Shakespeare studies & criticism books

This revised edition investigates first-hand evidence of the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval...  Read More >>

Volume 53 of the academic journal devoted to Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama, Culture and Literature,...  Read More >>

This Element reconsiders the historical, theoretical, racial, disability, and editorial problem of genealogy by...  Read More >>

Reassesses Cartesian subjectivity as an important critical lens for the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries....  Read More >>

In What's in a name?, historian Susan Amussen traces William Shakespeare's life through early modern England to...  Read More >>

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

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

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

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

Explores typographic display and experimentation in printed play-texts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries...  Read More >>

Explores how Shakespeare uses global wisdom literatures to encourage spiritual and moral growth and the arts of...  Read More >>

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

This contextual guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra highlights the ways in which the play was shaped by...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern...  Read More >>

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

The Element traces the history of Shakespearean bibliography, arguing that understanding these is foundational...  Read More >>

A compelling blend of memoir, travelogue and investigation, Walking Shadow sheds new light on the past while Doran...  Read More >>

An immersive account of William Shakespeare’s life and legacy presented in a lavishly illustrated journal-style...  Read More >>

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This collection offers a theoretically robust interrogation of how the circulation of Shakespeare within popular...  Read More >>

Kelsey Ridge provides a thorough overview of how we can use trauma theory to understand Shakespeare through its...  Read More >>

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