this volume are the four nineteenth-century English writers who have been most enduringly hailed as Shakespearean. Shakespeares pla...