Shakespeare studies & criticism books

The beautiful but sharp-tongued 'shrew' Katherina has sworn never to accept the demands of any would-be husband....  Read More >>

Takes both a textual and theoretical approach to seven plays of Shakespeare. Brayton Polka calls upon the Bible...  Read More >>

The Romantics invented Shakespeare studies, and in losing contact with our origins, we have not been able to develop...  Read More >>

The Power Template: Shakespeare's Political Plays is a study of Shakespeare's History and Roman Plays which identifies...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare trivia has never been more entertaining than in this purse-sized posh collection!  Read More >>

This book examines the important themes of sexuality, gender, love, and marriage in stage, literary, and film treatments...  Read More >>

In this book, Stone effects a return to gender, after many years of neglect by Twenty-First-Century critics, via...  Read More >>

Kristen Poole considers the complex, paradoxical engagements of the demonic, the divine and the spatial environments...  Read More >>

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Shylock, the Jewish moneylender in The Merchant of Venice who famously demands a pound of flesh as security for...  Read More >>

Chances are good that you've used one of the following expressions in your everyday conversations: ""Eaten me out...  Read More >>

"Chances are good that you've used one of the following expressions in your everyday conversations: ""Eaten me out...  Read More >>

ord Ferdinando Stanley was the fifth earl of Derby, a leading claimant to the throne. Considered a man who had everything,...  Read More >>

<p>Approaching the subject from a dramaturgical point of view, this investigation differs from anything that has...  Read More >>

Carter explores early modern culture's reception of Ovid through the manipulation of Ovidian myth by Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

Focuses on political, social, and aesthetic issues to reveal the influence of civic celebration on Renaissance theater....  Read More >>

At odds with the view that Shakespeare was a religious skeptic who only paid lip service to religious beliefs to...  Read More >>

Hassel examines informed allusions to familiar Pauline and Erasmian Christian passages and themes in Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

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This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays – Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra...  Read More >>

Title: Citation and examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk, before...  Read More >>

Julius Caesar is set at a crucial turning point in Roman history, as the Republican gives way to the imperial. Safely...  Read More >>

Recognized as one of the leading books in its field, The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare presents...  Read More >>

Dr Ronald Gray, Fellow of Emmanuel College, lectured at Cambridge University on German Literature and Philosophy...  Read More >>