Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

For most of the 1590s, the Admiral's Men were the main competitors of Shakespeare's company in the London theatres. Not only did they stage old pla...

This study of the political and romantic impulses of Shakespeares tragic characters including Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and Iago, among...

Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himsel...

To this day The White Hart and The Red Lion are two of the most popular names for a public house in England both talismans that served as the insi...

The Shakespeare Workbook and Video provides a unifying approach to acting Shakespeare that is immediately applicable in the rehearsal room or class...

Amelia Bassano was born in 1569 into a family of Venetian Jews who were court musicians to Queen Elizabeth I. At about the age of thirteen, she bec...

Shakespeare imbued A Midsummer Night's Dream with extraordinary complexity. This ethereal fantasy involves four different levels of representation,...

In late November 1623, Edward Blount finally took delivery to his bookshop at the sign of the Black Bear near St Pauls a book that had been long in...

Enlightening, moving SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploratio...

English Literary Afterlives traces life narratives of early modern authors created for them after their deaths by readers or publishers, who retros...

Shakespeare wrote at a unique historical turning point: the world was understood through poetry -- rather than through the science of observing it....

Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and techn...

A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailedFINANCIAL TIMES ...

Studies the capacity of Shakespeare's plays to touch and think about touch Based on plays from all major genres: Hamlet, The Tempest, Richard III,...

A collection of 154 sonnets reflecting on love, death, marriage and economic theory, each taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's 154.  These poe...

In our culture, Shakespeare's works are classics and his characters have achieved mythical status. But what did William Shakespeare consider to be ...

Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are...

Michael Hattaway's Introduction to this bestselling edition of As You Like It accounts for what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous...