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Shakespeare's Sonnets by Dympna Callaghan
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £29.46This introduction provides a concise overview of the central issues and critical responses to Shakespeare's sonnets, looking at the themes, images, and structure of his work, as well as the social... -
Hamlet: Language and Writing by Dympna Callaghan
Booksplease Price: £22.93This lively and informative guide reveals Hamlet as marking a turning point in Shakespeare's use of language and dramatic form as well as addressing the key problem at the play's core: Hamlet's... -
Shakespeare Without Women by Dympna Callaghan
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Shakespeare Without Women is a controversial study of female impersonation, and the connections between dramatic and political representation in Shakespeare's plays. In this original and challenging... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets by Dympna Callaghan 9781405113977
RRP: £75.95Booksplease Price: £70.27This introduction provides a concise overview of the central issues and critical responses to Shakespeare's sonnets, looking at the themes, images, and structure of his work, as well as the social... -
Hamlet: Language and Writing by Dympna Callaghan 9781472520289
Booksplease Price: £71.55Arden Student Guides offer a new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical and writng skills students need to develop in order to engage fully... -
The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster by Dympna Callaghan 9780333614280
Booksplease Price: £33.49In The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster reworked the idea of a female tragic protagonist explored in his earlier and less well-received play The White Devil. In the play, which is still much performed... -
Who Was William Shakespeare?: An Introduction to the Life and Works by Dympna Callaghan
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.36A new study of Shakespeare's life and times, which illuminates our understanding and appreciation of his works. Combines an accessible fully historicised treatment of both the life and the plays,... -
The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Studies by Dympna Callaghan 9781403992123
Booksplease Price: £90.86The essays in this exciting and important volume move away both from the notion that women are excluded victims, and from the more recent over-compensation for that position. Instead, it steadies the... -
Who Was William Shakespeare?: An Introduction to the Life and Works by Dympna Callaghan 9780470658468
Booksplease Price: £77.05A new study of Shakespeare s life and times, which illuminates our understanding and appreciation of his works. * Combines an accessible fully historicised treatment of both the life and the plays,... -
Shakespeare in Our Time: A Shakespeare Association of America Collection by Dympna Callaghan 9781472520425
Booksplease Price: £112.43Published with the Shakespeare Association of America, Shakespeare in Our Time offers lead essays by the distinguished scholars who have served as presidents of the Association over the past two... -
Shakespeare in Our Time: A Shakespeare Association of America Collection by Dympna Callaghan 9781472520418
Booksplease Price: £27.89This volume marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death by reflecting on the unrivalled work of the Shakespeare Association of America and offering a unique collection of leading Shakespeare... -
The Weyward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse University, New York) 9780631177982
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.81In this fresh alternative to traditional Shakespeare studies, Dympna Callaghan, Lorraine Helms, and Jyotsna Singh address Shakespeare's works in terms of, amongst other things, the feminist history... -
Reading Shakespeare's Poetry by D Callaghan
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.02Reading Shakespeare's Poetry A lively exploration of Shakespeare's poems and how they speak to readers Reading Shakespeare's Poetry presents a fresh interpretation of Shakespeare's non-dramatic... -
Antony and Cleopatra: New Critical Essays Sara M. Deats 9780415645898
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Complementing other volumes in the Shakespeare Criticism Series, this collection of twenty original essays will expand the critical contexts in which Antony and Cleopatra can be enjoyed as both... -
The Taming of the Shrew: A Norton Critical Edition by William Shakespeare 9780393927078
Booksplease Price: £20.21It is accompanied by "A Note on the Text" and detailed explanatory annotations. "Sources and Contexts" provides three possible analogues to Shakespeare's controversial, high-spirited play from Ovid's... -
Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance: Barbarian Errors by Ian Smith 9780230620452
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £80.72This book argues that the sixteenth-century preoccupation with rehabilitating English tells the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting attention away from its own marginal, minority status by... -
Marlowe by Avraham Oz 9780333624982
Booksplease Price: £103.11Christopher Marlowe is known not only as Shakespeare's most notable contemporary playwright, but also as one of the most intriguing figures of the English Renaissance. The mystery of his death in a... -
King Richard III: Language and Writing by Rebecca Lemon 9781474253345
Booksplease Price: £22.66A new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical writings skills students need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare's texts. The... -
A Contextual Guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra: History, Myth, Gender Jyotsna G. Singh 9781474494267
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £114.53Employing commentary on the play's main themes, coupled with an editorial apparatus that connects selected primary texts (from Ovid to Montaigne) with Shakespeare's great tragedy, Jyotsna G. Singh... -
Shakespeare and Textual Theory by Prof. Suzanne Gossett
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.93There is no Shakespeare without text. Yet readers often do not realize that the words in the book they hold, like the dialogue they hear from the stage, has been revised, augmented and emended since... -
The Law in Shakespeare by C. Jordan 9781403992147
Booksplease Price: £90.56Leading scholars in the field analyze Shakespeare's plays to show how their dramatic content shapes issues debated in conflicts arising from the creation and application of law. Individual essays... -
The Law in Shakespeare by C. Jordan 9781349543342
Booksplease Price: £92.27Leading scholars in the field analyze Shakespeare's plays to show how their dramatic content shapes issues debated in conflicts arising from the creation and application of law. Individual essays... -
Much Ado About Nothing: Language and Writing by Indira Ghose 9781472580979
Booksplease Price: £24.60Much Ado About Nothing presents a world of glittering surfaces and exquisite social performances. The language of the play sparkles with a fireworks of wit and dazzling bouts of repartee, most... -
New Science, New World by Denise Albanese 9780822317593
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £73.01In New Science, New World Denise Albanese examines the discursive interconnections between two practices that emerged in the seventeenth century-modern science and colonialism. Drawing on the... -
New Science, New World by Denise Albanese 9780822317685
Booksplease Price: £34.03In New Science, New World Denise Albanese examines the discursive interconnections between two practices that emerged in the seventeenth century-modern science and colonialism. Drawing on the... -
Shakespeare and Violence by R. A. Foakes 9780521527439
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09Shakespeare and Violence, first published in 2002, connects to anxieties about the problem of violence, and shows how similar concerns are central in Shakespeare's plays. At first Shakespeare... -
Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage Peter Parolin 9780754665359
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Offering evidence of women's extensive contributions to the theatrical landscape, this volume sharply challenges the assumption that the stage was 'all male' in early modern England. The editors and... -
Othello: Critical Essays by Philip C. Kolin
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Including twenty-one groundbreaking chapters that examine one of Shakespeare's most complex tragedies. Othello:Critical Essays explores issues of friendship and fealty, love and betrayal, race and... -
Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England by Pamela Allen Brown
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £21.66In a study that explodes the assumption that early modern comic culture was created by men for men, Pamela Allen Brown shows that jest books, plays, and ballads represented women as laugh-getters and... -
Hamlet's Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England by Andras Kisery 9780198822264
Booksplease Price: £35.55Hamlet's Moment identifies a turning point in the history of English drama and early modern political culture: the moment when the business of politics became a matter of dramatic representation... -
Hamlet's Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England by Andr^D'as Kis^D'ery 9780198746201
Booksplease Price: £117.72Hamlet's Moment identifies a turning point in the history of English drama and early modern political culture: the moment when the business of politics became a matter of dramatic representation... -
What's in a Name?: How Historians Know Shakespeare Was Shakespeare Susan Dwyer Amussen 9781526191908
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.77A compelling tour of Shakespeare's England that makes a powerful contribution to the 'authorship question'.How do we know Shakespeare was Shakespeare? Could a glover's son who left school at fifteen... -
Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist by Lukas Erne 9781107029651
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99Now in a new edition, Lukas Erne's groundbreaking study argues that Shakespeare, apart from being a playwright who wrote theatrical texts for the stage, was also a literary dramatist who produced... -
Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist by Lukas Erne 9781107685062
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.41Now in a new edition, Lukas Erne's groundbreaking study argues that Shakespeare, apart from being a playwright who wrote theatrical texts for the stage, was also a literary dramatist who produced... -
Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry by Wendy Beth Hyman 9780198837510
Booksplease Price: £91.88Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation at a disregarded nexus: the erotic carpe diem poem in early modern...