Shakespeare studies & criticism books

Aims to promote sophisticated literary analysis through the concept of character. This study demonstrates the necessity...  Read More >>

Aims to promote sophisticated literary analysis through the concept of character. This study demonstrates the necessity...  Read More >>

Includes an introductory overview of the text of ""Othello"". This guide includes: a discussion of the background...  Read More >>

Provides an introductory overview of the text of ""Othello"". This guide includes: a discussion of the background...  Read More >>

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet and playwright, now widely regarded as the greatest writer in...  Read More >>

Of Shakespeare's sonnets we know and appreciate many details. By contrast, we know very little of their subjects...  Read More >>

'You speak a language that I understand not.' Hermione's words to Leontes in The Winter's Tale are likely to ring...  Read More >>

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Part of a series of graphic novels based on the translated texts of the plays found in the No Fear Shakespeare guides....  Read More >>

There is a mountain of work on Shakespeare's comedies but very little on what, in all the plays, can be described...  Read More >>

Explores the cultural meanings, especially the gendered meanings, of material associated with oral traditions. This...  Read More >>

Part of the ""Barnes & Noble Shakespeare"" series, this title brings us the feisty Katherina (the 'Shrew' of the...  Read More >>

Although often classed as one of Shakespeare's romantic comedies, this play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic...  Read More >>

Sheds light on developments in science, ethics, law, and religion in contemporary culture. This book reveals peculiarity...  Read More >>

Examines the developments in early modern culture as it sought to come to terms with the forces of magic, astrology,...  Read More >>

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This book is astudy ofAs You Like It,which shows how the play represents issues of interest to literate playgoers...  Read More >>

The book advances the idea that American, Southern, white, planter class authors have appropriated models and modes...  Read More >>

This book offers the first sustained examination of fatness in the early modern period. Using readings of such major...  Read More >>

Provides a survey of issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. This volume contains essays which...  Read More >>

Suitable for those beginning detailed study of ""Twelfth Night"".  Read More >>

Suggests that textual mediators have a positive rather than negative role and that they are collaborators who can...  Read More >>

Shakespeare: A Life in Art brings together in a single volume Fraser's previously published two-volume biography...  Read More >>

Brings together the scholarship of dozens of commentators who have written about Shakespeare's Sonnets over the...  Read More >>

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>