Shakespeare studies & criticism books

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Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings

Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings

Author: Robert White (Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English, The University of Western Australia)
ISBN: 9781399516228
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Throughout his career Shakespeare, although steeped in expert knowledge of military matters, weighted his plays...  Read More >>

Shakespeare High and Low: Character, Audience, Career

Shakespeare High and Low: Character, Audience, Career...

Author: Jeffrey Knapp (Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9781399543705
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A critically sophisticated yet highly readable exploration of Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer.  Read More >>

Directorless Shakespeare: Transformations through collective Embodied Literary Criticism

Directorless Shakespeare: Transformations through collective...

Author: Elena M. Pellone
ISBN: 9781032771885
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Challenging received scholarship on the practice of Shakespeare’s theatre, this book displaces a contemporary cultural...  Read More >>

Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England

Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England

Author: Jonathan Baldo (University of Rochester, New York) ,  Isabel Karremann (University of Zurich)
ISBN: 9781009048330
Format: Paperback
$59.49

The first collection to systematically combine the vibrant fields of memory and affect in early modern studies,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Presentism, and the Legacy of Hugh Grady

Shakespeare, Presentism, and the Legacy of Hugh Grady...

Author: Evelyn Gajowski
ISBN: 9783031886188
Format: Hardback
$448.77

This edited collection of essays analyses the contributions that presentist theory and criticism have made to the...  Read More >>

Performing Visible Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays

Performing Visible Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays...

Author: Patricia Lennox (New York University)
ISBN: 9781009624459
Format: Paperback
$46.58

This Element considers pregnant women and their costumes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays. The author focusses...  Read More >>

The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation

The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance...

Author: Louise Geddes ,  Kathryn Vomero Santos
ISBN: 9781399524926
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Redefines the ways in which performance studies and appropriation theory can be used to approach Shakespeare  Read More >>

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The State of Play

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The State of Play

Author: Professor Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania, USA) ,  Ann Thompson (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350449534
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This volume offers new critical and performance approaches to Shakespeare’s most well-known comedy of desire, a...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Theatre: The Stratford Festival

Shakespeare in the Theatre: The Stratford Festival

Author: Dr Christie Carson (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350380844
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This analysis of the Stratford Festival examines the full history of one of the largest and oldest dedicated centres...  Read More >>

The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular Theatre to Printed Book

The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular...

Author: Stephen Orgel (Stanford University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350561045
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Violence and the Early Modern Spectator

Shakespeare’s Violence and the Early Modern Spectator...

Author: Rebecca Yearling (Keele University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350565388
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This book explores how Shakespeare’s original audience might have responded to his scenes of violence and, in the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature

Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature

Author: Nicholas Taylor-Collins
ISBN: 9781526195784
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English...  Read More >>

Courteous Exchanges: Spenser's and Shakespeare's Gentle Dialogues with Readers and Audiences

Courteous Exchanges: Spenser's and Shakespeare's Gentle...

Author: Patricia Wareh
ISBN: 9781526195487
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This book offers new connections between Spenser and Shakespeare by showing how their works hone readers' and audiences'...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern Culture

Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body...

Author: Victoria Sparey
ISBN: 9781526195371
Format: Paperback
$68.99

Shakespeare's adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare's plays. Using...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Liminal Spaces: Contesting Authority on the Early Modern Stage

Shakespeare's Liminal Spaces: Contesting Authority on...

Author: Ben Haworth
ISBN: 9781526195531
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare's forests, battlefields,...  Read More >>

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