Author: Terri Bourus

The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition is part of the landmark New Oxford Shakespeare–an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare’s works, edited afresh from all the surviving original …

The first edition of Hamlet – often called ‘Q1’, shorthand for ‘first quarto’ – was published in 1603, in what we might regard as the early modern equivalent of a cheap paperback. Yet this …

‘Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.’Can one life be measured against another? Can a woman’s body be measured against a man’s life? Can consensual sex be measured against rape? Measure for Mea …

‘Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.’Can one life be measured against another? Can a woman’s body be measured against a man’s life? Can consensual sex be measured against rape? Measure for Mea …