Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

Shakespeare and Montaigne share a grounded, genial sense of the lived reality of human experience, as well as a surprising depth of engagement with...

Theory is valuable to the degree that it enables us to read differently: a nuanced approach shows that the most obvious interpretation is never the...

Explores the drama of proximity and co-presence in Shakespeare's playsKey FeaturesBrings together the rare pairing of philosophical ethics and perf...

Argues that Shakespeare transforms philosophies of comedy and melancholy by revising them concomitantlyIconic as Hamlet is, Shakespearean comedy sh...

Shakespeare's Villains is a close reading of Shakespeare's plays to investigate the nature of evil. Charney closely considers the way that dramatic...

Shakespeare is everywhere in contemporary media culture. This book explores the reasons for this dissemination and reassemblage. Ranging widely ove...

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

Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics and cultural historians. The jou...

A thorough and scholarly study of Spenser and Shakespeare and their contrary artistry, covering themes of theology, psychology, the depictions of p...

Copyright is by no means the only device for asserting ownership of a work. Some writers, including playwrights in the early modern period, did not...

Othello has long been considered (along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth) one of Shakespeare's four greatest works of tragedy. Recently, however...

What does the keyword continence in Love's Labor's Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contem...

Ever since Timon of Athens shunned his fellow-countrymen and went to live out in the wilderness, the misanthrope has proved to be a fascinating but...

Long before Shakespeares name was synonymous with the stage he built a name as a poet, and Venus and Adonis was likely the first work to be publish...

Long before Shakespeares name was synonymous with the stage he built a name as a poet, and Venus and Adonis was likely the first work to be publish...

Of the three texts of King Lear--the Quarto version printed in 1608, the Folio edition of 1623, and the modern composite of these two early texts--...

Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio This is the biography of a book: the first collected edition of ...

'A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life' This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's enduring tale of ill-fa...

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