Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

There s never been a period when Shakespeare was out of fashion. In his lifetime he was incredibly successful, and soon after his death his works w...

Why does Shakespeare write in the way he does? And how can actors and directors get the most out of his incomparable plays? In Speaking the Speech...

William Shakespeare, A Very Peculiar History uniquely explores the life and works of the widely-regarded greatest writer of the English language. T...

Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Richard III and many other Shakespeare plays have at least one thing in common: fight scenes, usually with swords. ...

The Elizabethan Club of Yale University and Its Library was first published in 1986 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Elizab...

Perhaps the most astonishing set of personal poems ever written, Shakespeare s Sonnets have both delighted and puzzled readers down the ages. Two ...

Benedick: I am man enough to say that I love thee. Is that not strange? Beatrice: Not reallyBenedick: By my sword, Beatrice thou lovest me. Beatric...

Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World is widely recognised to be the fullest and most brilliant account ever written of Shakespeare's life, his wo...

Alas poor Yorick, he looks not at all well. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, though sadly finite breath. Though thy gibes be still, ...

Was Shakespeare a snob? Poor Naked Wretches challenges the idea that our greatest writer despised working people, and shows that he portrayed them ...

In The End of Satisfaction, Heather Hirschfeld recovers the historical specificity and the conceptual vigor of the term satisfaction during the six...

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

Shakespeare's legacy is all around us - in our books and our films, in our politics and in our everyday speech. With his words he has formed our wo...

This book studies the questions of authority and authorship in William Shakespeares problematic masterpiece Hamlet. It argues that the Bard seeks t...

What happens when scholarship on the early modern stage is presented on a recreation of an early modern stage? This question, which at its heart is...

A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways. Bookworms know what scholars of li...

This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his co...

To ''conceive'' desire is to acknowledge the generative potential of the erotic imagination, its capacity to impart form and make meaning out of th...

Dream is a central image for Shakespeare, encompassing at once the terrors of the irrational and the creative powers of the imagination-one''s deep...

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. A range of mainstream and independen...

This book is a collection of articles written for Professor Marta Gibinska by her colleagues and friends, from universities both in Poland and abro...

Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on t...

A quirky collection of true stories from the weird and wonderful world of Shakespearean theatre, featuring distinguished actors falling off stages,...

Shakespeares use of location governs his dramas. Some he was personally familiar with, like Windsor; some he knew through his imagination, like Kro...

'This book rests on a lifetimes thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in a more realistic light. Times Literary Supplement Although ...

In this collaborative work, photographer Rosamond Purcell and Shakespeare scholar Michael Witmore explore the transcendent emotion in Shakespeare's...

And now I will unclaspe a Secret booke, And to your quicke conceyving Discontents, Ille reade you Matter, deepe and dangerous As full of peril and ...

This book explores the poetics of fancy in the works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a term often paired with imagination in well-known Romantic poetic...

Authoritative, surprising, evocative and original, Shakespeare: staging the world offers a completely new approach to one of the most exceptional c...