Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

This engaging book provides detailed in-depth discussion of the various influences that an audience in 1611 would have brought to interpreting The ...

This engaging book provides in-depth discussion of the various influences that an audience in 1607 would have brought to interpreting Antony and Cl...

Can Othello be a woman? Can Ophelia be a man? Why not? Intended for Shakespeare lovers, scholars, and Shakespearean theater professionals, this stu...

Bringing together the discrete fields of appropriation and performance studies, this collection explores pivotal intersections between the two appr...

Four years before the publication of the First Folio, a group of London printers and booksellers attempted to produce a collected works of William ...

Literature is an institution per se, as is justice, and these two institutions enact each other in complex ways. Justice appears in many forms from...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Stars, hide your fires;Let not light see my black and...

Immerse yourself in Shakespeare's magical world, filled with supernatural encounters with faeries, ghosts and witches. Frolic with royalty, wander ...

Ranging over all the dramatic genres in the Shakespearean canon, this book focuses on plays where medieval drama most clearly illuminates Shakespea...

Combining scholarship with grace, the author shows in this study that Shakespeare's works are pervasively secular, that he was concerned with the d...

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