Books by Graham Bradshaw

The veteran and provocative Shakespeare critic Graham Bradshaw shows why so many critics have been wrong about Shakespeare’s greatest play.

In this short guide, Graham Bradshaw explains the secrets in and behind one of the greatest short novels of all time.

Graham Bradshaw shows us that Macbeth is a much more terrifying play than most traditionalist critics believe it to be.

A collection of essays from South African critics that examine the treatment of Shakespeare's work in South Africa as an aspect of colonial history. It shows how the titanic political and ideological struggles that convulsed South Africa throughout the period also affected the way that Shakespeare was studied, interpreted, taught and performed.

Presents a 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.

Just at the moment when conflicts between critical "isms" are threatening to turn the study of English literature into a game park for endangered texts, Bradshaw arrives with a work of liberating wit and insight. His subject is double: the Shakespeare...