Classic and pre-20th century plays

This book adds a unique eastern perspective to the ever growing corpus of Shakespeare criticism.

This volume reflects changing critical perceptions of Shakespeare's works from Renaissance to modern times and celebrates the power of Shakespearean tragedy.

As a child, Casilda is married to Barataria's future king, yet when she returns as an adult, her husband is nowhere to be found.

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.

In The Eumenides, the final part of The Oresteian trilogy, Orestes must face the consequences of his revenge plot.

Are we either good or bad, and do we really know the difference?

Shakespeare in the Present is a stunning collection of essays by Terence Hawkes, which engage with, explain, and explore 'presentism'.

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

Reassess the relationship between Shakespeare''s Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and the emerging genre of domestic tragedy by other early modern playwrights.

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

Shakespeare's great tragedies portray through their richly imagined worlds the inescapable fact of human mortality.

Shakespeare and Immigration critically examines the vital role of immigrants and aliens in Shakespeare's drama and culture.

Antony and Cleopatra (1607) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.

In this study, the author offers new interpretations of Shakespeare's works in the context of two major contemporary notions of collectivity: the crowd and rumour.

Presentist Shakespeares is the first extended study of the principles and practice of 'presentism', a critical movement that takes account of the never-ending dialogue between past and present.

The ten essays in this collection explore the discrete yet overlapping female spaces of privacy and domesticity in early modern England.

The startling central idea behind this study is that the rediscovery of Aristotle's Poetics in the sixteenth century ultimately had a profound impact on almost every aspect of Shakespeare's late plays"e;their sources, subject matter and thematic concerns.

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.

Currently in its seventeenth year and formerly published by Ashgate, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare's work and his time, across the whole spectrum of his literary output.

Shakespeare, Theory and Performance is a groundbreaking collection of seminal essays which apply the abstract theory of Shakespearean criticism to the practicalities of performance.

For Shakespeare and Shakespearean adaptation, the global digital media environment is a “brave new world” of opportunity and revolution.

Brings the history of Shakespeare publishing vividly to life, from the earliest print editions to the latest digital texts.

First published in 2002.

Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative.

Mysticism in the Theater introduces theater makers to the power and possibility of using historical mystical ideas to influence all aspects of a production.

Shakespeare Left and Right brings together critics, strikingly different in their politics and methodologies, who are acutely aware of the importance of politics on literary practice and theory.

Originally published in 1898, "e;The Ballad of Reading Gaol"e; is a poem written by Oscar Wilde.

In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences and share their methods and the reasons why they teach Shakespeare.

Dancing Shakespeare is the first history of ballets based on William Shakespeare's works from the birth of the dramatic story ballet in the eighteenth century to the present.

Shakespeare Company: When Action is Eloquence is the first comprehensive insight into this internationally acclaimed company founded in 1978 in Lenox, Massachusetts, by actor-director Tina Packer and voice pioneer Kristin Linklater, with the transformative power of Shakespeare's language at its heart.

This study explores more recent adaptations published in the last decade whereby women-either authors or their characters-talk back to Shakespeare in a variety of new ways.

The first book-length examination of Jewish women in Renaissance drama, this study explores fictional representations of the female Jew in academic, private and public stage performances during Queen Elizabeth I's reign; it links lesser-known dramatic adaptations of the biblical Rebecca, Deborah, and Esther with the Jewish daughters made famous by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare on the popular stage.

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

By examining how female characters speak and act during coming of age, engagement, marriage, and intimacy, Consent in Shakespeare will enhance understanding about how and why women spoke, remained silent, or acted as they did in relation to their intimate partners in Early Modern and contemporary private and public situations in and around the Mediterranean.

The English Renaissance has long been considered a period with a particular focus on imitation; however, much related scholarship has misunderstood or simply marginalized the significance of emulative practices and theories in the period.

This volume offers a wealth of critical analysis, supported with ample historical and bibliographical information about one of Shakespeare's most enduringly popular and globally influential plays.

Courtesans - women who achieve wealth, status, or power through sexual transgression - have played both a central and contradictory role in literature: they have been admired, celebrated, feared, and vilified.

With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection that analyzes the relationship between early modern literature and history through lenses such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, and politics.

First published in 1978, this work bridges the gap between the study of poetic form, which tends to isolate form from meaning and structural poetics, which tends to focus on meaning without considering the stanza's impact.

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

Despite the volume of work Shakespeare produced, surprisingly few of his plays directly concern money and the economic mindset.

Shakespeare: The Basics is a lively and accessible introduction to reading and studying Shakespeare.

Located at the intersection of new historicism and the 'new formalism', historical formalism is one of the most rapidly growing and important movements in early modern studies: taking seriously the theoretical issues raised by both history and form, it challenges the anti-formalist orthodoxies of new historicism and expands the scope of historicist criticism.

Should we assume that people who lived some time ago were quite similar to us or should we assume that they need to be thought of as alien beings with whom we have little in common?

"e;Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman"e; is a play in four-acts by Oscar Wilde, first produced in 1892.

Courtesans - women who achieve wealth, status, or power through sexual transgression - have played both a central and contradictory role in literature: they have been admired, celebrated, feared, and vilified.

The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts - and ghost writing.

Impossible bequests of the soul; an outlawed younger son who rises to become justice of the king's forests; the artificially-preserved corpse of the heir to an empire; a medieval clerk kept awake at night by fears of falling; a seventeenth-century noblewoman who commissions copies upon copies of her genealogy; Elizabethan efforts to eradicate Irish customs of succession; thoughts of the legacy of sin bequeathed to mankind by our first parents, Adam and Eve.

Traditional literary criticism once treated Thomas Nashe as an Elizabethan oddity, difficult to understand or value.

This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.