Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

Weyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'  ha...

This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that...

Early modern playing companies performed up to six different plays a week and mounted new plays frequently. This book seeks to answer a seemingly s...

How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of double, double toil and trouble at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything sci...

Political Wisdom in Late Shakespeare: A Way Out of the Wreck assesses the four last plays of Shakespeares First FolioCymbeline, The Tempest, Henry ...

Charting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this book explores how recognition of the dramatic person is involved in ...

Explores disturbing connections between authors and informers revealed in the metadrama of Shakespeare and JonsonHave you ever wondered what was re...

Ranging widely across law, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy, this book offers the first account of the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama...

What happens when we consider Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice as a play with real Jewish characters who are not mere ciphers for anti-Semitic ...

In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered by his own worl...

Four sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations accompany the original play as As You Like It: Texts and Contexts put key th...

This edition of A Midsummer Nights Dream takes the comedy seriously. Like my previous Hackett editions, it gives full weight to Shakespeares drama...

A collection of essays which show how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships...

The History plays established Shakespeare's reputation as an enormously popular and dramatic storyteller, demonstrating his skill in drawing such a...

Whilst Shakespearean drama provides eloquent calls to war, more often than not these are undercut or outweighed by compelling appeals to peaceful a...

Aimed at newcomers to literature and film, this book is a guide for the analysis of Shakespeare on film. Starting with an introduction to the main ...

Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, more widely known as the First Folio, contains thirty-six of the thirty-eight plays ...

A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud   A compellingly readable and intelligent book. . ....

When Shakespearean characters kiss, embrace, or shake hands, what does it mean? Are dramatic characters following established rules of conduct, or ...

Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation t...

Old women in Early Modern plays are stereotypically presented as ugly, randy, mouthy, mad.  So Shakespeare is rare among dramatists of the day for ...

A study of Shakespeares child figures in relation to their own political moment, as well as our own. Politicians are fond of saying that children a...

On December 1727 an intriguing play called Double Falshood; Or, The Distrest Lovers was presented for production by Lewis Theobald, who had it publ...

This engaging book provides in-depth discussion of the various influences that an audience in 1606 would have brought to interpreting King Lear. Ho...

This engaging book provides detailed in-depth discussion of the various influences that an audience in 1611 would have brought to interpreting The ...