King Lear

New Critical Essays

Edited by Jeffrey Kahan

Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when...

Published April 18th 2008 by Routledge.

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Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative

“What’s aught but as ‘tis valued?”

By Peter F. Grav

Despite the volume of work Shakespeare produced, surprisingly few of his plays directly concern money and the economic mindset. Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative examines...

Published March 26th 2008 by Routledge.

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Profiling Shakespeare

By Marjorie Garber

The title of this collection, Profiling Shakespeare, is meant strongly in its double sense. These essays show the outline of a Shakespeare rather different from...

Published March 24th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare

Edited by John Russell Brown

'Bringing directorial labour into sharp focus, this long overdue volume represents a valuable contribution to theatre history. It not only heightens our understanding of the art and...

Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.

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Macbeth

New Critical Essays

Edited by Nick Moschovakis

This volume offers a wealth of critical analysis, supported with ample historical and bibliographical information about one of Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular and globally influential...

Published March 10th 2008 by Routledge.

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Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals

By Kathryn Prince

Based on extensive archival research, Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals offers an entirely new perspective on popular Shakespeare reception by focusing on articles published in Victorian periodicals....

Published January 29th 2008 by Routledge.

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William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

A Sourcebook

Edited by Sonia Massai

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (c.1600) is one of his most captivating plays. A comedy of mistaken identities, it has given rise to thought-provoking debates around...

Published December 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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Shakespeare and Child's Play

Performing Lost Boys on Stage and Screen

By Carol Chillington Rutter

Shakespeare wrote more than fifty parts for children, amounting to the first comprehensive portrait of childhood in the English theatre. Focusing mostly on boys, he...

Published November 7th 2007 by Routledge.

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Alternative Shakespeares

Volume 3

Edited by Diana E. Henderson

This volume takes up the challenge embodied in its predecessors, Alternative Shakespeares and Alternative Shakespeares 2, to identify and explore the new, the changing and...

Published October 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

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Elizabethan and Jacobean Journals

Being a Record of those Things Most Talked of During the Years 1591-1610

Edited by G.B. Harrison

This set provides a detailed and intimate account of the Elizabethan and Jacobean World picture. The volumes vividly convey life as it was in the...

Published September 26th 2007 by Routledge.

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