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1. Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time

   By Matthew Wagner

   That Shakespeare thematized time thoroughly, almost obsessively, in his plays is well established: time is, among other things, a 'devourer' (Love's Labour's Lost), one who can untie knots (Twelfth Night), or, perhaps most famously, simply ‘out of joint’ (Hamlet). Yet most critical commentary on...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-80587-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Shakespeare, the Bible, and the History of the Material Book: Contested Scriptures

   Edited by Travis DeCook, Alan Galey

   Why do Shakespeare and the English Bible seem to have an inherent relationship with each other? How have these two monumental traditions in the history of the book functioned as mutually reinforcing sources of cultural authority? How do material books and related reading practices serve as specific...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-88350-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance: Performances on Stage and Screen

   By Catherine Silverstone

   In this original study, Silverstone explores the relationship between performances of Shakespeare’s plays and the ways in which they engage with various traumatic events and histories. In considering this relationship, she asks how performance might articulate traumatic events and investigates the...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-95645-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Shakespearean Adaptations in East Asia

   Edited by Minami Ryuta

   The last decade has witnessed a rapid increase in serious research on ‘Shakespeare in Asia’, yet most readers of the many new monographs and journal articles on the subject have hitherto not enjoyed access to the plays discussed because they have not been readily available in English. Indeed, an...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-57597-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Focus on Macbeth

   Edited by John Russell Brown

   First published in 1982. Macbeth exercises a strange influence over readers and theatre audiences: the words of the text offer no easy clue to meaning or significance and in dramatic structure the play is very different from other Shakespearean tragedies. Many kinds of study are needed in order to...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-61217-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Shakespeare's Sililoquies

   By Ingeborg Boltz, Wolfgang Clemen

   First published in 1987. Often the best known and most memorable passages in Shakespeare's plays, the soliloquies, also tend to be the focal points in the drama. Twenty-seven soliloquies are examined in this work, illustrating how the spectator or reader is led to the soliloquy and how the drama...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-61219-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. The Development of Shakespeare's Imagery

   By Wolfgang Clemen

   First published in 1951. The edition reprints the second, updated, edition, of 1977. When first published this book quickly established itself as the standard survey of Shakespeare's imagery considered as an integral part of the development of Shakespeare's dramatic art. By illustrating, through...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-61220-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Shakespeare's Drama

   By Una Ellis-Fermor

   Edited by Kenneth Muir

   First published in 1980. This collection of essays by the first General Editor of the New Arden Shakespeare brings together the best of Ellis-Fermor's Shespearean criticism, in addition to outstanding essays on Coriolanus and Troilus and Cressida. Collected and edited by Kenneth Muir, the book is...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-61221-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets

   By J B Leishman

   First published in 1961. This study analyses Shakespeare's treatment of the universal themes of Beauty, Love and Time. He compares Shakespeare with other great poets and sonnet writers - Pindar, Horace and Ovid, with Petrarch, Tasso and Ronsart, with Shakespeare's own English predecessors and...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-61224-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare

    By Robert Shaughnessy

    William Shakespeare is one of the most widely studied and culturally significant writers of all time, and his language and thought remain interwoven through popular reference and imaginings of the Western canon. In this concise, structured guide, Robert Shaughnessy: introduces Shakespeare’s...

    December 2010 | 978-0-415-27540-8 | Paperback (Routledge)