Classic and pre-20th century plays

Like the age-old feud between the Montagues and Capulets in Romeo and Juliet, the enduring rivalry between the Boston Celtics and the LA Lakers makes for great drama.

This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English Renaissance.

First published in 2002.

In the course of exploring the theatrical cultures of South and East Asia, eminent Shakespeareanist John Russell Brown developed some remarkable theories about the nature of performance, the state of Western 'Theatre' today, and the future potential of Shakespeare's plays.

Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on early modern framing texts as a whole.

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire presents Shakespeare as both a local and global writer, investigating Shakespeare's trans-cultural writing through the interrelations and interactions of binaries including theory and practice, past and present, aesthetics and ethics, freedom and tyranny, republic and empire, empires and colonies, poetry and history, rhetoric and poetics, England and America, and England and Asia.

Argues that the Exclusion Crisis of 1678–82 should be considered the watershed moment in Shakespeare''s authorial afterlife.

Focusing on representations of beards in English Renaissance culture, this study elucidates how fetish objects validate ideological systems of power by materializing complex value in multiple registers.

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: Poetry, Philosophy and Politics is the second volume of this study and builds on the first, which concentrated on related matters, including geography and language.

Love, enchantment, and misadventure abound in four timeless comedies by the great Bard of Elizabethan England.

The theme for Volume 75 is ''Othello''.

Conflict is at the heart of much of Shakespeare's drama.

Over the last twenty five years, scholarship on Early Modern women writers has produced editions and criticisms, both on various groups and individual authors.

A thoroughly revised 2009 edition of this most entertaining and authoritative overview of Shakespearean theatre in its own time.

Bringing together some of the best current practitioners of historical and formal criticism, Reading Renaissance Ethics assesses the ethical performance of renaissance texts as historical agents in their time and in ours.

This collection is the first study of student Shakespeare productions at universities and colleges across the world.

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Curated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeares works are given new life and purpose for todays readers and actors alike.

Professor Hussey looks at the vocabulary, syntax and register of Renaissance English, following this with a more detailed analysis of particular kinds of language in the plays such as prose, verse, rhetoric and the soliloquy.

The Shakespearean World takes a global view of Shakespeare and his works, especially their afterlives.

An original reading of Shakespeare's plays illuminating his negotiations with mothers, present and absent, and tracing the genesis of Shakespearean tragedy and romance to a psychologized version of the Fall.

What does it mean to perform Shakespeare in languages other than English and how do audiences respond?

Sixteenth-century Italy witnessed the rebirth of comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy in the pastoral mode.

The first in a series on Shakespeare's original texts, including facsimile pages, this version of "e;Hamlet"e; is claimed to be, in some ways, the most authentic version of the play that we have.

In Shakespeare on Theatre, master acting teacher Robert Cohen brilliantly scrutinises Shakespeare's implicit theories of acting, paying close attention to the plays themselves and providing a wealth of fascinating historical evidence.

This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and non-sexual bawdy expressions and allusions in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.

This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy.

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare's literary craft was not just native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent.

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The creation of the new Globe Theatre in London has heightened interest in Shakespeare performance studies in recent years.

Explored in this essay collection is how Shakespeare is rewritten, reinscribed and translated to fit within the local tradition, values, and languages of the world's various communities and cultures.

Revisiting Shakespeare's Italian Resources is about the complex dynamics of transmission and transformation of the Italian sources of twelve Shakespearean plays, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Cymbeline.

Language is the central concern of this book.

An anthology of three exciting Japanese adaptations of Shakespeare that engage with issues such as changing family values, racial diversity, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and terrorism, together with a contextualizing introduction.

Sidney Homan defines a pivotal line as "e;a moment in the script that serves as a pathway into the larger play .

Witchcraft: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the scholarly study of witchcraft, exploring the phenomenon of witchcraft from its earliest definitions in the Middle Ages through to its resonances in the modern world.

First published in 1970, this work explores the literary genre of satire.

Seismic shifts in the theatrical meanings of The Merry Wives of Windsor have taken place across the centuries as Shakespeare's frequently performed play has relocated to Windsor across the world, journeying along the production/adaptation/appropriation continuum.

The first New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of King Henry VIII, edited by John Margeson.

William Shakespeare's Hamlet is probably the best-known and most commented upon work of literature in Western culture.

In this timely new study, Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent "e;green"e; criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature.

Frank Harris argues that the way women are presented in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets are a reflection of the real-life women in his life, namely his wife, mother, mistress and daughter.

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991.

Shakespeare in the World traces the reception histories and adaptations of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century, when his works became well-known to non-Anglophone communities in both Europe and colonial India.

Described as one of Shakespeare's most intriguing plays, All's Well That Ends Well has only recently begun to receive the critical attention it deserves.

Second edition of Titus Andronicus, with a new introductory section by Sue Hall-Smith.