Shakespeare studies & criticism books

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Renaissance ideas of honour had a profound influence on the English people who formed Shakespeare’s audiences. In...  Read More >>

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This Companion thoroughly covers Shakespeare's works, times, life, and legacy. Now revised and updated to commemorate...  Read More >>

Hillman explores English tragedy in relation to France with a frank concentration on Shakespeare. He sets out to...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Book Trade follows on from Lukas Erne's groundbreaking Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist to...  Read More >>

This book opens up the rich range of meanings made available by these vitally important terms and offers a fresh...  Read More >>

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Each volume of Short Stories for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary...  Read More >>

A Lover's Complaint is a narrative poem published as an appendix to the original edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets....  Read More >>

This volume introduces ‘civic Shakespeare’ as a category entailing the relation between the individual and the community...  Read More >>

How Shakespeare Came to Write the Tempest is a classic Shakespeare studies text by Rudyard Kipling. Mr. Kipling's...  Read More >>

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This book explores the significance of Shakespeare in contemporary world cinema for the first time. Mark Thornton...  Read More >>

In The Shakespearean Stage Space, Mariko Ichikawa explores the original staging of plays by Shakespeare and his...  Read More >>

The Riverside text is used in this case study of Hamlet - probably the most frequently studied of all Shakespeare...  Read More >>

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In this groundbreaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores early modern occult beliefs and their relation to women...  Read More >>

This lively and accessible collection of essays explores the ways Shakespeare and his contemporaries imagined literature's...  Read More >>

Environmental Degradation in Jacobean Drama provides the first general history of the Shakespearean stage to focus...  Read More >>

Before Shakespeare is our contemporary he is the contemporary of late-medieval European culture, self-consciously...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Cognition challenges orthodox approaches to Shakespeare by using recent psychological findings about...  Read More >>

"Shakespeare's mother is a Tudor. His brother lives at St Albans. He spells his name with the ""i"" of Miranda....  Read More >>

Originally published in 1925, Kellner’s work explores the reasons and potential mistakes which may account for the...  Read More >>

Ant. He shall not liue; looke, with a spot I dam him. But Lepidus, go you to Caesars house: Fetch the Will hither,...  Read More >>