Shakespeare studies & criticism books

Helps users contexutalize Renaissance drama, while providing explanatory notes to the play.  Read More >>

In modern life we are all too familiar with ideas of image and celebrity. This highly original study investigates...  Read More >>

Bringing Shakespeare back to life  Read More >>

Theological and psychological interpretations of Shakespeare’s most problematic play have been pursued as complementary...  Read More >>

Hunter shows how Shakespeare uses the major attitudes toward God’s judgment in creating Richard III, Hamlet, Othello,...  Read More >>

With an eye toward Shakespeare’s inherited resources for articulating anxieties rooted in philosophical doubt, Skulsky...  Read More >>

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Jonathan Gil Harris challenges the way we conventionally understand physical objects. Turning to Renaissance theories...  Read More >>

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This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Volumes...  Read More >>

Helps students contextualize Renaissance drama, while providing explanatory notes to the play.  Read More >>

Shakespeare studies have been dominated by theoretical approaches derived from extra-literary disciplines: Marxist,...  Read More >>

Assembles a composite picture of Shakespeare's afterlives in media and cultural imagination. This title provides...  Read More >>

An account of the value of experience and emotion in reading Shakespeare's sonnets and of the importance of reading...  Read More >>

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An account of the value of experience and emotion in reading Shakespeare's sonnets and of the importance of reading...  Read More >>

Revising our understanding of music's relationship to language and literature in Renaissance England.  Read More >>

Part of the eighteen-volume series Great Shakespeareans , this title covers the work of nineteen key figures who...  Read More >>

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New York Times bestselling author Bryson explores the life and works of William Shakespeare and offers humorous...  Read More >>

This is the culmination of Harold Bloom's life work in reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. It is his...  Read More >>

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After the breakdown of civilization during the Holocaust, Shakespeares Merchant of Venice quickly regained its traditional...  Read More >>

The essays in this collection query the nature of education, the nature of citizenship in a democracy, and the roles...  Read More >>