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Word vs Image By E Spolsky (Ha...Exposes the Protestant theologians' misunderstandings about how people could r... Exposes the Protestant theologians' misunderstandings about how people could reform their spiritual lives - how they could literally change their minds This work contains Shakespeare's achievement accomplished for the English stage by a translation of... more
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The Palgrave Handbook of Shake...Of Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays, fifteen include queens. This collection g... Of Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays, fifteen include queens. This collection gives these characters their due as powerful early modern women and agents of change, bringing together new perspectives from scholars of literature, history, theater, an more
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The Shakespeare First Folios: ...This catalogue of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623) is the result of two deca... This catalogue of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623) is the result of two decades of research during which 232 surviving copies of this immeasurably important book were located a remarkable 72 more than were recorded in the previous census over a more
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Theatre Music and Sound at the...This book discusses an exciting laboratory that has been developing the practi... This book discusses an exciting laboratory that has been developing the practice of theatre music composition and sound design since 1961: the Royal Shakespeare Company. Musical practices have evolved as composers and musical directors inherited f more
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Shakespearean Celebrity in the...This book offers a timely examination of the relationship between Shakespeare ... This book offers a timely examination of the relationship between Shakespeare and contemporary digital media. By focusing upon a variety of 'Shakespearean' individuals, groups and communities and their 'online' presence, the book explores the role more
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Imagining the Soul in Premoder...This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning... This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning the tenth century and the age of Shakespeare. All people, according to John Donne, 'constantly beleeve' that they have an immortal soul. But he also reflects that in fa more
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Queering Childhood in Early Mo...This volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and chi... This volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and childhood through the literature and drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Contributors include leading international scholars of the English Renaissance whose essay more
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Shakespeare and Authority: Cit...This book examines conceptions of authority for and in Shakespeare, and the co... This book examines conceptions of authority for and in Shakespeare, and the construction of Shakespeare as literary and cultural authority. The first section, Defining and Redefining Authority, begins by re-defining the concept of Shakespeare's so more
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Dreams, Sleep, and Shakespeare...This book explores how Shakespeare uses images of dreams and sleep to define h... This book explores how Shakespeare uses images of dreams and sleep to define his dramatic worlds. Surveying Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies, histories, and late plays, it argues that Shakespeare systematically exploits early modern physiological more
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Shakespeare and the Ethics of ...Making an important new contribution to rapidly expanding fields of study surr... Making an important new contribution to rapidly expanding fields of study surrounding the adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation is the first book to address the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, more
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A Comparative Philosophy of Sp...This book compares two major leisure activities - watching sport and engaging ... This book compares two major leisure activities - watching sport and engaging with art. It explores a range of philosophical questions that arise when sport and art are placed side by side:The works of Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Moza more
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Shakespeare's 'Whores': Erotic...Shakespeare's 'Whores' studies each use of the word 'whore' in Shakespeare's c... Shakespeare's 'Whores' studies each use of the word 'whore' in Shakespeare's canon, focusing especially on the positive personal and social effects of female sexuality, as represented in several major female characters, from the goddess Venus, to more
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Cognition, Mindreading, and Sh...Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters brings cognitive science ... Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters brings cognitive science to Shakespeare, applying contemporary theories of mindreading to Shakespeare's construction of character. Building on the work of the philosopher Alvin Goldman more
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Sinophone Adaptations of Shake...Shakespeare's tragedies have been performed in the Sinophone world for over tw... Shakespeare's tragedies have been performed in the Sinophone world for over two centuries. Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear are three of the most frequently adapted plays. They have been re-imagined as political theatre, comedic pa more
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Shakespeare, Objects and Pheno...This book explores ways in which Shakespeare's writing strategies shape our em... This book explores ways in which Shakespeare's writing strategies shape our embodied perception of objects - both real and imaginary - in four of his plays. Taking the reader on a series of perceptual journeys, it engages in an exciting dialogue b more
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Shakespeare and Costume in Pra...What is the role of costume in Shakespeare production? Shakespeare and Costume... What is the role of costume in Shakespeare production? Shakespeare and Costume in Practice argues that costume design choices are central not only to the creation of period setting and the actor's work on character, but to the cultural, p more
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Violence, Trauma, and Virtus i...Employing psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this bo... Employing psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and plays. It argues that Shakespeare uses Ovid to explore violence, trauma, and virtus - th more
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Reenacting Shakespeare in the ...In the Shakespeare aftermath-where all things Shakespearean are available for ... In the Shakespeare aftermath-where all things Shakespearean are available for reassembly and reenactment-experimental transactions with Shakespeare become consequential events in their own right, informed by technologies of performance and display more
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The Shakespeare User: Critical...This innovative collection explores uses of Shakespeare in a wide variety of 2... This innovative collection explores uses of Shakespeare in a wide variety of 21st century contexts, including business manuals, non-literary scholarship, database aggregation, social media, gaming, and creative criticism. Essays in this volume dem more
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Shakespeare / Not ShakespeareThis essay collection addresses the paradox that something may at once "be" an... This essay collection addresses the paradox that something may at once "be" and "not be" Shakespeare. This phenomenon can be a matter of perception rather than authorial intention: audiences may detect Shakespeare where the author disclaims him or more
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