Shakespeare studies & criticism books

This year's volume begins an annual series of articles discussing the state of scholarship on drama being performed...  Read More >>

This companion volume to ""Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen"" sets out to rescue Shakespearean studies from the increasingly...  Read More >>

The majority of Shakespeare's plays have at least one clown figure making an appearance. Videbaek examines even...  Read More >>

A feminist analysis of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Dusinberre argues that Puritan teaching...  Read More >>

This piece of scholarly detective work uncovers in more detail than in any other study the hidden history of the...  Read More >>

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

When Victor Cahn's Shakespeare the Playwright was issued in 1991, it was highly recommended for any general public...  Read More >>

Lisa Jardine re-reads Renaissance drama in its historical and cultural context, from laws of defamation in Othello...  Read More >>

Lisa Jardine re-reads Renaissance drama in its historical and cultural context, from laws of defamation in Othello...  Read More >>

Challenging our understanding of ideas about psychology in Shakespeare's time, Shakespeare's Imagined Persons proposes...  Read More >>

REA's MAXnotes for William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I The MAXnotes offers a comprehensive summary and analysis...  Read More >>

REA's MAXnotes for William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night The MAXnotes offers a comprehensive summary and analysis...  Read More >>

REA's MAXnotes for William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream The MAXnotes offers a comprehensive summary...  Read More >>

A how-to book which describes how to develop fully-realized characters in Shakespeare's comedies. The book contains...  Read More >>

This book tells the story of Shakespeare on the English stage - 400 years of dramatic history, from the vital, competitive...  Read More >>

This book examines the links between William Shakespeare and the Italian theater of marionette, burattini, and pupi,...  Read More >>

Powerful new readings of the Shakespearean tragic hero.  Read More >>

Fools of Time will be welcomed not only by many scholars who are familiar with Dr. Frye's keen critical insight...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Romans are intensely concerned with 'constancy'. Geoffrey Miles traces the Stoic origins of this Roman...  Read More >>

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Fools of Time will be welcomed not only by many scholars who are familiar with Dr. Frye's keen critical insight...  Read More >>

This text focuses on Hamlet - its success with Elizabethan audiences, and its position as one of Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

An analysis of the critical and dramatic significance of Shakespeare's revisions. Analysing such plays as Hamlet,...  Read More >>