Shakespeare

The definitive scholarly edition of Shakespeare's poems and sonnets...

Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been surprisingly little explored in scholarship. Analyzing plays by Shakespeare as well as other early modern dramatists, Lisa Hopk..

When first published this book quickly established itself as the standard survey of Shakespeare's imagery considered as an integral part of the development of Shakespeare's dramatic art...

This study begins with a short survey of the history and practice of biography and then surveys the very limited biographical material for Shakespeare. _x000D_  ..

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Originally published in 1991. Essays here are arranged chronologically within sections: ‘The Play as Text’, ‘Shylock’ and ‘The Play in the Theatre.’..

Few playwrights have been more slandered, abused or honoured in performance than William Shakespeare._x005F_x000D_ First published in 1992, this collection of 300 stories focuses on Shakespeare’s plays on stage. Organised chronologically, it offers the reader the opportunity to witness the changes i..

Thirty authoritative accounts describe in illuminating detail how some of theatre’s most talented directors have brought Shakespeare’s plays to the stage. These studies chart the extraordinary feats of interpretation behind some of the most acclaimed productions of the last hundred years...

Wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived, this Research Companion investigates Shakespeare’s relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare’s specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism’s likeness and unlikeness to that of others in his time; and also ev..

This book offers global coverage of topics central to Shakespeare studies while also extending critical debate in new directions. Essays situate Shakespeare’s world and what the world is because of him, considering how various disciplines and critical discourses have received, or engaged with, the p..

William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew has succeeded in surviving in contemporary culture, and has even managed to penetrate to the most modern media of mass communications. This book, first published in 1991, examines some of the different literary and oral versions of The Taming of the Shre..