Shakespeare studies & criticism books

Discusses embarrassment not merely as a condition but as a weapon and as the wound the weapon inflicts  Read More >>

Throwing fresh light on a much discussed but still controversial field, this collection of essays places the presence...  Read More >>

Explores the fascination of Shakespeare and Milton with the ability of music - heard, imagined, or remembered -...  Read More >>

This issue marks the 10th anniversary of The Shakespearean International Yearbook. On this occasion, the special...  Read More >>

Setting out to offer perspectives to a traditional topic, this collection fills a gap in the literature, addressing...  Read More >>

Spanning the period from Elizabeth I's reign to Charles II's restoration, this study argues the garden is a primary...  Read More >>

The first collection devoted specifically to green Shakespeare, this volume engages with pressing environmental...  Read More >>

Honoring Shakespearean scholar Michael Neill, this eleventh issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook assesses...  Read More >>

Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and the complexities of religious culture, this...  Read More >>

Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published...  Read More >>

That Shakespeare thematized time thoroughly, almost obsessively, in his plays is well established: time is, among...  Read More >>

Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance features essays questioning the...  Read More >>

Measure for Measure, Malcontent and other disguised ruler plays are typically interpreted as synchronic political...  Read More >>

Though representations of alien languages on the early modern stage have usually been read as mocking, xenophobic,...  Read More >>

An exploration of how and why the G8 and other institutions of global governance deal with increasingly comprehensive...  Read More >>

Presents a study thats sheds light on the connection between the treatment of war in Shakespeare's plays and the...  Read More >>

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First published in 1986. 'Impressively open to the complexity of cultural discourses, to the ways in which one discursive...  Read More >>

First published in 1951. The edition reprints the second, updated, edition, of 1977. When first published this...  Read More >>

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First published in 1982. Macbeth exercises a strange influence over readers and theatre audiences: the words of...  Read More >>

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First published in 1961. On her death, Professor Ellis-Fermor left behind some uncollected essays and part of a...  Read More >>