Shakespeare studies & criticism books

Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot...  Read More >>

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This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original...  Read More >>

Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot...  Read More >>

"""Readers of Dante and Shakespeare have commented through the last two centuries on the parallels between the two...  Read More >>

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Making a case for Hamlet as the world's most frequently filmed text, and using specially commissioned interviews...  Read More >>

Selected papers from the first seven Othello's Island Conferences held in Nicosia, Cyprus on medieval and early...  Read More >>

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Charting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this book explores how recognition of...  Read More >>

""This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare....  Read More >>

Argues that Shakespeare's plays present """"secularization"""" not only as a historical narrative of progress but...  Read More >>

This volume of essays contributes to current debates about Shakespeare in new media. It importantly develops the...  Read More >>

What do ‘stage directions’ do in early modern drama? Who or what are they directing: action on the stage, or imagination...  Read More >>

Through an examination of five plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield analyses the contiguous development of common...  Read More >>

Explores nostalgia for the medieval past in early modern popular entertainment, bringing together plays by Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

No theatre company has been involved in such a broad range of adaptations for television and cinema as the Royal...  Read More >>

One of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage, Othello is a story of revenge, illusion, passion, mistrust,...  Read More >>

One of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage, Othello is a story of revenge, illusion, passion, mistrust,...  Read More >>

Features a duke who is so anxious about the decline in the moral quality of his subjects' lives that he temporarily...  Read More >>

For an author who tended to avoid explicitly Christian subjects in his plays and poems, Shakespeare showed an abiding...  Read More >>

Passion divides and unites a spirited pair of lovers in a 16th-century battle of the sexes. Witty dialogue and slapstick...  Read More >>

The duke's authoritarian deputy, Angelo, is hell-bent on stamping out moral decay, reactivating outdated draconian...  Read More >>

Othello is a noble Moor, a North African Muslim who has converted to Christianity and is deemed one of the Venetian...  Read More >>

When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where...  Read More >>