Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

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...

Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, teacher, and author, was an inspired critic. Forms of Attention is based on a series of three lectures he g...

In Shakespeare and the Making of America, Kevin J. Hayes tells a story that has never been told before. He traces the history of reading Shakespear...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Shakespeares Sonnets, Retold by William Shakespeare and James Anthony, with a foreword by Stephen Fr...

This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of influential theatre practitioner ...

This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of influential theatre practitioner ...

Why does Bassanio compare himself to Jason? What is Hecuba to Hamlet? Is the mechanicals staging of the Pyramus and Thisbe story funny or sad? This...

This book provides readers with the tools to unravel the complexities of one of the most difficult sonnet sequences, introducing them to the litera...