Shakespeare studies & criticism books

A quite wonderful ideaSo blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly...  Read More >>

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume....  Read More >>

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A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly,...  Read More >>

Reproduces the First Folio of the plays of William Shakespeare (1623) letter for letter, dot for dot, but does so...  Read More >>

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Over the past three decades, no critical movement has been more prominent in Shakespeare Studies than new historicism....  Read More >>

This book seeks to invert Ben Jonson’s claim that Shakespeare had ‘small Latin and less Greek’ and to prove that,...  Read More >>

This volume investigates the early modern understanding of twinship, discussing twins appearing in anatomy tracts,...  Read More >>

What can the Globe Theatre tell us about performing Shakespeare? Unearthing Shakespeare is the first book to consider...  Read More >>

What can the Globe Theatre tell us about performing Shakespeare? Unearthing Shakespeare is the first book to consider...  Read More >>

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This book examines the two-way influence between Shakespeare and his company's main competitors in the 1590s, the...  Read More >>

Through his study of the adaptations, Biberman pinpoints aspects of behavior and psychology that no longer ring...  Read More >>

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Part of the series Shakespeare in the Theatre, this book examines the work of renowned theatre director Nicholas...  Read More >>

The Arden Shakespeare Dictionary on Shakespeare and National Identity makes a timely and valuable contribution to...  Read More >>

First published in 1991, this book is the first annotated bibliography of feminist Shakespeare criticism from 1975...  Read More >>

Eat, Pray, Love meets The Rosie Project in this fresh, heartwarming memoir by a man who travels to Verona and volunteers...  Read More >>

""This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare....  Read More >>

Spenser and Shakespeare both wrote with epic scope, a comprehensive view of human nature, but their characters and...  Read More >>

An accessible, enjoyable, occasionally speculative study based on a vast amount of research into some of Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

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This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and...  Read More >>

This book traces the formation and impact of the New Shakspere Society, created in 1873, which dedicated itself...  Read More >>