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  • - An Anthology of Criticism
     
    £24.99

    'Oxford Shakespeare Topics' (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare.

  • by University of Durham) Fuller & David (Emeritus Professor of English
    £56.49

    This volume illustrates the meanings the Romantics took from Shakespeare. It studies the critical practices and theories that evolved in England, Germany, and France, as well as the English stage and the relations between performance, criticism, and scholarship.

  • by Cambridge) Lees-Jeffries, St Catharine's College & Hester (Fellow and Director of Studies in English
    £23.99 - 86.99

    Shakespeare and Memory explores Shakespeare's plays and poems in the light of current interest in memory studies. It sets out key features of the historical, religious, and cultural context of Shakespeare's own time.

  • by Catherine Richardson
    £24.99

    What is the significance of Shylock's ring in The Merchant of Venice? How does Shakespeare create Gertrude's closet in Hamlet? Why does Ariel prepare a banquet in The Tempest? In order to answer these questions, Shakespeare and Material Culture explores performance from the perspective of the material conditions of staging.

  • by All Souls College, Oxford) Burrow & Colin (Senior Research Fellow
    £23.99 - 83.49

    Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity explains the nature and extent of Shakspeare's classical learning, exploring why Ben Jonson was wrong to claim that he had 'small Latin and less Greek'. It examines Shakespeare's relationship to classical texts and how this relationship changed in the course of his career.

  • by David ( Bevington
    £23.99

    This book explores the representation of issues including sex, gender, politics, religion, family relationships, and death in biographies of Shakespeare, from Nicholas Rowe's in the early 18th century to recent biographies by Stephen Greenblatt, James Shapiro, Jonathan Bate, Germaine Greer, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Park Honan, and Rene Weis.

  • by Douglas (Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Lanier
    £24.99

    Our notions of Shakespeare have been shaped partly by his diffuse presence in films, comics, TV, mass-market novels, kitsch, and advertising. Through a series of case studies, Douglas Lanier examines how modern popular culture has appropriated and refashioned Shakespeare as a cultural icon.

  • by Raphael (Fellow of New Hall Lyne
    £24.99

    This introduction to Shakespeare's work offers clear but ambitious readings of the late plays. It incorporates collaborative works, revised works, and textual analyses in its discussion of the characteristics of this phase in Shakespeare's career. It also considers its relationships with the work of Fletcher, Middleton, and with Shakespeare's earlier work.

  • by Robert S. ( Miola
    £24.99

    'Oxford Shakespeare Topics' provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare.

  • by Martin (Fellow Wiggins
    £24.99

    'Oxford Shakespeare Topics' (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare.

  • by Lawrence (Professor of English Danson
    £24.99

    'Oxford Shakespeare Topics' (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare.

  • by Andrew (Professor of English Gurr
    £24.99

    'Oxford Shakespeare Topics' (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare.

  • by Steven (Professor of English Marx
    £24.99

    'Oxford Shakespeare Topics' (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare.

  • by Michael (Professor of English Taylor
    £24.99

    This study traces the reception of Shakespeare in the critical literature from the end of Victorianism to the present day. It charts a course through the turbulent waters of the 20th-century's intense and prolific engagement with Shakespeare, dramatist and poet.

  • - An Anthology of Criticism
     
    £86.99

    A collection of reviews of Shakespearean performances from early times to the present, introduced and annotated by Wells, which represents a survey of landmark productions and performances from Garrick to Brook, Betterton to McKellen, Siddons to Dench.

  • by Gabriel (Senior Lecturer in English Egan
    £28.49

    As well as explaining all the major ideas of Marx in a form digestible by literary students, this work shows how these ideas have shaped Shakespeare criticism for over a century. It offers new readings of the plays to illustrate the continued relevance of Marx's approach to literary and dramatic art.

  • by University of Bergen, Norway) Sillars & Stuart (Professor of English
    £38.49 - 86.99

    Shakespeare and the Victorians explores the place of Shakespeare in Victorian culture, and shows how the plays and the man became central to all levels of Victorian life and thought.

  • by Professor of English, University of New Brunswick) Martin & Randall (Professor of English
    £26.99 - 81.49

    Shakespeare and Ecology shows how environmental problems typically associated with the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including pollution, deforestation, and climate change, actually began in Shakespeare's time and are reflected in many of his plays.

  • by Marianne Novy
    £24.99 - 91.49

    This book offers an engaging account of the portrayal of outsiders in Shakespeare's writings. It considers characters who are outsiders for an array of reasons including their race, religion, gender, psychology, and morality, and highlights the idea of otherness as a relative rather than fixed term.

  • by Professor Russell Jackson
    £23.99 - 80.49

    Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema offers a lively and authorative account of the ways in which Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for the screen.

  • by Zdenek (Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Director of Graduate Studies Stribrny
    £24.99

    'Oxford Shakespeare Topics' (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare.

  • by Paul ( Edmondson
    £24.99

    Offers an informative and helpful study of Shakespeare's Sonnets. This book considers questions often raised about them - Do they reflect Shakespeare's personal experience? Can their addressees, male and female, be identified? What do they tell us about Shakespeare's sexuality? How do they relate to the literary tradition?

  • by Russ (Professor of English McDonald
    £26.99

    'Oxford Shakespeare Topics' (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. It offers practical help with linguistic and poetic obstacles.

  • by Alden T. Vaughan & Prof. Virginia Mason Vaughan
    £26.49 - 91.49

    This book is a lively account of how American culture has embraced the English playwright and poet from colonial times to the present. It ranges widely, following the story of Shakespeare's reception in America from the scholarly - criticism, editions of the plays, and curricula - to the light-hearted - burlesques, musical comedies, and kitsch.

  • by Jonathan Gil (Professor of English Harris
    £23.99

    Discussing the work of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Helene Cixous, Shakespeare and Literary Theory argues that literary theory is less an external set of ideas anachronistically imposed on Shakespeare's texts than a mode - or several modes - of critical reflection inspired by, and emerging from, his writing.

  • by Bruce R. (Professor of English Smith
    £29.49

    'Oxford Shakespeare Topics' (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare.

  • by Phyllis (Professor Emerita Rackin
    £26.99

    Challenges a number of assumptions about Shakespeare and women, including the women in his family, the women who worked in the London theatre industry, the female characters in his plays, and the dark lady of the Sonnets.

  • by Ania ( Loomba
    £24.99

    Examining the depiction of cultural, religious, and ethnic difference in Shakespeare's plays, this book considers how seventeenth-century ideas differed from the later ideologies of 'race' that emerged during colonialism, as well as from older ideas about barbarism, blackness, and religious difference.

  • - Revised Edition
    by University of Birmingham) Jowett, The Shakespeare Institute & John (Professor of Shakespeare Studies
    £22.49 - 62.49

    An introduction to the foundations of the text of Shakespeare that examines Shakespeare's writing in the environment of the theatre and the printing of the earliest surviving texts. This revised edition includes a new chapter on digital text, digital editing, and their interface with the traditional media.

  • by Garrison & John S. (Associate Professor of English
    £20.99

    Shakespeare and the Afterlife is the first book to focus on discussions of what happens after death within the author's body of work.

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