Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

Julius Caesar presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particu...

This engaging and stimulating book argues that Shakespeare's plays significantly influenced movie genres in the twentieth century, particularly in ...

Whether the fault of tedious teachers or hammy actors, Shakespeare is often seen as dry and impenetrable. In this fast-paced introduction, Ros King...

The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres. Its approach is both scholarly ...

If, advised essayist and critic William Hazlitt, we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. For if anyone profoundly und...

The locations of Shakespeares plays range from Greece, Turkey and Syria to England, and they range in time from 1000 BC to the early Tudor age. He ...

Highlighting the necessity of literary thinking to political philosophy, this book explores Shakespeare''s responses to sixteenth-century debates o...

Explores the interaction between science, literature and spectacle in Shakespeare's eraTo the readers who ask themselves: 'What is science?', this ...

This book is for teachers who want to heighten the intellectual impact of their courses by using their classrooms as a creative space for social fo...

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

This volume explores the transnationality and interculturality of early modern performance in multiple languages, cultures, countries and genres. I...

Revised and updated critical survey of the field of cosmetics and adornment studiesThis revised edition examines how the plays of Shakespeare and h...

Read Shakespeare in all its brilliance--and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Ba...

In this revisionist study, Peter G. Platt provides a detailed history of the literary-critical interest in the Montaigne Shakespeare connection fro...

In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembled Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, better known as The Fi...

Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage collects significant work from the 2013 Blackfriars Conference. The conference, sponsored by th...

On a wasted island in perpetual sun, the Father practices magic, laments his lost kingdom and commands a ragtag army of three: the passionate and d...

Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this is the first edition for over a hundred years of the fascinatingly varied body of...

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

Read Shakespeare in all its brilliance--and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Ba...

Gregory Doran's account of his quest to re-discover Cardenio, the lost play written by Shakespeare and John Fletcher. A thrilling act of literary d...

In The Quality of Mercy, one of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics. In this sequ...

Shakespeares London 1613 offers for the first time a comprehensive biography of this crucial year in English history. The book examines political a...

This book shows that William Shakespeare was a more personal writer than any of his innumerable commentators have realised. It asserts that numerou...