Shakespeare studies & criticism books

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

This is the first book to offer a pan-European analysis of Macbeth adaptations across a range of media in the long...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive study of Shakespearean ballets and their unique interpretive possibilities.  Read More >>

Set during the civil wars of 19th-century Yorubaland, Crown of Blood is a powerful retelling of the classic Macbeth....  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers...  Read More >>

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare's play The Merchant...  Read More >>

An exploration of displacement and exile in Shakespeare's plays and our world today. This compelling collection...  Read More >>

An exploration of displacement and exile in Shakespeare's plays and our world today. This compelling collection...  Read More >>

This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights...  Read More >>

This book situates Tilney’s intelligence manual in the emerging genre that developed around intelligence gathering...  Read More >>

How Shakespeare's exploration of central human questions-about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong-explains...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Senses explores how audiences of Shakespeare’s time would have understood the sensual world...  Read More >>

This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout...  Read More >>

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

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

Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain  Read More >>