Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

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 ...

Have a classical audition coming up? Don't know the plays or where to start? ÊThe Shakespeare AuditionÊ is here to help! Classical auditions terrif...

In Shakespeare's Britain rivers were not only a crucial form of travel and important natural resources which sustained communities and provided emp...

Co-authored by the resident dramaturg at Shakespeare Theatre Company and a long-time scholarly consultant, this book chronicles how a small reperto...

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in Engl...

This book presents an innovative, scientifically grounded interpretation of Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice. It offers solutions to problems in...

How did Shakespeare sound to the audiences of his day? For the first time this disc offers listeners the chance to hear England's greatest playwri...

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

This book focuses on teaching Shakespeare to young pupils and deals with issues of interest to all educationalists. It raises questions about the g...

Passionate, controversial and illuminating this collection contains Empsons best short pieces on Shakespeare, a sally on George Herbert, a defence...

This unique book desribes the ways in which educational practitioners at Shakespeare's Globe theatre bring Shakespeare to life for students of all ...

A master at engaging students in the process of performing a Shakespearescene.—Janet Field-Pickering, head of education, Folger Shakespeare Library...

Hence, old goat! Coriolanus Ever think of what you meant to say ten minutes after the argument ended? Never again! Consult the best, dust the rest,...

What part did Shakespeare play in the construction of a white people and how has his work been enlisted to define and bolster a white cultural and ...

A truly fun, emotional, and sometimes magical first experience, usually guided by a sagacious, knowledgeable, and intuitive educator. Library Journ...

Othello famously supplicates, 'Speak of me as I am', pleading for the Venetians to 'nothing extenuate', leave out, or make thin (5.2.352). Othello'...

Hillman explores English tragedy in relation to France with a frank concentration on Shakespeare. He sets out to theorise more abstract tragic qual...

This is the first comprehensive study of the language program of the prominent Ukrainian writer and ideologue Pantelejmon Kuli (1819-1897) whose tr...

Shakespeare and Cognition challenges orthodox approaches to Shakespeare by using recent psychological findings about human decision-making to analy...

This is the first comprehensive study of the language program of the prominent Ukrainian writer and ideologue Pantelejmon Kuli (1819-1897) whose tr...

The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary...

Thirteen leading actors take us behind the scenes, each recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare's major roles. * Brian ...

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books...

Taking a comprehensive, critical, and theoretical approach to the role of Shakespeare in educational policy and pedagogy from 1989 (the year compul...

The Taming of the Shrew is unique among Shakespeare's plays and is a perennial and compelling success in the theatre. Its reception is marked, howe...

Shakespeare in Canada is the result of a collective desire to explore the role that Shakespeare has played in Canada over the past two hundred year...

Is there anything more to say on Hamlet? 'Hide fox, and all after,' a casual quip of the Prince, as he and his enemy the King start to hunt each ot...

Shakespearean Echoes assembles a global cast of established and emerging scholars to explore new connections between Shakespeare and contemporary c...

The contributions to this book examine various facets of the work of Shakespeare from an Eastern perspective. As such, Fundamental Shakespeare shed...

A unique collection of Shakespeare's every reflection on the theatre, offering fascinating insights into the man, his work, and the world of the Ja...

Thirty years ago a promising young actor published his account of preparing for and playing the role of Richard III. Antony Sher's Year of the King...

How do writers of contemporary fiction incorporate Shakespeare - the man, his work and his cultural legacy? This collection brings together some of...