Books in the Accents on Shakespeare series

A study of Shakespeare's legacy in contemporary American and British politics, which explores the following themes: namesake princes and presidents, stolen thrones and elections, plutocrats and insurgents, campaign trails and war-mongering waning monarchy, imperilled democracy revengers, and early modern and postmodern.

This fascinating collection of original essays show how writers efforts to intimate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation.

Marxist Shakespeares uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh.

Featuring a list of contributors, this collection of readings adopts an approach to Shakespeare by focusing on the principles of 'presentism', a critical movement that takes account of the continual dialogue between past and present.

Philosophical Shakespeares focuses on and encourages the growing dissolution of boundaries between literature and philosophy. The approach is interdisciplinary and includes problem-centred readings of particular plays.

Marxist Shakespeares uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh.

Argues that the text of a Shakespeare play is only one of the factors that give a performance its meaning. By focusing on The Royal Shakespeare Company, it shows how training, company management and gender politics affect both how a production is created and the interpretations it can suggest.

The book gathers together a particularly strong line-up of contributors from across the literary-performative divide to examine the relationship between Shakespeare, the 'culture industries', modernism and live performance.

This fascinating collection traces the ways in which Shakespeare has been reassessed over the years and explores many issues concerning Shakespeare's modernity.

This volume is about the role of sound in Shakespeare's art, about how he heard the world around him, and about what it means for us to listen to him - for us to listen, centuries later, to him listening.

Philosophical Shakespeares focuses on and encourages the growing dissolution of boundaries between literature and philosophy. The approach is interdisciplinary and includes problem-centred readings of particular plays.

This collection of essays shows how writers' efforts to intimate, contradict, compete with and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation. The contributors analyze the methods and motives of Shakespearean appropriation by looking at a wide range of works and people

Considers Shakespeare alongside major Gothic texts and writers - from Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis and Mary Shelley, up to and including contemporary Gothic fiction and horror film. This book presents an account of Gothic reformulations of Shakespeare, and Shakespeare's significance to the Gothic.

Featuring a list of contributors, this collection of readings adopts an approach to Shakespeare by focusing on the principles of 'presentism', a critical movement that takes account of the continual dialogue between past and present.

This book explores the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events.

Pushing ecocriticism beyond the boundaries of 'nature' writing, this interdisciplinary account introduces one of the areas of Shakespeare studies and presents a case for his continuing relevance to contemporary theory.

This book offers a new and exciting view of Shakespeare's tragedies through a passionate and provocative argument for reclaiming shame.

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

Is there any reason to ask people to read Shakespeare's plays anymore? The essays in this volume explore this question and the institutional practices that shape contemporary performances of Shakespeare's plays.

Considers Shakespeare alongside major Gothic texts and writers - from Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis and Mary Shelley, up to and including contemporary Gothic fiction and horror film. This book presents an account of Gothic reformulations of Shakespeare, and Shakespeare's significance to the Gothic.

Explores the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and world events. Exploring a perspective within Shakespeare Studies, the volume suggests that experiencing the spiritual intensities of the plays could lead us back to dramatic intensity as such.

This is a stunning collection of essays by Terence Hawkes, which engage with, explain, and explore 'presentism', a new notion of literary criticism. This book suggests ways in which its principles may be applied to aspects of Shakespeare's plays.

"Making Shakespeare" gives a lively introduction to the major issues of the stage and print history of the plays, and discusses what a Shakespeare play actually is. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, the book reveals how the plays were written and printed, and more.

This fascinating collection traces the ways in which Shakespeare has been reassessed over the years and explores many issues concerning Shakespeare's modernity.

Focuses on the complex and fruitful relationship between Shakespeare's texts and psychoanalytic theory.