Shakespeare studies & criticism books

Shakespeare: Actors and Audiences brings together the voices of those who make productions of Shakespeare come to...  Read More >>

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Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare | Sense explores the intersection of Shakespeare and sensory studies, asking what sensation can tell...  Read More >>

An illuminating account of how Shakespeare worked through the tensions of Queen Elizabeth’s England in two canon-defining...  Read More >>

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Explores typographic display and experimentation in printed play-texts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries...  Read More >>

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook...  Read More >>

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Examines the relationship between art and politics in the work of William Shakespeare and others in the early modern...  Read More >>

Examines the relationship between art and politics in the work of William Shakespeare and others in the early modern...  Read More >>

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The textual foundations of works of great cultural significance are often less stable than one would wish them to...  Read More >>

Sir Trevor Nunn is one of the most versatile and accomplished directors in the English-speaking theatre. This book...  Read More >>

From the text of the rev. Alexander Dyce`s second edition This book, The life and death of King Richard II , by...  Read More >>

This highly original new book by a leading Shakespeare expert and cultural critic argues controversially that the...  Read More >>

Few only are the remarks absolutely needed by way of introduction to a work which within itself sufficiently explains...  Read More >>

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Tracing more than two centuries of history, Shakespeare in Montana uncovers a vast array of different voices that...  Read More >>

For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Lois Potter has written a completely new introduction, taking account...  Read More >>

Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate...  Read More >>

This collection reveals the labours of women printers and publishers, authors and editors, owners and readers in...  Read More >>

The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays, whose elements resonate even more profoundly...  Read More >>