Classic and pre-20th century plays

This book explores thought experiments in Shakespeare and shows how experimental psychology can be found in early modern English literature.

Examines both theatrical and staged art photographs, demonstrating their role in fixing and unfixing Shakespearean authority.

Re-appraises Shakespeare''s early career, situating his writings and activities in their time, place, and cultural moment.

Re-appraises Shakespeare''s early career, situating his writings and activities in their time, place, and cultural moment.

A fascinating insight into court entertainment - encompassing dance, music and performance - in the age of Shakespeare.

A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.

A fascinating insight into court entertainment - encompassing dance, music and performance - in the age of Shakespeare.

A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.

Examines the performative aspects of prayer and how they were represented in literature in early modern England.

Illuminates the ways Shakespeare''s works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about war in all its complexity.

Offers new ways to conceptualize the relationship between early modern travel and drama, and re-assesses how travel drama is defined.

Offers a new introduction and commentary notes designed for the student reader, an updated reading list, appendices and extensive illustrations.

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

Claims that Shakespeare resists an emergent, exclusionary post-reformation ideology of ''true'' Englishness in his early plays.

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

First dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare''s texts were read in the two centuries after they were produced.

Uncovers the importance of popular literature in promoting and shaping medieval nostalgia in early modern England.

Provides a comprehensive critical engagement with Roman comedy and its reception presented by leading international scholars in accessible and up-to-date chapters.

Uncovers the importance of popular literature in promoting and shaping medieval nostalgia in early modern England.

An up-to-date survey of Shakespeare''s King Lear on screen and the aesthetic, social and political issues raised by screen versions.

Claims that Shakespeare resists an emergent, exclusionary post-reformation ideology of ''true'' Englishness in his early plays.

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

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable.

Demonstrates how Much Ado about Nothing models an understanding of Stoicism as performance, rather than intellectual doctrine.

Demonstrates how Much Ado about Nothing models an understanding of Stoicism as performance, rather than intellectual doctrine.

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

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable.

Features a new introductory section on the latest scholarly trends, performance and adaptation practices.

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

Detailed study of the action of discovery as plot device, visual motif, and thematic trope on the early modern stage.

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

A history of the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage focusing on the vocal dimensions of theatrical performance.

Provides a comprehensive critical engagement with Roman comedy and its reception presented by leading international scholars in accessible and up-to-date chapters.

Illuminates the ways Shakespeare''s works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about war in all its complexity.

Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.

Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.

The third New Cambridge edition of Shakespeare''s Othello, updated by Christina Luckyj for the contemporary student reader.

Features an updated introduction analysing recent critical and performance interpretations, and a revised reading list.

Anne Barton''s final book uncovers the pervasive presence of woodland in early modern drama, revealing its persistent imaginative power.

Anne Barton''s final book uncovers the pervasive presence of woodland in early modern drama, revealing its persistent imaginative power.

Lively and up-to-date critical introductions to a rich range of Shakespeare adaptations for film, video and television.

Lively and up-to-date critical introductions to a rich range of Shakespeare adaptations for film, video and television.

Examining how technological developments in performance practices affect spectator experience of Shakespeare and early modern drama.

Examining how technological developments in performance practices affect spectator experience of Shakespeare and early modern drama.

The seventieth volume in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

The seventieth volume in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.

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

This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.