Hugh Grady 
Shakespeare’s Dialectic of Hope [PDF ebook] 
From the Political to the Utopian

Filumena is Eduardo de Filippo”s best-known work and arguably his finest comedy, drenched in Neapolitan atmosphere and full of entanglements at once romantic and cynical. Set in the balmy heat of la …

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and i …

Coming-of-age drama with sideways glance at evangelical and Sapphic love ”I mean, the fact that Jesus chose to turn the water into wine, rather than just decontaminating it, proves that drinking alc …

The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. Contemporary readers and writers continue to exploit Shakespeare”s cultural afterlife in a vivid and crea …

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 …

Green in early modern England did not mean what it does today; but what did it mean? Unveiling various versions and interpretations of green, this book offers a cultural history of a color that illum …

Antigone is Sophocles” masterpiece, a seminal influence on a wide range of theatrical, literary, and intellectual traditions. This volume sets the play in the contexts of its mythical background, it …

Focusing on representations of beards in English Renaissance culture, this study elucidates how fetish objects validate ideological systems of power by materializing complex value in multiple registe …

An investigation into modes of early modern English literary ”indirection, ” this study could also be considered a detective work on a pseudonym attached to some late sixteenth-century works. In th …

A theme that obsessed Shakespeare in over 20 plays from Titus Andronicus to The Tempest was the relationship between a daughter and her father. This study traces chronologically the development of th …