Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

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

Actor, producer and director Ben Crystal revisits his acclaimed book on Shakespeare for the 400th anniversary of his death, updating and adding thr...

This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Volumes one through ten present criti...

It has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, the man heralded as the greatest writer in the English language and Englands national poet, died. ...

Opening with a look at a Cambridge play satirising Shakespeare in his own time, we follow Cambridges part in Shakespeare appreciation through the c...

Shakespeares Verbal Art is a profoundly important study of the newly rediscovered anagrams that lie hidden below the surface of all Shakespearean t...

From an obscure family in a small provincial town, Shakespeare had no formal education after the age of thirteen. His surviving handwriting consist...

Written by the only American to direct and fight-choreograph all of Shakespeare's plays, this text represents an expert and practical guide to t...

It is astonishing how deeply the figure of Ophelia has been woven into the fabric of Spanish literature and the visual arts from her first appeara...

Overturns orthodox thinking about morality in Shakespeare's plays by updating our understanding of the human mindThis ground-breaking study fearles...

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

To the readers who ask themselves: 'What is science?', this volume provides an answer from an early modern perspective, whereby science included su...

The 71st in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The articles, like those of volume 70, are drawn from the Wor...

Nothing in Shakespeare's England was as important as religion. Questions of faith informed everything from history and politics to love and family,...

In The Ghost behind the Masks, W. David Shaw traces Shakespeares influence on nine Victorian poets: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christi...

Shakespeare and the Bible are titans of English-speaking culture: their images are endlessly cited and recycled, and their language permeates every...

Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by Charles Nicholl William Shakespeare and his contemporaries helped create not only a new kind of theatre but a...