Shakespeare studies & criticism books

First published in 1990, this title explores the nature of the interaction between Shakespeare and American culture....  Read More >>

Hazlitt's lively, opinionated and, in his own time, highly controversial essays on each of Shakespeare's plays are...  Read More >>

This book examines the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries from the perspective of the period’s radically...  Read More >>

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William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew has succeeded in surviving in contemporary culture, and has even managed...  Read More >>

Argues that seven plays - The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of...  Read More >>

[...]Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestick wisdom. It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Left and Right brings together critics, strikingly different in their politics and methodologies, who...  Read More >>

This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in...  Read More >>

Edward de Vere the 17th Earl of Oxford was a generous patron of writers, actors and musicians in the London of Queen...  Read More >>

Contributors to this volume examine the question of transmission and of the educational procedures in16th- and 17th-century...  Read More >>

Brief Chronicles is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal dedicated to examining the Shakespeare authorship...  Read More >>

Preferring a life of spiritual contemplation, Henry VI leaves politics to his nobles. The resulting power struggle...  Read More >>

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and...  Read More >>

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This challenging and lively volume contains essays by Stephen Greenblatt, Elaine Showalter, Jonathan Goldberg, Stanley...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Montaigne is a classic Shakespeare studies text by Jacob Feis. It has always been a daring venture...  Read More >>

One of Shakespeare's late romances - along with Pericles, The Tempest and The Winter's Tale - Cymbeline tells three...  Read More >>

""The version of The winter's tale and the corresponding footnotes that appear in this volume were originally published...  Read More >>

The first book-length study examining how the Shakespearean theatre shaped attitudes about primogeniture, one of...  Read More >>

The author shows the English poet's genius in reshaping materials from an Italian neoclassical play to his own Romantic...  Read More >>

Northrop Frye has proven to be one of the most important literary theorists of contemporary literary criticism....  Read More >>

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In Shakespeare's Tragedies: All That Matters, Michael Scott explores and explains the secrets that have made Shakespeare's...  Read More >>