Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

The fourteen essays included in this collection offer a range of contributions from both new and well-established scholars to the topic of Shakespe...

This Christmas discover the greatest writer in the English language as told by actor Dame Judi Dench in SHAKESPEARE The Man Who Pays The Rent :- a ...

This book demonstrates how a group of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries stage the fear and exhilaration generated by encounters with ...

Shakespeare Lied is Sky Gilbert's second rumination on Shakespeare to be published by Guernica Editions. It places 'the bard' at the centre of pres...

This volume explores the multiple connections between contemporary British theatre and the medieval and early modern periods. Involving both French...

Reading Shakespeares Poetry A lively exploration of Shakespeares poems and how they speak to readers Reading Shakespeares Poetry presents a fresh i...

Perhaps the most important, difficult, and unresolved issue in Shakespeare studies is the question of Lears last lines; the whole meaning of Shakes...

This book will serve to help the reader of Shakespeares plays by providing an introduction to the various literary critical issues that this great ...

Kenneth Branagh is the most important contemporary figure in the production of filmed Shakespeare. His five feature-length Shakespeare films, Henry...

This book will serve to help the reader of Shakespeares plays by providing an introduction to the various literary critical issues that this great ...

Why have contemporary playwrights been obsessed by Shakespeares plays to such an extent that most of the canon has been rewritten by one rising dra...

Shakespeare has been one of the most-cited authors since his plays were performed, and yet little attention has been paid to his views on psychic p...

Shakespeares King Lear is often called his mightiest play. This comprehensive edition by S. Nagarajan (who edited the evergreen Signet edition of M...

Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things maps large, new vistas for understanding the relationship between De rerum natura and Shakespeare...

Shakespeares last plays, because of their apparent similarity in thematic concern, dramatic arrangements and stylistic features, are often consider...

This collection brings together a variety of essays by prominent academicians from around the world to project on the current trends in the vast ar...

The last decade has witnessed a spate of high-profile presentations of The Merchant of Venice: the 2004 Michael Radford film, 2010s New York City S...

Are some of Shakespeares romantic storybook heroines actually emoting sexually obscene (but very funny) lines?{Sexual quibbles (puns, play-on words...

Hamlet kills Polonius thinking he is Claudius. Yet he cannot kill Claudius. Why?Hamlet, angry, tells Ophelia: Take thee to a nunnery! [nunnery: Ren...

This book reveals the remarkable life of a Renaissance New Yorker sustained by the play Hamlet. Cravens detective work finds for the first time Apo...

Dr Ronald Gray, Fellow of Emmanuel College, lectured at Cambridge University on German Literature and Philosophy for 33 years, and now expands his ...

A scrupulous study of Shakespeares The Tempest and its most comprehensive rewriting Indigo, or Mapping the Waters by Marina Warner. Taking as its f...

The first decade of the new century has certainly been a busy one for diversity in Shakespearean performance and interpretation, yielding, for exam...

This volume argues that a focus on the European reception of Othello represents an important contribution to critical work on the play. The chapter...

The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire a...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's epic retelling of the Wars of the Roses. With an expert introduct...

Drawing on both historical analysis and theories from the modern affective sciences, Shakespeare and Disgust argues that the experience of revulsio...

As a figurehead for the literary humanities, and a dramatist whose plays feature fairies, ghosts, and spirits, Shakespeare may not be the first aut...

As a figurehead for the literary humanities, and a dramatist whose plays feature fairies, ghosts, and spirits, Shakespeare may not be the first aut...

A new and controversial biography of Sir Francis Bacon succinctly putting forward the theory that he was one of Elizabeths illegitimate offspring ...

How did the popular drama of Shakespeare's age become literature? Every work that has survived from the theater of past ages has gone through some ...

How did the popular drama of Shakespeare's age become literature? Every work that has survived from the theater of past ages has gone through some ...