Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

A symbolist approach has dominated Shakespearean criticism for many years, but Ruth Nevo believes that the emphasis on static and pictorial aspects...

Shakespeare's texts are seen by the poet and critic Michael Goldman as designs for theatrical experience--the complex emotional, physical, and inte...

Shakespeare intended his plays to be seen, not read. With this thought uppermost in mind, Charney offers here a provocative analysis of Hamlet, the...

Shakespeare's plays have never had a larger audience than they do in our time. This wide viewing is complemented by modern scholarship, which has v...

Why do Shakespeares texts resonate so powerfully for us in the 21st century, 400 years after he wrote and produced them? Why is he more popular to...

In their lectures on King Lear, the eight contributors to this volume fulfill Shakespeare's rigorous injunction to Speak what we feel about the pla...

From one of the great modern writers, the acclaimed lectures in which he draws on a lifetime of experience to take the measure of Shakespeare's pla...

The basic history of the Shakespearean editorial tradition is familiar and well-established. For nearly three centuries, men most of them white an...

Despite their diversity in tone and subject matter, Shakespeare's four mature tragedies--Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth--all have an essen...

In this, her last book, Rosalie L. Colie suggests that by linking forms--verse forms, devices, motives, themes, conventions, genres--to the culture...

In Phenomenal Shakespeare, leading Shakespeare scholar Bruce R. Smith presents an original account for the ways in which Shakespeares poems and pla...

Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its ...

In this book, Elisabeth H. Kinsley weaves the stories of racially and ethnically distinct Shakespeare theatre scenes in late nineteenth- and early ...

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,...