Books in the Shakespeare Criticism series

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions.

The Merry Wives of Windsor is a much neglected comedy by Shakespeare. Initially popular, it was subsequently dismissed and marginalised as one of his weakest plays. However, recent developments in feminist, ecocritical and new historicist criticism have led to a revival of interest, and this collection of 18 essays by top Shakespeare scholars sheds new light on the play.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This collection of twenty original essays will expand the critical contexts in which Antony and Cleopatra can be enjoyed as both literature and theater.

This text focuses exclusively on contemporary criticism of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Aprroaches range from new historicism to the new bibliography, from formalism to feminism, from recept to history to cultural materialism.

This book includes twenty-one groundbreaking chapters that examine one of Shakespeare's most complex tragedies. The book explores issues of friendship and fealty, love and betrayal, race and gender issues, and much more.

This book explores traditional approaches to the play, which include an examination of the play in light of current history, in the context of Renaissance England, and in relation to Shakespeare's other Roman plays.

Pericles: Critical Essays brings together the most essential critical essays and theatrical reviews of Shakespeare's play from the late 17th century to the present, providing a representative gathering of critical opinion of Pericles over the centuries.

This volume is a collection of all-new original essays covering everything from feminist to postcolonial readings of the play as well as source queries and analyses of historical performances of the play.The Merchant of Venice is a collection of seventeen new essays that explore the concepts of anti-Semitism, the work of Christopher Marlowe, the politics of commerce and making the play palatable to a modern audience. The characters, Portia and Shylock, are examined in fascinating detail. With in-depth analyses of the text, the play in performance and individual characters, this book promises to be the essential resource on the play for all Shakespeare enthusiasts.

Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the international contributors to Hamlet: New Critical Essays contribute major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of Hamlet.

This collection of original essays provides a selection of current criticism on the Henry VI plays. Topics addressed will include feminist commentaries on the play, the principal of unity in the trilogy, the tradition of illumination of the play, textual variations, and finally, anachronism and allegory.

This collection provides a selection of current criticism on Shakespeares' Henry VI. Topics addressed include feminist commentaries, the principals of unity, the tradition of illumination, textual variations, and anachronism.

Offers a range of approaches to 'Twelfth' 'Night', including its critical reception, performance history, and relation to early modern culture. This book provides introduction that surveys the play's critical reception and performance history, while individual essays explore a variety of topics relevant to a full appreciation of the play.

This essay collection offers a lengthy introduction describing trends in criticism and theatrical interpretation of As You Like It. Twenty-six major essays on the play, including several written especially for this volume highlight the work, coupled with twenty-three reviews of various productions, ranging from 1741 to 1919. Edward Tomarken edited this valuable collection with a contents that includes pieces by Samuel Johnson, Charles Gildon, J. Payne Collier, Denton J. Snider, Charles Wingate, Victor O. Freeburg, J.B. Priestly, Cumberland Clark, Margaret Maurer and others.

Pericles: Critical Essays brings together the most essential critical essays and theatrical reviews of Shakespeare's play from the late 17th century to the present, providing a representative gathering of critical opinion of Pericles over the centuries.

These new essays from leading figures in the field explore and extend the key debates surrounding Twelfth Night, creating the ideal book for readers approaching this text for the first time or wishing to further their knowledge of this stimulating, much loved play.

This volume of essays traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies.

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions.

Offers critical analysis, supported with historical and bibliographical information about Shakespeare's "Macbeth". This book addresses early modern themes, with attention to the protagonists and the discourses of politics, class, gender, the emotions, and the economy, along with discussions of significant 'minor' characters.

This anthology discusses Love's Labour's Lost in terms of historical context, dating and sources, character analysis; comic elements, verbal conceits, evidence of authorship and feminist interpretations.

This is the first collection of critical essays devoted exclusively to Venus and Adonis, which surveys the history of criticism about the poem and its significance.

The Tempest: Critical Essays traces the history of Shakespeare's controversial late romance from its early reception (and adaptation) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the present.

A collection that includes a lengthy introduction describing historical trends in critical interpretations and theatrical performances of Shakespeare's play; 20 essays on the play, including two written especially for this volume (by Maurice Hunt and David Bergeron)

Shedding much-needed light on one of Shakespeare's most intriguing and significant plays, this book features contributions from leading scholars who critically examine the play from a variety of perspectives.

Shedding light on one of Shakespeare's most intriguing and significant plays, this book features contributions from leading scholars who critically examine the play from a variety of perspectives. It reflects the interest in the play and presents a range of approaches, including historical, feminist, performative and psychoanalytical criticisms.

Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, this book offers interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of "King Lear".

This volume of essays traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies.

This text focuses exclusively on contemporary criticism of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Aprroaches range from new historicism to the new bibliography, from formalism to feminism, from recept to history to cultural materialism.