Shakespeare studies & criticism books

The classic - and most practical - guide to Shakespeare’s major plays, available in separate, pocket-format volumes...  Read More >>

The classic - and most practical - guide to Shakespeare’s major plays, available in separate, pocket-format volumes...  Read More >>

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Unrivalled practical insights into the play from one of the most influential actors and directors of Shakespeare...  Read More >>

While some criticism of ""Julius Caesar"" has stressed the corruption of the common people and the Republic's enemies...  Read More >>

This book aims to increase the pleasure of studying Shakespeare, working with the plays as the craftsman-dramatist...  Read More >>

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We read Shakespeare line by line for his supernatural mastery of all the poetic resources of the English language,...  Read More >>

This edition presents a fresh examination of the text and all the important aspects of its significance and meaning....  Read More >>

This edition of one of Shakespeare's most delightful and theatrically successful comedies offers, along with a freshly...  Read More >>

This book is an attempt to explore Shakespearean drama from the vantage point of the oppressed, invisible, and silent...  Read More >>

This volume includes reprints of the most important critical pieces of the year 1992 as suggested by an advisory...  Read More >>

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This book is an attempt to explore Shakespearean drama from the vantage point of the oppressed, invisible, and silent...  Read More >>

In this lively study of both modern film and stage productions of Shakespeare, Samuel Crowl provides fascinating...  Read More >>

Recent dramatists have rewritten some of Shakespeare's plays for the contemporary stage or modelled their drama...  Read More >>

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By combining historical scholarship with formal analysis and incorporating insights from social anthropology and...  Read More >>

Joyce Rogers sheds new light upon Shakespeare's last public words through her study of medieval and Renaissance...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Shakespeare and his favourite poet, Ovid. Examining...  Read More >>

Part of a series which provides the stage history of each Shakespeare play from the 18th century to the present....  Read More >>

Frye draws on the Aristotelian notion of reversal, or peripeteia, to analyse the three plays commonly known as the...  Read More >>

Essays on Arthurian themes, on Beowulf, Chaucer and Shakespeare, and textual studies of Gower and others.  Read More >>

"A collection of papers presented at a conference on Shakespeare translations of the 18th and 19th centuries. Coverage...  Read More >>