This volume celebrates the centrality of clowning to Shakespeares conception of theatre and how he purposefully invites the clowns anarchic energy into the heart of his dramaturgy....Lasīt vairāk
Shakespeare in Tongues interrogates the popular conflation of the language of Shakespeare with English by examining the role Shakespeares works have played in overlapping histories of colonialism, slavery, and migration that continue to shape the li...Lasīt vairāk
This new examination of Shakespeares four Roman tragedies (Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra) revisits Shakespeares dramatic recreations of ancient Rome in the light of considerations of place....Lasīt vairāk
In the modern world, references to Shakespeare frequently mark moments of catastrophe and of the longing for restoring social order. Drawing on cases from around the world, this book interrogates the idea that performing or reading Shakespeare has s...Lasīt vairāk
Strategic Shakespeare demonstrates the value of humanities-trained scholars as leaders in higher education. It features contributions from Renaissance and Shakespearean scholars, who collectively aim to leverage traditional assumptions about Shakesp...Lasīt vairāk
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 they explore...Lasīt vairāk
Shakespeares Exiles addresses fundamental ethical, political, and anthropological questions by looking at two of Shakespeares most eccentric big men....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the diverse means by which Shakespeares poetry enriches his drama, illustrating how particular words in a particular order render his dialogue distinctive and create supreme literary and dramatic value....Lasīt vairāk
Clear mirrors and scripture in English, revolutionary innovations of the Elizabethan age, inspired Shakespeares drive towards a new purpose for drama....Lasīt vairāk
An original intervention in the critical history of Shakespeares most famous play, Histrionic Hamlet argues that the Danish Prince is a stage representation of a histrionic personality, incongruously thrown in the middle of ruthless high-stakes powe...Lasīt vairāk
Shakespeares Unmuted Women explores womens speeches in selected plays by Shakespeare, highlighting womens discerning insight as a vital ingredient in these selected works....Lasīt vairāk
With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection that analyzes the relationship between early modern literature and history through lenses such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality, relig...Lasīt vairāk
The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeares work and his time....Lasīt vairāk
Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface uses the concept of the surface to examine the relationship between contemporary performance and ecocriticism....Lasīt vairāk
This book sheds light on the reckoning and judgement of conscience by demonstrating how these concepts are explored in Everyman, Doctor Faustus, The Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet....Lasīt vairāk
The twentieth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook focuses on Pericles, Prince of Tyre, a play long neglected, which has recently seen renewed interest. The volume provides twelve essays on the play and its history, and also includes a...Lasīt vairāk
Early Modern Others highlights instances of challenges to misogyny, racism, atheism, and antisemitism in the early modern period. Through deeply historicising early modern literature and looking at its political and social contexts, Peter C. Herman...Lasīt vairāk
Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism aims to articulate the reception of Shakespeare by the 19th century Indian intelligentsia from Bengal and their ambivalent approach to the Indian Renaissance and consequent nationalist project....Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Shakespeare is essential reading for students of aesthetics, philosophy of literature and ethics as well as those in Shakespeare-related fields such as literature and theatre and drama studies....Lasīt vairāk
This volume captures the diverse ways in which Shakespeare interacts with educational theory and practice. It explores the depiction of learning and education in the plays, the role of Shakespeare as pedagogue, and ways in which the teaching of Shak...Lasīt vairāk
This book lays bare the dialogue between Shakespeare and critics of the stage, and positions it as part of an ongoing cultural, ethical, and psychological debate about the effects of performance on actors and on spectators....Lasīt vairāk
This book analyses the epistemological problems that Shakespeare explores in Othello. In particular, it uses the methods of analytic philosophy, especially the work of the later Wittgenstein, to characterize these problems and the play....Lasīt vairāk
As the #MeToo movement extends its legal, social, and political reach, the topic of consent has come under scrutiny. Shakespeare on Consent examines crises of consent on the early modern stage and argues that these dramatizations provide a framework...Lasīt vairāk
This volume takes a deep dive into the philosophical hermeneutics of Shakespearean tradition providing insight into the foundations, theories, and methodologies of hermeneutics in Shakespeare....Lasīt vairāk
This book compares the theatrical cultures of early modern England and Spain and explores the causes and consequences not just of the remarkable similarities but also of the visible differences between them....Lasīt vairāk
This volume explores the relationship between the emphasis on performance in Elizabethan humanist education and the flourishing of literary brilliance around the turn of the sixteenth century....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores a fresh and insightful interpretation of Hamlets Gertrude as a prominent and powerful figure within the play. It shows how traditional readings of this character, both performance-based and scholarly, have been guided and constrai...Lasīt vairāk
As one of the most adventurous critics of his generation, Terence Hawkess contributions to the study of Shakespeare and the development of literary and cultural theory have been immense. This vibrant read is for anyone interested in Hawkess unique b...Lasīt vairāk
This volume explores Shakespeares interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action within the plays, even as it generates one of the audiences most common responses to tragic drama in the theater....Lasīt vairāk
Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks: Shylock Beyond the Holocaust uses Jewish theology to mount a courageous new reading of a four-hundred-year-old play, The Merchant of Venice, and propose a similar analysis of Othello and The Temp...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents original material which indicates that Aemilia Lanyer - female writer, feminist, and Shakespeare contemporary - is Shakespeares hidden and arguably most significant co-author. Once dismissed as the mere paramour of Shakespeares pa...Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature provides readers with a comprehensive reassessment of the value of Humanism in an intellectual landscape....Lasīt vairāk
Through its examination of the nexus between the history of emotions and the social and cultural uses of colour in early modern drama, Shakespeare and Emotional Expression adds to our understanding of the expressive and affective possibilities in Sh...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores how the pregnant body is portrayed, perceived and enacted in Shakespeares and his contemporaries drama by means of a phenomenological analysis and a recourse to early modern popular medical discourse on reproduction....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores how teachings and ideas of specific historical mystical thinkers might influence all aspects of contemporary theatrical productions including writing, directing, acting, stagecraft/set design, lighting design, costume design, soun...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1962, John Lyly focuses interest on Lyly, neither as a phenomenon nor as an influence, but as an author whose works are excellent in themselves....Lasīt vairāk
This collection considers issues that have emerged in Early Modern Studies in the past fifteen years relating to understandings of mind and body in Shakespeares world. The essays examine Shakespeares theatre in terms of an early modern body-mind, co...Lasīt vairāk
The One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeares plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts. This volume, More Comedies and Tragedies, includes the following plays: The Comedy of Errors...Lasīt vairāk
Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training focuses on neuro and physical difference and dis/ability in the teaching of performance and associated studies. It offers nineteen practitioners research-based teaching strategies, aimed to enhance eq...Lasīt vairāk
Shakespeare and Terrorism delves into how extremists have responded to Shakespeare and investigates what his works can tell us about the nature, psychology, and consequences of terror. This book will enlighten those interested in Shakespeare, social...Lasīt vairāk
Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet offers a unique and highly innovative transdisciplinary discussion of unspeakable love in one of the most famous love stories in literary history....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between 1580s-1630s. The book will appeal to those with interest in early modern drama and theatre, dramaturgy, popular culture, c...Lasīt vairāk
Shakespeare and Girls Studies argues that girls hold a central place in Shakespearean adaptation, taking as its subject the overlap between Shakespeares timeless girl heroines and contemporary popular culture that embraces figures like Juliet and Op...Lasīt vairāk
Shakespeares Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Sha...Lasīt vairāk
This volume synthesizes Laura Mulveys male gaze and Rosemarie Garland-Thomsons stare into a new critical lens, the filmic stare, in order to understand and analyze the visual construction of disability in adaptations of Shakespearean drama....Lasīt vairāk
Considering a variety of questions centering on magic and, or in, performance, this volume furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. Collectively the essays show that the ide...Lasīt vairāk
In this forceful study, Helen C. Scott situates The Tempest within Marxist analyses of the primitive accumulation of capital, which she suggests help explain the plays continued and particular resonance....Lasīt vairāk
