Shakespeare studies & criticism books

While gaps in the biographical record for William Shakespeare continue to confound literary scholars, McCrea here...  Read More >>

Since the late Meiji period, Shakespeare has held a central place in Japanese literary culture. This work considers...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare as an actor and Roman Catholic is an outsider in an early modern Protestant state in the process of...  Read More >>

These volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. This finely crafted series offers the works...  Read More >>

At head of title: Folger Shakespeare library.  Read More >>

New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes...  Read More >>

This second edition of Macbeth offers a thorough reconsideration of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. Edited...  Read More >>

In what sense did Shakespeare’s representation of the Weird Sisters participate in the rewriting of village witchcraft?...  Read More >>

A comprehensive treatment of Shakespeare's plays, The Practical Shakespeare: The Plays in Practice and on the Page...  Read More >>

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This book provides a comparative analysis of Shakespeare's reception and translation in Japan and Germany. It explicitly...  Read More >>

This study argues the influence of Plato's political thought on Shakespeare's Roman works. It contends that Plato's...  Read More >>

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In this revisionist history of comic characterization, Karen Newman argues that, contrary to received opinion, Shakespeare...  Read More >>

The scene-by-scene commentary considers The Winter's Tale in isolation, but prologue, epilogue and appendix place...  Read More >>

This book shows the dramatic strategies of scenic repetition and character separation. It traces the way in which...  Read More >>

Studying Shakespeare's 'art of preparation', this book illustrates the relationship between the techniques of preparation...  Read More >>

Perhaps more than any other play of Shakespeare's King Lear has been subjected to almost totally contradictory interpretations....  Read More >>

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The main argument in this book is that Shakespeare's work is of such intense vitality that it is always modern....  Read More >>

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