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Shakespeare Without a Life by Margreta de Grazia
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $53.38A 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... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare by Margreta de Grazia
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $55.80Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays... -
'Hamlet' without Hamlet by Margreta de Grazia 9780521690362
RRP: $86.10Booksplease Price: $84.19'Hamlet' without Hamlet sets out to counter the modern tradition of abstracting the character Hamlet from the play. For over two centuries, Hamlet has been valued as the icon of consciousness: but... -
'Hamlet' without Hamlet by Margreta de Grazia 9780521870252
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $188.98'Hamlet' without Hamlet sets out to counter the modern tradition of abstracting the character Hamlet from the play. For over two centuries, Hamlet has been valued as the icon of consciousness: but... -
Four Shakespearean Period Pieces by Margreta de Grazia 9780226785196
RRP: $174.30Booksplease Price: $168.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226785196Author Margreta de GraziaFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Chicago... -
Four Shakespearean Period Pieces by Margreta de Grazia
Booksplease Price: $52.08In the study of Shakespeare since the eighteenth century, four key concepts have served to situate Shakespeare in history: chronology, periodization, secularization, and anachronism. Yet recent... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare by Margreta de Grazia 9780521886321
RRP: $195.30Booksplease Price: $187.11Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays... -
Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture by Margreta de Grazia 9780521454711
RRP: $231.00Booksplease Price: $224.45This collection of original essays brings together some of the most prominent figures in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to the early modern period, and offers a new focus on the... -
Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture by Margreta de Grazia 9780521455893
RRP: $98.70Booksplease Price: $95.99This collection of original essays brings together some of the most prominent figures in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to the early modern period, and offers a new focus on the... -
French Reflections in the Shakespearean Tragic: Three Case Studies by Richard Hillman 9780719087172
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $129.38Hillman explores English tragedy in relation to France with a frank concentration on Shakespeare. He sets out to theorise more abstract tragic qualities (such as nostalgia, futility and heroism) with... -
French Reflections in the Shakespearean Tragic: Three Case Studies by Richard Hillman 9780719099892
Booksplease Price: $49.43Hillman explores English tragedy in relation to France with a frank concentration on Shakespeare. He sets out to theorise more abstract tragic qualities (such as nostalgia, futility and heroism) with... -
Ecocritical Shakespeare by Lynne Bruckner
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $104.77Can reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare contribute to the health of the planet? To what degree are Shakespeare's plays anthropocentric or ecocentric? What is the connection between the... -
Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture Carla Mazzio 9780415920537
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $92.36First published in 2000. Did people in early modern Europe have a concept of an inner self? Carla Mazzio and Douglas Trevor have brought together an outstanding group of literary, cultural, and... -
Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre by Naomi Conn Liebler 9780415131834
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy is a unique look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Naomi Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard tragic heroes such as Coriolanus and... -
The Commodification of Textual Engagements in the English Renaissance Michael Saenger 9780754654131
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58An investigation into the ways in which early modern books were advertised, this study argues that those means of advertisement both record and help to shape social interactions between people and... -
Shakespeare and Quotation by Julie Maxwell 9781107134249
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $181.52Shakespeare is the most frequently quoted English author of all time. Quotations appear everywhere, from the epigraphs of novels to the mottoes on coffee cups. But Shakespeare was also a frequent... -
Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality Marjorie Garber 9780415875561
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.84The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts - and ghost writing. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers is an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly... -
Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature As Uncanny Causality by Marjorie Garber 9781138142152
RRP: $283.50Booksplease Price: $250.47The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts - and ghost writing. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers is an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly... -
The Forms of Renaissance Thought: New Essays in Literature and Culture by Leonard Barkan 9780230008984
Booksplease Price: $97.19This book addresses works of the European Renaissance as they relate both to the world of their origins and to a modern culture that turns to the early moderns for methodological provocation and... -
Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England Douglas A. Brooks 9781138274679
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $94.69The relation between procreation and authorship, between reproduction and publication, has a long history - indeed, that relationship may well be the very foundation of history itself. The essays in... -
From Performance to Print in Shakespeare's England by Peter Holland 9780230210134
Booksplease Price: $97.19What can the printed texts of plays from Shakespeare's time say about performance? How have printed plays been read and interpreted? This collection of essays considers the evidence of early modern... -
Shakespeare and Sexuality by Catherine M. S. Alexander
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $70.98This volume draws together ten important essays which use a variety of approaches and materials to explore the significance of sexuality in Shakespeare's work. Some consider the erotic effect of... -
Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare by Harry Berger 9780804728522
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.94This collection of essays includes some of the most recent work of a master critic at the height of his powers. Of the fourteen essays, written from the late 1970's to the present, three have never... -
The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature by Martha Woodmansee 9780822314127
Booksplease Price: $84.76What is an author? What is a text? At a time when the definition of "text" is expanding and the technology whereby texts are produced and disseminated is changing at an explosive rate, the ways... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage by Stanley Wells 9780521792950
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $97.84This 2002 Companion is designed for readers interested in past and present productions of Shakespeare's plays, both in and beyond Britain. The first six chapters describe aspects of the British... -
Histories of the Future: On Shakespeare and Thinking Ahead Carla Mazzio 9781512825282
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $90.34What early modern and Shakespeare studies have to offer contemporary thinking about the future What do early modern and Shakespeare studies have to offer contemporary thinking about the future?... -
The Inarticulate Renaissance: Language Trouble in an Age of Eloquence by Carla Mazzio 9780812241389
Booksplease Price: $146.62The Inarticulate Renaissance explores the conceptual potential of the disabled utterance in the English literary Renaissance. What might it have meant, in the sixteenth-century "age of eloquence," to... -
Tales from Shakespeare: Creative Collisions by Graham Holderness
Booksplease Price: $67.45In this engaging new book, writer and critic Graham Holderness shows how a classic Shakespeare play can be the source for a modern story, providing a creative 'collision' between the Shakespeare text... -
The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography by Paul Edmondson 9781107054325
Booksplease Price: $231.95This original and enlightening book casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators and patrons both in their own right and in relation... -
The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography by Paul Edmondson
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $41.75This original and enlightening book casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators and patrons both in their own right and in relation... -
Shakespeare on Page and Stage: Selected Essays by Stanley Wells 9780198786542
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $41.98This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world... -
The Authentic Shakespeare: and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage by Stephen Orgel
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $87.78In this lavishly illustrated book, one of the most important and influential scholars of the Renaissance stage brings together essays that have changed the way we think about the age of Shakespeare... -
Shakespeare on Page and Stage: Selected Essays by Prof Stanley Wells
RRP: $36.73Booksplease Price: $34.67This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world... -
What Was Shakespeare Really Like? by Stanley Wells 9781009340373
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.26Sir Stanley Wells is one of the world's greatest authorities on William Shakespeare. Here he brings a lifetime of learning and reflection to bear on some of the most tantalising questions about the... -
Shakespearean Intersections: Language, Contexts, Critical Keywords by Patricia Parker
RRP: $117.60Booksplease Price: $97.52What does the keyword "continence" in Love's Labor's Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contemporary identification of the "quince" with... -
Shakespearean Intersections: Language, Contexts, Critical Keywords by Patricia Parker 9781512825558
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76What does the keyword "continence" in Love's Labor's Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contemporary identification of the "quince" with... -
Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine by Sophie Duncan 9781529365160
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'Witty and scholarly'JONATHAN BATE, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Thrilling'GUARDIAN'Illuminating . . . as vital and provocative as the character herself'LITERARY REVIEW'Buoyant'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'An... -
Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine by Sophie Duncan
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $36.96'Invigorating ... engaging ... thrilling' Samantha Ellis, GUARDIAN'An astonishing tour-de-force . . . Juliet has found the biographer she deserves' Marion TurnerA cultural, historical, and literary... -
All the Sonnets of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9781108490399
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.22How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least thirty years, not only...