Classic and pre-20th century plays

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.

Bringing together current intermedial discourses on Shakespeare, music, and dance with the affective turn in the humanities, Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet offers a unique and highly innovative transdisciplinary discussion of "e;unspeakable"e; love in one of the most famous love stories in literary history: the tragic romance of Romeo and Juliet.

Bringing together current intermedial discourses on Shakespeare, music, and dance with the affective turn in the humanities, Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet offers a unique and highly innovative transdisciplinary discussion of "e;unspeakable"e; love in one of the most famous love stories in literary history: the tragic romance of Romeo and Juliet.

Shakespeare in Jest draws fascinating parallels between Shakespeare's humour and contemporary humour.

Shakespeare in Jest draws fascinating parallels between Shakespeare's humour and contemporary humour.

This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s.

This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s.

This book provides a bridge between Shakespeare studies and classical social theory, opening up readings of Shakespeare to a new audience outside of literary studies and the humanities.

This book provides a bridge between Shakespeare studies and classical social theory, opening up readings of Shakespeare to a new audience outside of literary studies and the humanities.

This volume presents a fresh look at the military spouses in Shakespeare's Othello, 1 Henry IV, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, and Coriolanus, vital to understanding the plays themselves.

This volume presents a fresh look at the military spouses in Shakespeare's Othello, 1 Henry IV, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, and Coriolanus, vital to understanding the plays themselves.

This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama.

This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama.

Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States extends the growing body of scholarship on Shakespeare's appropriation by examining how the plays have been invoked during periods of extreme social, political, and racial turmoil.

Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States extends the growing body of scholarship on Shakespeare's appropriation by examining how the plays have been invoked during periods of extreme social, political, and racial turmoil.

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.

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.

Winner of the AEDEAN "e;Enrique Garcia Diez"e; Literature Research Award 2023Winner of the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2024Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity.

Winner of the AEDEAN "e;Enrique Garcia Diez"e; Literature Research Award 2023Winner of the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2024Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity.

Winner of the AEDEAN "e;Enrique Garcia Diez"e; Literature Research Award 2023Winner of the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2024Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity.

Winner of the AEDEAN "e;Enrique Garcia Diez"e; Literature Research Award 2023Winner of the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2024Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity.

First published in 1992, Theater and World is a detailed exploration of Shakespeare's representation of history and how it affects the relation between theatre and world.

First published in 1992, Theater and World is a detailed exploration of Shakespeare's representation of history and how it affects the relation between theatre and world.

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.

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.

Shakespeare wrote for a theater in which the audience was understood to be, and at times invited to be, active and participatory.

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.

Shakespeare wrote for a theater in which the audience was understood to be, and at times invited to be, active and participatory.

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.

Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes successively influenced by such classic works as A.

If it is not generally known that the foundations of twentieth-century criticism of Shakespeare's imagery were laid over one hundred and fifty years ago, the explanation lies in the limited availability of the single original edition of Walter Whiter's Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare published in 1794.

Shakespeare's last plays, the tragicomic Romances, are notoriously strange plays, riddled with fabulous events and incredible coincidences, magic and dream.

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

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.

Returning to Shakespeare addresses two broad areas of Shakespeare criticism: the unity of form and meaning, and the history of the plays' reception.

'What's in a name?

Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes successively influenced by such classic works as A.

If it is not generally known that the foundations of twentieth-century criticism of Shakespeare's imagery were laid over one hundred and fifty years ago, the explanation lies in the limited availability of the single original edition of Walter Whiter's Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare published in 1794.

Shakespeare's last plays, the tragicomic Romances, are notoriously strange plays, riddled with fabulous events and incredible coincidences, magic and dream.

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

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.

Returning to Shakespeare addresses two broad areas of Shakespeare criticism: the unity of form and meaning, and the history of the plays' reception.

'What's in a name?

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.

The potential duality of human character and its capacity for dissembling was a source of fascination to the Elizabethan dramatists.

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

Originally published in 1987, "e;Fanned and Winnowed Opinions"e; celebrates the scholarship of Professor Harold Jenkins, one of this century's foremost editors and critics of Shakespeare.

What is it that makes Shakespeare's problem plays problematic?

Originally published in 1926, this title was edited from a series of lectures the author gave to raise money for her theatre group the Lena Ashwell Players.

The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After offers a series of sophisticated and powerful readings of tragicomedy from Shakespeare's late plays to the drama of the Interregnum.