Shakespeare studies & criticism books

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

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

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 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 >>

This book explores the nature and wide-ranging impact of the work of Jean-François Ducis, the first adaptor of Hamlet...  Read More >>

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

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

This edition is the first that treats Hamlet as the work of a philosophical poet concerned with knowing the nature...  Read More >>

Introduces mirrors as material and metaphorical agents of early modern theatricality whose presence in the playhouse...  Read More >>

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

The first study of the European Shakespeare Festivals Network (ESFN) during a five-year period of rising nationalism,...  Read More >>

The first dedicated historical study of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, this book explores the troupe’s four major...  Read More >>

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