Classic and pre-20th century plays

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface provides a ground-breaking investigation into media-specific spaces where Shakespeare is experienced.

Dostoevsky uses Hamlet to address some of the most important problems in Russian culture in the second half of the 19th century.

Lucentio comes to Padua to attend the university, but his attention is quickly captured by the lovely Bianca.

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

This volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing and boy actors' crossdressing, which have long held the spotlight in early modern gender studies.

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.

Described by a later Greek historian as "e;a man seriously committed to raising a laugh"e;, Lucian exulted in the exposure of absurdity and the puncturing of pretension, and was capable of finding a comic angle on almost any subject.

Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare synthesizes Laura Mulvey's male gaze and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's stare into a new critical lens, the filmic stare, in order to understand and analyze the visual construction of disability in adaptations of Shakespearean drama.

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

Du théâtre de Shakespeare, on retient des phrases cultes, et on ne connaît souvent que certaines grandes pièces.

Curating material from Applauses Shakescenes: Shakespeare for Two by John Russell Brown, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends by Neil Freeman, The Applause Shakespeare Library, and Applause First Folio Editions, weve created the must-have workbook series for Shakespeare plays.

Demystifying and contextualising Shakespeare for the twenty-first century, this book offers both an introduction to the subject for beginners as well as an invaluable resource for more experienced Shakespeareans.

Shakespearean Tragedy brings together fifteen major contemporary essays on individual plays and the genre as a whole.

Walsingham was medieval England's most important shrine to the Virgin Mary and a popular pilgrimage site.

The Concept of Injustice challenges traditional Western justice theory.

Few only are the remarks absolutely needed by way of introduction to a work which within itself sufficiently explains and carries out a new method of illustration for the dramas of Shakespeare.

"e;Post-Hamlet: Shakespeare in an Era of Textual Exhaustion"e; examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with Hamlet in spite of our culture's oversaturation with this most canonical of texts.

The Concept of Injustice challenges traditional Western justice theory.

That Shakespeare thematized time thoroughly, almost obsessively, in his plays is well established: time is, among other things, a 'devourer' (Love's Labour's Lost), one who can untie knots (Twelfth Night), or, perhaps most famously, simply 'out of joint' (Hamlet).

An international group of scholars reappraise The Winter's Tale through a series of research essays covering performance history, critical history, and new interpretations.

First published in 1972, this work pursues the question 'what is comedy?

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

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare's texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories.

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.

The essays gathered here demonstrate and justify the excitement and promise of cognitive historicism, providing a lively introduction to this new and quickly growing area of literary studies.

This volume is the only publication available of the fully annotated playscripts of Wells' W.

An investigation into modes of early modern English literary 'indirection,' this study could also be considered a detective work on a pseudonym attached to some late sixteenth-century works.

In this engaging and accessible guidebook, Stephen Guy-Bray uses queer theory to argue that in many of Shakespeare's works representation itself becomes queer.

Shakespeare in Autumn: Select Plays and the Complete Sonnets, by William Shakespeare, the greatest writer in the English language, is available in a fine exclusive collector's edition featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike.

The 71st in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

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

Exploring Shakespeare's intellectual interest in placing both characters and audiences in a state of uncertainty, mystery, and doubt, this book interrogates the use of paradox in Shakespeare's plays and in performance.

First Published in 1999.

Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues demonstrates the continuing validity of the colonial paradigm as it maps the geographical, political, and imaginative space of 'India/Indies' from the seventeenth century to the present.

At a time when the relevance of literary theory itself is frequently being questioned, Richard Wilson makes a compelling case for French Theory in Shakespeare Studies.

Shakespeare Without Women is a controversial study of female impersonation, and the connections between dramatic and political representation in Shakespeare's plays.

This Handbook provides an introductory guide to Much Ado About Nothing offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key productions, a survey of film and TV adaptation, a wide sampling of critical opinion and further reading.

"e;But in a fiction, in a dream of passion.

First published in 1969, this work examines the genre of Tragedy from its origins in ancient Greece, to the modern day.

In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the pernicious influence of systemic whiteness on our interpretation of Shakespeare''s plays.

An up-to-date survey of the key themes and debates surrounding screen adaptations and productions of Shakespeare''s Othello.

One of the most intense and painful of our human passions, shame is typically seen in contemporary culture as a disability or a disease to be cured.

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 1973, this book is about Shakespeare, language and drama.

This book examines the two-way influence between Shakespeare and his company''s main competitors in the 1590s, the Admiral''s Men.

The period between 1585 (when Elizabeth formally committed her military support to the Dutch wars against Spain) and 1604 (when James at last brought it to an end) was one in which English life was preoccupied by the menace and actuality of war.

The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature provides readers with a comprehensive reassessment of the value of humanism in an intellectual landscape.

This bold and compelling revisionist history tells the remarkable story of the forgotten lives and labours of Shakespeare''s women editors.

The relation between procreation and authorship, between reproduction and publication, has a long history - indeed, that relationship may well be the very foundation of history itself.

Originally published in 1989, this book focuses on the handling of the relationship between the onstage world and the offstage world, between the world that Shakespeare shows us and the one he tells us about.