Shakespeare studies & criticism books

Drawing on a variety of cultural materials, this title demonstrates that, despite the triumph of its Christians,...  Read More >>

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Feasts, banquets, and everyday meals were central to daily life in Elizabethan England, a world reflected so lavishly...  Read More >>

Offers a guide to the ornate and sometimes bewildering language of Shakespeare's plays and poetry. This work contains...  Read More >>

Macbeth is Shakespeare's stark tale of a tormented nobleman driven into a murderous plot by his ambition to assume...  Read More >>

Working from the perspective of the new economic criticism, this study uses close reading and historical contextualization...  Read More >>

Shows the effects, the ephemera, the clues and cues, welcome and unwelcome, out of which Shakespeare's admirers...  Read More >>

Contains essays, which show the outline of a Shakespeare, the effects, the ephemera, the clues and cues, welcome...  Read More >>

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Presents thirty accounts describing how some of theatre's most talented directors have brought Shakespeare's texts...  Read More >>

Focusing on Shakespeare and race, this book addresses the status of Othello in our culture. Erickson shows that...  Read More >>

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Focusing on Shakespeare and race, this book addresses the status of Othello in our culture. Erickson shows that...  Read More >>

Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact,...  Read More >>

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive...  Read More >>

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive...  Read More >>

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive...  Read More >>

The plays, theme or focus of this volume includes: < ul>< i>< li> Antony and Cleopatra< li> A Midsummer Night's...  Read More >>

Here Art Thou, True Shakespeare! This accessible new guide to Shakespeare's major plays focuses on the essence...  Read More >>

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The most striking difference between """"Othello"""" and Shakespeare's other tragedies is its more intimate scale....  Read More >>

For many, """"The Tempest"""" constitutes Shakespeare's farewell to the stage. This study guide to one of Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

This book is a collection of essays that both explores the tradition of revenge drama in Japan and compares that...  Read More >>

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