William Shakespeare 
The Taming of the Shrew, And, Coriolanus [PDF ebook] 

The most familiar assertion of Shakespeare scholarship is that he is our contemporary. Shakespeare After Theory provocatively argues that he is not, but what value he has for us must at least begin w …

Originally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and curren …

Shakespeare has made the big time. No less than the Beatles or Liberace, Elvis Presley or Mick Jagger, Shakespeare is big-time in the idiomatic sense of cultural success and widespread notoriety. Not …

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play”s various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Asp …

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare”s play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Compa …

Bucket List tells the story of the fight for justice against the effects of the corrupt capitalist regime in Mexico affecting some of the world”s poorest and most defenceless people. When her mother …

Oliver Cotton is a British stage and screen actor, well known for his work on stage, TV and film. In this, his first published stage play, Cotton draws on his own experience as he presents two actors …

Located at the intersection of new historicism and the ‘new formalism, ‘ historical formalism is one of the most rapidly growing and important movements in early modern studies, addressing at once th …

Shakespeare”s history plays are central to his dramatic achievement. In recent years they have become more widely studied than ever, stimulating intensely contested interpretations, due to their rel …

Duck Variations: ‘A brilliant little play…about two old men sitting on a park bench discussing ducks’ (Guardian); Sexual Perversity in Chicago, bar-room banter and sexual exploits in Mamet”s home …