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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 anthology examines Love”s Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; cha …

Conceptualizing the curse as the representation of a foundational, mythical violence that is embedded within juridical discourse, Shakespeare’s Curse pursues a reading of Richard III, King John, and …

Shakespearean thinking is always dynamic: thinking that happens in the living moment of its performance, in quickly passing process. This book offers a model of human mentality that can be shown …

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 …

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 outstandi …

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 …

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 …

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 …