Shakespeare studies & criticism books

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In this study of Shakespeare's ten early comedies, from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night , the concept of a...  Read More >>

This volume contains the essence of over three hundred well-known literary critics who, between 1661 and 1947, considered...  Read More >>

Providing a detailed and rigorous analysis of Richard III, this Commentary reveals every nuance of meaning whilst...  Read More >>

On her death, Professor Ellis-Fermor left behind some uncollected essays and part of a book on Shakespeare the Dramatist....  Read More >>

This volume explores the function of verse in drama and the developing way in which Shakespeare controlled the rhetorical...  Read More >>

This volume gives as complete an account as possible of the Shakespearian experience, particularly in terms of one...  Read More >>

The imagery of field sports - of hawking, hunting, shooting and fishing - and the associated imagery of warfare...  Read More >>

Outlining methods and techniques for reading Shakespeare's plays, Roland Frye explores and develops a comprehensive...  Read More >>

The Shakespeare Claimants is a critical survey of the great controversy that has raged over the authorship of the...  Read More >>

This book discusses the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration in the plays of Edward III, The Two Noble Kinsmen,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Early Tragedies contains studies of six plays: Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Richard...  Read More >>

In the seven plays on which the book concentrates, Terence Hawkes finds Shakespeare investigating the operation...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's God investigates whether a religious interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedies is possible. The study...  Read More >>

An invaluable introduction to Shakespeare, this book places Shakespeare's work and criticism against the background...  Read More >>

This book examines the areas of plays that are dependent upon the art of the theatre and the fluidity of interpretation...  Read More >>

This book discovers what the sources to Shakespeare's Comedies and Tragedies really were and considers the dramatic...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Dramatic Heritage shows that the drama of Elizabethan and Jacobean England is deeply indebted to the...  Read More >>

The opening chapter traces the history of the term 'problem plays' as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more...  Read More >>

How do the elements of swearing and perjury work in Shakespeare's plays? What effect did Shakespeare intend when...  Read More >>

What is the relation between the language being heard and the picture being exhibited on the stage ? Typically there...  Read More >>

Critiquing the critics, and examining the vocabulary of twentieth century criticism of the Shakespearean tragedies,...  Read More >>

This study argues that the plays of Shakespeare must be studied by comparison with each other and not as separate...  Read More >>

This study removes some of the critical puzzles that Shakespeare's comedies of love have posed in the past. The...  Read More >>

First published in 1980. At their most successful, Shakespeare's styles are strategies to make plain the limits...  Read More >>