Shakespeare studies & criticism books

This book of the best quotes from Shakespeare's Hamlet with explanations of what they mean in context of the play...  Read More >>

Apart from readings of Shakespeare's plays and poems, this book maps Renaissance contexts of his art in politics,...  Read More >>

Hamlet, Shakespeare’s most famous play, is now available in an all-new, illustrated Norton Critical Edition.  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic...  Read More >>

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By the beginning of the Twentieth Century, almost anyone in England who knew anything about Shakespeare knew that...  Read More >>

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

Shakespeare’s Last Plays was the first of E. M. W. Tilyard’s influential works on Shakespeare. In it, Dr Tilyard...  Read More >>

Coriolanus has always attracted strong interest, whether seen as the last of Shakespeare’s tragedies, or as his...  Read More >>

It is a commonplace of Shakespeare criticism that he invented few of the plots of his plays and the sources he drew...  Read More >>

In devoting a whole book to Measure for Measure Miss Lascelles has expressed her conviction that in no other way...  Read More >>

A major interpretative account of Shakespeare's play, this is a close scrutiny which will engage readers directly...  Read More >>

Examines the historic and religious context surrounding the work of William Shakespeare.  Read More >>

This book considers the impact of the eighteenth century on Shakespeare, and vice versa. It describes how actors,...  Read More >>

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

The main argument in this book is that Shakespeare's work is of such intense vitality that it is always modern....  Read More >>

This book considers the impact of the eighteenth century on Shakespeare, and vice versa. It describes how actors,...  Read More >>

This essential study takes a fresh look at four of Shakespeare's major History plays. Part I uses carefully selected...  Read More >>

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Demonstrating how the lost lexicon of fashionable late Renaissance alchemy imbued Shakespeare's bawdy sonnets and...  Read More >>

Conceptualizing the curse as the representation of a foundational, mythical violence that is embedded within juridical...  Read More >>

Using the interactions of a range of English Renaissance plays with ancient and Renaissance rhetorics, this study...  Read More >>

The inner design of Shakespeare plays is invisible to a merely rational mind or a speculative intellect. This is...  Read More >>

Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this is the first edition for over a hundred years...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking piece of scholarly detective work uncovers in more detail than in any other study the hidden...  Read More >>