Books by Robert Shaughnessy

A detailed account of the performance history of As You Like It through the modern period, focusing on landmark stage and film productions. -- .

This edition of four Renaissance comedies represents the vitality, range and diversity of the English comic drama of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, reflecting both its capacity for escapist fantasy and its concern with the intrigues of everyday city life.

This collection of modern essays by leading figures in the field of Shakespeare scholarship reveals the rich interplay between contemporary theoretical approaches - psychoanalytic, new historicist, feminist and cultural materialist - and the study of the play in performance, both in Shakespeare's time and our own.

This text traces the changing theatrical and cultural identity of the History plays in the context of postwar social and political conflict. RSC's commitment to relevance has fostered close relationships between Shakespearean criticism and performance, and between the theatre and its audiences.