Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

This engaging book provides in-depth discussion of the various influences that an audience in 1607 would have brought to interpreting Antony and Cl...

Can Othello be a woman? Can Ophelia be a man? Why not? Intended for Shakespeare lovers, scholars, and Shakespearean theater professionals, this stu...

Bringing together the discrete fields of appropriation and performance studies, this collection explores pivotal intersections between the two appr...

Four years before the publication of the First Folio, a group of London printers and booksellers attempted to produce a collected works of William ...

Literature is an institution per se, as is justice, and these two institutions enact each other in complex ways. Justice appears in many forms from...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Stars, hide your fires;Let not light see my black and...

Immerse yourself in Shakespeare's magical world, filled with supernatural encounters with faeries, ghosts and witches. Frolic with royalty, wander ...

Ranging over all the dramatic genres in the Shakespearean canon, this book focuses on plays where medieval drama most clearly illuminates Shakespea...

Combining scholarship with grace, the author shows in this study that Shakespeare's works are pervasively secular, that he was concerned with the d...

Presenting a background study of honor, the author compares ancient concepts with the sympathetic restatements of them that appeared during the Ren...

A symbolist approach has dominated Shakespearean criticism for many years, but Ruth Nevo believes that the emphasis on static and pictorial aspects...

Shakespeare's texts are seen by the poet and critic Michael Goldman as designs for theatrical experience--the complex emotional, physical, and inte...

Shakespeare intended his plays to be seen, not read. With this thought uppermost in mind, Charney offers here a provocative analysis of Hamlet, the...

Shakespeare's plays have never had a larger audience than they do in our time. This wide viewing is complemented by modern scholarship, which has v...

Why do Shakespeares texts resonate so powerfully for us in the 21st century, 400 years after he wrote and produced them? Why is he more popular to...

In their lectures on King Lear, the eight contributors to this volume fulfill Shakespeare's rigorous injunction to Speak what we feel about the pla...

From one of the great modern writers, the acclaimed lectures in which he draws on a lifetime of experience to take the measure of Shakespeare's pla...

The basic history of the Shakespearean editorial tradition is familiar and well-established. For nearly three centuries, men most of them white an...

Despite their diversity in tone and subject matter, Shakespeare's four mature tragedies--Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth--all have an essen...

In this, her last book, Rosalie L. Colie suggests that by linking forms--verse forms, devices, motives, themes, conventions, genres--to the culture...

In Phenomenal Shakespeare, leading Shakespeare scholar Bruce R. Smith presents an original account for the ways in which Shakespeares poems and pla...

Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its ...

In this book, Elisabeth H. Kinsley weaves the stories of racially and ethnically distinct Shakespeare theatre scenes in late nineteenth- and early ...