Providing a unique combination of well-written, up-to-date background information and intriguing selections from primary documents, The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare introduces students to the topics most important to the study…

A detailed study of the difficult poetry spoken in such plays as The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest, Shakespeare’s Late Style considers new ways of thinking about some of Shakespeare’s…

This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays by leading international scholars, offers expert close reading of Shakespeare and other early modern authors. A major contribution to the current revaluation of…