Classic and pre-20th century plays

This early work by William Morris was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

The authors of this book ask how digital research tools are changing the ways in which practicing editors historicize Shakespeare's language.

Twenty-two leading experts on early modern drama collaborate in this volumeto explore three closely interconnected research questions.

Diese Studien zu Friedrich Schiller, die hier erstmals zusammengefasst vorgelegt werden, gehen der Buchstäblichkeit seiner Texte in der Deutung auf den Grund, sie dokumentieren die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit einem Werk, dem in der europäischen Literaturgeschichte nur wenig Vergleichbares an die Seite zu stellen ist.

The theme for Volume 74 is ''Shakespeare and Education''.

This book explores the possibilities and limitations of violence on the Early Modern stage and in the Early Modern world.

As You Like It (1599) is a comedy by William Shakespeare.

This book is a landmark study of Shakespeare's politics as revealed in his later History Plays.

The link between psychoanalysis as a mode of interpretation and Shakespeare's works is well known.

A remarkable resurgence of interest has taken place over recent years in a biographical approach to the work of early modern poets and dramatists, in particular to the plays and poems of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson.

In the course of some research into the musical element in English poetry, Dr Wilson read the work of the Elizabethan sonneteers chronologically and was struck by a suspicion that Shakespeare's sonnets were parodies.

How does a woman become a whore?

Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland: The English Problem from Bale to Shakespeare examines the problems that beset the Tudor administration of Ireland through a range of selected 16th century English narratives.

This book presents an important re-theorisation of gender and anti-Semitism in medieval biblical drama.

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

This book compares the theatrical cultures of early modern England and Spain and explores the causes and consequences not just of the remarkable similarities but also of the visible differences between them.

Contributors to this collection delve into the relationship between Rome and Shakespeare.

Applying recent developments in new historicism and cultural materialism - along with the new perspectives opened up by the current debate on intertextuality and the construction of the theatrical text - the essays collected here reconsider the pervasive influence of Italian culture, literature, and traditions on early modern English drama.

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's AComedy of Errors.

Drawing on debates around the global/local dimensions of cultural production, an international team of contributors explore the appropriation of Shakespeare's plays in film and performance around the world.

Through short, provocative readings of unfamiliar plays, this book provides the first ever history of the canon of Renaissance drama.

Performing the work of William Shakespeare can be daunting to new actors.

This bibliography will give comprehensive coverage to published commentary in English on Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition during the period from 1961-1985.

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.

This fully updated and revised fourth edition of Theory/Theatre is a unique and highly engaging introduction to cultural theory as it relates to theatre and performance.

This volume adds a new dimension to authorship studies by linking the editorial tradition to the transformative reception of early modern authors and their works across time.

The 'infinite variety' of Shakespeare's Roman plays is reflected in the diversity of critical commentary to which they have given rise.

Members of the royal court escape their problems by running away, only to find themselves in complicated love triangles.

The One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts.

The One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts.

First published in 1973, this book is about Shakespeare, language and drama.

Focusing on stage directions, implied stage action in the dialogue, and on production choices available at key moments, this Handbook treats the script like a rehearsal in progress and encourages the imagining of a physical narrative where the play's meanings and our responses are shaped by staged actions.

First published in 1991, this book is the first annotated bibliography of feminist Shakespeare criticism from 1975 to 1988 - a period that saw a remarkable amount of ground-breaking work.

First published in 2002.

Taking a comprehensive, critical, and theoretical approach to the role of Shakespeare in educational policy and pedagogy from 1989 (the year compulsory Shakespeare was introduced under the National Curriculum for English in the United Kingdom), to the present, Shakespeare Valued explores the esteem afforded Shakespeare in the British educational system and its evolution in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

First published in 1987.

Postcolonial Shakespeares is an exciting step forward in the dialogue between postcolonial studies and Shakespearean criticism.

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's AComedy of Errors.

Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the international contributors to Hamlet: New Critical Essays contribute major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of Hamlet.

Performing the work of William Shakespeare can be daunting to new actors.

The guild buildings of Shakespeare's Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings which draw together the threads of the town's civic life.

Most of Shakespeare's tragedies have a family drama at their heart.

Despite the outpour of interpretations, from critics of all schools, on Shakespeare's dramatic works and other poetic works, A Lover's Complaint has been almost totally ignored by criticism.

How did the actors for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays make his characters come to life, how did they convey his words?

The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare is a major collaborative book about plays in performance.

Shakespeare’s works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre.

Karl Klein introduces Shakespeare''s late play as a complex exploration of a corrupt, moneyed society.

This 1991 book takes account of discoveries concerning Shakespeare''s early career, paying particular attention to theatrical history.

In Shakespeare, Adaptation, Psychoanalysis, Matthew Biberman analyzes early adaptations of Shakespeare's plays in order to identify and illustrate how both social mores and basic human psychology have changed in Anglo-American culture.