Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

Argues that the Essais of Montaigne were a crucial factor in the composition of later Shakespearean dramaAnew way of accounting for the different s...

In the 1590s, Shakespeare was working with and writing for the Lord Chamberlain's Men at The Theatre, Shoreditch while he was living in the parish ...

The authors of this book ask how digital research tools are changing the ways in which practicing editors historicize Shakespeare's language. Schol...

How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics ...

This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It ...

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim tha...

Critical investigation into the rubric of 'Shakespeare and the visual arts' has generally focused on the influence exerted by the works of Shakespe...

The startling central idea behind this study is that the rediscovery of Aristotle's Poetics in the sixteenth century ultimately had a profound impa...

This title was first published in 2002: An intensive study of Shakespeare's most ambitious and complex achievement in the historical mode. The book...

Murdering Ministers integrates everything worth knowing about Shakespeares Macbeth from four centuries of criticism and performances, stage as well...

This book delves into the aesthetics and processes by which Latinx writers and creatives artfully adapt and appropriate Shakespeare for young reade...

A collection of essays that considers the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with complex Shakespearean texts In his own time, Shake...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. This accessible introduction offers a springboard into the play, ...

The Hero (1925) explains tragedy itself, through a close examination of multiple texts, with a particular focus on Shakespeare. It references many ...

The third edition of Hamlet offers a completely new introduction to this rich, mysterious play, examining Shakespeare's transformation of an ancien...

Eating Shakespeare provides a constructive critical analysis of the issue of Shakespeare and globalization and revisits understandings of intercult...

An acclaimed new interpretation of Shakespeare's HamletHamlet and the Vision of Darkness is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in...

Eating Shakespeare provides a constructive critical analysis of the issue of Shakespeare and globalization and revisits understandings of intercult...

Should we assume that people who lived some time ago were quite similar to us or should we assume that they need to be thought of as alien beings w...

This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It ...

'How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That has such people in't!' Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and politic...

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theat...

This companion volume to The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works concentrates on the issues of canon and chronology--currently the most acti...

This book surveys English love poetry, primarily, though not exclusively, sonnets and sonnet sequences that show the influence of Petrarch, from th...

In this slim, poetically powerful volume, Piero Boitani develops his earlier work in The Bible and Its Rewritings, focusing on Shakespeares rescrip...

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation explores the dynamics of adapted Shakespeare across a range of literary genres and new me...

This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes all of Shakespeares plays, poems and sonnets, edite...

The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex figure of the money lender, Shylock. The...

Shakespeares four-hundred-year performance history is full of anecdotes ribald, trivial, frequently funny, sometimes disturbing, and always but lo...

What led Shakespeare to write his most cryptic poem, The Phoenix and Turtle? Could the Phoenix represent Queen Elizabeth, on the verge of death as ...

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cult...

Shakespeare Unlearned dances along the borderline of sense and nonsense in early modern texts, revealing overlooked opportunities for understanding...

This study investigates the capacity of Shakespeares texts obviously destined for stage performances to generate images and mental colours in the...