Books in the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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.