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John Lyly and Early Modern Authorship by Andy Kesson 9781784993696
Booksplease Price: £23.54During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was... -
Shakespeare and the Imprints of Performance by J. Gavin Paul 9781137438430
Booksplease Price: £46.74Within the study of drama, the question of how to relate text and performance-and what interpretive tools are best suited to analyzing them-is a longstanding and contentious one. Most scholars agree... -
The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History by Dennis Waskul
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In the twenty-first century, as in centuries past, stories of the supernatural thrill and terrify us. But despite their popularity, scholars often dismiss such beliefs in the uncanny as... -
Harrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad by Harry Berger 9780823256624
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £60.43Harrying considers Richard III and the four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad-Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and Henry V. Berger combines close reading with cultural analysis to show how... -
Shakespeare in Jest Indira Ghose 9780367322465
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £100.93Shakespeare in Jest draws fascinating parallels between Shakespeare's humour and contemporary humour. Indira Ghose argues that while many of Shakespeare's jokes no longer work for us, his humour was... -
Playbooks and their Readers in Early Modern England by Hannah August 9781032232546
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Taking as its focus pre-Restoration printed drama's most common format, the... -
Neurodivergence and the Criminal Justice System Tom Smith 9781041070856
Booksplease Price: £40.75This book explores key topics in the area of neurodivergence and the criminal justice system (CJS) of England and Wales, encompassing a synopsis of up-to-date academic literature, key challenges in... -
Consent: Domestic and Comparative Perspectives Alan Reed 9780367595876
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This volume presents a leading contribution to the substantive arena relating to consent in the criminal law. In broad terms, the ambit of legally valid consent in extant law is contestable and... -
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper 9780861548095
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.23SHAKESPEARE: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon? 'Powerful and illuminating' James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, winner of... -
Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare’s London by Dr. Siobhan Keenan 9781408146637
Booksplease Price: £31.52Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London explores the intimate and dynamic relationship between acting companies and playwrights in this seminal era in English theatre history.Siobhan... -
Shakespeare in the North: Place, Politics and Performance in England and Scotland by Adam Hansen 9781474435932
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.32Presents fresh perspectives on Shakespeare's representations of and in the 'North', past and present Presents a wide range of emerging and established scholars working across the North of England,... -
Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare: Disinheriting the Globe by Paul A. Kottman 9780801893711
Booksplease Price: £60.00Paul A. Kottman offers a new and compelling understanding of tragedy as seen in four of Shakespeare's mature plays- As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. The author pushes beyond... -
King Henry V: A Critical Reader by Line Cottegnies 9781350164796
Booksplease Price: £31.52Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading... -
Christopher Marlowe in Context by Emily C. Bartels 9781107559363
Booksplease Price: £33.50A contemporary of William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe was one of the most influential early modern dramatists, whose life and mysterious death have long been the subject of... -
The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare 9781107004894
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £58.84The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays... -
Doing Development in West Africa: A Reader by and for Undergraduates by Charles Piot 9780822361923
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14In recent years the popularity of service learning and study abroad programs that bring students to the global South has soared, thanks to this generation of college students' desire to make a... -
Why are Women more Religious than Men? by Marta Trzebiatowska 9780199608102
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £31.34Women are more religious than men. Despite being excluded from leadership positions, in almost every culture and religious tradition, women are more likely than men to pray, to worship, and to claim... -
Shakespeare and Outsiders by Marianne Novy 9780199642359
Booksplease Price: £33.60OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare... -
If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation Daniel Hahn 9781805301622
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91Why might Hamlet be even longer in Italian? How does the story of Romeo and Juliet begin . . . in Thai? How do you build a joke in German, or recreate a rhyme in Japanese? And why are Lady Macbeth's... -
Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema by Russell Jackson 9780199659463
Booksplease Price: £30.48Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema is a lively, authoritative, and innovative overview of the ways in which Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for cinema. Organised by topics rather than... -
The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.64The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays... -
Shakespeare and Montaigne by Lars Engle 9781474458245
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £29.42Ground-breaking essays comparing Shakespeare and Montaigne Introduces and explores a wide range of fresh approaches to comparative study of Shakespeare and Montaigne Illuminates connections,... -
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics Richard Sennett 9781802062793
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinkerThe Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and... -
Reimagining Shakespeare Education: Teaching and Learning through Collaboration by Liam E. Semler
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.79Shakespeare education is being reimagined around the world. This book delves into the important role of collaborative projects in this extraordinary transformation. Over twenty innovative Shakespeare... -
Shakespeare Without a Life by Margreta de Grazia
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £25.42A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, before Shakespeare's biography came to dominate... -
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"Race" and Racism: The Development of Modern Racism in America by R. Perry 9780230600775
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20'Race' and Racism examines the origins and development of racism in North America. It addresses the inception and persistence of the concept of 'race' and discusses the biology of human variance,... -
Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590-1674 by Lucy Munro
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44Ranging from the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton to those of Robert Southwell and Anna Trapnel, this groundbreaking study explores the conscious use of archaic style by the poets and... -
Shakespeare, Court Dramatist by Richard Dutton 9780198777748
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £45.10Shakespeare, Court Dramatist centres around the contention that the courts of both Elizabeth I and James I loomed much larger in Shakespeare's creative life than is usually appreciated. Richard... -
The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty by Helen Hackett
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.09The first comprehensive guide to Elizabethan ideas about the mind What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and soul? These questions were as perplexing for the Elizabethans as they are for us... -
Shakespeare and British World War Two Film by Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr 9781108829663
Booksplease Price: £23.27During World War Two, many British writers and thinkers turned to Shakespeare in order to articulate the values for which their nation was fighting. Yet the cinema presented moviegoers with a more... -
Whose Language Is English? Jieun Kiaer 9780300264050
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.23An exhilarating new account of the English language, from British colonialism to the age of social media, emphasizing dynamism and democratization Whose language is English? Although we often think... -
Children of the Queen's Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory by Lucy Munro 9780521843560
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £56.33This book provides a detailed study of the Children of the Queen's Revels, the most enduring and influential of the Jacobean children's companies. Between 1603 and 1613 the Queen's Revels staged... -
Shakespeare Survey 77: Shakespeare's Poetry Hannah Crawforth 9781009531399
Booksplease Price: £90.87Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of... -
Shakespeare and Popular Music by Adam Hansen 9781441126986
Booksplease Price: £34.52Exploring the interactions between Shakespeare and popular music, this book links these seeming polar opposites, showing how musicians have woven the Bard into their sounds. How have Shakespearean... -
Children of the Queen's Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory by Lucy Munro 9781107402492
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09This book provides a detailed study of the Children of the Queen's Revels, the most enduring and influential of the Jacobean children's companies. Between 1603 and 1613 the Queen's Revels staged... -
Multisensory Shakespeare and Specialized Communities Sheila T. Cavanagh 9781350296466
Booksplease Price: £30.84How can theatre and Shakespearean performance be used with different communities to assist personal growth and development, while advancing social justice goals?Employing an integrative approach that... -
Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590-1674 by Lucy Munro 9781107649842
Booksplease Price: £32.12Ranging from the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton to those of Robert Southwell and Anna Trapnel, this groundbreaking study explores the conscious use of archaic style by the poets and... -
Shakespeare, Court Dramatist by Richard Dutton 9780198822257
Booksplease Price: £36.30Shakespeare, Court Dramatist centres around the contention that the courts of both Elizabeth I and James I loomed much larger in Shakespeare's creative life than is usually appreciated. Richard... -
Shakespeare's Body Language: Shaming Gestures and Gender Politics on the Renaissance Stage by Miranda Fay Thomas 9781350228146
Booksplease Price: £34.47Why do the Capulets bite their thumbs at the Montagues? Why do the Venetians spit upon Shylock's Jewish gaberdine? What is it about Volumnia's act of kneeling that convinces Coriolanus not to assault... -
Essential Shakespeare: The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation Dr. Pamela Bickley 9781350444263
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.87Addressing the transition from pre-university to undergraduate Shakespeare studies, this introductory critical guide examines 16 key plays. Each chapter focuses on modern theoretical methods, close...