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This edited collection offers the first in-depth analysis and sourcebook for 'Lockdown Shakespeare'. It brings together scholars of stage, screen, early modern and adaptation studies to examine the work that…
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From their inception, 'low culture' comics have intersected with the 'high culture' of Shakespeare. This is the first book-length collection dedicated entirely to the exploration of this collision.
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Anonymous
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Walter W Skeat
Mark Fortier
Shakespeare and Law is a reading of law and legal issues within the works of William Shakespeare. The book shows that the central issues of Shakespeare's time are similar to…
Samuel Crowl
In this fresh linkage between two forms of powerful play, Samuel Crowl interweaves an exploration of Shakespeare and baseball with his own experience as a Shakespeare professor for almost fifty…
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William Shakespeare
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Martin Bodek
It be the Passover Haggadah, as Shakespeare would hast writ it, hadst the idea occurred to him.
Art thee a teenager? Most wondrous. How about a tweenager? Coequal better. Perhaps…
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This volume offers a comprehensive array of readings of 'skin' in Shakespeare's works, a term that embraces the human and animal, noun and verb.
Shakespeare / Skin departs from previous…
Sean McEvoy
Shakespeare: The Basics is a lively and accessible introduction to reading and studying Shakespeare. Exploring all aspects of Shakespeare's plays, Sean McEvoy considers the language, cultural contexts, and modern interpretations.
Shakespeare and the Political: Elizabethan Politics and Asian Exigencies is a collection of essays which show how selected Shakespearean plays and later adaptations engage with the political situations of the…
Explores how Shakespeare uses global wisdom literatures to encourage spiritual and moral growth and the arts of living in a connected world
David Anonby
This cutting-edge book explores Shakespeare's negotiation of Reformation controversy about theories of salvation. While twentieth century literary criticism tended to regard Shakespeare as a harbinger of secularism, the so-called "turn…
Professor Richard Schoch
In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 - known colloquially as the 'Birthplace' - remains the chief shrine. It's…
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Peter Ackroyd
Offers a biography of Shakespeare, this book reads like the work of a contemporary meeting Shakespeare. It is a depiction of the world Shakespeare inhabited.
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Jean-Louis CLARET
This study investigates the capacity of Shakespeare's texts - obviously destined for stage performances - to generate mental images and mental colours. Jean-Louis Claret, both a Shakespeare professor at Aix-Marseille…
Erica Sheen
In this wide-ranging study, Erica Sheen explores the various ways in which Shakespeare, or the idea of Shakespeare, was entangled in literary, cultural, political and diplomatic, legal, and economic attempts…
Victoria Sparey
Shakespeare's adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare's plays. Using early modern medical knowledge, the book unpacks complexities that surrounded the cultural and theatrical representations of the…
Greg Doran
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This book charts the personal and professional journey of Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2012 until 2022 and…
Iris Julia Buehrle
This monograph is the first history of ballets based on William Shakespeare's works from the birth of ballet as an independent art form in the eighteenth century to the present…
Edward Evans
Clear mirrors and scripture in English, revolutionary innovations of the Elizabethan age, inspired Shakespeare's drive towards a new purpose for drama.
Philip Goldfarb Styrt
Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under Biden is the first case study in applying the lessons of Shakespeare's plays to post-Trump America.
Tim Crouch
Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, and The Tempest... in a way you've never seen them before.
Away from the rest of their plays, Malvolio, Cinna, Peaseblossom…
Koom Kankesan
Teenagers Isabel, Suresh, and Nathan go back in time to 1613 when Shakespeare's Globe Theatre burned down to ensure that all of Shakespeare's plays burn with it, so students never…
Madelyn Rose Craig, William Shakespeare
This new edition of Macbeth includes helpful annotations, unique illustrations, and a commentary on the birds hidden in this fascinating play.
Macbeth is a tale of witches, deception, secrecy, and…
Ramie Targoff
A vividly drawn Joint biography of four extraordinary Renaissance women writers who have been rescued from obscurity by scholar and critically acclaimed author, Ramie Targoff.
What is (a) play? How do Shakespeare's plays engage with and represent early modern modes of play - from jests and games to music, spectacle, movement, animal-baiting and dance? How…
All the world's a stage in this fun and strategic family board game based on Shakespeare's life and plays
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Daniel Gallimore
Offering the first book-length study in English on Tsubouchi and Shakespeare, Gallimore offers an overview of the theory and practice of Tsubouchi's Shakespeare translation and argues for Tsubouchi's place as…
Chris Laoutaris
'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed' FINANCIAL TIMES
Shakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of 'space' in and through Shakespeare's plays, as well as to the material, cognitive and virtual spaces in which they are…
Douglas J. King
Based on solid research and clear explanations, this book provides a thorough and up-to-date analysis of 10 key facts and fictions regarding the life and works of William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare…
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to…
This edition features an attractive bonded-leather binding, distinctive gilt edging and decorative endpapers.
Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, but embraces theoretical…
Sky Gilbert
Shakespeare Lied is Sky Gilbert's second rumination on Shakespeare to be published by Guernica Editions. It places 'the bard' at the centre of present day debates over 'political correctness'. James…
The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to…
The Poems of William Shakespeare, Volume I
The Phoenix and the Turtle is an allegorical poem about the death of ideal love by William Shakespeare. It is widely considered to be one of his most obscure works…
The real Timon of Athens lived there in the fifth century BCE, making him a contemporary of Socrates and Pericles. Shakespeare presents Timon as a figure who suffers such profound…
Titus Andronicus is the earliest tragedy and the earliest Roman play attributed to Shakespeare. Titus, a model Roman, has led twenty-one of his twenty-five sons to death in Rome's wars…
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an…