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  • Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist

    by Lukas Erne ...
    Now in a new edition, Lukas Erne's groundbreaking study argues that Shakespeare, apart from being a playwright who wrote theatrical texts for the stage, was also a literary dramatist who produced reading texts for the page. Examining the evidence from early published playbooks, Erne argues that Shakespeare wrote many of his plays with a readership in mind and that these 'literary' texts would have ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Book Trade

    by Lukas Erne ...
    Shakespeare and the Book Trade follows on from Lukas Erne's groundbreaking Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist to examine the publication, constitution, dissemination and reception of Shakespeare's printed plays and poems in his own time and to argue that their popularity in the book trade has been greatly underestimated. Erne uses evidence from Shakespeare's publishers and the printed works to show ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies

    Edited by Lukas Erne ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks
    The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and textual studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on all the major areas of current research, notably the Shakespeare manuscripts; the printed text and paratext in Shakespeare's early playbooks and poetry books; Shakespeare's place in ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Shakespeare's Modern Collaborators

    by Lukas Erne ...
    Series series Shakespeare Now!
    Recent work in Shakespeare studies has brought to the forefront a variety of ways in which the collaborative nature of Shakespearean drama can be investigated: collaborative performance (Shakespeare and his fellow actors); collaborative writing (Shakespeare and his co-authors); collaborative textual production (Shakespeare and his transcribers and printers). What this leaves unaccounted for is the ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Early Modern German Shakespeare: Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet

    Der Bestrafte Brudermord and Romio und Julieta in Translation

    Edited by Lukas Erne, Kareen Seidler ...
    This book is a translation of German versions of both Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. The introductions to each play place these versions of Shakespeare's plays in the German context, and offer insights into what we can learn about the original texts from these translations.English itinerant players toured in northern continental Europe from the 1580s. Their repertories initially consisted of plays ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

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  • Hamlet: A Critical Reader

    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    Hamlet remains the most-studied of all Shakespeare's great tragedies. This collection of newly-commissioned essays gives readers an overview of past critical views of the play as well as new writing about the play from today's leading scholars. The range of perspectives offered makes the book an invaluable companion to anyone studying the play at an advanced level. The final chapter on learning ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio

    Edited by Emma Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Shakespeare's First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the world's most studied books, prompting speculation about everything from proof-reading practices in the early modern publishing industry to the 'true' authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Arguments about the nature of the First Folio are crucial to every modern edition of Shakespeare and thus to every reader or student of the plays. This ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Shakespeare Beyond Doubt

    Evidence, Argument, Controversy

    Edited by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells ...
    Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? The authorship question has been much treated in works of fiction, film and television, provoking interest all over the world. Sceptics have proposed many candidates as the author of Shakespeare's works, including Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe and Edward De Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford. But why and how did the authorship question arise and what does ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Shakespeare's First Folio

    Four Centuries of an Iconic Book

    by Emma Smith ...
    This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare

    Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . .Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship with his wife? Exploring and exploding 30 popular myths about the great playwright, this illuminating new book evaluates all the evidence to show how ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare

    Edited by Arthur F Kinney ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Situated within the Oxford Handbooks to Literature series, the group of Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespearean specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field. An ... Read more

    $44.99 USD