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Rhodri Lewis
In Shakespeare's Tragic Art, Rhodri Lewis offers a powerfully original reassessment of tragedy as Shakespeare wrote it of what drew him toward tragic drama, what makes his tragedies distinctive, and…
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William Shakespeare
Rome is in turmoil. With the Emperor dead, his two sons, Saturninus and Bassianus, quarrel over who should succeed him; but neither are as popular as the general Titus Andronicus…
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Mika Eglinton
Drawing on interview material, current scholarship and documents from the Ku Na'uka and SPAC archives, this book is the first major appraisal of Miyagi's 30-year career as one of Japan's…
Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration brings together theatre artists, currently and formerly incarcerated actors, and college-in-prison educators and students, describing powerful encounters in classrooms and rehearsal rooms as…
The chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the academy has been called to attend to questions of social justice…
Examining the changing reception of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries between 1870 and 1940, this book focuses on the broad movements of national revivalism.
Artemis Preeshl
Consent in Shakespeare's Classical Mediterranean fills a gap in knowledge about how female-identified and non-binary characters made choices about intimacy, engagement, and marriage in Shakespeare's classical Mediterranean plays.
Professor Alison Findlay, Dr Sean Murphy, Professor Dawn Archer
The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language is the first comprehensive account of Shakespeare's language to use computational methods derived from corpus linguistics - methods of choice for today's historical linguist…
Stephen Orgel
A collection of essays that considers the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with complex Shakespearean texts
In his own time, Shakespeare was not a monument, but a man of…
Explores the extent to which members of the royal family have appropriated the creative legacy of Shakespeare, from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, in order to shore up…
Jakob Ladegaard, Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan
Dialogue is at the heart of Shakespeare's plays, and when his characters exchange words, they create social communities. This book is the first to present, explore and compare those verbal…
Marcia Williams
Enter the world of William Shakespeare with comic-strip retellings by the award-winning Marcia Williams!
Discover the story of Shakespeare's life and experience the atmosphere of the Globe Theatre, as you…
Orange Hippo!
A collection of romantic quotes from one of world's most celebrated writers.
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Edward Gieskes
Revises current thinking about how genre operates in early modern theatre
Offers an ecocritical approach to understanding dress in early modern plays and performance
Kim Bradley
"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful." -Measure for Measure, act 3, scene 1
Shakespeare's plays and poems remain as beloved in the twenty-first century as they were in the…
Michael Morpurgo
Ten stunning Shakespeare retellings from the master storyteller, with an introduction by Benedict Cumberbatch
The ideal gift for lovers of Shakespeare to enjoy the intrinsic beauty of the Bard's prose and poetry. Part of a beautiful three-set edition, with the works laid out in…
Paul Hammond
In Shakespearean tragedy, language is used to bring about the downfall of characters, but there is also a tragedy which affects language itself through the decomposition of the fundamental concepts…
One of Shakespeare's last plays, The Winter's Tale provides tragedy and comedy in equal measure. The King of Sicily, Leontes, accuses Queen Hermione, his wife, of adultery and sets off…
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
The First Folio (1623) text of Twelfth Night, with annotations and marginal glosses. Natasha Korda's expert introduction and list of textual edits made to the…
Anthony Del Col
The world's most famous lovers are now sworn enemies dueling to the death!
In this Shakespearean Western, warrior-for-hire (and pregnant) Juliet Capulet is hired to protect a border town nunnery…
Stephen Greenblatt, Adam Phillips
A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud
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William Shakespeare, Andy Hung
"I love your Majesty according to my bond; no more nor less."
The aging King Lear of Britain has decided to abdicate his throne and divide his realm among his…
Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright.
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Judi Dench
Discover the real Judi Dench through a series of intimate conversations about the love of her life - Shakespeare
Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig…
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This gold-tooled design comes from a unique binding attributed to Christian Samuel Kalthoeber, a German bookbinder working in London. He created the beautiful new cover for this copy of Shakespeare…
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This stately gold-tooled design comes from a unique binding attributed to Christian Samuel Kalthoeber, a German bookbinder working in London. He created the beautiful new cover for this copy of…
The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of The Comedy of Errors provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's beloved comedy.
A new edition of Shakespeare's tragedy, Cymbeline, a tale of homicidal jealousy and villainous plots.
All is True is Shakespeare's retelling of one of the most defining periods in English history, the marriage and divorce of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon.
A new edition of Shakespeare's dramatic retelling of the deposition of Richard II.
Ramie Targoff
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to…
Greg Doran
This book charts the journey of Greg Doran through an account of his experiences either directing or producing each of Shakespeare's plays in the First Folio.
STAGED- Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection
'We that are true lovers run into strange capers.'
Banished from her ambitious uncle's court, the lovesick Rosalind flees…
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'I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.'
Love, deception and discord…
With a foreword by Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places and Breathless
'For never was a story…
'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.'
When Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, discovers his father was murdered, he…
Nicholas Shakespeare
A fascinating new biography of the man behind James Bond, by an award-winning biographer and novelist who has unprecedented access to the Fleming Archive.
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Richard III is one of Shakespeare's enduring villains as the troubled and troubling figure at the heart of this popular succession drama. Traversing the familiar terrain of scheming plots, proposals…
The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of Julius Caesar provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's famous Roman tragedy.
Steve Barlow, Steve Skidmore
Shakespeare's Othello like you've never seen it - or read it - before! Classics in Graphics: Othello has been adapted into a graphic novel by expert authors, Steve Skidmore and…
