Shakespeare studies & criticism books

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Shakespeare's Insults: A Pragmatic Dictionary

Shakespeare's Insults: A Pragmatic Dictionary

Author: Dr Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (University of Montpellier III Paul Valery, France)
ISBN: 9780826498335
Format: Hardback
$350.00

A detailed analysis of how Shakespeare's insults become integrated into his dramatic art and how they mirror Elizabethan...  Read More >>

Romeo and Juliet: A Critical Reader

Romeo and Juliet: A Critical Reader

Author: Julia Reinhard Lupton (University of California, Irvine, USA)
ISBN: 9781474216364
Format: Hardback
$180.00

""The subject matter of these essays is rich and diverse, ranging across the play's philosophical identification...  Read More >>

Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach

Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred...

Author: Professor Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University, USA) ,  Laura Turchi (University of Houston, USA)
ISBN: 9781472599629
Format: Hardback
$220.00

What does it mean to teach Shakespeare with purpose? It means freeing teachers from the notion that teaching Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Figurative Design in Hamlet: The Significance of the Dumb Show

Figurative Design in Hamlet: The Significance of the...

Author: Lee Sheridan Cox
ISBN: 9780814253168
Format: Paperback
$63.23

Critics have long debated the significance of the dumb show in Hamlet. There is a wide divergence of opinion on...  Read More >>

Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene

Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene...

Author: Craig Dionne
ISBN: 9780692641576
Format: Paperback
$55.44

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The Methuen Book of Shakespeare Anecdotes

The Methuen Book of Shakespeare Anecdotes

Author: Ralph Berry
ISBN: 9781138659568
Format: Hardback
$189.00

A selection of anecdotes following the path of Shakespeare's plays as they have been produced on stages throughout...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Bones: The Proposal to Disinter Them, Considered in Relation to Their Possible Bearing on His Portraiture

Shakespeare's Bones: The Proposal to Disinter Them,...

Author: C M Ingleby
ISBN: 9781530216888
Format: Paperback
$18.45

An excerpt from the introductory. THE sentiment which affects survivors in the disposition of their dead, and which...  Read More >>

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781530155491
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Part of The New Penguin Shakespeare series, this text looks at A Midsummer Night's Dream with an introduction,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Storytellers

Shakespeare's Storytellers

Author: Barbara Hardy
ISBN: 9780720609639
Format: Hardback
$72.95

The noted British literary scholar turns her attention to the rarely examined topic of narrative in the plays and...  Read More >>

Translation, Poetics, and the Stage: Six French Hamlets

Translation, Poetics, and the Stage: Six French Hamlets...

Author: Romy Heylen
ISBN: 9781138986053
Format: Paperback
$94.99

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Shakespeare's Sonnets: An Original-Spelling Text

Shakespeare's Sonnets: An Original-Spelling Text

Author: Paul Hammond (Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9780198728016
Format: Paperback
$72.95

Shakespeare's Sonnets are the most famous and controversial love poems in the English language. This book is both...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Prop Room: An Inventory

Shakespeare's Prop Room: An Inventory

Author: John Leland ,  Alan Baragona
ISBN: 9781476663364
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Provides the first comprehensive examination of every prop in Shakespeare's plays, whether mentioned in stage directions,...  Read More >>

Acting Shakespeare

Acting Shakespeare

Author: Bertram Leon Joseph
ISBN: 9781138965867
Format: Paperback
$98.99

Starting with how theatrical speech was understood in Renaissance England, this book looks at figures of speech,...  Read More >>

Hamlet's Fictions

Hamlet's Fictions

Author: Maurice Charney
ISBN: 9781138975651
Format: Paperback
$62.99

This text emphasizes Hamlet's fantasies and imaginations rather than ethical criteria and the depiction of Hamlet...  Read More >>

Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance: 1550–1700

Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance: 1550–1700...

Author: Susan Wiseman (Birkbeck, University of London)
ISBN: 9781316507629
Format: Paperback
$82.80

Wiseman explores the transformations of fantastic creatures including werewolves and wild children in English Renaissance...  Read More >>

I Love Shakespeare: 400 Fantastic Facts

I Love Shakespeare: 400 Fantastic Facts

Author: Warren King
ISBN: 9781841656960
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Did you know that one of Shakespeare’s relatives was executed for plotting against Elizabeth I? Or that Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Literary Lives: The Author as Character in Fiction and Film

Shakespeare's Literary Lives: The Author as Character...

Author: Paul Franssen (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781107125612
Format: Hardback
$276.86

In this book, Franssen investigates the appearance of Shakespeare as a character in later literary genres, periods...  Read More >>

Women of Will

Women of Will

Author: Tina Packer ,  Nigel Gore
ISBN: 9781511385350
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$224.37

"""Women of Will,"" a narrative combining trenchant analysis and riveting scenes, explores the themes of love, loss,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier the woman behind Shakespeare's plays?

Shakespeare's Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier the woman...

Author: John Hudson
ISBN: 9781445655246
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Amelia Bassano Lanier is proved to be a strong candidate for authorship of Shakespeare's plays: Hudson looks at...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Elephant in Darkest England

Shakespeare's Elephant in Darkest England

Author: Wes Jamroz
ISBN: 9781928060031
Format: Paperback
$52.67

A fascinating narrative is hidden within Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare's Elephant in Darkest England summarizes...  Read More >>

Desire and Anxiety (Routledge Revivals): Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama

Desire and Anxiety (Routledge Revivals): Circulations...

Author: Valerie Traub
ISBN: 9781138804432
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In both feminist theory and Shakespearean criticism, questions of sexuality have consistently been conflated with...  Read More >>

Shakespeare the Renaissance Humanist: Moral Philosophy and His Plays

Shakespeare the Renaissance Humanist: Moral Philosophy...

Author: Anthony Raspa
ISBN: 9781137581112
Format: Hardback
$290.37

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Color Me Shakespeare

Color Me Shakespeare

Author: Donna Ledbetter
ISBN: 9780996557924
Format: Paperback
$32.60

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