Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This essential study takes a fresh look at four of Shakespeare's major History plays. Part I uses carefully selected...  Read More >>

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Demonstrating how the lost lexicon of fashionable late Renaissance alchemy imbued Shakespeare's bawdy sonnets and...  Read More >>

Conceptualizing the curse as the representation of a foundational, mythical violence that is embedded within juridical...  Read More >>

"*Includes pictures of Machiavelli and some of the rulers he discusses throughout the book. *Explains the historical...  Read More >>

Meditations on those entities the audience does not see—and their profound significance in the theater  Read More >>

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Using the interactions of a range of English Renaissance plays with ancient and Renaissance rhetorics, this study...  Read More >>

The inner design of Shakespeare plays is invisible to a merely rational mind or a speculative intellect. This is...  Read More >>

Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this is the first edition for over a hundred years...  Read More >>

Meditations on those entities the audience does not see—and their profound significance in the theater  Read More >>

This groundbreaking piece of scholarly detective work uncovers in more detail than in any other study the hidden...  Read More >>

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A comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This...  Read More >>

Ranging from Garrick's Macbeth in the 1740s to the World Shakespeare Festival in 2012, this is an engaging account...  Read More >>

An excerpt from the Introduction: Critical. It will hardly, I conceive, be demanded that one who has made...  Read More >>

Charting the ruthless rise and fall of the villainous king, Richard III remains one of Shakespeare's most enduringly...  Read More >>

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The essays comprising the special section of The Shakespearean International Yearbook, Volume 13 demonstrates the...  Read More >>

"*Includes a short biography of Shakespeare. *Explains the historical sources that inspired the story of Romeo...  Read More >>

In the beginning of the 21st century, European theatre-makers have sought to consider the disastrous events of the...  Read More >>

In 1586 a book about letter writing called The English Secretary burst upon England as a best seller that defined...  Read More >>

"*Includes a short biography of Shakespeare. *Explains the historical sources that inspired the plots of Hamlet...  Read More >>