Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

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The degree of Shakespeares concern for a living theatre, capable of perpetually diversifying in order to maintain its appeal, is immediately appare...

Talking Shakespeare is a collection of essays on Shakespeares plays and politics and their impact in the world today. Originally given as provocat...

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This is a polemical attack on how recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information. How is it that biographies of Shakespear...

Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, throu...

With Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare advanced his art, rendering the romantic comedy with greater elegance of composition and expression. The v...

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First published in 1996, James Shapiro's pathbreaking analysis of the portrayal of Jews in Elizabethan England challenged readers to recognize the ...

In the introduction to this new edition, David Bevington explores some key dilemmas and puzzles in this most famous of Shakespeares tragedies. What...

Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment argues that enchantment constitutes a key emotional and intellectual dimension of Shakespeare's comedies....

This Norton Critical Edition of Antony and Cleopatra is based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The edition inclu...

This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as ...

Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Leve...

Thoroughly updated editions to meet the needs of the Key Stage 3 and GCSE classrooms. Enhanced accessibility for all students with clear navigatio...

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This wide-ranging study traces the forces that drove the production and interpretation of visual images of Shakespeare's plays. Covering a rich chr...

Shakespeare and Emotion devotes sustained attention to the emotions as a novel way of exploring Shakespeare's works in their original contexts. A v...