Shakespeare studies & criticism books

The introduction to this edition of ""Troilus and Cressida"" places it in its late Elizabethan context, examines...  Read More >>

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A survey of the small supporting roles that feature in Shakespeare's plays. The author explores topics such as how...  Read More >>

This illustrated volume focused on criticisms published after 1960, providing the reader with systematic approach...  Read More >>

This edition emphasizes the theatrical qualities of Twelfth Night in both the introduction and the commentary. Where...  Read More >>

In his introduction Nicholas Brooke relates the changing fortunes of Macbeth to changes within society and the theatre...  Read More >>

In this edition of As You Like It, Alan Brissenden reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing...  Read More >>

A Midsummer Night's Dream brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there...  Read More >>

Professor Hibbard's introduction to Hamlet explains the process by which variant texts were fused together in the...  Read More >>

When Claudio breaks the new laws against vice in Vienna by getting his fiancee, Julietta, pregnant, a series of...  Read More >>

Professor Halio interprets the contradictions, inconsistencies, and complementarities of The Merchant of Venice,...  Read More >>

The Winter's Tale is notable for its tragic intensity and for its comic grace and for its poetry. This edition's...  Read More >>

Stephen Orgel's introduction examines changing attitudes to The Tempest, and reassesses the evidence behind the...  Read More >>

Introducing this edition, Arthur Humphreys provides a fresh look at the play's date and its place in the Shakespeare...  Read More >>

This study argues that Romeo and Juliet, perhaps Shakespeare’s most popularly-known play, repays thorough investigation...  Read More >>

This volume assembles papers from the Sixth World Shakespeare Congress. Four plenary lectures are also printed....  Read More >>

"The Shakespeare Handbooks provide a helpful, straightforward guide to the work of the world's most celebrated dramatist....  Read More >>

In this topically arranged collection of Shakespeare quotations, the largest of its kind, writers and speakers can...  Read More >>

This collection of essays reassesses a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. The plays...  Read More >>

This collection of essays reassesses a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. The plays...  Read More >>

This work looks at the philosophical basis of Shakespeare's play. It highlights the Neoplatonic structure and the...  Read More >>

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The author critiques the methodology and assumptions of many new historicist, Marxist, and deconstructive approaches...  Read More >>

The author critiques the methodology and assumptions of many new historicist, Marxist, and deconstructive approaches...  Read More >>

This illustrated volume focused on criticisms published after 1960, providing the reader with systematic approach...  Read More >>