This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world?s foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastan of Columbia University.
And what exactly do we mean by 'late Shakespeare'? Gordon McMullan argues that, far from being a natural phenomenon common to a handful of geniuses in old age or in proximity to death, late style is in fact a critical construct.
This book offers new archival discoveries about, and new interpretations of, the Tercentenary celebrations in Britain, Australia and New Zealand and reflects on the long legacy of those celebrations.
This is a well-planned, focused and co-ordinated volume makes a significant contribution to Shakespeare studies. The contributors are a formidable and global group of scholars, representing both traditional and contemporary viewpoints.
This book focuses on the social and political tensions that motivate his plays, and argues that knowledge of his works is essential to an understanding of Renaissance drama.
This unique collection of essays and images explores a series of objects in the Royal Collection as a means of assessing the interrelated histories of the British royal family and the Shakespearean afterlife across four centuries.