Book Series in Literature
Accents on Shakespeare
New & Published Titles:
Gothic Shakespeares
Readings of Shakespeare were both influenced by and influential in the rise of Gothic forms in literature and culture from the late eighteenth century onwards.…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42067-9 (Routledge)
Presentist Shakespeares
Presentist Shakespeares is the first extended study of the principles and practice of 'presentism', a critical movement that takes account of the never-ending dialogue between…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-38529-9 (Routledge)
Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality
Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism
Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality is a powerful reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, by one of the founding figures…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40236-1 (Routledge)
Green Shakespeare
From Ecopolitics to Ecocriticism
Ecocriticism, a theoretical movement examining cultural constructions of Nature in their social and political contexts, is making an increasingly important contribution to our understanding of…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32296-6 (Routledge)
Hamlet's Heirs
Shakespeare and The Politics of a New Millennium
Speaking to readers in a voice that is adventurous rather than authoritative, innovative rather than institutional and speculative rather than orthodox, Linda Charnes’ provocative study…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26194-4 (Routledge)
Spiritual Shakespeares
Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events. Ewan…
read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31967-6 (Routledge)
Making Shakespeare
From Stage to Page
Making Shakespeare is a lively introduction to the major issues of the stage and print history, whilst also raising questions about what a Shakespeare play… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31965-2 (Routledge)
Shakespeare in the Present
Shakespeare in the Present is a stunning collection of essays by Terence Hawkes, which engage with, explain, and explore 'presentism'. Presentism is a critical manoeuvre… read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26196-8 (Routledge)
The Sound of Shakespeare
The 'Sound of Shakespeare' reveals the surprising extent to which Shakespeare's art is informed by the various attitudes, beliefs, practices and discourses that pertained to… read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25377-2 (Routledge)
Shame in Shakespeare
One of the most intense and painful of our human passions, shame is typically seen in contemporary culture as a disability or a disease to… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25828-9 (Routledge)
Series Details:
The Accents on Shakespeare series provides short, powerful 'cutting edge' accounts of and comments on new developments in Shakespeare studies. The volumes either 'apply' theory, or broaden and adapt it in order to connect with concrete teaching concerns. In the process, they also reflect and engage with the major developments in Shakespearean studies of the last ten years.
'Accents on Shakespeare proves that Shakespeare is still where the challenging work in English is being done. These sparky and authoritative books reopen some of the unresolved questions and move us on to new ones.'
Alan Sinfield, University of Sussex, UK
'Accents on Shakespeare is shaping up as everything a streetwise series of books on the Bard should be: engaged, imaginative, heretical and occasionally outrageous. No one who aims to have their finger on the pulse of Shakespeare studies can afford to ignore it.'
Kiernan Ryan, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
'I have personally purchased and studied every one of the new Accents on Shakespeare volumes ... and repeatedly turn to them as resources for my own research and teaching. My students - graduate and undergraduate alike - find them invaluable, as I do. They are remarkably comprehensive, timely, and informative, and an essential way to keep current with the fundamental ideas in Shakespearean criticism.'
Arthur F. Kinney, Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History, University of Massachusetts, USA
'Accents on Shakespeare is shaping up as everything a streetwise series of books on the Bard should be: engaged, imaginative, heretical and occasionally outrageous. No one who aims to have their finger on the pulse of Shakespeare studies can afford to ignore it.'
Kiernan Ryan, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
'I have personally purchased and studied every one of the new Accents on Shakespeare volumes ... and repeatedly turn to them as resources for my own research and teaching. My students - graduate and undergraduate alike - find them invaluable, as I do. They are remarkably comprehensive, timely, and informative, and an essential way to keep current with the fundamental ideas in Shakespearean criticism.'
Arthur F. Kinney, Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History, University of Massachusetts, USA